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Cheney on TV: Takes Blame for Shooting But 'Unapologetic' About Aftermath, Admits Drinking One Beer at Lunch  —  NEW YORK In an exclusive interview with Fox News' Brit Hume this afternoon, Vice President Dick Cheney took full responsibility for shooting his hunting companion, who has until now been pictured as the guilty party.
Maria Newman / New York Times:
Cheney Takes Full Responsibility for Shooting Hunter  —  Vice President Dick Cheney said this afternoon that "one of the worst days of my life" occurred on Saturday, when he accidentally shot and injured a friend of his while the two were hunting.  —  In his first public remarks on the accident …
Brit Hume / Fox News:
Exclusive Interview With V.P. Dick Cheney  —  This is a partial transcript of "Special Report With Brit Hume" from Feb. 15, 2006, that has been edited for clarity.  —  BRIT HUME, FOX NEWS HOST: Mr. Vice President, how's Mr. Whittington?  —  DICK CHENEY, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES …
Daniela Deane / Washington Post:
Cheney Breaks Silence on Shooting  —  Vice President Cheney accepted responsibility today for the accidental shooting of a 78-year-old man in a hunting accident last weekend, saying that watching his friend fall to the ground bleeding after he was injured was an "image I'll never get out of my mind."
Barry Saunders / Raleigh News & Observer:
Dummy up, Scooter  —  Accident my eye.  Or rather, Harry Whittington's eye.  —  If you believe it was just an accident that Vice President Dick Cheney shot his hunting companion last weekend, you obviously have never seen "The Godfather" movies.  —  Just as surely as a fish wrapped …
CNN:
Cheney: 'It's a day I'll never forget'  —  Vice president talks publicly about hunting accident  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Four days after shooting and wounding a friend during a hunting trip, Vice President Dick Cheney publicly addressed the incident for the first time Wednesday in an interview with a cable network.
Associated Press:
Cheney Breaks Silence on Hunting Accident  —  WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney on Wednesday accepted full blame for shooting a fellow hunter and defended his decision to not publicly disclose the accident until the following day.  He called it "one of the worst days of my life."
Washington Post:
Vice President Cheney Interviewed by Fox News
Discussion: Eschaton and Crooks and Liars
Hugh Hewitt:
The MSM Campaign Against Cheney
Alan Dershowitz / The Huffington Post:
Dick Cheney's Delay
Discussion: Think Progress and firedoglake
ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: The Secret Tapes — Inside Saddam's Palace  —  ABC News Obtains 12 Hours of Recordings of Saddam Hussein Meeting With Top Aides  —  Feb. 15, 2006 — ABC News has obtained 12 hours of tape recordings of Saddam Hussein meeting with top aides during the 1990s, tapes apparently recorded in Baghdad's version of the Oval Office.
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The American Thinker:
A second Iraqi former commander confirms WMDs  —  Slowly, very slowly, we are beginning to discover what happened to the WMDs of Saddam.  The left and the antique media have made it an article of faith that there never were any WMDs, and that "Bush lied."  So deep is their investment …
Reuters:
New pictures from Abu Ghraib surface  —  *** VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED - GRAPHIC IMAGES ***  —  Feb. 15 - Australian network SBS broadcasts images of alleged abuse of what it says are prisoners at Abu Ghraib in Iraq.  —  Previously unpublished images of abuse of Iraqi prisoners …
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Washington Post:
Australian TV Network Airs More Abu Ghraib Photos  —  An Australian television channel today broadcast more photographs of abuse of Iraqi prisoners at the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad.  The graphic images, which included naked, blood-soaked prisoners, were quickly picked …
Thom Shanker / New York Times:
Abu Ghraib Called Incubator for Terrorists
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Joseph Kahn / New York Times:
Beijing Censors Taken to Task in Party Circles  —  BEIJING, Feb. 14 — A dozen former Communist Party officials and senior scholars, including a onetime secretary to Mao, a party propaganda chief and the retired bosses of some of the country's most powerful newspapers, have denounced …
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Jose Lambiet / Palm Beach Post:
Ballot botch: Coulter votes in wrong precinct  —  She may be smart enough to earn millions from her acidic political barbs, but when it comes to something as simple as voting in her tiny hometown, hard-core conservative pundit Ann Coulter is a tad confused.  —  Palm Beach County Supervisor …
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Leaders Lead  —  So it looks like the Judiciary Committee is going to do the big el-foldo on the NSA spying scandal and some Democrats in the congress are going to simply vote with the Republicans make the president's illegal program legal and call it a day.
Michelle Malkin:
THE ISLAMISTS' WAR ON THE INTERNET  —  Last Tuesday, during or immediately after my appearance on Fox News Channel to discuss the Mohammed Cartoons, this blog was hit by a large, foreign-based denial of service attack.  Last night, my hosting service notified me that it is receiving ongoing threats …
Bob Cesca / The Huffington Post:
Was Cheney Hiding His Lewinsky?  —  Sirius radio's Alex Bennett just broke a rumor that the delay in reporting the news that Cheney shot an old man in the heart was due to an effort to hide or spin Cheney's female companion.  —  Pamela Willeford (shown right), ambassador to Switzerland and …

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