Joe Scott 3: The Body Politic

Buckley questions GOP survival

30 April 2007 |permalink | email article

The political problem of the Bush administration “is grave, possibly beyond the point of rescue,” William F. Buckley Jr. writes April 28 in the National Review Online.

Buckley, founder of the magazine and editor at large, is… read full story

Tenet denies torture on 60 Minutes

29 April 2007 |permalink | email article

The former CIA director settles many scores but downplays the post-9/11 issue of torture in his sometimes interesting memoir, “At the Center of the Storm.” The 549-page book, for which he was paid a $4 million in advance after… read full story

Yeltsin, B41 and C42

28 April 2007 |permalink | email article

Former U.S. presidents George H.W. Bush and William Jefferson Clinton left New York on Tuesday night and traveled together to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, 76, Russia’s first post-Soviet leader, on Wednesday.

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