"I want the American people to know that I, too, want to know the facts," the president said.



British Airways has canceled three flights from Heathrow Airport to Washington, D.C. and Miami because of government security concerns, the airline said Saturday.

The official said that while some of the canceled flights were scheduled for Sunday, when the Super Bowl is being played in Houston, there is no direct intelligence to indicate a threat to the football game.

WASHINGTON ? Vice President Dick Cheney revived two controversial assertions about the war in Iraq on Thursday, declaring there was "overwhelming evidence" that Saddam Hussein had a relationship with Al Qaeda and that two trailers discovered after the war were proof of Iraq's biological weapons programs.
"Nobody has ever said Saddam directed Al Qaeda in attacks," Pletka said. "But it is clear that had he decided to do so at any point it would have been easy."

Americans are asking why the French are so attached to secularism.

The network, citing its decades-old policy against accepting paid policy advocacy ads, also turned down a spot submitted by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Their first conversation took place on Dec. 30, 2000. That morning, the Associated Press had run an article announcing that a two-day economic forum with the president-elect in Austin, Tex., would feature O'Neill, the Treasury secretary-designate; Donald Evans, his counterpart-to-be at Commerce; and Lawrence Lindsey, who would be chief economic adviser. O'Neill learned about his participation while reading The New York Times.
What enriches ''The Price of Loyalty,'' aside from the accretion of persuasive detail, is its assertion that in this administration, a time-honored notion of public service has been deeply corrupted.
But Cheney -- the book's chief villain and, if Suskind and O'Neill are to be believed, our functional president -- just sat passively.
''Politics, as it's now played, is not about being right,'' O'Neill concludes. ''It's about doing whatever's necessary to win. They're not the same.''

"It is very hard to see (the prewar analysis on Iraq) as anything but a failure in terms of the specifics that we provided" to policy-makers, Kerr said in a telephone interview with the Los Angeles Times. He said he submitted a report of his findings to CIA Director George J. Tenet this week that in many respects echoes the criticism raised in recent days by David Kay, who resigned last week as head of the U.S. weapons search team in Iraq.

?I think he knows that he's in trouble,? noted one prominent Republican activist, who thinks Cheney should be dropped. ?I don't think there's any other way to explain why he would sit for a puerile interview for the (Washington Post's) ?Style? section. You know he despises that sort of thing.?
Indeed, the fact that Cheney would cite Yasin at this late date suggested that he still clings to a theory developed in the 1990s by Iraq specialist Laurie Mylroie at the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI) that al Qaeda was actually a front for Iraqi intelligence, a notion that is completely dismissed by the intelligence community.