April 30, 2007

Earlybird Roundup

In today's Earlybird (subscription):

War funding standoff. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice hit the Sunday shows circuit and said President Bush wouldn't sign a bill "that punishes the Iraqi government for failing to meet benchmarks for progress." Meanwhile, Democrats are preparing to work on a new bill ahead of an expected veto and failed override vote, CongressDailyAM (subscription) reports.

Washington. Rice also disputed claims about the run-up to the Iraq war in former CIA Director George Tenet's new memoir, while six former CIA officers came out to describe Tenet as "the Alberto Gonzales of the intelligence community."

White House. Press secretary Tony Snow will be back on the job today.

Iraq. Iran said it would attend a regional conference on the state of Iraq later this week. Meanwhile, a government report portends failure for seven of eight U.S. reconstruction projects that are being run by Iraqis, Bloomberg News reports.

Mideast. A long-awaited report on last summer's Israeli-Hezbollah war has led to calls for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's resignation.

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