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...Sanchez, a California Democrat, added that she is "hopeful that the Bush Administration will work with us to get to the truth of this issue, especially after reading the Attorney General's stated support for legislation that would take politics out of the U.S. attorney selection process." Following this week's hearings, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales indicated publicly that the Administration would not oppose legislation reinstating safeguards on the appointment of U.S. attorneys that were scuttled last year by a last-minute alteration to the Patriot...
...free and uninhibited debate is defended as paramount to our academic institutions,” then as a campus newspaper you must do your part in “present[ing] all opinions in the open marketplace, thereby enabling people to arrive at the correct understanding of the truth.” In this instance, by only covering the lecture of an ideologue from one side of the issue, you have failed to do so. RICHARD COZZENS ’07 - ’08 Cambridge, Mass. February...
...From the start, the case was only marginally about Libby. What was really on trial was the whole culture of an Administration that treated the truth as a relative virtue, as something it could take or leave as it needed. Everyone knows now that Bush and Cheney took the country into a deadly, costly and open-ended war on flimsy evidence of weapons of mass destruction. Yes, Congress went along. And yes, the public on balance supported it. But no one was more responsible than the Vice President for pushing the limits of the prewar intelligence that...
...after years of evading responsibility, the Japanese government issued a statement officially acknowledging the army's role - direct or indirect - in the forced prostitution. The reaction across Asia to Abe's remarks was instant and angry, with South Korea's foreign minister calling on Japan to "face the truth," while septuagenarian former sex slaves in the Philippines furiously denounced Abe as a liar...
...main objective," it was clear the meetings were unlikely to go anywhere. Normally the blame for failure would fall squarely on North Korea's negotiators, who never met a summit they couldn't stall. But this time Pyongyang may have a point. If North Korea really is telling the truth - admittedly, an unusual occurrence - and there are no surviving abductees, there may be little that Pyongyang can do to satisfy Tokyo's demands...