"Based on my experience with the administration in the months leading up to the war, I have little choice but to concl…"

"Those news stories about that unnamed former envoy who went to Niger? That's me. In February 2002, I was informed by …"

"For reasons that are understandable, the embassy staff has always kept a close eye on Niger's uranium business. I was…"

"In September 2002, however, Niger re-emerged. The British government published a white paper asserting that Saddam Hu…"

"I was convinced before the war that the threat of weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Saddam Hussein required…"

"What he calls a "smear campaign" against the couple has catalyzed his transformation from nonpartisan diplomat — he w…"

"The wilderness begins at the edge of my body, at the edge of my consciousness, and extends to the edge of the univers…"

"I had always been aware that the Universe is sad; everything in it, animate or inanimate, the wild creatures, the sto…"

"This is not a man who sits down to "write a poem"; rather, some burden of understanding and feeling, some need to kno…"

"Alabama is more than one of the States. It is another country. The Congo is not more different from Massachusetts or …"