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Statement of John P. Clark Interim Director, Office of Investigations Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Before the Senate Judiciary Committee May 20, 2003 Good Morning, Chairman Hatch, Senator Leahy, and distinguished members of the committee. It is a pleasure and a privilege to be here today to discuss the efforts undertaken by the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (BICE) in its role in investigating international drug smuggling and money laundering as it relates to narco-terrorism. Prior to beginning my specific testimony, I would like to provide some background on our new Bureau. With the creation of the new...

Ari Fleischer By Adam Schefter Post Sports Writer Sunday, July 13, 2003 - On the day he announced he was leaving his job as White House press secretary, Ari Fleischer said he was "going to do something more relaxing - like dismantle live nuclear weapons." Well, Monday he can start dismantling those weapons, along with his West Wing office. This week, Fleischer will be vacating the office he has held since President Bush's election, and he will be leaving it with the legacy of a right-winger and a make-believe center fielder.Adam Schefter: How did you come to use the alias...

Text of statement Friday night issued by CIA Director George Tenet: __ Legitimate questions have arisen about how remarks on alleged Iraqi attempts to obtain uranium in Africa made it into the president's State of the Union speech. Let me be clear about several things right up front. First, CIA approved the president's State of the Union address before it was delivered. Second, I am responsible for the approval process in my agency. And third, the president had every reason to believe that the text presented to him was sound. These 16 words should never have been included in the...

<p>THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.</p> <p>LARRY KING, HOST: Tonight, Secretary of State Colin Powell in South Africa with the president's historic trip, to answer the questions everyone's asking. Are United States troops going to Liberia? Why is it so important for the president to be in Africa now? And why hasn't Saddam Hussein been found yet? We'll get into it all with Secretary of State Colin Powell, and then legendary journalist Bob Woodward, all next on LARRY KING LIVE. Good evening and welcome to a very special edition of LARRY KING LIVE.</p>

Participating were Lawrence Di Rita, acting assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, and Emad Dhia, director, Iraqi Reconstruction and Development Council.) Di Rita: Good afternoon. I hope you all had a fine holiday weekend and had a chance to think about all those great Americans out there defending our freedoms every day. Our condolences, first of all, go out to the families of those troops killed and injured in Iraq and, really, throughout the U.S. military over the past days. We remember them and their families today. Before taking questions, there's a couple of things I wanted to highlight...

THE PRESIDENT: Mr. President and Madam First Lady, distinguished guests and residents of Goree Island, citizens of Senegal, I'm honored to begin my visit to Africa in your beautiful country. For hundreds of years on this island peoples of different continents met in fear and cruelty. Today we gather in respect and friendship, mindful of past wrongs and dedicated to the advance of human liberty. At this place, liberty and life were stolen and sold. Human beings were delivered and sorted, and weighed, and branded with the marks of commercial enterprises, and loaded as cargo on a voyage without return....

Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations (McCarthy Hearings 1953-54). Closed according to Senate rules for 50 years, these hearings are now available to researchers and the public. S. Prt. 107-84 -- Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations (McCarthy Hearings 1953-54)  Volume 1    TEXT 5.1M   PDF 2.4M Volume 2    TEXT 2.3M   PDF 2.2M Volume 3    TEXT 2.4M   PDF 2.2M Volume 4    TEXT 2.3M   PDF 2.2M Volume 5    TEXT 1.5M   PDF 1.5M STATEMENT OF SGT. BARRY F. RHODEN Senator POTTER. Will you have a...

Text of remarks purportedly made by deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in an audiotape aired Friday by Qatar-based al-Jazeera television. The text is translated from the Arabic by The Associated Press. There was no immediate way to confirm the tape's authenticity, though reporters and others who have often heard Saddam speak said it sounded like him. Oh great people, our great military, children of our great country, we are now on June 14, 2003. People have been asking why they haven't heard the voice of Saddam Hussein. We face a lot of trouble in getting our voice to you...

<p>VICTOR DAVIS HANSON, HOOVER INSTITUTION: Well, it would if we would have a one-time amnesty. But unfortunately, we've had a cycle of this and it doesn't stop the real problem, and that is simply that the Mexican government has a policy of avoiding domestic reform by exporting human capital at the rate of one or two million illegals a year, and it's in the long term deleterious for Mexico, because they don't face up to the problems they have for providing security and prosperity for their own people.</p>

The MRC's Jessica Anderson took down a hunk of the gabfest at the beginning of the June 25 The View, ABC's daytime show created by Barbara Walters, for whom Coulter was filling in. Meredith Vieira explained: “In your last book you said liberals have been wrong about everything in last half century. You ticked us off over that one, alright. And now in this new bok you say that liberals hate freedom...I want to talk about your politics because in Treason you say, yes, that liberals hate America." Ann Coulter: "Right." Vieira: "Well, it's stupid. What do you mean liberals...

W A S H I N G T O N, June 24— Fresh from his meeting with President Bush at Camp David, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf sat down with ABCNEWS' Ted Koppel to recount the day's events and to discuss, among other things, possible Pakistani involvement in Iraq, his position on Israel, and his own presidential powers. Following are excerpts of the interview. TED KOPPEL: Did the president raise with you [today] the question of sending Pakistani troops to Iraq? PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF: He did. He did talk of the Iraq dispute, and we did discuss Pakistan troops. In principle, we...

DC Chapter stalwart 'kristinn' braved the Good Morning America broadcast and gives us the blow by blow account..Diane: You are going to be on the New York Times bestseller list slugging it out with Hillary Clinton.Ann:I hope so. Diane: Who is going to win? Ann: Umm, Well I think she has a three to one pound advantage over me, but we will see. Diane: (stunned silence for a moment as her jaw drops and eyes bug out) Three to one pound advantage? Did you just say what I think you said?Ann: You said 'slugging it out with Hillary'Diane: So you...

<p>GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I appreciate those courageous souls who speak out for freedom in Iran. They need to know America stands squarely by their side.</p> <p>BLITZER: President Bush expressing support for anti-government protesters in Iran. The Iranian government has been cracking down on demonstrators and is accusing the United States of promoting the unrest.</p>

Exclusive interview with Chinese President and Secretary General of the Chinese Communist Party Hu Jintao May 22 2003 2:06PM Exclusive interview with Chinese President and Secretary General of the Chinese Communist Party Hu Jintao Hu Jintao: I am glad to have an opportunity to meet friends from Russian mass media groups and grant them an interview. Interfax and the Russian Television and Radio Company are very familiar to the Chinese people. You are a bridge linking our two nations. You promptly inform the Russian people about our development and about changes underway in China, and highlight Russia's diversified life....

U.S.Permanent Representative to the United Nations USUN PRESS RELEASE #20 (98) February 13, 1998 Press Conference by Ambassador Bill Richardson, U.S. Transcript begins] AMBASSADOR FOLEY: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome. It is my great pleasure to have at Embassy Tokyo this afternoon an enormously distinguished representative of the United States, who is here for consultations with the Government of Japan. He is a very old friend and former colleague, one whom I admire enormously. I am very honored to introduce to you the Honorable Bill Richardson, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. AMBASSADOR RICHARDSON: Thank you, Ambassador Foley. I'm...

Remember the cover story "Madeleine's War" from a May 1999 TIME magazine edition? As you may recall, a popular opinion at the time was Madeleine Albright was the person the most responsible for the bombing of Serbia four years ago. Well, think again. Without trying to exonerate or excuse Clinton's war-mongering secretary of state whose Serbo-phobia has been well documented and demonstrated, we want you to know that there may have been another woman who deserves at least part of the credit - Hillary Clinton. The avalanche of publicity brought on by Hillary Clinton's new book, released this week, also...

Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 2:40 p.m. EDT Secretary Rumsfeld Media Availability with Jay Garner (Also participating is Jay Garner, Former Director, Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance.  Photos of today's briefing are available at http://www.defenselink.mil/photos/Jun2003/030618-D-9880W-111.html and http://www.defenselink.mil/photos/Jun2003/030618-D-9880W-100.html.) Rumsfeld: As you may have noticed, Jay Garner -- General Jay Garner is in town and has been good enough to join me here and make a statement and respond to some questions. Before he does, let me just say a few things about him. I do want to thank Jay for the absolutely superb job that he has done in laying the...

WASHINGTON, June 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is a transcript of remarks by President Bush at the Washington Hilton Hotel: 6:46 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Thanks for coming. Thank you all for being here. Thank you, all. I would say, take a seat -- but. (Laughter.) Thanks for coming, there's nothing like having a few friends over for a cocktail or two. (Laughter.) I appreciate you all being here. I had an uneventful ride over from the White House, nobody got hurt and my Segway is parked outside. (Laughter.) I do want to thank you all for coming. Your support...

<p>This is a partial transcript of Special Report with Brit Hume, June 16, that has been edited for clarity. Click here to order the complete transcript.</p> <p>GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I think that freedom is a powerful incentive and believe that some day that a freedom will prevail everywhere because freedom is a powerful drive for people to -- and this is the beginnings of people expressing themselves towards a free Iran, which I think is positive.</p>

<p>The following is a transcribed excerpt from Fox News Sunday, June 15, 2003.</p> <p>TONY SNOW, FOX NEWS: Some Democrats on Capitol Hill want to organize hearings around a provocative premise: that President Bush's team might have doctored evidence alleging that Saddam Hussein possessed chemical and biological weapons.</p>