A question submitted from the online audience asked Bush whether he felt he had been misled about Iraq as he made the decision to go to war.
“‘Misled’ is a strong word,” he said. “Not only our intelligence community, but intelligence communities all across the world shared the same assessment. And so I was disappointed to […]

President George W. Bush may turn out to be the top economic forecaster in the country.
About a month ago he told reporters, “We’re not in a recession, we’re in a slowdown.” At a White House news conference a few weeks later, despite the fact that reporters pressed him to use the “R” word, Mr. Bush […]

Myriad Crises, but Inertia in Official Washington

By CARL HULSE
Published: April 30, 2008
WASHINGTON — Americans are pumping their paychecks into their gas tanks, and the economy is in a stall. Food scarcities threaten governments overseas and spur hoarding at home. Foreclosures are up, home sales are down. Progress in Iraq and Afghanistan is halting.
Despite this confluence […]

Lawyers Fear Monitoring in Cases on Terrorism  
By PHILIP SHENON
Published: April 28, 2008
PORTLAND, Ore. — Thomas Nelson, an Oregon lawyer, has lived in a state of perpetual jet lag for the last two years. Every few weeks, he boards a plane in Portland and flies to the Middle East to meet with a high-profile Saudi […]

Lee ADDS: Fortunately this is not another Lawyer joke but, UNFORTUNATELY it is all to true!
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Another Lawyer??

The Democratic Party has become the Lawyers’ Party.  Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are lawyers.  Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama are lawyers.  John Edwards, the other former Democrat candidate for president, is a lawyer and so is his wife Elizabeth. […]

US shows evidence of alleged Syria-N. Korea nuke collaboration

By PAMELA HESS, Associated Press Writer 31 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - The Syrian nuclear reactor allegedly built with North Korean design help and destroyed last year by Israeli jets was within weeks or months of being functional, a top U.S. official said Thursday.
The facility was mostly completed but […]

Bush Unveils
 ’Realistic’ Climate Strategy in
 Rose Garden Speech
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

WASHINGTON —  Revising his stance on global warming, President Bush on Wednesday proposed a new target for stopping the growth of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2025.
The president also called for putting the brakes on greenhouse gas emissions from electric power plants within 10 to 15 […]

Economy weakens further in sales, housing, credit, and jobs

By JEANNINE AVERSA, AP Economics Writer 14 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - The country’s economic health deteriorated further in the early spring as shoppers buckled under the strains of the housing and credit debacles and a weaker employment climate.
Manufacturers and others businesses, meanwhile, were walloped by zooming prices for […]

With al-Qaeda on the run, Bush turns focus to Iran

Fri Apr 11, 12:22 AM ET
The Iraq war has featured a changing cast of U.S. adversaries. Saddam Hussein. Sunni insurgents. Foreign fighters. Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
In the latest shift, the two top U.S. officials in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, focused in […]

Setback For Dan Rather Lawsuit
Against CBS
Judge Dismisses Portions Of
Ex-News Anchor’s Suit Naming
Three Executives
NEW YORK, April 10, 2008 
(CBS/AP) A Manhattan judge has dismissed portions of a lawsuit Dan Rather has filed against CBS and Viacom.
Judicial Hearing Officer Ira Gammerman on Thursday allowed the lawsuit to go foward, but struck down the parts of the suit that name […]