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Well, that time has come for me. I’m leaving FR. However, I do not consider this an “opus”, as I am NOT going to use it to rehash old slights or arguments, or to give my personal opinion of what “should be done around here”. As has been so often pointed out, this is Jim Robinson’s site, and he runs it as he sees fit. Rather, all I’m going to do here is give a general reason for my departure, and say a hearty-but-sad “GOODBYE!” to all the folks here who have enriched my life in the past four years....

The White House has ordered the new CIA director, Porter Goss, to purge the agency of officers believed to have been disloyal to President George W. Bush or of leaking damaging information to the media about the conduct of the Iraq war and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, according to knowledgeable sources.

Good Lord, Lautenberg is slime. "The depths to which Democrats have sunk" indeed, Rush.

<p>April 15, 2004 -- House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner has demanded the resignation of Jamie Gorelick as a member of the federal 9/11 Commission. Frankly, given her blatant conflicts of interest, she should never have been appointed in the first place.</p>

Sharon Bush is planning to write a tell all on the Bush family, The New York Observer is reporting exclusively in Wednesday's paper. Sharon Bush, the estranged wife of President George W. Bush's younger brother, Neil Bush, has spent two decades with the Bush family. Sharon Bush's spokesman, Lou Colasuonno, told The Observer: "This will be the story of Sharon Bush's life inside one of the most powerful families in America. She witnessed the evolution of a dynasty. She believes, and is prepared to reveal in her book, that the Bushs are far more pragmatic and calculating than has ever...

SULAYMANIYAH, IRAQ -- A Kurdish political leader who commands thousands of Peshmerga fighters said Thursday that more than 100 Iraqi army officers and intelligence agents in Kirkuk have responded to his underground letters requesting that they identify the names, locations and assignments of key Iraqi commanders in the city. The campaign to secretly recruit disloyal Iraqi soldiers and agents has resulted in up-to-date intelligence on how well the city and its outlying oil refinery and oil fields are being defended, Muhammad Haji Mahmood said. It also has helped his forces target people for retribution for their roles in ethnic cleansing...