By Bernard Weiner, The Crisis Papers When trying to figure out the motives of the Bush Administration on nearly any issue you can think of, the first place to look should always be Karl Rove’s “politics” workshop. By “politics,” I mainly mean how an action affects the survival of the CheneyBush Administration, and only incidentally…
By Peter Baker, The Washington Post The 2-1/2 year sentence imposed on former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby today puts new pressure on President Bush, who may soon confront the choice of triggering a fresh political storm by pardoning a convicted perjurer or letting one of the early architects of his administration head…
By P. Parameswaran, Agence France-Presse Saddled by the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US State Department faces an acute staff shortage amid “worsening morale,” according to a study blaming Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for the problem. The report by the influential Foreign Affairs Council, comprising mostly senior retired US diplomats and ambassadors, said…
The Smoking Gun Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Richard Perle, former Pentagon adviser; James Woolsey, ex-CIA director; Douglas Feith, former Under Secretary of Defense; Christopher Cox, ex-congressman and current Securities and Exchange Commission chairman (Original Article)
