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A Cure Worse than the DiseaseBy Ted Galen Carpenter July 11th, 2006Reaction Essay Reuel Marc Gerecht provides a provocative analysis of the Iran problem that continues to bedevil U.S. foreign policy. Iran would be at or near the top of a list of countries Americans would least like to see have nuclear weapons, and the reason for apprehension has deepened dramatically in the past year with the emergence of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ultimately, though, Gerecht's policy prescription--preventive military action to eliminate (or more accurately, to delay) Tehran's nuclear program is a classic case of a cure that is worse...

Justice seeks end to delays in review of documents seized in raid WASHINGTON The Justice Department today opposed further delays in the bribery investigation of Representative William Jefferson, saying the agency should be allowed to review documents seized in a search of the congressman's office. On Monday, Chief U-S District Judge Thomas F. Hogan rejected requests from Jefferson and fellow lawmakers seeking the return of the material from the May raid on Capitol Hill. Jefferson is now seeking to delay the judge's ruling while he appeals. Hogan dismissed arguments by Jefferson and a bipartisan group of House leaders that the...

The filmmakers behind "The Road to Guantanamo" make no effort to present a balanced chronicle of three British Muslims who were held without charges for two years at the U.S. military prison in Cuba. Given the horrifying news accounts of prisoner abuse and the recent suicides at Guantanamo, though, no one realistically can accuse the three young men of overstating the hardship, maltreatment and degradation the film depicts. "The Road to Guantanamo" is a movie that will make Americans feel ashamed to be Americans, or at least ashamed of things done in their name. Yet it's one that Americans should...

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Supreme Court is set to revisit a second Bush Administration appeal that seeks to reinstate a ban on partial birth abortion, reports the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ). The ACLJ, which specializes in constitutional law, said it is pleased the Supreme Court has decided to hear the case, which involves the constitutionality of the national ban on partial-birth abortion. “The Supreme Court took a significant step today that clearly puts the issue of partial-birth abortion front-and-center,” said Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel of the ACLJ, which litigates pro-life issues. “By taking...

There was a show presented here in Indianapolis called The Pillowman and if you read the letter presented below you will understand what is was about. I saw this letter and was just so stunned by it's content that I did not know how to respond, so I thought I should post it here at the FR and get some feedback. There is a lot to this story, I may not have all the information I should, but this letter says a lot. BTW - "NUVO" is local liberal "arts" newspaper that caters to the "in" crowd around Indianapolis. ************...

THE temptation to write about "Cars" using automotive metaphors may be unwise, but it's also irresistible. You could say, for instance, that the film — the first directed by the Pixar guru John Lasseter since the company's 1999 hit "Toy Story 2" — tools along at an easy clip, rather like a Volvo station wagon en route to another family vacation. At no point does it spin out of control, much less venture off-road. Instead, the film just putt, putt, putts along, a shining model of technological progress and consumer safety. But, as Ed (Big Daddy) Roth might say, chrome...

The long-anticipated book Godless: The Church of Liberalism was finally released this week. If the New York Times reviews it at all, they'll only talk about the Ann Coulter action-figure doll, so I think I'll write my own review. Get Yours FREE! Godless begins with a murder at the Louvre and then takes readers on a roller-coaster ride through the Church of Liberalism in a desperate game of cat and mouse in which the hunter becomes the hunted -- with a twist at the end you simply won't believe! It's a real page-turner -- even the book-on-tape version and large-print...

<p>In the opening scene of The Da Vinci Code, an old man is gutshot by Paul Bettany, who has been covered in pancake makeup. The film then cuts to a lecture delivered by Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon, a Harvard professor of “religious symbology,� who is in France presenting what appears to be a version of the “What is This Picture� feature from Jack and Jill magazine (you know, the one where a super close-up of a weird shiny black object is revealed to be a button). As this lecture goes on the old man is dying offscreen, but not before he runs around the Louvre leaving anagrammatic messages written in the invisible ink pen he keeps on hand for any such occasion, as well as rehanging a giant framed painting he took off the wall while being chased by Bettany. Everything that follows in The Da Vinci Code is ludicrous, but nothing ever manages to top the image of this old man, bleeding profusely from his stomach, picking up and rehanging a huge painting. Except that perhaps the old man next strips naked, paints a pentagram on his own chest in his own blood and makes sure to die in a posture that will recall a Da Vinci drawing.</p>

Yes, there is this apparent misperception about writers and writing. Outsiders see it as a life of ease, glamour, money, beautiful women, cafés on the Rue de Seine, schmoozing with celebs, lots of adventure. You know, the whole Hemingway experience and anyone- can-do-it kind of thing. Then you combine that with the fact that most people believe they have what it takes to be a writer without any training, because at a very rudimentary level everybody is a writer.

The Da Vinci Cod – by Don Brine – (Book Review) Don Brine ( Adam Roberts) is a Professor of 19th Century Literature at London University , and author of The Da Vinci Cod : billed as a “Fishy Parody” – NOT the #1 New York Times Bestseller." On the back cover of the book there is a prominently displayed “Fishclaimer” : “ This book has not been authorized or endorsed by Dan Brown or his publishers,but it is much,much funnier.” Here is a short quote: “But then it turned out that the Cunning Theory was Not So Cunning After...

If there is any justice, and there rarely is, United 93 should explode one of the more outrageous myths of 9/11. It's the one perpetrated by guerrilla filmmaker Michael Moore that purports to show U.S. President George W. Bush asleep at the switch when the terror attacks were occurring in New York and Washington, D.C. You'll recall the famous scene from Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, the most inflammatory piece of agit-prop since Reefer Madness. Bush continues reading a book titled The Pet Goat to a classroom of Florida kindergarten students, despite having been told by an aide that jets have slammed...

United 93 A Film Review by James Berardinelli It is not an easy thing to walk into a theater and willingly open oneself to being transported back to the blackest day (at least thus far) of the 21st century. There are those who believe this movie should not be released, that it is "too soon." I will admit to having believed there was merit to this position - until I saw Paul Greengrass' vision brought to the screen. United 93 is its own most compelling defender. There's not a whiff of exploitation to be found. This is an honest, fact-based...

MEChA advisers at Jurupa Valley High School are reviewing the Chicano student club's constitution after the group was criticized by anti-illegal immigration activists. A student called on the Jurupa Unified School District board to ban MEChA following last month's school rally on immigration legislation by the U.S. House of Representatives that would make it a felony to be in the United States illegally. Senior Josh Denhalter called MEChA a separatist group that advocates a Mexican takeover of the Southwest. Jurupa Valley is not the only MEChA chapter that is examining itself. Students in the Beaumont High School chapter are debating...

NEW YORK — A civil liberties group accused police yesterday of lying about the circumstances surrounding the arrests of hundreds of protesters during the Republican National Convention. In a letter to police and prosecutors, the New York Civil Liberties Union demanded a review of cases brought against protesters arrested on Aug. 31, 2004, at demonstrations near the World Trade Center site and Union Square. “We are concerned that false police statements may have tainted hundreds of cases of people arrested at the two largest mass arrests during the convention,” wrote the group’s attorney, Christopher Dunn. City law officials have said...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 2006 – A United Arab Emirates-owned firm that's slated to take over shipping terminal operations at six major U.S. ports requested an extended U.S. government review of the transaction, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States announced in a news release yesterday. The committee "welcomed the announcement by Dubai Ports World that it will submit for review its proposed acquisition of control of U.S. port terminal operations," the release stated. Headed by the U.S. Treasury Department, CFIUS inspects sales of firms that could affect national security. The review, which the White House accepted, will include...

Lawmakers Urge Greater Review of UAE Firm's Deal to Run Six U.S. Ports Thursday, February 16, 2006 By Sharon Kehnemui Liss WASHINGTON — Questioning the United Arab Emirates track record in the War on Terror, seven U.S. lawmakers said Thursday they want a committee led by Treasury Secretary John Snow to thoroughly review a deal that would let a UAE-based firm run six major U.S. ports. "We're calling for the full six-week investigation. It's a serious investigation and the reason why this is critical is while maybe there's nothing wrong with this company, how do we know they're not infiltrated?"...

The Department of Defense announced today the completion of the first round of Administrative Review Board (ARB) decisions. All of the hearings for this first round were conducted from Dec. 14, 2004, to Dec. 23, 2005. Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon R. England, the Designated Civilian Official (DCO) for the ARB process, has made final decisions on all 463 board recommendations; these decisions consist of 14 releases (3 percent), 120 transfers (26 percent) and 329 continue to detain (71 percent). The ARB is a review process conducted annually to determine whether each detainee should be released, transferred or further detained....

While the Army and Marine Corps bear the brunt of warfare in the Middle East, leaders of the Navy are looking west. In a sweeping report on the nation's long-range defense needs, released yesterday in Washington, D.C., Pentagon leaders laid out plans for transforming the military to fight terrorist organizations. They suggested boosting special-operations forces such as the Navy SEALs and the Marines' new MarSOC commando unit by 15 percent. They also pushed for closer participation between the U.S. military and foreign forces to defeat terrorism. The 92-page Quadrennial Defense Review, which projects Pentagon needs 20 years ahead, seeks more...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11, 2006 – An investigation of alleged improprieties conducted by U.S. military information operations activities in Iraq is nearly complete for presentation to the Multinational Force Iraq commander, a senior Defense Department spokesman told reporters here today. Navy Rear Adm. Scott R. Van Buskirk, a member of Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr.'s staff, is in charge of the review that began in early December. Casey, the commanding general of Multinational Force Iraq, is now in Washington along with other military commanders for senior-level meetings with Pentagon officials. "My understanding of it is that Admiral Van Buskirk is...

My New York Times Review of Munich (please FReep) CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE WORST KIND January 9, 2006 Reviewer: miat22 (Mia T) ... to borrow a phrase, perversely, from a Spielberg flick about benign intelligence. Munich, with its false premises, phony pieties and outright lies -- Spielberg fantasy wrapped in sober documentary -- is a verisimilitudinous contrivance that is pernicious, especially now, especially here, especially if we understand Spielberg's real motivation. Truth matters not at all to Spielberg, and courage matters even less. To advance his fallacious argument, he has Golda Meir speak words she never said, never would have...

KABUL, Afghanistan (Army News Service, Jan. 3, 2006) – One year can change the face of a nation. Afghanistan made significant advancements in 2005 toward autonomy and security. The changes started in the first few days of the new year. January The Ghazni Province held a women’s shura, or council, with the help of the Ghazni Provincial Reconstruction Team. The shura proposed to give the women of Ghazni more of a voice in government and was supported by the governor of Ghazni, Asadullah Khalid. February Afghanistan’s 120 cadets took their place in history when they reported for duty at the...

The New King of the Media? (Narnia’s Anschutz, plus Hollywood’s Has-beens) In with the new: PHIL ANSCHUTZ Phil Anschutz’s film-making ambitions started off fairly rocky. It’s not that he didn’t have any hits. Ray grossed $75 million; the low-budget kid’s movies, Holes and Because of Winn-Dixie grossed $67 million and $33 million respectively. But he also had two huge-budget flops, Around the World in 180 Days, and Sahara. Fortunately, Anschutz’s other project, Qwest Communications, a telephone company, has done well of late and Mr. Anschutz had plenty of money to try again. He aimed for the fences with the first...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16, 2005 – A preliminary investigation of alleged improprieties conducted by U.S. military information operations activities in Iraq hasn't found any wrongdoing, the top U.S. officer in Iraq said today. "We concluded that we were operating within our authorities and the appropriate legal procedures," Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr. said from his headquarters in Iraq during a satellite news conference with Pentagon reporters. Casey, commander of Multinational Force Iraq, was responding to a reporter's question on the status of the two-week-old review Navy Rear Adm. Scott R. Van Buskirk is conducting into U.S. information operations practices in...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15, 2005 – The Defense Department has ordered a review of an intelligence system that compiles information on possible worldwide threats to U.S. military personnel and installations, a senior DoD official said here today. Some recent news reports allege that the Threat and Local Observation Notice system, known by the acronym TALON, had improperly stored information about some civilian individuals and non-government-affiliated groups on its database. "It appears as if there may have been things that were left in the database that shouldn't have been left there," DoD spokesman Bryan Whitman told Pentagon reporters. The TALON system collects...

My team lead set up for my group to go see the first showing at the local multiplex of King Kong at mid-day today (and the company picked up the tab as our Christmas party). It lived up to every bit of hype I've seen and heard and then some. First it is long, and I knew it was going to be, so in the back of my mind I kept analyzing scenes to see if I thought they could be cut. Everytime I thought a scene could have been trimmed he throws in some bit of business that makes...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's clemency review this week to determine whether to execute Crips gang co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams could influence the governor's ability to rebound from political setbacks. Convicted of four brutal killings a quarter century ago, Williams has generated a big public campaign calling for clemency because of his anti-gang books aimed at inner-city youth. The Republican governor will hear from prosecutors and defense attorneys at the clemency hearing behind closed doors on Thursday. He will only have a few days if he wants to halt the December 13 execution by lethal injection at...

Through some sweet connections (or a fluke), I was able to attend a pre-screening of the film. Having tracked the film’s progression for ‘only’ the past three years, it was definitely a highlight of the month. Dressed in chain mail fabric facsimile, a fine royal red tunic with the rampant yellow lion emblem on the front, and a cloak (left over from Return of the King) wrapped about my shoulders for warmth, I joined my sister (dressed as the White Witch), brother and friend in walking in to the theater. But you don’t care what I was wearing or who...

The Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense commissioned this report. He did so at the recommendation of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense-level Information Operations Steering Committee. The Committee decided in its March 9, 2004, meeting that a review of psychological operations (PSYOP) lessons learned from Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) was in order. ----

bill's bud explains1.... by Mia T, 11.26.05 Hillary, it seems, is not only "watching me like a hawk," as Bill puts it at one point,1 Having failed to snare the Nobel Peace Prize by ignoring terrorism, clinton has apparently decided to intensify his America-bashing on foreign soil, the method employed by Jimmy Carter to great (if somewhat belated) effect. (The Nobel committee, sufficiently mollified only after 24 years of the peanut president's America-bashing, awarded Carter his 1978 Peace Prize finally in 2002.) Meanwhile, back in the Senate, the missus, the other half of the clinton construct, maintains her hawkish...

Rick Cleveland tells Bill Clinton stories in his one-man show. Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater at the Geffen Playhouse, Westwood, CA Through Dec. 18 Bottom line: A must-see, must-hear show to open the fine new second space at the Geffen. What is it like to pal around with Bill Clinton? Rick Cleveland gives us the skinny in "My Buddy Bill," a fascinating and finely executed one-man show based on Cleveland's friendship with the former president. The friendship is over now, for reasons that become clear in the evening's most revealing episode. But no matter what you might have thought of Clinton...

Following is a Free Republic exclusive review of Rick Santorum's book, It Takes a Family (otherwise know as a vanity post). ----------------------- As is well-known to anyone who peruses Free Republic with any regularity, Senator Rick Santorum is headed for the political fight of his life in 2006. The lame-stream media has giddily reported polls showing him down 15-25% to challenger Bob Casey, Jr. and the homosexual lobby is already dancing on Senator Santorum's political grave--almost literally--a full year out from the election. Sadly, even some here on FR have risen to the media bait, calling him a RINO who...

9/11 Panel Gives White House Mixed ReviewBy BARRY SCHWEID, AP Diplomatic Writer 1 hour, 10 minutes ago Fred Fielding, a member of the Sept. 11 commission, prepares to join other panelists in a progress report on the 2004 recommendations aimed at guarding against future terrorist attacks, at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, Monday, Nov. 14, 2005. Fielding, a former Nixon White House counsel, praised U.S. attempts to integrate the Arab and Muslim world into the global trading system and in fighting terrorism financing. The Bush administration was given a mixed review and was criticized for not...

Berman was supposed to be part of the Blackwater team that was in Fallujah on that ill-fated day. But a last minute schedule change placed him in the south of Iraq at Camp Bucca, near Umm Qasr. On the highway to Baghdad the following day, Berman received the phone call: A Blackwater detail had been hit. Four men were dead.

House takes up leak reviewThursday, November 10, 2005 8:01 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) - The House Intelligence Committee will look into a possible leak of classified information about secret CIA prisons but will not reopen its 2003 inquiry into prewar intelligence on Iraq. As calls for intelligence-related reviews grow on Capitol Hill, Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., said Thursday his committee will study several specific leaks of classified information, including a Nov. 2 Washington Post story that discussed the existence of secret CIA prisons overseas. The story said the ‘‘black sites'' were in eight countries, including democracies in Eastern Europe. Hoekstra...

On this Veteran's Day Mike Rosen's weekly movie review will be take on the recent released 'Jarhead'. In Mike's show preview on Colorado Morning News all he said that he absolutely HATED the movie. Mike served in the Army back in the 60's and is always at the forefront of supporting our men and women in uniform from his 50,000 watt blow torch of the Rockies here on 850am KOA. Listen on-line LIVE at: (1pm ET, Noon CT, 11am MT, 10am PT) http://www.850koa.com (Listen Live link on top left, no registration required) (Admin Moderator) - I will send a request...

More than just a branch of America’s armed forces, the modern U.S. Marine Corps serves as a model that other military forces worldwide have attempted to emulate, with varying degrees of success. Marines are aware of this, and justifiably proud. But that pride has not always been conducive to working and playing well with others.

NEW YORK - The New York Times' ombudsman said the newspaper should review reporter Judith Miller's journalism practices to address "clear issues of trust and credibility" in her role in the CIA leak investigation. Miller's attorney called the newspaper's recent criticism of her "shameless." Times Public Editor Byron Calame also said the paper should consider updating its ethics guidelines on using anonymous sources and quoted publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. as saying "there are new limits" on what Miller can do in the future. Calame wrote in a Sunday column that the Times and Miller's Oct. 16 accounts of the reporting...

WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The U.S. Navy successfully achieved a significant milestone for the multimission DD(X) destroyer with the completion of a system-wide Critical Design Review (CDR) Sept. 14. The review represents the culmination of years of design effort that encompassed the ship, mission system, human and shore designs that now comprise DD(X). DD(X) is the Navy’s planned next-generation destroyer, tailored for land attack and inland support of joint and coalition forces. It is designed to meet Marine Corps, Army and special operations requirements for precision strike ashore, but also be able to outmatch current and projected threats in the air,...

By Abigail R. Esman World Defense Review columnist "WE WILL NEVER FORGET!" declared the posters taped across the city, the banner strung above the massive hole that once had been the World Trade Center, in the months after 9/11. And for a year, anyway, tourists came to pay respects at Ground Zero while New Yorkers brought flowers to their local fire departments, contributed to funds benefiting the families of those killed, pasted American flags to the windshields of their cars, and somberly marked the eleventh day of every month that passed. But four years later, to walk the streets of...

SACRAMENTO (AP) - Secretary of State Bruce McPherson on Monday proposed changing the state's election process so state officials and initiative sponsors would have more time to review petitions before seeking voter signatures. The change is designed to prevent problems that arose earlier this year when proponents of Proposition 77 discovered they had used two different versions - the one they circulated to voters differed in 17 places from the one they had submitted to the attorney general for review. The disclosure prompted a court fight that ended Friday when the state Supreme Court allowed the measure on the Nov....

. . . count on Steven Bochco's new series "Over There" to stir the already roiling pot of public opinion about the war in Iraq. [. . .] People who support the Bush administration's policies will probably see this series as anti-war. People opposed to the war -- or at least now ready for it to end -- might see it in another light. [. . .] The series chronicles the experiences of new Army recruits, "a squad of virgins" as the loudmouth sergeant calls them, who arrive in Iraq with equal doses of courage and terror. Besides witnessing their...

Article published: Jun 28, 2005http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050628/REVIEWS/50606007/1023 http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050628/REVIEWS/50606007/1023&template=printart War of the WorldsCreaking Havoc Release Date: 2005 Ebert Rating: **    By Roger Ebert / Jun 29, 2005 "War of the Worlds" is a big, clunky movie containing some sensational sights but lacking the zest and joyous energy we expect from Steven Spielberg. It proceeds with the lead-footed deliberation of its 1950s predecessors to give us an alien invasion that is malevolent, destructive and, from the alien point of view, pointless. They've "been planning this for a million years" and have gone to a lot of trouble to invade Earth for no...

War of the Worlds screenwriter David Koepp admits political propaganda in movie KABC talk show host Larry Elder said today that David Koepp, one of the two War of the Worlds screenwriters, stated in a recent interview for a Canadian publication that the Martians slaughtering the humans are a metaphor for the adventurism of the American military forces, i.e., for the Bush Administration's war on terrorism, and the human civilians are a metaphor for the Iraqi people. He stated that this is going back to the original H. G. Wells book upon which the movie is loosely based. However, the...

Film Review of Stay Until Tomorrow By William John Hagan Columnist for The Houston Home Journal July 14,2005 Stay Until Tomorrow, writer and director Laura Colella’s second feature film, has successfully returned the true quality to the independent film genre. Arguably, in recent years, the true independent film has died thanks to the influx of major production companies into this once flourishing art form. In a year, when Sideways a wonderful but decidedly mainstream film swept the IFC Awards the coffin of independent film seemed to be nailed shut and perverted into little more than a marketing term for people...

What is one to make of Ben Stein? Actor, author, comedian, game show host, and political commentator, Stein has an impressive resume. His different incarnations in the world of entertainment are only a few of his many endeavors (it is probably worth mentioning that he is also a former White House speechwriter, lawyer, professor, and member of Townhall.com's Conservative Hall of Fame). If your recollection of Ben Stein is of the monotoned high school teacher from The Wonder Years and Ferris Bueller's Day Off then you will not be disappointed with his guide entitled How to Ruin Your Life. The...

Here's a vast right-wing thing Sunday, Jun 26, 2005 By John Brummett First, why do I even write about this vicious, salacious and scandalously undocumented attack on Hillary Clinton? Its seediest allegations are so dubiously sourced they're not getting repeated in most of the reputable mainstream media, which is a wise lead I'll follow. The author apparently lies even in a caption on one of the book's photographs, asserting that Bill Clinton is getting a mouth-to-mouth kiss from a woman in a crowd. The photographer has come forward to say that what's happening in the shot is a standard and...

Despite all the heavy-breathing hype generated to promote the forthcoming "attack biography" of Hillary Clinton by Edward Klein, citizens hoping to discover anything new about the famous junior Senator from New York shouldn’t waste their time or money on his unoriginal and unreliable rant. I know because a copy showed up in my office the other day ahead of the publisher’s embargo. Only the latest in an ever-expanding catalog of bad books claiming to tell us the "truth" about the former First Lady and potential Presidential candidate, Mr. Klein’s poisonous invention reveals far more about its author—and its publisher—than about...

Not quite three weeks after the film's release we can say one thing for sure: the First Crusade was much more successful than Ridley Scott's movie. I was stunned to hear Islamic anti-defamation groups condemn Scott's "Kingdom of Heaven." The Muslims appear much nobler than the Christians in the film, and on the Christian side the only remotely sympathetic characters are at best agnostic. Jonathan Riley-Smith, an expert on the Crusades, described the movie as "rubbish" for just this reason - the film, he says, is "not historically accurate at all" in its depiction of "the Muslims as sophisticated and...

Folks, another article from the aforementioned April 25 issue of National Review, this one written by the respected Catholic scholar and philosopher Michael Novak, deserves to be quoted in part:The main way in which modern liberals differ from the Pope is this: When they find moral standards onerous or often not lived up to, their instinct is to dumb the standards down, to lower the bars, or even to remove the standards altogether. Their tendency is also to indulge in the bigotry of low expectations. Some of them follow Oscar Wilde's maxim, that the best way to get rid of...

WASHINGTON, April 26 - In a widening of the inquiry into John R. Bolton's nomination to be ambassador to the United Nations, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee intends to conduct formal interviews in the next 10 days with as many as two dozen people, Congressional officials said Tuesday. Those to be interviewed include a former deputy director of central intelligence and a former assistant secretary of state. The two officials, John E. McLaughlin and John S. Wolf respectively, have not spoken publicly about Mr. Bolton's nomination, but both have been described by others as having clashed with him on personnel...