Bush on defensive over intelligence report
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An intelligence report showing an   upsurge in Islamic militancy put the White House on the   defensive on Wednesday in an election-year debate over whether   President George W. Bush has made America safer.
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WASHINGTON - CBS News mounted an aggressive defense Friday of its report about President Bush's service in the Air National Guard, with anchor Dan Rather saying broadcast memos questioned by forensic experts came from "what we consider to be solid sources."   On Friday's "CBS Evening News," Rather said that "no definitive evidence" has emerged to prove the documents are forgeries.   "If any definitive evidence comes up, we will report it," Rather said...
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President Bush on Tuesday lashed out at critics who say that al-Qaida's operation in Iraq is distinct from terrorists who attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001.
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush said yesterday that he was troubled by a US intelligence report that Al Qaeda has become entrenched in a safe haven in Pakistan's tribal region near Afghanistan.
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President Bush made an impassioned defense of his proposed rules for the interrogation and prosecution of terrorism suspects.
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WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld made it clear Tuesday that the Bush administration was still debating how to carry out critical details of intelligence reforms that President Bush already has announced.
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High-ranking Republican and Democratic leaders are expressing differing views about a lengthy CIA report issued last week, that concluded there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, before the US-led invasion.
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The White House faced fresh political peril yesterday in the form of a new intelligence assessment that raised sharp questions about the success of its counterterrorism strategy and judgment in making Iraq the focus of that effort.
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As political debate churned over a newly declassified intelligence report on terrorists, a top Democrat called for the release of another National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq that she says "paints a grim picture." The White House denied a charge by Rep. Jane Harman that the second report is being kept in draft form so that its contents won't be made public until after the elections.
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President Bush on Saturday challenged "misimpressions" about the Iraq war as he battled a gloomy intelligence assessment of the conflict and the fallout of a book portraying him as in denial over it.
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President Bush defended his pursuit of a costly missile defense system on Tuesday and said those who oppose the idea do not understand the dangers the country faces in the 21st century.
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President Bush suggested Thursday that Democrats don't have the stomach to fight the war on terror, battling back in the election-season clamor over administration intelligence showing terrorism spreading.
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A declassified report released yesterday by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence revealed that U.S. intelligence analysts were strongly disputing the alleged links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda while senior Bush administration officials were publicly asserting those links to justify...
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US President George W Bush pledges to declassify parts of an intelligence report said to criticise the Iraq war.
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President Bush tried in advance today to deflate a report that will undercut some of his rationale for the Iraq war.
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US President George W Bush says he is evaluating the implications of a damning report on US policy in Iraq.
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President Bush urged Congress again Saturday to pass the intelligence restructuring bill, but key House opponents appeared to remain firm, and some dissenters began to emerge in the Senate.