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Joel Brinkley

• November 1 -- Cheney "Stale" on the Stump
Coverage of the vice presidential hopefuls tilts in John Edwards' direction.

• August 16 -- Bush Deregulates As Iraq Burns
Joel Brinkley’s investigation on regulatory policy in the Bush administration takes the liberal line: “Carl Pope, the executive director of the Sierra Club, says he does not think the administration could have succeeded in rewriting so many environmental rules, for example, if the public's attention had not been focused on national security issues.”

• August 11 -- Can Goss Boss the CIA?
Poisoning the well for Rep. Porter Goss, Bush's choice to head the CIA: "…his recent actions…have angered a number of senior C.I.A. officials, which could make it difficult for him to work with many of the holdovers from the Tenet era." Another piece intones: "Mr. Goss has engendered considerable ill will within the very organization he has been tapped to lead."

• October 28 -- "Nostalgia" for Baathist Bombs
A story on the struggles of Iraq's new foreign minister is headlined "Iraq's Foreign Ministry Has a New Chief, but Nostalgia for the Past Lingers." That's a rather broad view of nostalgia, given the story's opening: "Somebody planted a bomb outside the office of the new Iraqi foreign minister two weeks ago, set with a timer to go off when he was at his desk."