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Another CIA Attack on Bush ..... Paul Pillar is the latest former official to seize the media spotlight by attacking the Bush Administration's reasons for going to war in Iraq. He claims the Bush administration deliberately cherry-picked the evidence from the Intelligence buffet of facts, potential scenarios and best-evidence findings. On the surface, it seems like Pillar should know. He was, after all, in the CIA for 28 years until his recent retirement, and from 2000 to 2005 was the national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia.In a carefully orchestrated unveiling, the Washington Post on February 10...

WASHINGTON - More and more people, particularly Republicans, disapprove of President Bush's performance, question his character and no longer consider him a strong leader against terrorism, according to an AP-Ipsos poll documenting one of the bleakest points of his presidency. ADVERTISEMENT Nearly four out of five Americans, including 70 percent of Republicans, believe civil war will break out in Iraq — the bloody hot spot upon which Bush has staked his presidency. Nearly 70 percent of people say the U.S. is on the wrong track, a 6-point jump since February. "I'm not happy with how things are going," said Margaret...

The President speaks at the National Conference on Faith-Based and Community Initiatives in Washington. After that he returned to the White House and signed the USA Patriot and Terrorism Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2005 This evening the President spoke at the Georgia Republican Party's annual President's Day Dinner Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld appear before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill Thursday, March 9, 2006, to testify on funding for the Iraq war Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Ukrainian Foreign Minister Boris Tarasyuk Former Presidnent Bush is in Portugal to attend the new...

If the ancient political wisdom is correct that a charge unanswered is a charge agreed to, the Bush White House pleaded guilty yesterday at the Cato Institute to some extraordinary allegations. "We did ask a few members of the Bush economic team to come," explained David Boaz, the think tank's executive vice president, as he moderated a discussion between two prominent conservatives about President Bush. "We didn't get that." Now why would the administration pass up such an invitation? Well, it could have been because of the first speaker, former Reagan aide Bruce Bartlett. Author of the new book "Impostor:...

Last week, I published a new book, "Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy." A lot of my friends are not happy with me for writing it, and I have been embraced by a number of people on the left whom I would ordinarily consider my political enemies. Both are mistaken about why I wrote the book and what I hope to accomplish with it.Some of my former friends on the right have attacked me as an opportunist who sold out his party and his president to get a best-seller. They would not think so...