Scott McClellan Is Not Himself
He’s Someone Else
The Truth Is Out There
Citizens’ Groups Step Up In China
Wary Rulers Allow Role in Quake Aid
YINGXIU, China — Grass-roots organizations and informal networks of private citizens are playing a vital role in getting supplies to rescue workers and survivors of this month’s devastating earthquake in China. The government, in a notable shift, appears content to let them do so.
Officially, nongovernmental organizations in China must register with the government; the larger groups are as rigid and controlled as their official sponsors. Authorities remain deeply suspicious of smaller, independent groups.
USA
Ex-Colleagues Ask, ‘What Happened?’
Former Bush Aide Stuns Many With Critical New Book
Scott McClellan was the ultimate Bush loyalist. He went to work for George W. Bush when he was Texas governor in 1999, helped Bush gain the White House in 2000, and then came to Washington to defend the president for the next six years on such issues as the war in Iraq and Hurricane Katrina.
But McClellan’s explosive new book, which alleges that the Bush administration waged a “political propaganda campaign” in favor of the Iraq war and bungled the response to the storm that devastated the Gulf Coast, prompted a counterattack yesterday from some of his oldest political colleagues, who accused him of disloyalty and questioned his credibility.