The president’s call for creating military tribunals to try terror suspects has erupted into a clash with some of the best-known Republican Party warriors.
Legislators in both chambers are saying they want to give nuclear power a new boost in the American energy market, but rival legislation on what to do with rapidly accruing nuclear waste has left some members of the House questioning the intentions of their counterparts in the Senate.
Big John Murtha, the House Democrat who made news by calling for troop withdrawals in Iraq, is back in the news again. This time he's calling for Pentagon chief Don Rumsfeld's resignation. Won't happen. But get this: Murtha says he's gained so much notoriety with his recent salvos at the president's war team that he can't walk through his Johnstown, Pa., Wal-Mart unrecognized anymore. Now when he buys his BVDs and Ban he's mobbed, mostly by friendly supporters. Over bacon and eggs at Washington's St. Regis Hotel recently, he says, "The public, man, they were ahead of us. When I go anyplace, they stop me in the airports; they stop me at Wal-Mart." He adds: "Hell, I used to be able to go to those places and nobody knew who the hell I was. Now, Christ Almighty, it's a different story."
From the perspective of the Interior Department's inspector general, Earl Devaney, the agency is a vast wasteland of ethical misdeeds and bureaucratic bungling, actions that have cost the taxpayers a load of money.
AP - A recent House of Representatives committee report on Iran's nuclear capability is "outrageous and dishonest" in trying to make a case that Tehran's program is geared toward making weapons, a senior official of the U.N. nuclear watchdog has said.
AP - A rebellious Senate committee defied President Bush on Thursday and approved terror-detainee legislation he has vowed to block, deepening Republican conflict over terrorism and national security in the middle of the election season.
AP - Al-Qaida has for the first time announced a union with an Algerian insurgent group that has designated France as an enemy, saying they will act together against French and American interests.
A congressional report on Iran's nuclear program has been blasted as "outrageous and dishonest" by the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog. The IAEA slams the House Intelligence Committee report for saying Iran "is currently enriching uranium to weapons grade." The report also insinuates the IAEA may be in cahoots with Tehran in covering up Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Republican Rep. Bob Ney of Ohio has agreed to plead guilty to a pair of charges as part of a deal with the Justice Department in which he will cooperate with its ongoing influence peddling investigation, two sources with knowledge of the investigation told CNN.
Hate-filled Web postings by the Montreal college gunman show bitterness but no real motive for his rampage which left one woman dead and 19 people injured. Investigators say they are scrutinizing entries made by Kimveer Gill on a Web site called "VampireFreaks.com" including pictures of the man dressed in black posing with guns and a knife.
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