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John Pain / Associated Press:
Air Marshal Kills Passenger, Citing Threat — MIAMI (AP) - An agitated passenger who claimed to have a bomb in his backpack was shot and killed by a federal air marshal Wednesday after he bolted frantically from a jetliner that was boarding for takeoff, officials said. No bomb was found.
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John Pain / Associated Press:
Airline Passenger Who Made Threat Killed — MIAMI - A passenger who claimed to have a bomb in a carry-on bag was shot and killed by a federal air marshal Wednesday on a jetway to an American Airlines plane that had arrived from Colombia, officials said. — Homeland Security Department …
Carol Leonnig / Washington Post:
Fitzgerald Presents New Information to Grand Jury — First Appearance in Probe Since Libby Indictment — Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald appeared this morning to present information to a new grand jury in the CIA leak investigation. — Fitzgerald has been probing for two years …
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David Corn, firedoglake, TalkLeft, Associated Press, Think Progress and IntoxiNation-News …
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Lawrence O'Donnell / The Huffington Post:
Rove's Lawyer an On-the-Record Liar — At Arianna's HuffPo party last month, Mickey Kaus was surprised when I told him I did not think Bob Luskin was a liar. In several posts here, I've had my fun with Luskin's endless media spinning on behalf of his most famous client, Karl Rove, but I have never said he is a liar.
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Rice Clarifies U.S. Interrogation Methods — Statement Appears to Mark Significant Shift in Policy — KIEV, Ukraine, Dec. 7 — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday the United States had banned all of its personnel from conducting cruel or inhumane interrogations of prisoners.
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CBS News:
Poll: Bush's Ratings Bump Up — (CBS) There is good news and bad news in this poll for President George W. Bush. Americans have become more positive about the economy; more than half think the economy is in good shape, an 8-point increase since October. — The President's overall approval rating …
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New York Times:
In Poll, Bush Improves on Economy but Iraq War Looms — After months of political erosion, President Bush's approval rating improved markedly in the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll, largely tracking Americans' more positive attitudes toward the economy.
Media Matters for America:
O'Reilly promised to "bring horror" to alleged "anti-Christian forces" who oppose Christmas … On the December 2 broadcast of Fox News' The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly, host Bill O'Reilly stated that he would "use all the power that I have on radio and television to bring horror into the world of people" …
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Peter Heinlein / Voice of America:
US Blasts Security Council for Failing to Condemn Terror Attack in Israel — Washington's ambassador to the United Nations has criticized the Security Council for failing to condemn the latest terrorist attack in Israel. — The envoy singled out Algeria for blocking a U.S. drafted statement.
Shane Harris / govexec.com:
Army project illustrates promise, shortcomings of data mining — In the spring of 2000, a year and a half before the 9/11 attacks, Erik Kleinsmith made a decision that history may judge as a colossal mistake. — Then a 35-year-old Army major assigned to a little-known intelligence organization …
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White House:
President Discusses War on Terror and Rebuilding Iraq — Washington, D.C. — In Focus: Renewal in Iraq — Fact Sheet: Rebuilding Iraq — THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, all. Richard, thanks for the invitation. Thanks for letting me come by and address the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Gateway Pundit, Austin Bay Blog, No End But Victory, AMERICAN FUTURE and THE CUNNING REALIST
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Neil Tweedie / Telegraph:
Fighter ace sells medals to spare wife long wait for hip replacement — One of the most decorated British fighter pilots of the Second World War has sold his medals, diaries and other memorabilia partly to pay for a hip replacement operation for his wife who faced at least a six-month wait on the National Health Service.
OSM:
Iraq the Model goes deep inside the Iraqi election — By Mohammed of Iraq the Model, for Pajamas Media — In spite of the wide variety of political bodies competing in the December elections, making speculations and estimations is not difficult at all when one realizes that most Iraqis …
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Richard Lloyd Parry / Times of London:
How do you tackle an invasion of giant jellyfish? Try making sushi — THEY are called echizen kurage and they sound like monsters from the trashier reaches of Japanese science fiction. — They are 6ft wide and weigh 450lb (200kg), with countless poisonous tentacles …
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Governor's Relative Is Big Contract Winner — PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss., Dec. 6 - Rosemary Barbour happens to be married to a nephew of Mississippi's governor, Haley Barbour. Since the Reagan administration, when Mrs. Barbour worked as a White House volunteer as a college student, she has been active in the Republican Party.
