Watch the Le Monde report (read it in full in English here): (h/t @RayaJalabi) 9.56pm BST Many journalists are questioning the Obama administration assertion that it has not decided what to do on Syria.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 — The ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee joined Democrats on Wednesday in questioning the basis for the assertion by Michael B. Mukasey, President Bush's nominee for attorney general, that the president "can act outside the law" on national security issues.
Plame is married to Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former career State Department official, who that spring and summer had been questioning the Bush Administration's assertion that Iraq was seeking material to build nuclear weapons — an assertion that the White House withdrew around the time of the Novak column.
Anyone questioning the veracity of this assertion need only visit the Marquis Theater, where a lavish, worshipful wake is being held for Mrs. Perón (1919-52), the onetime first lady of Argentina.
At another hearing, a number of senators agreed with that assertion, questioning the whole notion that the nation's underpaid and overworked nurses and police officers should be performing the front-line duties meant for the military.
The leak may have been a politically motivated attack on Plame's husband, Joseph C. Wilson IV, who had published an Op-Ed piece in the Times a week earlier questioning the Bush Administration's assertion that Saddam Hussein's government had tried to buy uranium for nuclear weapons in Africa.
At both the beginning and the end of his lawyer's 2 hours and 20 minutes of questioning, the rabbi, Fred J. Neulander, denied prosecution assertions that he hired a private detective for $30,000 to kill his wife, Carol, 52, on Nov. 1, 1994.
Mr. Zarif, who spent many years studying and working in the United States, was referring to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former president, who developed a reputation outside Iran for questioning the Holocaust and other anti-Semitic assertions.
He seemed close to questioning the operation.
Questioning the validity of a marriage does.
Lawmakers in Canada and the Netherlands are questioning the costs.
