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Remarks as prepared for delivery by Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet at Georgetown University 5 February, 2004 Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction I have come here today to talk to you—and to the American people—about something important to our nation and central to our future: how the United States intelligence community evaluated Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs over the past decade, leading to a National Intelligence Estimate in October of 2002. I want to tell you about our information and how we reached our judgments. I will tell you what I think—honestly and directly. There are...

Note to FR: I am posting here an email conversation I had today with Gov Bush about Terri, and yes, he knows I am posting it here on FR. In my reply #1, located below this post of Gov Bush’s email, I have posted a message from me to Terri’s husband. And, no, I did not discuss with anyone my idea here to write to Terri’s husband. No one suggested it to me. Nor did I discuss it with anyone at all. In my next reply, reply #2 below, I hope to post a message to my friends here on...

The Founders Constitution Introduction. This is an anthology of reasons and of the political arguments that thoughtful men and women drew from, and used to support, those reasons. We believe that those reasons and political arguments have enduring interest and significance for anyone who purports to think about constitutional government in general and the Constitution of the United States in particular. For those who know in advance that thought is at bottom reducible to interest, or who regard political argument as synonymous with ideology, such a belief is at best naive. Yet we venture to assert that that belief...

Breaking: Trent Lott News Conference at 5:30 p.m. Easter Time

Watching the global economy over the past few years has been like sitting through a rather complicated play. It's been a story of several acts - the characters established in the mid 1990s, the spectacular rise of the star (the United States), the hubris, the fall. Our emotions have been jolted as the plot develops. Now, however, as a spectator of this drama, one can't help but feel this darn play is going on a bit long. 'Too much stuff' The economic news was meant to be getting better around now, not worse. We were meant to be coming out...