CIA seeks probe of White House

USATODAY.com - It's TGIF for the White House when it has bad news: "the Bush administration has a pattern of announcing controversial or unfavorable news as the weekend begins.
To attract little attention, the strategy makes sense. Friday night's network news broadcasts are the least-watched of the workweek. Saturday newspapers are the week's least-read editions"

KnoxNews: Politics: "Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., chairman of the committee, countered with a critique of the scientific underpinnings of climate change, calling global warming 'perhaps the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American public.'"

Yahoo! News - Largest U.S. Coffee Co. Agrees to Pay Farmers a Fair Price But only on one of their many lines of coffee. Try this instead: www.peacecoffee.com

New Zealand News - World - Family accuse Government of toying with Kelly's life: "widespread dissent among senior members of the intelligence community over the dossier was suppressed"

Winona Daily News - News: "this is a far cry from what we were told even six months ago about what the cost of rebuilding Iraq "

Even on Wall Street, It Seems, the Fine Print Goes Unread

BW Online | September 12, 2003 | Team Bush's Clueless New Math: "President's Bush's Sept. 7 address to the nation on the Iraqi occupation made one thing perfectly clear: Fiscal policy is a mess."

The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web Page: "Exploiting the Atrocity"

Bush Cites 9/11 On All Manner Of Questions (washingtonpost.com): "Bush uses terrorism as a refuge when he is uncertain about an answer or in trouble on an issue."

Yahoo! News - Job Market Weak Despite Growth Signs: "the very good news we had on consumer spending for the months of July and August will not last unless employment growth returns"

Yahoo! News - World Remembers Sept. 11, Questions U.S. Response: "No bells toll for the victims of unbelievable Israeli savagery"

ESPN.com - Page2 - The Bush League "Something is dangerously wrong in any country where a monumentally-Failed backwoods politician can scare our national TV networks so totally that they will give him anything he wants."

Mercury News | 09/10/2003 | Santa Cruz urges probe into Bush impeachment: "Did false or misleading information exaggerate the threat posed by Iraq, and was this part of a conscious effort to mislead the American public?"

US Trade with Saudi Arabia "surged" since 9/11 "Two years after Sept. 11, the US has reported a 61 percent surge in bilateral trade with the Kingdom"

Ex-Envoy Criticizes Bush's Postwar Policy (washingtonpost.com) "we heard the garbage and the lies, and we saw the sacrifice"

The Observer | International | Farah tried to plead with the US troops but she was killed anyway: "Whatever happened here was one-sided, a wall of fire unleashed at a building packed with sleeping families."

Yahoo! News - Report Rips Chemical Disarmament Program: "Under an international treaty, the United States was supposed to have destroyed 45 percent of its stockpile of 31,280 tons of mustard gas, sarin and other chemical weapons by next April. This week, the Pentagon announced it would seek a delay until December 2007"

Yahoo! News - Vets Urge Bush on Disabled Benefits Rule: "535,000 veterans are losing some of their retirement under the policy"

Unprepared for Peace in Iraq (washingtonpost.com)