Such thoughts are still too controversial for senior members of the Bush administration to utter aloud.

ECONOMIST: America and empire

Last week his stock among the American administration plummeted even further when his website released the private thoughts of more of those diplomats on a range, as we were talking about earlier on, of controversial topics, and his lawyer Mark Stephens is with me now.

BBC: Transcript of Mark Stephens interview

What are your thoughts about the issues of listening, about the fact that people are saying, in your own party, that this administration is just not listening?

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing