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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (263490)	6/12/2002 9:46:06 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769667

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To: Kevin Rose who wrote (263490)	6/12/2002 10:14:26 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

UK TELEGRAPH: U.S. CLIMBDOWN OVER 'DIRTY BOMB' CLAIM Kevin, You know the Bush Liars are losing the battle when one of the conservative newspapers in London, The Telegraph, comes out and says that Ashcroft is "crying wolf" too hysterically.... telegraph.co.uk US climbdown over 'dirty bomb' claim By Toby Harnden in Washington (Filed: 13/06/2002) The White House has reprimanded John Ashcroft, the US attorney general, for exaggerating the extent of an alleged "dirty bomb" plot and acknowledged that the threat was minimal. Amid clear signs of a climbdown by the Bush administration, officials were briefing that Mr Ashcroft's warnings had been unnecessarily alarming, even though some of them had echoed his ominous words earlier. The leaking of a rebuke to a cabinet minister is highly unusual in America. The arrest of Jose Padilla, an American who calls himself Abdullah al Muhajir, was announced by Mr Ashcroft in Moscow on Monday. Padilla was transferred into military custody and is being held indefinitely without charge while he is interrogated by the CIA. Some Democrats have questioned the timing of the announcement, suggesting that the administration was seeking to make political capital out of the arrest, which took place at O'Hare Airport, Chicago, on May 8. "The information was available earlier. Why was it not announced?" asked Tom Daschle, the Democratic majority leader in the Senate, who added that there "may have been a rush to bring it before the news media" after recent criticism of the CIA and FBI. In the past week, the administration has succeeded in shifting the Washington news agenda away from the intelligence failures before September 11. Now it is dominated by warnings of fresh attacks and the need to prosecute the war against terrorism with increased vigour. There is little doubt that this will help President George W Bush to pursue his plan to create a cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security. The latest Washington Post-ABC opinion poll showed that he now has a job approval rating of 77 per cent. The Padilla arrest was immediately used by the administration to bolster its case for the new government department. "Grave threats are accumulating against us and inaction will only bring them closer," said Vice-President Dick Cheney. [[RD: "Mr. Cheney, please move to your favorite tax haven, and shut up!!"]] Mr Bush said yesterday: "You know, we're under attack. That's just the way it is . . . and we've got two courses of action. One is to run them down wherever they try to hide and bring them to justice. That's precisely what we're going to do." Aides from the Justice Department were called to their desks in the early hours of Monday to help prepare Mr Ashcroft for the announcement that the authorities had "disrupted an unfolding terrorist plot to attack the United States by exploding a radioactive 'dirty bomb'." A day later, Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy defence secretary, said on CBS television: "I don't think there was actually a plot beyond some fairly loose talk and obviously to plan future deeds." By yesterday, the administration's position had softened considerably and Padilla was being described as a "scout" on a reconnaissance mission rather than a would-be bomber, and was considering many types of attacks, and not only the use of a dirty bomb. Mr Ashcroft was the scapegoat yesterday, but his announcement was part of an aggressive news management strategy that was recently put into action. [[RD: It's all about propaganda! ]] Frustrated that the press was almost obsessively investigating intelligence failures before September 11 and afraid that Mr Bush's popularity could be affected, the White House decided to seize the initiative a week ago. Mr Bush, the press was told, had decided to call for the creation of the Department of Homeland Security as part of the biggest government reorganisation since the start of the Cold War.