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Only an indistinct portrait of the young John G. Roberts Jr. emerged in thousands of pages released... from the Supreme Court nominee's years in the Reagan White House. But the documents do provide a vivid reminder of the debates that consumed official Washington in those days. Some of the issues remain pertinent, while others are long forgotten. Anyone expecting the nearly 5,400 pages of documents, dating from late 1982 to mid-1986, to contain the key to the kind of Supreme Court justice that Judge Roberts would be is likely to be disappointed. Whether abortion opponents should be permitted to bury...

The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9-11 Commission), an independent, bipartisan commission created by congressional legislation...is chartered to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks...

<p>WASHINGTON — Condoleezza Rice isn't the only one with a lot riding on her appearance Thursday before the Sept. 11 commission.</p> <p>If panel members appear politically motivated in their questioning of the national security adviser, it could raise questions about their credibility — and the findings in their final report this summer.</p>

At the beginning of April, the Watergate archival papers of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein--75 boxes of the notes, clippings and other materials they assembled in their reporting of the Watergate scandal--were sold to the University of Texas library for $5 million. It was a historic sum of money for a collection of this kind. But it was a historic collection: These resources had led to the only resignation by an American president--Richard Nixon. Not surprisingly, there were a few conditions attached to the sale protecting the identity of confidential sources they had used. Archival papers often have time limits...

At the beginning of April, the Watergate archival papers of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein--75 boxes of the notes, clippings and other materials they assembled in their reporting of the Watergate scandal--were sold to the University of Texas library for $5 million. It was a historic sum of money for a collection of this kind. But it was a historic collection: These resources had led to the only resignation by an American president--Richard Nixon. Not surprisingly, there were a few conditions attached to the sale protecting the identity of confidential sources they had used. Archival papers often have time limits...

WASHINGTON, April 22 (UPI) -- For a journalism class at the University of Illinois ay Urbana-Champaign the identity of "Deep Throat" is no longer a mystery. After four years of work, involving more than 60 students over eight semesters, professor Bill Gaines said Tuesday they've identified the anonymous source who helped two Washington Post reporters expose the Watergate scandal.At a news conference at the Watergate Hotel, Gaines and two students from his spring 2002 class, Thomas Rybarczyk and Kelly Soderlund, identified Fred Fielding as "Deep Throat."Fielding, a lawyer, was first assistant to John Dean, chief counsel to President Richard...

As the 30th anniversary of Watergate nears, student investigators at the University of Illinois have concluded that Deep Throat, the White House source who helped journalists unravel the greatest political scandal in American history, was most likely conservative commentator Pat Buchanan. Since 1999, journalism professor William Gaines and his students have set about unmasking the elusive informant. Building on the work of their predecessors—and examining information ranging from thousands of pages of FBI records to interviews with members of the Nixon administration—this year's class unanimously fingered Buchanan, a White House speechwriter during the Watergate era. Gaines, a Pulitzer Prize-winning former...