Among other recent successes, the bureau's admirers say, was a classified report in 2003 that criticized the Bush administration view that a victory in Iraq would help spread democracy across the Arab world.
Mr. Padilla has been slapped with the legally dubious designation of "enemy combatant," and in the administration's view that is enough of a basis for holding him until the cessation of hostilities in the war against terror.
Most opponents of the proposed U.S. military strike do not contest the administration's view that the Syrian government gassed its own people on Aug. 21.
Earlier on Wednesday, she repeated the Bush administration's view that the killing in Darfur is genocide.
Addressing the United Nations on Tuesday, Mr. Bush showed no sign of backing away from the administration's view that the Iraqi claims were not credible.
Mr. Brzezinski also accepts the administration's view that the United States faces radically new security problems in which the threats are coming not from established great powers but from illiberal states, backward societies and aggrieved peoples.
Mr. Geithner repeated the administration's view that the financial system was beginning to heal even though "the process of financial recovery and repair is going to take time".
He repeated the Bush administration's view that the current method -- which bases key calculations on a single interest rate tied to the 30-year Treasury bond -- must be replaced by a method that uses a series of interest rates.
The opposition to the constant whir of the rotors conflicts with the Bloomberg administration's view that the city must have a heliport open 24 hours a day for emergencies and to serve corporate aircraft.
News reports about what Mr. Rossotti wrote to the oversight board infuriated officials in the Office of Management and Budget, who insisted he make no other public comments contrary to the administration's view that the I.R.S. budget is adequate and that he say nothing about future budgets, according to senior I.R.S. officials.
