The Note: Rocking the Boat   With everyone focused on those feisty Republicans, who trade front-runner status (and write memos about it) about as often as Lindsey Lohan appears in court, something interesting has emerged in the Democratic race for president: stability.As the new ABC News/Washington Post poll makes clear, the Democratic race is very much [...]

Democrats Plan to Keep Senate in Session All Night for Iraq Vote   Senate Democrats said Monday they would keep the Senate in session through the night on Tuesday in an effort to highlight Republican resistance to allowing a simple majority vote on a plan to withdraw troops from Iraq. Reaching for a tried-and-true Senate practice, [...]

The C.I.A.’s Missteps, From Past to Present   There have been angry C.I.A. books before. In the mid-1970s, with the revelation of ugly secrets about death plots, illegal openings of domestic mail and use of drugs for mind control came a rash of volumes decrying the notion that Americans could ever have countenanced “so immoral” an [...]

White House: No debate on Iraq pullback   President Bush’s spokesman on Monday denied a published report that described intensifying debate among White House officials over whether to begin a gradual pullback of U.S. troops in Iraq.
White House spokesman Tony Snow said a story in The New York Times about a proposed “gradual withdrawal”of forces in [...]