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Focuses on the disclosure by a United Nations (UN) official that the administration of United States President George W. Bush had expressed concerns about a UN draft report on trends in democracy that criticized the Iraqi war and other administration policies. Claim of Richard A. Boucher of the State Department that no criticisms or expression of concern had been conveyed to anyone connected with the report; Preparation of the report by leading Arab intellectuals and specialists for publication by the United Nations Development Program; Claim of the official that Egypt has also made similar moves.

Comments on documents indicating that U.S. President George W. Bush did not order the torture of Iraqi prisoners. Treatment of detainees humanely; Loopholes in the treatment of prisoners; Political and moral disasters of the administration.

The article concerns a dispute over scholarly access to the papers of U.S. President George W. Bush. An executive order issued by Bush in 2001 restricted availability of presidential papers by asserting a sitting president's power to delay their release indefinitely. The order also requires a president's specific permission to release a document instead of an automatic 30-day release. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is scheduled to discuss a bill overturning Bush's order.

This article contends that Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., U.S. President George W. Bush's nominee for the Supreme Court, has consistently favored big-business litigants as he has pushed the federal appeals court in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in a conservative direction. The author reports that Alito has, with few exceptions, sided with employers over employees in discrimination lawsuits and in favor of corporations over investors in securities fraud cases.

Reports on the signing of an executive order by U.S. President George W. Bush which allow a sitting president to keep secret papers of a previous president, even if a previous president wants his papers made public.

Reports on the dismissal of the lawsuit filed by historians challenging President George W. Bush administration's executive order restricting the release of papers of former presidents in the U.S. Expansion of the executive power; Details of the case.

Reports on the decision of a House committee to overturn the executive order issued by U.S. President George W. Bush regarding the release of presidential papers.

Reports on the reaction of historians to the executive order of U.S. President George W. Bush prohibiting them access to presidential papers.

The internal documents from the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, published in The Times on Monday were a chilling reminder of the legal and moral disaster that President George W. Bush created there. They describe the chaos, lawlessness and incompetence in his administration's system for deciding detainees' guilt or innocence and assessing whether they would be a threat if released. Innocent men were picked up on the basis of scant or nonexistent evidence and subjected to lengthy detention and often to abuse and torture. Some people were released who later acted against the United States. Inmates who committed suicide were regarded only as a public relations problem. There are seriously dangerous prisoners at Guantanamo who cannot be released but may never get a real trial because the evidence is so tainted. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, San Francisco, has said that secrecy laws had forced it to exclude evidence about U.S. President George W. Bush's government's wiretapping of Islamic charity, Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation. The ruling is stated to being a partial victory for the Bush administration indicating that the eavesdropping program of the U.S. National Security Agency is not illegal and unconstitutional.

The article presents the statement of U.S. President George W. Bush that reflects that he reads newspapers. In 2003 Bush said in an interview with Brit Hume on Fox TV that he hardly read a newspaper. But in his final news conference of 2006 he referred about some information he got from newspaper. On commenting on the news that Vice President of the U.S. Richard B. Cheney would be called testify in the CIA leak case Bush said that he read about it in newspaper.

The article reports on the atrocities inflicted on Jose Padilla, an enemy combatant, in military custody in the U.S. Padilla said that he was tortured during his three and half years in the custody. He was threatened with execution and forced to stand for long periods. Padilla, a 46-year-old former gang member of Chicago, Illinois, was declared an enemy combatant by President George W. Bush in 2002. Meanwhile, his lawyers have asked for dismissal of terror support charges against him.

Reports on U.S. President George W. Bush's disappointment with the U.S. Justice Department for publicly releasing documents that appeared to take aim at Jamie Gorelick, a Democratic member of the September 11, 2001 commission, for her counterterrorism work a decade ago. Response to release of declassified documents related to the department's internal discussions in 1995 about the sharing of intelligence information among prosecutors and investigators; Attorney General John Ashcroft's accusation that Gorelick contributed in restricting the flow of information in terrorism cases before the September 11 attacks.

Reports that the commission investigating the September 11th attacks is pressing the White House to explain why the Bush administration has blocked classified foreign policy and counterterrorism documents from former President Bill Clinton's White House files from being turned over to the investigators. Confirmation from the White House that it has withheld a variety of classified documents because they were duplicative or unrelated or highly sensitive; Inclusion of documents about the Clinton administration's efforts against Al Qaeda; Reaction from the commission.

Reports on an agreement between the commission investigating the September 11 2001 Terrorist attacks and the U.S. President George W. Bush Administration over the daily intelligence briefings called the President's Daily Brief. Details of the commission; Description of what the President's Daily Brief's are; Background of the efforts of the commission to get the President's Daily Brief; Concerns of the Bush Administration over what the commission may think of the information in the briefs concerning September 11; Explanation of what the President's Daily Briefs are.

The article focuses on the uproar over U.S. President George W. Bush's plans to store his papers at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, drawing new attention to the role of the U.S. system of presidential libraries. The National Archives and Records Administration oversees 11 presidential libraries. The office will take up to 100 years for the papers and records at the recent presidential libraries to be processed.

The article focuses on U.S. Marine Corps Colonel Ralph H. Kohlmann. Kohlmann is the chief judge of the military tribunals which are to try the terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. As a student at the Naval War College in 2002, Kohlmann wrote a paper arguing that U.S. President George W. Bush's decision to create those tribunals was a bad idea.

The article reports that the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush offered its fullest defense to date of the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping program, saying that authorization from Congress to deter terrorist attacks "places the president at the zenith of his powers." According to the author, the Bush administration released 42-page legal analysis that included scholarly papers and court cases. Comments regarding the issue from U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney are reviewed.

Reports that the U.S. President George W. Bush administration will release documents from Judge John G. Roberts' tenure in the White House counsel's office and his earlier job working for the attorney general, but will not make public papers covering the four years he spent as principal deputy solicitor general starting in 1989. How the decision fulfills a request for disclosure of documents by Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, Republican chairman of the Judiciary Committee, which will hold confirmation hearings for Roberts, Bush's choice to fill the Supreme Court seat being vacated by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor; How it falls short of the disclosure sought by Democrats; Belief of Democrats that files from Roberts' work under the first President George Bush could shed light on the nominee's thinking about a variety of issues; How, under law, the White House has final say over what presidential documents are made public; Debate over attorney-client privilege.

The article reports on the filing of papers of George P. Bush, nephew of former President George W. Bush that indicates his intention to run for statewide office in Amarillo, Texas. It states that Bush has not yet decided on what position to run in the 2014 elections. It mentions that many believe that he will run for attorney general or state land commissioner.

The design for the George W. Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University, created by Robert A. M. Stern Architects, was officially unveiled in a ceremony Wednesday, The Dallas Morning News reported. In an interview Laura Bush told The Morning News that a year was spent discussing and planning the design for a 225,000-square-foot building that will be home to Mr. Bush's presidential papers, as well as a museum and a policy institute. ''We did not want this to be monumental like some other libraries are,'' Mrs. Bush said. ''We're very aware that the presidents are men. They are people. We wanted it to be human in scale.'' Mr. Stern said the building, which is scheduled to have its groundbreaking next year, was not designed to reflect on Mr. Bush personally. ''It's not a portrait or a defense of his policies,'' Mr. Stern told The Morning News. ''It is about the presidency, the dignity of the office.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Justice Department indicated that it was not backing away from the argument used by the Bush administration that courts should use national security concerns to block a lawsuit brought by an Islamic group that says its rights had been violated. Department lawyers filed papers with a Federal District Court in San Francisco asking for a stay in a judge's ruling that the ''state secrets'' doctrine could not be used in the Islamic group's lawsuit. The group, al-Haramain, has argued that its officers and lawyers were illegally wiretapped in a secret surveillance program by the National Security Administration. The Justice Department under President Bush invoked the state secrets doctrine in asking the court to dismiss the case. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It's time to remind President Bush as he leaves office that his White House records are not his personal property. They belong to the nation. The Presidential Records Act made that the law of the land after the Watergate scandal. Showing disturbing forethought, Mr. Bush signed an executive order in his first year, effectively decreeing that a sitting or former president can withhold his papers indefinitely. Congress is moving to strike down the Bush order. The House has overwhelmingly approved a corrective measure that has a good chance in the Senate. If there's any delay, we urge President-elect Barack Obama to issue his own executive order restoring the Presidential Records Act as soon as he enters the White House. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The United Nations mandate that allows American troops to operate in Iraq expires at the end of December. And for months, the Bush administration and Iraq's government have been wrangling over a so-called status of forces agreement to replace it. The good news is that both Baghdad and the Americans (at least on paper) have agreed that it is time to start planning for a withdrawal of American troops. The other good news is that Iraqis are increasingly eager to run their own country. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Bush administration's quest for a deal with Iraq that would formally authorize an unlimited American troop presence there well beyond President Bush's tenure appears to be unraveling. The irony is that it may be a victim of the administration's successes in the war. Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq and his senior aides are now openly demanding a timetable for the withdrawal of American troops, at least on paper. That is partly a nod to Iraqi political realities, since Iraqi politicians must call for the end of American occupation. No one in Iraq realistically expects to throw out the Americans anytime soon -- and few in Iraq believe that it would be safe to do so immediately. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

For more than a year, President Bush has refused to honor legitimate requests from the Democratic majority in Congress for legal documents that he used to justify ordering the abuse, humiliation and torture of prisoners. This week, the Justice Department finally agreed to show some papers to members of the House and Senate. Sounds like good news? Not so much. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Bush administration could remove Sudan from an American list of state supporters of terrorism and normalize relations if the Sudanese government agreed, among other steps, to allow Thai and Nepalese peacekeepers in its Darfur region, says a document outlining the American negotiating position for talks with Sudan that began Wednesday. The document was part of a series of negotiating papers exchanged between the governments in preparation for talks in Rome. They were provided to The New York Times by an American government official critical of the administration's position. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article comments on the secrecy-related proposal of U.S. President George W. Bush. It is stated that the U.S. Congress is trying to prove that there is no place in a democracy for such hermetic devotion to secrecy. Reversing the presumption of right of public access to presidential paper, the Executive Order 13233 was signed by the president which has been called as the template for Bush administration's mania for secrecy.

The article reports that a ruling by Judge Gregory W. Carman of the U.S. Court of International Trade regarding tariff barriers on high-gloss paper products could lead to new trade barriers on import from China. The judge rejected a bid requested by China to block the U.S. President George W. Bush's administration from imposing tariffs on the Chinese products.

The article presents the author's comment about U.S. President George W. Bush's plans to build a presidential library at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. The author views that the university should accept the papers and build the library and school. Bush is one of the most controversial presidents, however, in one of the most difficult of times.

Reports that research papers and an editorial published in "The Journal of the American Medical Association" cast doubt on the U.S. President George W. Bush administration's contention that modern information technology can move the nation's health care system into the computer age. How a computer system for physicians could increase the risk of medication errors; Potential causes of errors; The high number of flaws in medical data systems; Overview of the articles; Comments of medical experts.

Reports on conflicting political loyalties in President George W. Bush's hometown of Crawford, Texas. Response to W. Leon Smith, editor in chief of The Lone Star Iconoclast, and Mayor Robert Campbell, both of whom have endorsed Senator Kerry; Arrival of canceled subscriptions and hate mail at the newspaper; Response to a September 29, 2004 editorial called "Kerry Will Restore American Dignity"; Hopes of the mayor to get the Bush presidential papers for the Baylor University library nearby; Strong support for Bush in the 2000 election and among businesses, banks, and many of the townspeople.

Reports that governor Howard Dean is considering to unseal some official papers in Vermont. Important of transparency in government; Campaign of Dean for the presidency; Promise of the candidate to follow the lead of President George W. Bush.

Focuses on the job of Joe Haggin as the deputy chief of staff of U.S. President George W. Bush. His family background; Involvement in various activities of the president; His responsibilities as in charge of paper floe to and from the office; Evaluation of the activities of the president.

Reports on U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and his advice to the public that they should not be sealing up doors and windows. Concern that the public may have gone too far in responding to the government's recommendation that they purchase duct tape and plastic sheeting to seal up doors and windows in the event of biochemical attack; Reminder from Ridge that the supplies should be kept available but not used; U.S. President George W. Bush's efforts to quell public anxiety; Indication from the Bush administration that the heightened security period warning of possible terrorist attacks by Al Qaeda may have passed.

Presents an opinion on a working paper on the proposal of Governor George W. Bush to allow individuals to divert part of their Social Security contributions into personal retirement accounts. Question about Bush's plans; Speculations about the plan.

Reports on the continuing emergence of new information on the nuclear network led by Pakistani metallurgist A.Q. Khan, chief architect of Pakistan's bomb, nearly one year after his house arrest. Discovery by experts from the United States and the United Nations' nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency of blueprints for a ten-kiloton atomic bomb in the files of the Libyan weapons program; Concerns by the administration of U.S. President George Bush about destabilizing Pakistan, considered an ally, if it pushes too hard for access to Khan, who is considered a national hero in Pakistan; Description of Khan's nuclear network; Countries involved in Khan's centrifuge design and uranium-related activities, such as the Netherlands. INSET: A Nuclear Network Partly Revealed..

The article presents news briefs from around the United States. Three environmental groups, namely Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and the Center for Biological Diversity, have filed a lawsuit against the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush due to the failure of the administration to submit a report on climate change to the U.S. Congress. The first slot-machine parlor was opened in Pennsylvania. The rare 1918 Inverted Jenny stamp used by a voter in Florida is fake.