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Republicans are filled with glee, as Democrats fall all over themselves, trying to diminish the fact that Bill Clinton's former national security adviser, Sandy Berger, was caught stuffing classified documents and national secrets down his drawers, in his jacket, in his socks, and in a leather portfolio, in order to steal them from the National Archives, and to later destroy some of them. (Berger returned some documents, but only after he was caught.) Watergate, meet BVDgate. For the past thirty years, many observers have thought it the height of paranoia for Pres. Richard Nixon's men to burglarize the offices of...

<p>Just minutes after the cameras went dark in the Senate hearing room on Condoleezza Rice on April 8, ABC News anchor Peter Jennings invited Richard Clarke — now an ABC News consultant — to comment.</p> <p>Mr. Clarke reiterated his central allegation that the Bush administration failed to "shake the trees" by daily meetings with Cabinet officials together and contrasted that to his own behavior during the Millennium crisis. "And by having the Cabinet members come to the White House every day in crisis mode and then go back to their departments and look for anything that is anywhere in the departments in December 1999, we were able to get the kind of information we needed to stop the [Millennium] attacks," Mr. Clarke said.</p>

Al-Qaida Associate Detained in Iraq By JOHN J. LUMPKIN .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. forces near Baghdad have captured a man they describe as a midlevel terrorist operative with links to al-Qaida, a counterterrorism official said Tuesday. The operative, whose name was not provided, works for Abu Musab Zarqawi, a senior associate of Osama bin Laden, the official said, speaking on the condition of anoymity. The capture occurred this week, the official said. Zarqawi, linked to the death of an American diplomat in Jordan last year, is one of the Bush administration's links between al-Qaida and the...

SEATTLE (AP) — German officials in Seattle Wednesday questioned Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian convicted in an unsuccessful plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport, about the structure of the al-Qaida terrorist network, an attorney taking part in the proceedings said. ``The question is how the network of al-Qaida works,'' said Ulrich von Jeinsen, a German attorney who represents the Families of Sept. 11 Organization. German law allow relatives of crime victims or their lawyers to participate in trials. ``Ressam is a member of al-Qaida. He had been in Afghanistan for training,'' von Jeinsen said. ``The reason we are here is...

The United States has warned that Al Qaida may be planning to kidnap Americans in Jordan. U.S. officials said the U.S. embassy in Amman issued the warning after receiving information that Al Qaida was plotting abductions of Americans in the Hashemite kingdom. They said available information suggests Al Qaida formulated the plans in August. On Sept. 26, the U.S. embassy issued what officials termed a "warden message" to the American community in Jordan, Middle East Newsline reported. The message said the U.S. government had received uncorroborated information that reported a plot being considered by an Al Qaida operative to kidnap...

NBC: Terror network seeks material to explode bomb in U.S. WASHINGTON, April 22 — A captured key strategist for the al-Qaida network told interrogators Monday that al-Qaida was working to obtain fissionable material for radiation bombs to be exploded in the United States, NBC News has learned. U.S. officials could not confirm the assertions of the strategist, Abu Zubaydah, but said they were taking him at his word. SOURCES TOLD NBC News that Zubaydah, believed to be one of the top lieutenants of Osama bin Laden, believed to be the mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) --  Authorities in Sudan have detained a suspected al-Qaida official and questioned him about a plot to blow up Los Angeles international airport and the attack on the U.S. destroyer Cole in a port in Yemen, three Bush administration officials said Tuesday.</p>