Two administration officials reported that a debate has erupted within the administration over whether Mr. Bush should soon call for some kind of reform of the intelligence-gathering process.
When will the American media recognize that they are not reporting a genuine debate -- but a set-up, in which hired guns make assertions that are not only laughable, but insincere, which climate deniers (or those who bankroll them) do not believe themselves?
Michael Pollan reports on a debate over whether plants have intelligence; they don't ("The Intelligent Plant," December 23rd & 30th).
Mark W. Moffett National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. Michael Pollan reports on a debate over whether plants have intelligence; they don't ("The Intelligent Plant," December 23rd & 30th).
It reports on a debate fizzing inside official Washington and the foreign-policy world, triggered by the contrast between Mr Kerry's boundless enthusiasm for negotiations, dealmaking and diplomatic initiatives on the one hand, and Barack Obama's deep wariness of foreign entanglements on the other.
Amid reports that Mueller may be just weeks away from filing a report, a debate is also raging in legal circles over whether the Attorney General — either Whitaker, or his yet-to-be-confirmed successor, Bill Barr — would be able to successfully exercise executive privilege over some of Mueller's key findings, and keep them out of public view.
The New York Times reported this week that a debate had begun within the Bush administration about whether the information secretly cited by Israel to justify its attack should be interpreted by the United States as reason to toughen its approach to Syria and North Korea.
In Derby, as I have previously reported, there was a debate this summer about flogging the city's unique collection of paintings by that great artist of science and wonder, Joseph Wright.
When the scale of the divergence between the IPK and national kilogram prototypes was reported in 2005, a debate arose on how best to redefine the kilogram - should the kilogram be defined in terms of the mass of the silicon-28 atom or should it be determined using the watt balance?
As my colleagues Sarah Lyall and Alan Cowell report, during a debate in the House of Commons on Wednesday, Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain agreed that there should be a public inquiry into the workings of the British newspapers following reports that journalists for The News of the World hacked into the voice mailboxes of murder and terrorism victims.
Watch Dominic West's full report and a debate on the issues it raises on Newsnight on Friday 7 September 2012 at 10.30pm on BBC Two.
