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White House chief of staff Andy Card has resigned and will be replaced by budget director Joshua Bolten, President Bush announced today amid growing calls for a White House shakeup and Republican concern about Bush's tumbling poll ratings.

Newly declassified documents about a 1995 meeting show collaboration between Iraq and al-Qaida and give some justification for the war against Iraq, says Bob Kerrey, the former Nebraska U.S. senator and 9/11 Commission member. However, Kerrey said the documents do not show a direct link between former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.

The federal government is making public a huge trove of documents seized during the invasion of Iraq, posting them on the Internet in a step that is at once a nod to the Web's power and an admission that U.S. intelligence resources are overloaded.

Zacarias Moussaoui, the often volatile al-Qaida conspirator, was never calmer than when he dropped a bombshell Monday from the witness stand at his sentencing trial: He now claims that he was part of the 9/11 plot. Jurors now confront an unexpected question: Do they believe Moussaoui's new version of his role, the starkly different version he told when pleading guilty last April or the version they heard later Monday from Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the 9/11 mastermind who is in U.S. custody.