Morales did not help with Legal Services' budget
ASUO Vice President
Eddy Morales removed
himself from the process
to avoid a conflict of interest
By Chuck Slothower
News Reporter
ASUO Vice President Eddy Morales
had no role in the ASUO Executive
recommendation for ASUO Legal Ser
vices' budget, several ASUO officials
said. The recommendation could
have presented a conflict of interest
for Morales because Legal Services Di
rector Ilona Koleszar is representing
Morales in court.
Morales is charged with assault and
criminal mischief in connection with
a Sept. 12 incident.
ASUO spokeswoman Taraneh Fos
ter said Morales had no role whatso
ever in the recommendation.
"Eddy hasn't even looked at the Le
gal Services budget because he want
ed to make sure that there wasn't a
conflict of interest," Foster said.
"There's nothing shady going on."
Although Morales is said to have
removed himself from the Legal Ser
vices budget process, ASUO Student
Senate Ombudsman Mike Sherman
said a vice president typically has some
role in budget recommendations.
"They work closely with the finan
cial coordinator and the controllers to
develop those recommendations," he
said. "If the controllers have any issues
or concerns, the vice president or fi
nancial coordinator can help them
out a lot."
ASUO Controller Sunil Karia said he
created Legal Services' budget
recommendation alone, with no help
from Morales and only a little help
from fellow controller Sara Hender
son.
The ASUO Programs Finance
Committee approved Legal Services'
2004-05 budget at a Jan. 13 meet
ing, allocating $190,295. The budg
et is an 8.3 percent increase from
2003-04.
"I never felt any pressure from Eddy
or any of them," said PFC member
Colin Andries, who acted as a liaison
between PFC and Legal Services.
The increased budget will be used to
pay for cost-of-living raises for Legal Ser
vices employees and to provide health
insurance for Legal Services Assistant Di
rector Linda Miller, Karia said.
Andries said many University em
ployees in positions similar to Miller's
receive benefits. The insurance ac
counts for $3,780 of the increase,
Karia said.
Morales, who will be in court Feb.
24, could not be reached for comment.
Contact the campus/
federal politics reporter
at chuckslothower@dailyemerald.com.
Nation & World News
Intelligence officials warn WMD information was iffy
Blame for misinformation
is being cast on Iraqi exile
leader Ahmad Chalabi,
who provided the defector
By Jonathan S. Landay
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
WASHINGTON — Dubious intelli
gence about Iraq's biological weapons
programs found its way into the Bush
administration's case for a pre-emp
tive invasion of Iraq despite the fact
that officials warned in May 2002 that
some of the information might be un
reliable or fabricated.
Ihe charge that Iraq had mobile bi
ological warfare research laboratories
came solely from a defector provided
to U.S. intelligence officials by Iraqi
exile leader Ahmad Chalabi, said sen
ior U.S. officials, revealing the over
sight for the first time on Thursday.
The officials, some of whom are crit
ics of Chalabi, spoke on the condition
of anonymity because the intelligence
remains classified.
Chalabi, the head of the Iraqi Na
tional Congress, is a favorite of pro
war civilian officials in the Pentagon
but is deeply distrusted by many rank
and-file professionals in the CIA, the
Defense Intelligence Agency and the
State Department, who worried that
some of the defectors they produced
might be Iraqi double agents.
The Defense Intelligence Agency,
which debriefed the defector,
flagged the information he provid
ed as questionable in 2002. Top
DIA officials helped draft an Octo
ber 2002 National Intelligence Esti
mate, or NIE, on Iraq's weapons
programs and reviewed Secretary of
State Colin Powell's February 2003
speech to the U.N. Security Council
but never raised their own agency's
doubts about the source, said two
senior officials.
The snafu, said another senior
official, also a critic of Chalabi, raises
the possibility that Chalabi and oth
ers, possibly including Saddam Hus
sein's own intelligence service, may
have tried to deceive the United
States about the state of Iraq's nu
clear, chemical and biological
weapons programs.
The Iraqis, the official said, may
have tried to deter a U.S.-led attack by
making it appear that they were ready
to use chemical and biological
weapons. Meanwhile, Chalabi and
others may have tried to encourage a
U.S.-led attack by making it appear
that Iraq was an imminent threat to
American interests.
Director of Central Intelligence
George Tenet referred directly to the
issue in his Georgetown University
speech on Thursday.
"We recently discovered that rele
vant analysts in the (intelligence)
community missed a notice that
identified a source we had cited as
providing information that, in some
cases was unreliable, and in other
cases, was fabricated, * he said with
out elaborating.
A CIA spokesman declined further
comment.
(c) 2004, Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Services.
Dean says he must win Wisconsin; Kerry leads in Michigan
While Dean ducked out
of Michigan, Kerry picked up
key endorsements in Maine
By Rick Pearson and Tim Jones
Chicago Tribune (KRT)
MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Winless in
the nation's first nine Democratic pri
mary and caucus contests, embattled
one-time frontrunner Howard Dean
told supporters in an e-mail Thursday
that he must win the Wisconsin pri
mary on Feb. 17 or fold his long-shot
comeback bid.
"This entire race has come down to
this: We must win Wisconsin," Dean
said, pleading for contributions of
$50 to raise $700,000 by Sunday to
pay for advertising in the Dairy State's
media markets.
"A win there will carry us to the
big states of March 2 — and narrow
the field to two candidates," Dean
wrote. "Anything less will put us out
of this race."
Dean's statement was reminiscent
of comments made before this week's
South Carolina primary by Sen. John
Edwards of North Carolina, who said
he would drop out of the race for the
Democratic presidential nomination
if he did not win there. Edwards did
win the primary Tuesday.
Dean's plea came as polls Thursday
showed him trailing Sen. John Kerry
in Michigan, where Democrats will
vote Saturday in a statewide caucus.
As if acknowledging his plight in
Michigan, Dean abruptly canceled a
scheduled appearance before the De
troit branch of the NAACP and flew to
Milwaukee to campaign.
Meanwhile, Kerry campaigned in
Maine and picked up key endorse
ments Thursday. Maine Gov. John
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Portland, Maine, and former Sen.
George Mitchell released a statement
saying he endorsed Kerry. Both Michi
gan senators, Debbie Stabenow and
Carl Levin, signed on, too.
On Friday Kerry will add an en
dorsement from Rep. Richard
Gephardt of Missouri, whose cam
paign for the nomination ended after
a fourth-place finish in Iowa.
Officials with the Kerry campaign
said Gephardt will appear with the
Massachusetts senator on Friday at a
rally in Warren, Mich., with Macomb
County Democrats.
None of the other Democratic presi
dential contenders are campaigning in
Maine, all but ceding that state to Kerry.
Campaign officials expect the senator
to win in Maine, as well as Michigan
and Washington state this weekend.
In Portland, Maine, Kerry said he
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supports equal rights for people and
supports dvi l unions, but not gay mar
riage. "I believe the court is wrong," he
said, speaking about the Massachusetts
Supreme Court's dedaration Wednes
day that marriage must be accessible to
gays. He added that it is up to the state
legislature to respond now.
Asked about Republicans using the
issue of gay marriage against him, Ker
ry said: "Big deal for the Republicans
if they want to choose a wedge issue
and distort my position. I will fight
back." He said Vice President Dick
Cheney "has the same position Ido."
Thursday's polls in Michigan
showed Dean, who a month ago was
enjoying double-digit leads, trailing
Kerry badly. A poll released late Thurs
day had Kerry ahead of Dean, 62 per
cent to 13 percent, followed by Ed
wards, with 11 percent, according to
EPIC-MRA of Lansing. A Detroit Free
Press poll showed Kerry leading Dean,
58 percent to 13 percent, while the
Detroit News had Kerry ahead of
Dean, 56 percent to 9 percent.
Dean has been facing increasing
pressure from his congressional sup
porters, as well as union backers from
the Service Employees International
Union and the American Federation
of State, County and Municipal Em
ployees to win a state contest to help
restore the viability of his candidacy.
Looking to Wisconsin, Dean told
supporters: "All that you have worked
for these past months is on the line in
a single day, in a single state."
Although Michigan is accustomed
to playing a dramatic role in the nom
inating process, a sense of excitement
seems missing in the state this year.
Edwards is not campaigning in Michi
gan, nor is retired Gen. Wesley Clark.
Rev. A1 Sharpton has campaigned in
the state since Wednesday and Rep.
Dennis Kucinich is due Friday.
Estimates for Saturday's voter
turnout have been dramatically scaled
back. Less than two months ago Michi
gan Democratic Party officials were say
ing as many as 400,000 people might
cast ballots. But now turnout estimates
are in the 120,000 range
(c) 2004, Chicago Tribune. Distributed
by Knight Ridder/Tribune information
Services. Tribune national
correspondent Jiii Zuckman contributed
to this report.
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