Daily Briefing: Run for Four Years
• Bushmakes nice in Canada: seeks "wide international consensus" for creation of "effective" multinational institutions, defeat of terrorism, and promotion of democracy; puts pressure on Palestinians for peace. [ WP , NYT , USAT , WT , BG ]
•U.S. to add 12,000 troops in Iraq to stabilize country for elections. [ WP , NYT , USAT ]
• Tenettakes issue with creation of national intelligence director: "I don't think you should separate the leader of this country's intelligence from a line agency." [ WP ]
•Federal judge questions legality of enemy combatant status. Attorney: "It's past time for the mockery to end." [ WP , NYT , USAT ]
•Anti-abortion activists see green lights with conservative Senate; plan "array of incremental, carefully focused restrictions."Brownback: "The country is moving pro-life."Feinstein: "I have a sense of deep foreboding unless the choice movement is able to once again come alive." [ NYT ]
•White House considers larger personal investment accounts for Social Security. [ WT ]
• Gonzaleswill recuse himself fromPlameinvestigation if confirmed as attorney general. [ NYT ]
•Key Republican Congressional leaders need direction fromBushto press agenda of tax reform, Social Security overhaul. [ WSJ ]
•Deficit unlikely to be halved asBushpromised. Analyst: "It makes heroic assumptions about controlling spending, and it's just not realistic." [ BG ]
• Frist's campaign fund has lost $460,000 in the stock market since 2000;Daschleflack: "He still thinks we should put seniors' Social Security funds in the stock market?!" [ WP ]
• Bushto convene two-day economic conference to discuss tax reform, future of Social Security. [ WSJ ]
•Congress cuts centerpiece of administration's plan to curtail gun crimes, signaling Congress' independence from administration. [ NYT ]
• Hillaryfaces row of hurdles toward 2008.McAuliffe: "We have the luxury this time around of being able to run for four years like the Republicans did in 2000." [ WT ]
•Election aftershocks ongoing. [ USAT ]
• Frank Rich: Be wary of "Nascarization of news." [ NYT ]