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Aragoncillo admits spying for Arroyo foes Estrada, Lacson named co-plotters vs President NEWARK, New Jersey—A Filipino-American intelligence analyst admitted Thursday that for five years he passed top secret information gleaned from White House and Federal Bureau of Investigation computers to conspirators he said were trying to overthrow President Macapagal-Arroyo. Leandro Aragoncillo, 47, a naturalized US citizen who was born in the Philippines, pleaded guilty to a four-count indictment. The conspirators used code words to refer to various people, including calling Ms Arroyo "The Penguin," Aragoncillo admitted. Aragoncillo, shackled at the feet and wearing green jail garb, himself did not...

"Can you resist my beauty?" America is in for four more years of conservative governance as a result of the Republican election sweep. The world now knows that President George W. Bush has political support for his brand of hard-edged conservativism at home and his tough, unilateral foreign policy abroad. Bush's lack of credibility in staging the Iraqi invasion and his willingness to alienate longtime allies apparently meant nothing to a majority of American voters. The president views the outcome of the election as vindication of his policies. Now he can really get down to business. With the same political...

It`s incredible, congressman Nadler was just attacking President Bush on allowing nuclear material to be looted and in the hands of terroists but than admitted that under a Kerry presidency Sadaam would still be in power.I didn`t think they had any material that could be considered a WMD according to the dims.

The face that launched a thousand...? WASHINGTON -- If President Bush has any grand plan for another preemptive war, he had better forget it. Bush has crash landed on the fallacy of the invasion of Iraq. It will take time for the self-described "war president" to make a recovery. It brings to mind an old saying: "Some day they will give a war and nobody will come." The Senate Intelligence Committee recently delivered a thorough trashing to the U.S. intelligence that nourished administration hawks in their rush to invade Iraq. The senators unanimously -- Republicans and Democrats -- rejected the...

ASPEN - Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright took the Bush administration to task Monday night for its unilateral approach to Iraq, from the run-up to war to the current reconstruction effort, saying the United States needs to maintain its foreign allegiances to successfully fight the war on terror. "We have to make sure that we work with our allies and that we treat them with respect, and that we understand the importance of the United Nations and that we want to work through NATO and that we think diplomacy is a useful tool,' she said, suggesting that such steps...