Sometimes, Tenet said, he told the White House that its prewar analysis was the product of misconstrued and misleading facts. Other times, he said, he either didn't know about the flawed data or was too busy to check and respond to every public statement the White House issued.
Yet, despite such apparently disjointed and contradictory spying tactics, Tenet says he had no problems with President Bush's using this information to go to war.

Lindauer asserted that a former CIA agent had told her that the perpetrators of the Lockerbie bombing were actually Syrian.

The government said she accepted payments from the Iraqis for her services and expenses amounting to a total of $10,000, including $5,000 she received during a trip to Baghdad in February and March 2002, where she allegedly met with Iraqi intelligence officers.

Bush also didn't say that this is the seventh amendment he has embraced, reflecting breathtaking contempt for the principles embodied in the work of our Founding Fathers.

Bush meanwhile, was scheduled to travel to New York, where he is scheduled to hold a meeting on the economy and attend a ground breaking ceremony for a Nassau County memorial to September 11 victims
mred - lucky this was the same day of the madrid bombings...

Six months after promising to create an office to help the nation's struggling manufacturers, President Bush settled on someone to head it, but the nomination was being reconsidered last night after Democrats revealed that his candidate had opened a factory in China.


the Foreign Minister of Zimbabwe Stan Mudenge held a press conference today in which he claimed that one of the imprisoned conspirators had implicated the US, the UK and Spain in the plot.
As Zimbabwe's Home Affairs Minister Kembo Mohadi later explained: Simon Mann, one of the detainees, has "been cooperating and has revealed that they were aided by the British secret service (MI6), the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Spanish secret service ... The western intelligence services persuaded the Equatorial Guinea service chiefs, that is the head of the police force and the commander of the army, not to put up any resistance, but to cooperate with the coup plotters."

Democratic Sen. Bryon Dorgan of North Dakota announced plans Tuesday to block the Senate's confirmation of Mark McClellan, President Bush 's choice to run Medicare, until he answers senators' questions about drug reimportation.

Nationally, the incidence of reported syphilis has increased by 18 percent in the last three years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For male homosexuals it has multiplied 12-fold.