Mr. Bremer said that the attacks would not deter an expansion of the American-led civilian administration here, and that he had requested several hundred more people to be sent to bolster the administration and deploy around the country.
But he suggested that other data, including some provided by Iraqi defectors, could bolster the administration's case.
The SWAT team's main purpose is to bolster the administration's poll numbers as the Enron off-the-books partnerships did its corporate parent's stock price.
His assessment could bolster Bush administration veterans who argue that the interrogations were an important tool in the battle against al Qaeda.
It appeared to bolster the administration's case that Bush had served, but had been ripped where it ought to have read "Bush, George W", leaving only a mysterious "W" floating untethered in white space.
Thomas A. Shannon Jr., the assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, said the initiative was intended to bolster the administration of President Felipe Calderón as it continues an unprecedented crackdown on organized crime.
Because Mr. Rove does or says nothing that is not carefully calculated somehow to bolster the administration, President Bush owes all Americans an apology, most particularly the 9/11 families!
Republicans sought evidence to bolster the administration's case for war -- and to prove that no officials knowingly shaded intelligence findings -- while Democrats used Dr. Kay as a foil to criticize the administration for starting war without what they view as proper cause.
At a base on the West Coast, Vice President Dick Cheney also showed how the book-length report had been thrust to the center of the campaign by invoking it to bolster the administration's case that the invasion of Iraq was an essential part of the fight against terrorists.
Mr. Cheney, who agreed to be interviewed by prosecutors after long negotiations, said he had played no role in sharing an intelligence report with a reporter to bolster the administration's claim that Saddam Hussein had tried to obtain uranium for a nuclear weapons program.
