en-us http://www.newsique.com/tags/politics/officials/ Get Informed. Choose Your News. http://www.newsique.com/politics/top_officials_knew_of_interrogat/ The White House, Justice and State departments and the CIA refused comment Thursday, as did a spokesman for Tenet. A message for Ashcroft was not immediately returned. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., lambasted what he described as "yet another astonis news politics 2008-04-11 08:16:40 http://www.newsique.com/politics/top_officials_knew_of_interrogat/ MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24055778/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/msnbc/ 95 Important [17] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/top_officials_knew_of_interrogat/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/wider_spying_fuels_aid_plan_for_/ For months, the Bush administration has waged a high-profile campaign, including personal lobbying by President Bush and closed-door briefings by top officials, to persuade Congress to pass legislation protecting companies from lawsuits for aiding the Nat news politics 2007-12-17 16:45:59 http://www.newsique.com/politics/wider_spying_fuels_aid_plan_for_/ New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/washington/16nsa.html?ei=5065&en=03d7b2d9209d9d7d&ex=1198472400&adxnnl=1&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print&adxnnlx=1197904424-CK2OyLr+RtvY2Tj5lvUOqA http://www.newsique.com/sources/nytimes/ 96 Important [17] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/wider_spying_fuels_aid_plan_for_/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/dan_froomkin_-_where_are_the_e-m/ Why is it taking White House officials so long to restore millions of deleted e-mails from the backup tapes they claim to have? The e-mails in question date from March 2003 to October 2005 -- a crucial period that includes the Iraq invasion, a presiden opinion politics 2007-11-14 09:14:44 http://www.newsique.com/politics/dan_froomkin_-_where_are_the_e-m/ Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/11/13/BL2007111300956.html?hpid=opinionsbox1 http://www.newsique.com/sources/washingtonpost/ 94 Interesting [13] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/dan_froomkin_-_where_are_the_e-m/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/obama_supporters_pressed_officia/ Two prominent supporters of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign in South Carolina called state Democratic Party officials and urged them to keep funnyman Stephen Colbert's name off the primary ballot, accor news politics 2007-11-07 00:22:03 http://www.newsique.com/politics/obama_supporters_pressed_officia/ CNN http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/06/obama.colbert/index.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/cnn/ 94 Interesting [6] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/obama_supporters_pressed_officia/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/bush_wont_accept_health_bill_wit/ President Bush told Republican lawmakers on Tuesday he will not agree to legislation expanding children's health insurance if it includes a tobacco tax increase, a decision that virtually ensures a renewed veto struggle with the Democratic-controlled Cong news politics 2007-10-31 08:13:25 http://www.newsique.com/politics/bush_wont_accept_health_bill_wit/ CNN http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/31/childrens.health.ap/index.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/cnn/ 94 Important [7] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/bush_wont_accept_health_bill_wit/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/attorney_general_gonzales_resign/ Embattled U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has resigned, senior administration officials told CNN Monday. President Bush will likely nominate Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to the position, senior administration officials said. Clay news politics 2007-08-27 09:14:59 http://www.newsique.com/politics/attorney_general_gonzales_resign/ CNN http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/27/gonzales/index.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/cnn/ 94 Amazing [21] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 1 http://www.newsique.com/politics/attorney_general_gonzales_resign/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/domestic_use_of_spy_satellites_t/ The Bush administration has approved a plan to expand domestic access to some of the most powerful tools of 21st-century spycraft, giving law enforcement officials and others the ability to view data obtained from satellite and aircraft sensors that can s news politics 2007-08-16 08:19:02 http://www.newsique.com/politics/domestic_use_of_spy_satellites_t/ Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/15/AR2007081502430.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/washingtonpost/ 94 Important [8] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/domestic_use_of_spy_satellites_t/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/white_house_had_drug_officials_a/ White House officials arranged for top officials at the Office of National Drug Control Policy to help as many as 18 vulnerable Republican congressmen by making appearances and sometimes announcing new federal grants in the lawmakers' districts in the mon news politics 2007-07-18 04:47:06 http://www.newsique.com/politics/white_house_had_drug_officials_a/ Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/17/AR2007071701892.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/washingtonpost/ 94 Interesting [6] 70 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/white_house_had_drug_officials_a/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/fbi_employees_face_criminal_prob/ FBI personnel who used misleading emergency letters to acquire thousands of Americans' phone records are the subject of a criminal investigation, top bureau officials told civil liberties groups Monday. The unprecedented criminal probe, revealed at an news politics 2007-07-12 21:52:08 http://www.newsique.com/politics/fbi_employees_face_criminal_prob/ Wired http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2007/07/exigentinvestigation http://www.newsique.com/sources/wired/ 93 Important [8] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/fbi_employees_face_criminal_prob/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/white_house_debate_rises_on_iraq/ White House officials fear that the last pillars of political support among Senate Republicans for President Bush’s Iraq strategy are collapsing around them, according to several administration officials and outsiders they are consulting. They say that news politics 2007-07-09 11:30:26 http://www.newsique.com/politics/white_house_debate_rises_on_iraq/ New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/09/washington/09prexy.html?ex=1341633600&en=3f1d31aa3c783295&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss http://www.newsique.com/sources/nytimes/ 96 Important [14] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/white_house_debate_rises_on_iraq/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/bush_officials_used_rnc_server_f/ Almost 90 White House officials have maintained private e-mail accounts on the server of the Republican National Committee, including top advisers such as Karl Rove and former White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card, according to a House committee repor news politics 2007-06-18 19:43:50 http://www.newsique.com/politics/bush_officials_used_rnc_server_f/ Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/18/AR2007061800809_pf.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/washingtonpost/ 94 Important [22] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/bush_officials_used_rnc_server_f/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/bush_admin_violated_presidential/ White House officials including Bush's senior advisor Karl Rove may have violated the Presidential Records Act by destroying emails relating to the decision to go to war in Iraq, making it the most serious breach of the 30-year history of the law, accordi news politics 2007-06-18 15:17:01 http://www.newsique.com/politics/bush_admin_violated_presidential/ pressesc.com http://pressesc.com/01182189335_bush_violated_presidential_records_act Important [19] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/bush_admin_violated_presidential/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/official_cheney_urged_wiretaps/ Vice President Cheney told Justice Department officials that he disagreed with their objections to a secret surveillance program during a high-level White House meeting in March 2004, a former senior Justice official told senators yesterday. The meetin news politics 2007-06-07 22:34:18 http://www.newsique.com/politics/official_cheney_urged_wiretaps/ Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/06/AR2007060602297.html?hpid=topnews http://www.newsique.com/sources/washingtonpost/ 94 Important [19] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 1 http://www.newsique.com/politics/official_cheney_urged_wiretaps/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/memo_roves_ex-aide_would_talk_i/ Susan Ralston, a former top assistant to President Bush's political adviser, Karl Rove, is willing to tell Congress what she knows about contacts between White House officials and disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff -- but only if she's granted immunity from news politics 2007-05-23 08:14:16 http://www.newsique.com/politics/memo_roves_ex-aide_would_talk_i/ CNN http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/23/rove.aide/index.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/cnn/ 94 Important [26] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/memo_roves_ex-aide_would_talk_i/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/judge_told_leak_was_part_of_pol/ Attorneys for Vice President Cheney and top White House officials told a federal judge yesterday that they cannot be held liable for anything they disclosed to reporters about covert CIA officer Valerie Plame or her husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wi news politics 2007-05-18 10:57:08 http://www.newsique.com/politics/judge_told_leak_was_part_of_pol/ Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/17/AR2007051701400.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/washingtonpost/ 94 Shocking [14] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 4 http://www.newsique.com/politics/judge_told_leak_was_part_of_pol/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/white_house_35_percent_pay_hike_/ Troops don’t need bigger pay raises, White House budget officials said Wednesday in a statement of administration policy laying out objections to the House version of the 2008 defense authorization bill. The Bush administration had asked for a 3 perc news politics 2007-05-18 10:52:50 http://www.newsique.com/politics/white_house_35_percent_pay_hike_/ Army Times http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/05/military_payhike_whitehouse_070516/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/armytimes/ 97 Shocking [17] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 1 http://www.newsique.com/politics/white_house_35_percent_pay_hike_/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/officials_negotiations_under_way/ Embattled World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz and the White House were in talks Wednesday afternoon with World Bank officials to work out details of his resignation, senior administration officials told CNN. Under a proposed agreement, Wolfowitz would news politics 2007-05-16 17:00:36 http://www.newsique.com/politics/officials_negotiations_under_way/ CNN http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/16/world.bank.wolfowitz/index.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/cnn/ 94 Important [14] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/officials_negotiations_under_way/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/cheney_in_iraq_to_demand_action_/ Vice President Dick Cheney flew to Baghdad Wednesday to urge top Iraqi officials to move as quickly as possible toward a political reconciliation between Sunni and Shiite factions, whose bitter divisions underlie much of the country's violence. In an u news politics 2007-05-10 09:35:39 http://www.newsique.com/politics/cheney_in_iraq_to_demand_action_/ SF Gate http://feeds.sfgate.com/~r/sfgate/rss/feeds/news/~3/115575498/article.cgi http://www.newsique.com/sources/sfgate/ 95 Interesting [6] 70 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/cheney_in_iraq_to_demand_action_/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/secret_service_obama_placed_unde/ Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, a U.S senator from Illinois, has been placed under the protection of the Secret Service, the agency said Thursday. news politics 2007-05-03 18:48:10 http://www.newsique.com/politics/secret_service_obama_placed_unde/ CNN http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/03/thursday/index.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/cnn/ 94 Interesting [6] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/secret_service_obama_placed_unde/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/administration_pulls_back_on1/ Senior Bush administration officials told Congress on Tuesday that they could not pledge that the administration would continue to seek warrants from a secret court for a domestic wiretapping program, as it agreed to do in January. Rather, they argued news politics 2007-05-03 13:40:19 http://www.newsique.com/politics/administration_pulls_back_on1/ New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/washington/02intel.html?ex=1335844800&en=44b707500140d166&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink http://www.newsique.com/sources/nytimes/ 96 Important [15] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/administration_pulls_back_on1/#comments