Mr. Cheney repeated a formulation from a speech he made last week, calling the suggestion by some senators that the administration manipulated prewar intelligence "dishonest and reprehensible."

In this and other ways, the administration is manipulating information - a tacit, yet devastating, acknowledgement, we believe, that an informed public would reject privatizing Social Security.

Time after time, critics say, the administration has manipulated and suppressed scientific findings for political reasons.

Mr. Wilson concluded that the administration later manipulated intelligence about whether Iraq had sought to buy uranium from Niger.

"We still don't have a full picture of how the administration manipulated intelligence on Iraq," Senator Tom Harkin, Democrat of Iowa, said.

Still, he insists, the claim that the administration has manipulated scientific information on issues ranging from climate change to abortion to missile defense isn't just the fevered fantasy of Bush-hating polemicists.

The court suggested that the administration was manipulating the federal court system with "intentional mooting" in order to avoid Supreme Court review.

Their statement was accompanied by a report published by the Union of Concerned Scientists, listing cases where the administration has manipulated science on environmental and other issues.

The current administration has done nothing but lie and manipulate since they took office.