Overseas, the Clinton administration searched for new ways to obtain the intelligence needed to attack Mr. bin Laden.
And he said that whenever his administration searched for new places to drill, he would be "mindful of the environment".
Manuel Miranda of the Third Branch Network, who organizes conference calls for fellow conservatives, portrayed Mr. Liu's nomination as a case study as the administration searched for Justice Stevens's successor.
The base was chosen as Mr Bush's administration searched for somewhere to hold the "worst of the worst" al-Qaeda and Taliban suspects after the launch of its global "war on terror" in September 2001.
When Ruth Rodriguez, who has degrees in nursing, special education, and legal administration, searched for employment in Vieques this summer she could only get a job at the public library.
To the Editor: Sam Harris's article is very cogently illustrative of the Obama administration's search for, not the best, but for compromise, in its major appointments.
The privacy policy states that the administration can search faculty members' electronic records "in extraordinary circumstances such as legal proceedings and internal Harvard investigations".
His new book, "The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World's Most Prosperous Decade" (W.W. Norton, $25.95), is a stinging rebuke of the Clinton administration's search for a middle ground.
The narrowness of the administration's search for advice was confirmed in more than 11,000 pages of documents released by the Energy Department on Monday in response to a lawsuit brought by the Natural Resources Defense Council.
The faculty policy states that while the administration can search a Harvard faculty e-mail account as part of an internal investigation, it must notify the faculty member beforehand or soon after.
