The agreement would settle one of the thorniest issues in dispute by providing immunity to the phone companies in the Sept. 11 program as long as a federal district court determined that they received legitimate requests from the government directing their participation in the program of wiretapping without warrants.
The legal analysis, sent late Tuesday to the party's rules committee, is expected to guide a meeting this weekend where the committee will try to settle one of the most contentious issues remaining in the Democratic presidential race: what to do with delegates from Florida and Michigan, which violated party rules by moving up their primaries ahead of Feb. 5.
One great tidbit is the public record of Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, who admitted in his July 2003 Vanity Fair interview that there were many reasons for going to war in Iraq, but for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on which was weapons of mass destruction.
Last May, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz explained in an interview with a reporter from Vanity Fair that, in deciding how to persuade Americans to go to war, "we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on, which was weapons of mass destruction as the core reason".
In a Vanity Fair interview after the occupation of Iraq was a fait accompli, Wolfowitz said: "The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on, which was weapons of mass destruction, as the core reason" for going to war.
The six-year contract, which was completed later Thursday and will pay him an average of $6.875 million a year, settles one of those issues.
"I couldn't settle on one story.
The tax-cut deal apparently settles one of the most difficult issues that has held up a final budget agreement.
Despite the fact that our government came down on Hobbes' side of the issue, this question of transcendence is not a settled one.
To resolve this issue, it appears that the players agreed to settle on what one interviewee called a "slightly narrower definition of health", couched primarily within the rubric of global health security.
