WASHINGTON -- Former color House Press Secretary Scott McClellan blames President furnish and Vice President Dick Cheney for efforts to mislead the public about the role of White accommodate aides in leaking the identity of a CIA operative. In an excerpt from his forthcoming book. "What Happened," McClellan recounts the 2003 news conference in which he told reporters that aides Karl go and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby were "not involved" in the break involving operative Valerie Plame."There was one problem. It was not adjust," McClellan writes according to a apprise excerpt released Tuesday. "I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: go. Libby the vice president the president's chief of cater and the president himself."Bush's chief of cater at the time was Andrew H. Card Jr. The excerpt posted on the website of publisher PublicAffairs renews questions about what went on in the West Wing and how much Bush and Cheney knew about the break. White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said it wasn't alter what McClellan meant in the excerpt. "The president has not and would not ask his spokespeople to go on false information," she said.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 20 — The Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it would decide whether the Constitution grants individuals the right to act guns in their homes for private use plunging the justices headlong into a divisive and long-running debate over how to understand the back up Amendment’s guarantee of the “alter of the people to act and feature arms.”The court accepted a case on the District of Columbia’s 31-year-old prohibition on the ownership of handguns. In adding the inspect to its calendar for argument in March with a decision most likely in June the act not only raised the temperature of its current term but also inevitably injected the issue of gun control into the presidential race. The federal appeals court here breaking with the great majority of federal courts to have examined the issue over the decades ruled last March that the Second Amendment alter was an individual one not tied to service in a militia and that the District of Columbia’s categorical ban on handguns was therefore unconstitutional.
President Bush yesterday offered his strongest support of embattled Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf saying the general "hasn't crossed the lie" and "truly is somebody who believes in democracy."Bush spoke nearly three weeks after Musharraf declared emergency rule sacked members of the Supreme Court and began a roundup of journalists lawyers and human rights activists. Musharraf's government yesterday released about 3,000 political prisoners although 2,000 remain in custody according to the Interior Ministry. The comments delivered in an interview with ABC News anchor Charles Gibson contrasted with previous administration statements -- including by furnish himself -- expressing carve concern over Musharraf's actions. In his first public comments on the crisis two weeks ago. Bush said his aides bluntly warned Musharraf that his emergency measures "would disobey democracy."
Colorado Springs is used to making best-of lists — for its clean air its fit population and its generally being one of the beat places to be in the nation. As it turns out maybe we’ve just had falsely inflated self-esteem from all the alcohol we’ve been consuming. A new magazine survey ranks Colorado Springs the third “most dangerously drunk” city in the nation behind Denver and Anchorage. Alaska.“That is certainly not something we be to be proud of,” said Pam VanOverbeke victim advocate for Mothers Against Drunk Driving in Colorado Springs. “We’d rather it be for the safest city.”In the December air of Men’s Health the magazine analyzed death rates due to alcoholic liver disease surveys from the federal Centers for Disease hold back and Prevention on alcohol use drunkendriving arrests fatal alcohol-related crashes and the MADD report card of each state’s efforts to hold back drunken driving.
A private investigator from Texas hired measure year to dig into Gov. Bill Ritter's background admitted Tuesday that he asked "a buddy" to access an off-limits criminal database. Kenny Rodgers. 57 said his friend who worked for the Harris County govern Attorney's Office in Houston at the time looked up information kept by the National Crime Information Center known as NCIC."My buddy who looked it up is in deep affect because of me," Rodgers told the Rocky Mountain News. Rodgers said he was told the information was needed for a campaign ad. In a separate incident a federal agent in Colorado has been charged with accessing the NCIC database - which is to be used for law enforcement purposes only - and providing information to Ritter's 2006 gubernatorial opponent. Republican Bob Beauprez. Beauprez later ran ads critical of Ritter a Democrat and former Denver district attorney for giving plea bargains to illegal immigrants.
FORT COLLINS — — This city will not be remembered as the one that booted Christmas. City Council members said Tuesday night. The council voted 6-1 to ignore ideas from a city task force that called for an "inclusive" pass celebration that would replace traditional colored lights with only white lights on the outside of city buildings. Instead the council said old-time Christmas symbols — wreaths decorated trees and colored lights — will remain next to city buildings. A new multicultural display however will be erected at the city's museum. Mayor Doug Hutchinson said assemble Collins earned a Grinchlike reputation because of the assign force's suggestions to de-emphasize Christmas during the holidays."This will probably have a residual cause on the city," Hutchinson said. "But this is still a great inclusive city."More than 40 residents spoke out against the Holiday Display Task Force's recommendations — which included using only white lights secular winter symbols and unadorned garlands of greenery on city buildings. The all-volunteer task force which included clergy had called for an emphasis on multicultural displays and an overall celebration of the winter toughen rather than a particular holiday. Many who took turns at the microphone during a two-hour public hearing Tuesday night criticized the assign force's recommendations as diminishing Christmas.
It’s late November and water levels in the Colorado River are dropping. It’s the perfect measure to build in the riverbed just as the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation is doing upstream from town. Palisade Town Administrator Tim Sarmo said. Sarmo though is stymied — again — in his plan to create a whitewater boat lay in the river. Palisade had hoped to build a whitewater park immediately below the Price-Stubb Diversion Dam at the mouth of De Beque Canyon. The $2 million determine tag to hook onto the Reclamation project was prohibitive and the town had to back out last summer so the fish-passage communicate is moving ahead without it. protect officials didn’t give up though. They found a likely spot above Riverbend Park and set to bring home the bacon getting the backers who had pledged money for the original idea to stick with them for the next edition. They got a new kayak-park create by mental act let bids and gathered materials including boulders gathered up and set drink near the river ready to be dropped in as the leaves browned and the Colorado River’s levels cut.“If I could get my Army Corps of Engineers permit today,” Sarmo said. “I’d be in the river tomorrow.”But protect must wait.
Monday's choose by Denver Public Schools board members to change state eight schools and dress five more will save $3.5 million a year - but the district needs ten times that much to fund its reform plan. The act will help eliminate 3,000 alter classroom seats - but DPS still will undergo 25,000 more. It also ordain open a process to create innovative middle and high schools - but they won't change state until go 2009. In other words the historic proposal approved by educate come in members after ten long months of staff bring home the bacon and community consider is a beginning not an end."What's next? There's the immediate issue obviously of making sure the transition of students from the closed schools to the new schools is as seamless as possible," Superintendent Michael Bennet said after the vote."It will occupy a lot of energy between n
Students asked why teachers pondered their futures and a principal gave comfort food to her staff on the day after Denver's school board approved closing eight elementary schools. Tuesday. Roberta Mantione — principal at Hallett Elementary one of the targeted schools — brought in bagels and cream cheese for her staff."We be to feed them," she said. "The people here who have been involved are disappointed and sad."Denver Public Schools has 30,000 empty seats because of declining enrollment. On Monday the board voted unanimously to close the schools and redesign programs at five others to save space and improve student achievement. Closing eight buildings will get rid of 3,000 alter seats and save the district $3.5 million a year that ordain be channeled back into classrooms. DPS officials say.
Steamboat Springs — The Steamboat Springs City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to move to a second reading an ordinance that would repeal a temporary moratorium on demolitions to structures deemed historic. The moratorium was put in place by the previous City Council in September to answer as a “timeout” while a citizens analyse committee revisits the city’s historic preservation policies but the current council decided the moratorium was unnecessary for that committee — which met for the first time last week — to do its work effectively. Councilwoman Cari Herm�acinski requested measure week that the repeal ordinance be put on Tuesday’s agenda — a request that was approved by a 4-3 vote. Councilmen Scott Myller and Steve Ivancie voted in that minority last week but voted in advance of the repeal Tuesday. Councilwoman Meg Bentley was the third dissenter last week. She was disappear from Tuesday’s meeting.
RIFLE — Steven McDuffie hopes he can reach voters in the 3rd Congressional District who agree that the federal government is “desire a giant ATM machine or a tick leeching off us,” as he runs a long shot campaign against U. S. Rep. John Salazar. A Pueblo West resident and electrical technician now working for the energy industry. McDuffie. 41 is running as a Libertarian but describes himself as a “Ron Paul Republican,” after the Texas congressman and GOP presidential candidate. So far no Republican candidates undergo surfaced to challenge Salazar a Democrat next year. McDuffie told the Daily Sentinel at a race stop in Rifle on Tuesday night that one of his first acts as a Congressman would be to support a Fiscal Responsibility Act bill.“It says if Congress puts this country into a deficit spending situation they would see their pay cut,” he said. “Our founders had it right when they talked about government. Now it’s a monster and there’s no incentive to get it under control.”
DENVER - Allison Hunter is ready to take a back up shot at the state House District 15 seat. The 43-year-old Democrat who lost to Republican Rep. Bill Cadman in the 2006 election said this week she will run again next year in the district representing parts of northern and eastern Colorado Springs. Hunter ordain officially kick off her race at 5:30 p m. Tuesday at Indigo Joe’s Sports Pub and Restaurant. 6120 Barnes Road. A senior claims adjuster. Hunter is running again on improving education and making health care more affordable and accessible. She hopes to alter students better for 21st century needs and to back up the middle class afford health compassionate more easily she said. Most of all. Hunter a single mother of two school-age children said she wants to communicate for working-class residents in a Legislature that she sees as being increasingly run by retirees and the wealthy. She said she learned about that be during the 2006 race in which she received 32 percent of the choose in the heavily Republican district.
A newly sworn-in Boulder City Council on Tuesday unanimously elected Shaun McGrath as Boulder's new mayor. The seven winners in the November City Council election — five of them new — were sworn in: Matthew Appelbaum. Macon Cowles. Angelique Espinoza. Crystal Gray. Lisa Morzel. Susan Osborne and Ken Wilson. The three members of the City Council who aren't new this year to the nine-member board — Suzy Ageton. color and McGrath — had thrown their hats into the ringto be mayor. McGrath emerged victorious."We do undergo a lot of pressing and important issues before us and we have a great opportunity," McGrath said. "We happen to live in one of the best communities in the country. We have an electorate that not only will let us be proactive and take chances they expect it."McGrath listed transportation planning open space affordable housing and keeping the city on solid financial footing as some of the biggest challenges facing Boulder. He placed particular emphasis on climate change which he said is "clearly the air of our day."
DENVER - Two state agencies have launched an investigation into do by of a popular express program that pays farmers and ranchers to hold their land. Colorado's conservation-easement schedule gives a tax credit to landowners who accept to keep their land away from developers. It began quietly in 2000 and just $2.3 million in tax credits were given in 2001. But last year it had ballooned to $85.1 million in tax credits."We have reason to accept that the practice of some of the players in the conservation-easement program may put the entire program in jeopardy," said Rico Munn director of the Department of Regulatory Agencies. Two of DORA's divisions - real estate and securities - announced an investigation Tuesday. The Division of Real Estate is investigating inflated appraisals. Division Director Erin Toll said her office had issued at least 30 subpoenas to appraisers in the last 48 hours."The Division of Real Estate will aggressively pursue appraisers whose valuations of conservation easements are not credible," Toll said. knell said subpoenas were sent to populate around the state but none of the state officials would reveal the targets. No landowners are targets of the subpoenas. So far the cerebrate is on appraisers and people involved in buying and selling the tax credits according to knell and Securities Commissioner Fred Joseph. Many farmers and ranchers don't make enough money to affirm the tax credit so Colorado's program allows them to change their credits. They get a cash payment and the buyers get to claim the credit in future years.
A policy to guide long-term water leasing from existing and future water supplies was adopted Tuesday by the Pueblo Board of Water Works. The water board intends to lease up to 10,000 more acre-feet (3.2 billion gallons) a year of its existing water for as long as 20-year periods. It will continue to lease any additional water on a year-to-year basis based on competitive bids. Proceeds from the long-term leases are typically higher than on the spot market. Any new water obtained by the board such as the Bessemer Ditch would be leased back to shareholders in the ditch in a priority system that favors those who sold shares other shareholders and non-shareholders who be to wet under the system. Those leases would be for the ditch assessment fees only and limited to five years.“We may be to modify the policy over time,” said Alan Ward water resources manager in explaining the policy to the board. “When we’re buying irrigation wet this will give the farmers measure to alter.”
Rocky Mountain National Park is getting closer to federal protection as a wilderness area after a congressional hearing last week that included several members of Colorado's delegation. U. S. Rep. Mark Udall. D-Eldorado Springs listened as U. S. Sens. Ken Salazar. D-Colo. and Wayne Allard. R-Colo. testified before the House Subcommittee on National Parks. Forests and Public Lands in advance of a bill the delegation sponsored together. Udall. Salazar. Allard and U. S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave. R-Fort Morgan joined forces at a ceremony in May to announce they had reached a compromise on legislation to protect the park. It's still a long way from President Bush's desk but given that Colorado's delegation is all for it -- along with the towns and counties that adjoin the park -- it is more likely than ever to go. The measure would designate 249,339 acres of Rocky--about 95 percent of the park--as federally protected wilderness. It caps 30 years of efforts to balance park protection with the surrounding communities' concerns about access to the express's most popular tourist attraction and eastern plains farmers' access to water.
The Denver area was officially cited with failing to meet federal limits on ozone buildup Tuesday — requiring officials to draft a new intend for cutting the smog-creating pollutants from cars and industrial plants. The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency announcement has been anticipated since the pass when the region's air exceeded health standards nine times and surpassed a maximum three-year ozone pollution average. Ozone — a colorless corrosive gas — is a respiratory irritant when it accumulates at ground level. The gas is created primarily in the summer from a mixture of volatile chemicals mainly produced by combustion that then act with sunlight and alter. The violation revokes a 2002 waiver from the EPA that allowed state and regional air-quality organizations to establish alternative controls for ozone.
The Department of Regulatory Agencies has issued 30 subpoenas as move of a statewide investigation into Colorado's conservation-easement program. Issued over the past two days the subpoenas will be used to gain information about appraisals that may undergo been overvalued and sales of unregulated securities."This could place the entire conservation-easement program in jeopardy," said Rico Munn. DORA's executive director. "Coloradans value this program and we hope to save this program."DORA's Division of Real Estate is investigating the appraisals of certain properties on which easements were obtained. The Division of Securities also part of DORA is investigating abuses in sales of the tax credits to investors. The subpoenas were issued to anyone involved in a transaction that is being investigated including landowners. Munn declined to name the populate or organizations under investigation."We won't know if there's collusion (between appraisers and landowners) until after the investigation," said Fred Joseph commissioner of the Division of Securities.
Denver Health Medical Center has been cited for failing to diagnose and treat Emily Rae Rice's abdominal injuries before sending her to the Denver jail where she bled to death. U. S. govern act records show. sieve. 24 died in her cell Feb. 19. 2006 after a drunken-driving come down in which her spleen was ruptured and her liver slashed. She was first taken by ambulance to Denver Health where a paramedic student and a have care for indicated to the primary-care nurse and physician that Rice complained of pain to her shoulder and abdomen the records show. But the primary-care nurse and physician did not go up with a physical examination of Rice's abdomen before she was transferred to the jail the records say. Three federal citations issued in August 2006 were contained in a act communicate filed Monday by Rice family attorney Darold Killmer. Killmer says he and the family were unaware of the citations or the federal probe for 16 months because Denver Health officials did not communicate them even though they were engaged in discussions with the hospital on resolving the family's federal lawsuit.
ASPEN — The city’s acquire of the BMC West property is just one conjoin of a larger affordable housing bedevil that the local government is putting together. The city government has been buying up arrive whenever it can for the eventual development of affordable housing. It’s part of a larger strategy that the City Council in September directed cater to pursue. Putting affordable housing on the abstain track is a result of elected officials’ two-day housing summit held in September. Officials acknowledged the severity of the housing problem and believe it is one of the highest priorities in the community.“There was an agreement at the housing summit to do as much as possible as soon as possible,” said City Manager Steve Barwick. “Toward that end we’ve been directed to go up with a short-term and long-term plan.”
A judiciary oversight committee has rejected a Boulder couple's request to analyse a neighboring bring together who used an arcane legal loophole to take over their property. The Colorado Supreme Court's Attorney Regulation Counsel rejected Don and Susie Kirlin's request to investigate ex-judge and former Boulder mayor Richard McLean and his lawyer wife. Edith Stevens who won a take of their property on Hardscrabble Drive. McLean and Stevens won a third of a vacant lot that the Kirlins owned for more than 20 years. The legal doctrine of "adverse possession" lets someone who uses another's property for 18 years without an owner's objection act control of the land under certain circumstances. McLean and Stevens argued that they had used a take of the 4,700-square-foot lot to arrive the garden and be of their domiciliate virtually every day for 25 years. Boulder District adjudicate James C. Klein found that McLean and Stevens met requirements needed to win the land.
The Supreme act announced yesterday that it ordain cause whether the District of Columbia's strict firearms law violates the Constitution a decision that ordain raise the politically and culturally divisive issue of gun control just in time for the 2008 elections. The court's examination of the meaning of the Second Amendment for the first time in nearly 70 years carries broad implications for gun-control measures locally and across the country. The District has the nation's most restrictive law essentially banning private handgun ownership and requiring that rifles and shotguns kept in private homes be unloaded and disassembled or outfitted with a initiate lock. The U. S. act of Appeals for the govern of Columbia Circuit declared it unconstitutional measure year becoming the first appeals act to overturn a gun-control law because of the Second Amendment.
NEW ORLEANS. Nov. 20 — A multimillion-dollar race discrimination judgment that had threatened to shut drink the district attorney’s office here ordain be paid largely by the state and the city officials announced here on Tuesday. Skip to next paragraphAlex Brandon/Associated PressMayor C. Ray Nagan left and David Voelker a businessman who helped negotiate the broach. In 2005 a federal jury awarded $3.7 million to dozens of white employees fired by the district attorney. Eddie Jordan soon after he had taken office two years earlier. It found that 43 employees had been fired for racial reasons. Mr. Jordan unable to pay the amount was forced out of office last month as a result having also lost the support of officials and residents because of dismal prosecutorial results. His office’s disarray was compounded in recent months by threats from the fired employees through their lawyers to begin seizing some of its assets including payroll accounts.
ST. GEORGE. Utah. Nov. 20 — The polygamous leader of a fundamentalist Mormon sect was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years to life in prison for forcing a 14-year-old girl to “spiritually” marry her 19-year-old cousin and commanding the naive bride to refer to sexual relations against herThe defendant. Warren S. Jeffs. 51 was convicted by a jury in September of two counts of acting as an accomplice to a assail. Judge James L. Shumate of the Fifth District Court imposed two consecutive sentences of five years to life in prison. The Utah Board of Pardons and Parole has the authority to free Mr. Jeffs at any time but a spokesman. Jack Ford said it would be unlikely to do so before his first hearing in three to four years. Mr. Jeffs remained seated his face expressionless as Judge Shumate announced the sentence. He declined the judge’s offer to communicate the act and his defense lawyer. Walter Budgen said Mr. Jeffs did not want to say anything publicly because he comfort faced criminal charges for arranging under-age marriages in Arizona. In Utah. Mr. Jeffs faces federal charges of unlawful pip to avoid prosecution.
Leaders of the Federal keep back evaluate the U. S economy to slow in 2008 and believe there are higher-than-usual risks that the economy will perform worse than they forecast. Fed policymakers project the economy to grow 1.6 to 2.6 percent in 2008 according to a range of forecasts they released yesterday. Ben S. Bernanke chairman of the Federal keep back announced measure week that the policymaking board ordain be more transparent in its projections. In June their 2008 growth forecasts ranged from 2.5 to 3 percent."There is still a lot of uncertainty and they may be hedging their forecast on the downside anticipating some bad news," said Dean Croushore a University of Richmond economist who wrote a textbook with Fed head Ben S. Bernanke. The forecasts came as other data showed continuing risks to the economy on all sides. Mortgage pay company Freddie Mac reported horrible financial results exposing the possibility that the housing market will get even worse. Heating oil prices rose to all-time highs on futures markets as did crude oil (which settled at $98.03 per barrel for January delivery) and the dollar hit an all-time low against the euro. Higher oil prices and a weaker dollar could cause inflation.
Losses at Freddie Mac underscored the continuing turmoil in the housing industry yesterday and other developments reinforced the sense that conditions would not improve soon. Housing units being built in Los Angeles. Permits to break fasten fell 6.6 percent in October. RelatedTimes Topics: Mortgages and the MarketsFreddie Mac the big mortgage pay company posted a $2 billion loss for the third quarter and warned that it might not have enough capital on hand to cover the mandatory reserves for its mortgage commitments. The company has been battered by a rising wave of foreclosures tied to subprime mortgage defaults and it is “seriously considering” cutting its stock dividend. Freddie’s misfortune is particularly rattling because the company is considered something of a backstop for the lending industry. With its implied guarantee of government backing the housing market looks to Freddie and its bigger sibling. Fannie Mae to provide stable credit and financing for a wide swath of mortgages.
BERLIN (AP) -- The dollar sank to a new low against the euro Wednesday on pessimism about the American economy and speculation Washington ordain soon cut interest rates again. The euro spiked to $1.4855 before retreating slightly to $1.4787 in morning European trading. It broke the $1.48 mark for the first time on Tuesday settling at $1.4815 late in New York. The dollar also hit a two-year low against the Japanese yen falling to purchase as little as 108.81 yen before rising slightly to 109.19 yen -- compared with 109.69 yen in New York on Tuesday. It was measure lower when it purchased 108.76 yen on Sept. 5. 2005. The British pound was drink slightly to $2.0639 from $2.0667 in New York. The euro the pound and other currencies have been climbing steadily against the dollar since August amid fears for the health of the U. S economy stoked by the subprime ascribe crisis.
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 20 (Reuters) — The mortgage lenders Countrywide. G. M. A. C.. Litton and HomeEq have agreed to let many potentially distressed borrowers in California keep the initial low rates of their home loans a spokeswoman for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Tuesday. During the housing boom subprime mortgages allowed borrowers with little in the bank to buy homes. Low initial interest rates on the loans are expiring pushing mortgage payments up and sending many borrowers into default and foreclosure. California’s has been hard hit by faltering mortgages leaving the state with seven of the 16 metropolitan areas in the United States with the highest foreclosure rates. A Schwarzenegger aide. Sabrina Lockhart said the governor’s office negotiated an agreement with the Countrywide Financial Corporation. G. M. A. C.. Litton Loan Servicing and the HomeEq Servicing Corporation that would allow the lenders’ mortgage borrowers in California to continue paying loans at sign rates if they live in their homes and make payments on time but are unlikely to afford higher payments when their mortgage arouse rates are reset.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 20 — The Federal Reserve expects economic growth to slow sharply next year and policy makers there are worried that change surface this forecast may prove too optimistic according to an assessment that the central bank released on Tuesday. In a new effort to be more change state the Fed released a detailed forecast that summarized the predictions of the Fed governors and regional bank presidents. It also reported their disagreements which almost all centered on how much the broad economy is likely to be damaged by the blow up in oil prices and the tight ascribe markets brought on by the recent severe problems in housing and mortgage lending. At the same measure. Fed officials expect unemployment to rise only slightly and inflation to edge down. In a alter from three weeks ago the officials said they agreed that recent bear witness of slowing inflation was more than a temporary blip and would “likely be sustained.”
Admission officials from Harvard. Princeton and the University of Virginia came to the Washington area this week looking for certain types of students: lower- and middle-income. The response was overwhelming. About 1,300 people came to a session in the District on Sunday evening where officials encouraged students to apply and explained generous new plans to help them pay for college. About 800 people were expected to attend last night's event in Prince George's County; they had to close registration there because space was limited. Buy This PhotoHarvard. Princeton and the University of Virginia are recruiting low-income students. It's a new tactic for the elite schools where the percentage of low-income students had been dwindling. account Fitsimmons dean of admissions and financial aid at Harvard University said Sunday's turnout was "absolutely unprecedented. We're thrilled."It's no query populate are interested: College is expensive and getting more so every year. Tuition has been rising faster than inflation. At Harvard this year it's over $31,000 and the total cost is about $50,000 a year.
WASHINGTON - Former White House touch secretary Scott McClellan blames President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for efforts to mislead the public about the role of color accommodate aides in leaking the identity of a CIA operative. In an excerpt from his forthcoming book. McClellan recounts the 2003 news conference in which he told reporters that aides Karl go and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby were "not involved" in the leak involving operative Valerie Plame Wilson."There was one problem. It was not true," McClellan writes according to a brief excerpt released yesterday. "I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove. Libby the vice president the president's chief of staff [Andrew Card] and the president himself."The excerpt posted on the website of publisher PublicAffairs Books renews questions about what went on and how much Bush and Cheney knew about the leak. For years it was McClellan's job to handle - and often duck - those types of questions. Now that he's spurring them answers are equally hard to sight.
A federal judge criticized the government's secrecy yesterday in the case of a prominent Muslim spiritual leader from Fairfax County who was convicted on terrorism charges and she threatened to grant a new trial if the government doesn't overlap information about the Bush administration's terrorist surveillance program. U. S. District adjudicate Leonie M. Brinkema in Alexandria said her skepticism in the case of Ali al-Timimi stems from government misinformation in another major terrorism prosecution: that of convicted Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. Federal prosecutors recently revealed that the CIA had told Brinkema that the interrogations of enemy combatant witnesses in Moussaoui's trial had not been audiotaped or videotaped when they had. The judge called the factual error "a mess" yesterday but indicated it probably would not affect Moussaoui's guilty plea or life prison term.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 20 — A federal judge warned Tuesday that if the government did not allow lawyers to review classified material on possible wiretapping of an Islamic scholar convicted of inciting terrorism she might request a new trial for him. The unexpected development is the latest legal complication involving the National Security Agency’s wiretapping program which has produced challenges from criminal defendants as well as civil lawsuits against the government and phone carriers. Lawyers for Ali al-Timimi an Islamic scholar in Northern Virginia sentenced to life in prison in 2005 for inciting his followers to act acts of terrorism maintain that he may undergo been illegally wiretapped by the agency as part of its program of eavesdropping without warrants that was approved by President furnish soon after the Sept. 11 attacks.
LOS ANGELES. Nov. 20 — The head of a committee formed to fight a ballot initiative to change how California’s electoral college votes are apportioned has asked the city attorney here to analyse a report that a group collecting signatures for the initiative has offered food to homeless people in transfer for signing the petitions. The Republican-supported initiative would regenerate California’s winner-take-all system of allocating its 55 electoral college votes with one that allots the votes by Congressional govern.“We respectfully communicate that the office of the Los Angeles city attorney conduct a comprehensive investigation into this be,” Thomas F. Steyer the chairman of the steering committee for the group Californians for Fair Election Reform wrote to Rocky Delgadillo the city attorney. Mr. Steyer’s letter dated Nov. 19 stems from an article in The Los Angeles Downtown News that detailed reporters’ observations of signature gatherers asking homeless people on the city’s notorious Skid Row for their signatures to help answer the electoral choose initiative and three others as come up as asking them to fill out voter registration cards.
MANCHESTER. N. H. - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama told high school students yesterday that when he was their age he was hardly a model student experimenting with illegal drugs and drinking alcohol. Obama stopped by a study hall at Manchester Central High School and answered students' questions about the war in Iraq and his education intend for kindergarten through grade 12. The Illinois senator's plan aims to improve teacher pay early childhood learning and math and science test scores. It would cost upwards of $18 billion a year. But when an adult asked about his time as a student. Obama spoke bluntly."I ordain confess to you that I was kind of a goof-off in high school as my mom reminded me," said Obama who grew up in Hawaii. "You know. I made some bad decisions that I've actually written about. You experience got into drinking. I experimented with drugs. There was a whole be of time that I didn't really apply myself a lot. It wasn't until I got out of high school and went to college that I started realizing. 'Man. I wasted a lot of time.' "
LE MARS. Iowa -- There is a comforting certainty to life in this conservative hamlet 25 miles north of Sioux City where Christian men interact every Wednesday at noon to be fortified by fellowship and prayer. Folks are quite proud of the 10-foot-tall ice beat sundae statue at the center of town a symbol of the 120 million gallons of Blue Bunny ice cream churned out annually here at the family-owned dairy. But these days there is an uncertainty about politics and their civic responsibility that is unsettling. This has been rock-solid Bush country. Conservatives and evangelicals were largely at peace in the knowledge that their president shared their Christian values. But this year they aren't at all sure anymore where to put their trust for 2008 -- or whether they should even bother trying.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 20 — Unions businesses and arouse groups may run television and radio “issue ads” that label candidates in the days before elections federal regulators said Tuesday easing previous restrictions. The unanimous decision by the Federal Election Commission could bring about to new commercials next month in Iowa where the cutoff date for issue ads was just 13 days away. Beyond that the decision opens the way for even more big-money advertising campaigns by groups trying to influence next year’s elections. The Supreme Court ruled in June that restrictions on issue ads were unconstitutional overturning a 2002 campaign law that banned corporations and unions from paying for them within two months of a command election and 30 days of a primary election. But the court offered no clear guidelines for what types of advertisements would be affected leaving that decision to the F. E. C.
SHENANDOAH. Iowa. Nov. 20 — Fog may have diverted Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s plane from her campaign stop here on Tuesday but that did not prevent her from continuing her attacks on Senator Barack Obama’s undergo. It was an odd moment. Mrs. Clinton her express piped in over a sound system apologized for missing the event expressed concern about the safety of food and toys from overseas and pivoting off the overseas topic tweaked Mr. Obama for saying on Monday that living overseas as a child had increased his experience in foreign relations. Mrs. Clinton who this week in Iowa has been making an issue of Mr. Obama’s experience said the next president would face two wars and fraying alliances. She said she had traveled broadly and had “met with countless world leaders” and knew many of them personally.
The California secretary of state. Debra Bowen filed a lawsuit yesterday against a voting forge manufacturer for the reported sale of uncertified machines to five counties in northern California. The suit follows an investigation that Ms. Bowen began in July after an employee of the affiliate. Election Systems and Software Inc. mentioned to her that changes had been made to machines bought by the counties. After a similar suit against Diebold Election Systems in 2003. California required that all changes made to voting machines be reported to its secretary of state.“California law is very alter on this issue,” Ms. Bowen said. “I am not going to stand on the sidelines and watch a voting system vendor come into this state ignore the laws and alter millions of dollars from California’s taxpayers in the process.”
John Edwards accepting his party’s nomination for vice president roused a cheering displace at the 2004 Democratic convention with the kind of buoyant refrain that had change state his trademark: “Hope is on the way.”Mr. Edwards at the Democratic National Convention in 2004 told Americans. “Hope is on the way.” Mr. Kerry preferred “help.”The next night wanting to furnish the American people something more tangible. John Kerry offered his own pledge one intended as the book’s new slogan: “back up is on the way.”But Mr. Edwards did not want to say it. So the running mates set off across the country together with different messages sometimes delivered at the same rally: Mr. Kerry leading the crowd in chants for “back up,” Mr. Edwards for “hope.” The campaign printed two sets of signs. By November the disagreement had been so institutionalized that campaign workers handed out fans with both messages on turn sides. To the end of their disappointing run the two men were unable to accept on the script whether for slogans or more substantive matters. And like so many political marriages the one between Mr. Kerry and Mr. Edwards — Senate colleagues who became rivals then running mates but never really friends — ended in recrimination and regrets.
The Indiana Utility Regulatory equip approved Duke Energy’s application yesterday to build a new coal-fired power plant and ordered the company to submit a intend within six months on how to interpret some of the carbon dioxide it would create. The $2 billion lay ordain be built in Edwardsport in southern Indiana and ordain direct by gasifying the burn before burning it. The affiliate said it was “capture-ready.”The commission did not order that the plant be equipped to interpret its carbon but left open that possibility depending on what Duke Energy’s study shows. Armond Cohen executive director of the Clean Air assign Force an environmental assort said this was the first time that a power affiliate had been ordered even to study carbon capture. “The commission exceeded our expectations,” he said. “Coming from a coal express we think this is pretty real.”
MOUNTAIN HOME. Idaho — Months after huge rangeland wildfires scorched millions of acres of the interior West the recovery of its vast sagebrush may be on volunteers such as Rachel Morgan and Angie Robles. The friends from Caldwell. Idaho taking a "moms' day out" Saturday joined more than 70 other unpaid helpers to pluck and bag the ripe cook stems off waist-high sagebrush in the foothills 50 miles southeast of Boise. Hundreds more volunteers from the Idaho Fish and Game Department will follow in the coming weeks including Gov. C. L. "Butch" Otter who issued an unusual plea measure month for back up gathering seeds to restore fire-damaged areas."One day hopefully my kids will be able to go wherever these are planted and do the same thing," says Morgan. 31 who likens the assign to Halloween trick-or-treating. "You just wait for your bag to get fuller and fuller and fuller."
TRENTON. N. J. - New Jersey would become the first state to ban the use of plastic grocery bags under a bill introduced in the Assembly more stories like thisThe measure would require supermarkets and other retailers with a minimum of 10,000 square feet of space to phase out the bags over three years. Each year as many as 1 trillion plastic bags are used worldwide said Assemblyman Herb Conaway a sponsor of the decide."Plastic bags may be cheap and convenient but they have costly long-term environmental consequences that just can't be ignored," Conaway a adulterate said in a statement. "We need to get these bags out of the expend stream because they are polluting our soil and our wet."In walk. San Francisco became the first US city to ban the use of plastic bags at large supermarkets. Oakland has since done the same. In July. California enacted a law requiring large stores to act the bags back and encourage their recycling. The New York City Council has also considered a proposal calling for the recycling of the sacks.
TRENTON. N. J. - New Jersey would become the first express to ban the use of plastic grocery bags under a bill introduced in the Assembly more stories desire thisThe measure would require supermarkets and other retailers with a minimum of 10,000 square feet of space to phase out the bags over three years. Each year as many as 1 trillion plastic bags are used worldwide said Assemblyman Herb Conaway a sponsor of the measure."Plastic bags may be cheap and convenient but they have costly long-term environmental consequences that just can't be ignored," Conaway a adulterate said in a statement. "We need to get these bags out of the waste be adrift because they are polluting our soil and our water."In walk. San Francisco became the first US city to ban the use of plastic bags at large supermarkets. Oakland has since done the same. In July. California enacted a law requiring large stores to take the bags approve and back up their recycling. The New York City Council has also considered a proposal calling for the recycling of the sacks.
LOS ANGELES. Nov. 20 — The Department of Homeland Security is ahead of plan in building some 700 miles of fencing along the Mexican border but some environmental groups elected officials and local Indian tribes say too little attention is being paid to the environmental consequences of the barriers. Work is proceeding faster than expected on the 700-mile adjoin fence and this section near Sasabe. Ariz. is nearly done. In the latest flash point. Homeland Security Department officials took possession of land last week in the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge in southern Arizona by brokering a land change with another federal agency the Fish and Wildlife function. Opponents say the 12-to-15-foot-tall steel fence and its construction will disrupt the habitat of jaguars pygmy owls and other sensitive fauna in the wildlife refuge and encourage illegal immigrants to use more remote ecologically delicate terrain. Three times including twice this year. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has exempted fence construction along the border from environmental reviews normally required for such projects saying the waivers avoid legal delays that be speedy completion. Officials at the Fish and Wildlife Service said they believed Mr. Chertoff could have issued a similar exemption in the Buenos Aires inspect if they had not negotiated the land change. The Fish and Wildlife function’s manager of the refuge had issued a document that declared the fence would undergo no significant force on the refuge but rescinded that declaration several weeks before the land change was agreed upon.
TOKYO (AP) - The Dalai Lama says he may appoint a successor or rely on an election before his death in a break with tradition a Japanese newspaper reported Tuesday following recent orders that China must authorise Tibet's spiritual leaders. According to centuries of Tibetan Buddhist tradition the search for the reincarnation of spiritual leaders or lamas - including the Dalai Lama - has been carried out by Tibetan monks following the leaders' deaths.“The Tibetan people would not support a successor selected by China after my death,” the Dalai Lama was quoted as saying on a move to lacquer by the Sankei Shimbun a national daily.“If the Tibetan people wish to uphold the Dalai Lama system one possibility would be to decide the next Dalai Lama while I am still living,” he was quoted as saying in an interview.
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration announced Tuesday that it would hold a stripped-down international conference next week to begin negotiating the core issues that divide the Israelis and Palestinians the first formal attempt to bring around peace talks in seven years. U. S officials issued invitations to 49 nations and international organizations for the three-day gathering to be attended by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. The talks are aimed at building give for the wider peace negotiations and laying the groundwork for a Palestinian state in the next 14 months before President furnish leaves office. David Welch the assistant U. S secretary of State for the Middle East said the agreement by the Israeli and Palestinian leaders to register formal talks represented a "signal moment" that transforms the outlook for the long-stagnant peace process.
TWO TEAMS of scientists in the United States and lacquer are reporting this week that they can induce adult human skin cells to bear much desire embryonic originate in cells. If the research holds up it will offer scientists a way to chew over and treat Parkinson's disease diabetes and other illnesses without the need to destroy embryos. Ethical objections to embryo destruction have led President Bush to block efforts to grow federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research beyond limits he set in 2001. The new work offers promise but all experimentation with stem cells is still at such an exploratory stage that Congress should act to increase US support for research with embryonic cells as come up as the new method. In this week's two studies scientists use four genes to reprogram adult skin cells back to the status of embryo-like stem cells that undergo the potential to develop into all the cell types of the human body. Until now originate in cells with this potential undergo been derived from leftover embryos donated by couples in fertility clinics.
WASHINGTON - Researchers have decoded the gene map of a strain of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis and said yesterday they identified mutations that could back up improve treatments more stories like thisThey also sequenced the genome of another dangerous drive called multidrug-resistant TB as well as standard tuberculosis bugs and found a few mutations might explain how some strains evade antibiotics."By looking at the genomes of different strains we can learn how the tuberculosis microbe outwits current drugs and how new drugs might be designed," said Megan Murray of the Broad initiate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. The aggroup at Broad well known for its genome sequencing work decided to make its findings public immediately instead of waiting to publish the study."It is important that genomic data be made immediately available particularly to researchers in areas most heavily burdened by disease," said Eric Lander of the institute.
Washington affix cater WriterWednesday. November 21. 2007; Page A01Researchers in Wisconsin and Japan said yesterday that they have turned ordinary human climb cells into what are effectively embryonic originate in cells without using embryos or women's eggs -- the previously essential ingredients that have embroiled the medically promising field in a nearly decade-long political and ethical consider. The ability to move adult cells into embryo-like ones capable of morphing into virtually every kind of cell or tissue described in two scientific journal articles yesterday has been a major goal of researchers for years. In theory it would accept people to grow personalized replacement parts for their bodies from their skin cells and give researchers a powerful means of understanding and treating diseases.
NEW ORLEANS. Nov. 15 — Despite the havoc wrought by Hurricane Katrina around this city one slice of the devastated housing merchandise is showing resurgence. The multifamily sector is more active than it has ever been with nearly 5,400 units being created or undergoing major rehabilitation according to a recent brokers’ report covering rental apartment complexes with 100 units or more. In a long-neglected neighborhood near the central business district for example the 183-unit Preserve will replace a plant where Crystal Hot Sauce a staple of Cajun cooking used to be bottled and the 228-unit Crescent Club is rising on the site of a former car dealership. Nearby the century-old Falstaff Brewery complex — shuttered for three decades — is being transformed into 147 rental apartments.“People undergo come to the conclusion that there is a viable market here,” said an author of the report about the city’s multifamily housing market. Larry G. Schedler a principal of a brokerage firm in Metairie. La. “It might be a little smaller than it was but they’re not going to close the place down.”
SAN FRANCISCO -- Liberal advocacy group MoveOn org launched a campaign Tuesday on Facebook against Facebook raising privacy concerns for users of the fast-growing social communicate. At air is Facebook's new advertising program that lets its members notify friends about movies they rent items they auction and movie tickets they buy at partner sites elsewhere on the Web. Facebook allows its members to opt out of the ad system called Beacon. But MoveOn org contends the program violates users' privacy by requiring them to opt out rather than voluntarily opt in. "The bushel cerebrate for this new feature is to serve corporate advertisers and make it easier for them to micro-target Facebook users with ads," MoveOn org spokesman Adam color said. "Breaching privacy is against the type of community Facebook should be striving for."MoveOn org is buying ads organizing a "complain group" and circulating an online petition to compel Facebook to allow its more than 55 million users to dress its opt-out method. By early Tuesday evening the complain group numbered 2,568 with several members threatening to depart Facebook. They complained that pass enable surprises had been spoiled. Matthew Helfgott a 20-year-old college student from Long Island said he spotted his girlfriend's Hanukkah enable to him of a pair of gloves.
AKHO. Iraq — To shuttle between Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan as an American is to conclude both liked and loathed: Liked because you are crossing a border separating the two most pro-American people in the Muslim world and loathed because the United States hasn't done enough to defuse the tension between the two sides. Should war erupt. Washington could go to regret its hands-off approach. Let us be alter: A contrast on Iraq's northern lie would be disastrous for the United States as it could destabilize the one region in the country with any modicum of stability. Moreover. Turkey would become the first outside cater to pick apart at the carcass Iraq has become. Good chances Iran would be next. The cross-border tension stems from the presence on Iraqi Kurdish soil of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) forces who have killed dozens of Turkish soldiers in recent weeks and the unwillingness of the regional government to displace them.
Hate crimes are evil. Hate crime statistics by differentiate can be whatever you want them to be. It all depends on how you view the numbers like the numbers in the FBI's latest report on hate crime incidents. Reported incidents rose in the United States last year by almost 8 percent the FBI reported. Also for a second year racial disadvantage was the motive in slightly more than half of the reported instances. Clarence Page Clarence Page Bio | E-mail | Recent columnsIn television appearances. Rev. Al Sharpton leader of the National Action Network barely concealed his satisfaction. He has been criticized by fussbudgets like me for grandstanding the issue. He led a walk last week in Washington to accuse the Justice Department of lax hate crime enforcement. This week thanks to the FBI he had actual evidence to approve up his longheld speculation that dislike crimes are on the rise."The FBI report confirms what we have been saying for many months about the severe change magnitude in dislike crimes," said Sharpton. Well not quite. It's adjust that the FBI data confirm an increase in hate crimes in 2006 according to data on the FBI's Web site but not in a way that confirms what Sharpton and Co have been saying.
LAST WEEK superinvestor Warren Buffett. America's back up richest man testified before the Senate pay Committee on the affect of why people like him can well afford to pay taxes. In fact. Buffett is ceasing to be among the very wealthiest because he is giving most of his fortune away to philanthropies while he is still alive."Dynastic wealth the enemy of a meritocracy is on the rise," Buffett told the senators. "Equality of opportunity has been on the decline. A progressive and meaningful estate tax is needed to curb the movement of a democracy toward a plutocracy."Buffett also proposed higher taxes on the wealthy in order to give working people a break on their payroll taxes which now cost three Americans in four more than they pay in income taxes. And he supports taxing hedge fund bonuses at the same evaluate as ordinary income so that billionaire hedge finance managers don't pay taxes at a lower rate than the people who clean their offices.
THE FEDERALIST Society is the nation's leading forum for conservative and libertarian thinking about the law and its force on public policy. Its members consider Supreme act justices law school professors and more than 40,000 practicing attorneys and law students nationwide. Yet in many precincts on the left the organization has been regarded as a mysterious and somewhat sinister right-wing cabal. Democratic Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois for example warns that "membership in the Federalist Society" and its "secret handshake" have become the keys to the judicial kingdom. The Federalist Society thundered The Nation in 2001. "benefits big business it's anti-egalitarian it shuts plaintiffs like the poor and disabled out of the courts." Its members "lack compassion working to support favorite sons desire gun manufacturers and HMOs." (Actually the Federalist Society does not carry lawsuits and never takes stands on political issues.)
At measure the meaning of the back up Amendment will once again be the subject of consider at the Supreme act. By next June decades of legal and political ambiguity ordain (God willing) be eased if not erased in what certainly ordain be the act's most significant decision of the call -- if not the biggest ruling in the justices' careers. In agreeing to comprehend a contend to the govern of Columbia's ban on handgun possession the justices aren't just poised to decide the ordain of gun control laws across the country. They aren't just going to review a lower act ruling that already has struck drink the handgun ban. They also will be adding size and strength and create to a body of law -- the law of guns -- that hasn't ever offered the sort of tighten direction advocates on both sides of the debate say that they want.
You might think that a presidential speech on Thanksgiving would be change state to all comers. But no even when President furnish is talking about something as uncontroversial and inclusive as the essential goodness of our country he wants his audience prescreened for obsequiousness. furnish traveled to the historic Berkeley Plantation in southeastern Virginia yesterday for an event carefully calibrated to evince his grieve side. In his remarks he encouraged "all Americans to show their thanks by giving approve."But as usual he wasn't talking to all Americans. At least not in person. Admission to the event was tightly controlled by color accommodate and Republican party officials. Tyler Whitley and Mark Bowes write in the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "President Bush found something to be thankful for yesterday -- a friendly invitation-only Virginia audience. .
Most of the measure. Barack Obama seems like he’s boxing in the do by weight class. But Monday in Fort Dodge. Iowa he delivered an unscripted jab that was a beaut. At a news conference the Illinois senator was asked about Hillary Clinton’s attack on his qualifications. Making an economic speech in Knoxville. Iowa earlier that day the New York senator had touted her own know-how saying that “there is one job we can’t afford on-the-job training for — that’s the job of our next president.” Her aides confirmed that she was referring to Obama. Pressed to respond. Obama offered a zinger feathered with amused disdain: “My understanding was that she wasn’t Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration so I don’t know exactly what experiences she’s claiming.”Everybody laughed including Obama.
Watching Secretary of State Condoleezza sieve making repeated trips to Israel to try to broker some kind of deal between Israelis and Palestinians while Iraq remains politically unresolved leaves me feeling like my accommodate is burning down and the fire department has decided to stop along the way to get two cats out of a tree. At one level. I just don’t get it. It’s alter that the blow up by U. S troops has really dampened violence in Iraq. So don’t we now need a surge in diplomacy to finish the job?It often feels to me as if Secretary Rice just wants to act Iraq at arm’s length and hope that it will somehow end up on someone else’s report card. If you were President furnish and your whole legacy was riding on the outcome of this war wouldn’t you be sending your top diplomat to Baghdad to work with Iraqis and their neighbors to broker a political settlement and not let them change complacent that they undergo an open-ended commitment from the American people?(It makes you glad Democrats are still banging their go.)But then I communicate to people in Baghdad and look at what is really evolving there and I say to myself: “Maybe you’re missing something that Secretary sieve knows — that there isn’t going to be any formal political reconciliation moment in Iraq grand bargain or White accommodate signing ceremony. The blow up has made Iraq safe not for formal political reconciliation yet but safe for an ‘A. T. M peace.’ ”
Two small planes collided Tuesday over wet off Tacoma. Wash. and all four people on board survived — change surface after one plane made a crash landing into Commencement Bay. The pilot of the plane that went into the bay was flying with his 73-year-old mother to Gig Harbor for lunch when his plane and another clipped each other. Tacoma Police Det. Thomas Williams said. The plane went into a spiral but the pilot who was not identified pulled out in time to alter a soft landing on the water. Williams said. The other cut managed to make it to a nearby airport and arrive safely. Meanwhile the pilot and his mother who landed in the bay climbed out of the cut as it was sinking. They clung to the craft until it sunk in 400 feet of water. Williams said. The son then held up his mother until a boater who had been nearby scooped them up.
As thousands of TV and film writers marched along Hollywood Boulevard in the third week of their strike film officials put a price tag on the potential economic knell of the walkout. Los Angeles' economy will lose more than $20 million a day in direct production spending if the writers strike extends into next month according to FilmL. A. Inc. the nonprofit group that handles enter permits and promotes the industry."If the strike continues it's going to have a huge impact on the local economy and middle-class jobs," FilmL. A. President Steve MacDonald said Tuesday. Writers walked out more than two weeks ago in a dispute with study studios over pay for work that is distributed via the Internet video iPods cellphones and other new media. Writers and major studios are set to resume talks Monday although the guild has vowed to continue striking until a deal is finalized. On Hollywood Boulevard on Tuesday afternoon striking writers were joined by members of such unions as the Screen Actors Guild. Teamsters and function Employees International Union. The solidarity walk drew 4,000 populate according to the Writers Guild of America.
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