National
Bush staff continues search for CIA leak
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush questioned on Tuesday whether investigators would be able to determine who leaked the identity of an undercover CIA officer but said his staff was cooperating. "I want to know the truth," he said. Bush's chief of staff, Andrew Card, urged some 2,000 White House employees to turn over any relevant documents by Tuesday night. White House lawyers will screen the materials and decide which ones to send to the Justice Department as part of a criminal inquiry into the leak, Bush spokesman Scott McClellan said.
Clark's manager quits over campaign methods
WASHINGTON (AP) - Wesley Clark's campaign manager quit Tuesday in a dispute over the direction of the 3-week-old Democratic presidential bid, the latest setback for a team struggling to mesh its Internet-savvy founders with a corps of Washington insiders assuming more power.
Donnie Fowler, 35, told associates he was leaving over widespread concerns that supporters who used the Internet to draft Clark into the race are not being taken seriously by top campaign officials. Fowler also complained that the campaign's message and methods are focused too much on Washington, not key states, said two associates who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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U.S. expecting Europe to aid in peacekeeping
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - America's European allies are expected to offer this week to play a bigger peacekeeping role in Bosnia and Afghanistan, helping U.S. forces stretched by the occupation of Iraq and their fight against al-Qaeda. European nations firmed up plans for both operations at talks ahead of a two-day meeting of NATO defense ministers, which opens Wednesday in this Rocky Mountain city.
Dotson attorneys may appeal extradition
CHESTERTOWN, Md. (AP) - Attorneys for a former Baylor basketball player accused of murdering a teammate said they have not decided whether to appeal a warrant for his extradition to Texas.
Carlton Dotson appeared in court Tuesday, where he was served with a warrant signed by Gov. Robert Ehrlich. His lawyers have 10 days to appeal.
Authorities in Texas have accused Dotson, who is from Maryland, of shooting Patrick Dennehy in June. Dennehy's body was found in a field southeast of Waco, Texas.
After the hearing, Dotson's mother asked the public for support and privacy.
"We visit Carlton on a daily basis, on a weekly basis, and we are praying for him and we love him a lot," Gilreatha Johnson said.
State
Former BIA agent sentenced to prison
SANTA FE (AP) - A former U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs employee accused of extorting money from an Albuquerque business owner has been sentenced to 15 months in prison.
Herman G. Fisher of Edgewood was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Martha Vazquez. Fisher was convicted in May on four counts of demanding, receiving and accepting bribes.
The U.S. Interior Department's office of inspector general and the FBI began investigating Fisher in 2000.
Fisher, a BIA contracting officer's technical representative, was accused of demanding $300,000 in kickbacks from the business owner, who was providing portable school buildings to the BIA, prosecutors said.
Fisher threatened to hold up BIA payments for work the business owner already had done.
Prosecutors said Fisher also threatened to cut off future orders, terminate the contract and blackball the contractor.
