The Pentagon’s quarterly update to Congress on the Iraq war is out, and the assessment is grim. For the first time, it uses the term “civil war” to describe the violence in Iraq.

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The Bush administration says it has received complaints that some U.S. attorneys are not pursuing voter fraud aggressively enough. But collecting enough evidence to prosecute such claims is rarely easy.

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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, seen as the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, is said to claim responsibility for more than 30 major crimes and plots. A transcript of a secret military hearing details his confession. Is he over-inflating his role?

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Sen. John Sununu of New Hampshire has called on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to resign. Sununu is the first Republican to join a chorus of Democrats in Congress who say the attorney general had an improper role in the firing of eight U.S. attorneys.

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A transcript of a military hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, details a thorough confession from al-Qaida suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. But can the confession be taken at face value? Jack Cloonan, a former FBI agent who spent time on a joint-terrorism task force, offers his insights.

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