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Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
Hit Refresh? — Why Bush may be thinking about replacing Cheney. — The Dick Cheney shooting incident will, in a way, go away. And, in a way, not—ever. Some things stick. Gerry Ford had physically stumbled only once or twice in public when he became, officially, The Stumbler.
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Brit Hume, Cheney's Choice For a Straight Shooter — Brit Hume was in his morning staff meeting at Fox News yesterday when his cell phone rang. It was Dick Cheney. — The network's Washington managing editor had been pressing for the interview that every news organization was hotly pursuing …
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Washington Post:
Vice President Cheney Interviewed by Fox News — Eisenhower Executive Office Building 2:01 P.M. EST — Q Mr. Vice President, how is Mr. Whittington? — THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, the good news is he's doing very well today. I talked to him yesterday after they discovered the heart problem …
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Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:
VP accepts blame in shooting accident — Cheney calls hunting incident one of his worst days, defends delay of announcement — WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney accepted fault for his hunting accident Wednesday and called it one of the worst days of his life.
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Ralph Blumenthal / New York Times:
From Arrival to Errant Shot, a Timeline of Cheney's Hunting Accident — HOUSTON, Feb. 15 — Harry M. Whittington had just made two great shots — "a double, two birds with two shots" — recalled Pamela Pitzer Willeford. He had dropped back to retrieve the quail and, she said, "the vice president and I started walking forward."
New York Times:
Silence Broken as Cheney Points Only to Himself — WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 —Vice President Dick Cheney broke a four-day silence on Wednesday about his accidental shooting of a hunting partner, saying he took full responsibility for the incident while vigorously defending his decision to delay releasing news about it until the next day.
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Brit Hume / Fox News:Exclusive Interview With V.P. Dick Cheney
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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
The New Documents — FOR MORE than a year, THE WEEKLY STANDARD has sought the release of documents captured in Iraq and Afghanistan. We have pressured Pentagon officials, cajoled intelligence analysts, listened to would-be whistleblowers, interviewed Iraqis and filed numerous Freedom …
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Radio Blogger:
MSNBC pundit and West Wing producer/writer Lawrence O'Donnell and Hugh on whether Vice President was drunk. — HH: Hi, Lawrence. Welcome back. — LO: Thank you. — HH: Good to have you on. Lawrence O'Donnell, yesterday you posted at the Huffington Post about Dick Cheney, Was Cheney Drunk?
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Radio Blogger:
Helen Thomas hangs up on Hugh Hewitt. — The dean of the White House press corps, known lovingly around the Hugh Hewitt Show as Aunt Bethany... appeared on the program a little while ago, and it didn't end well, with Ms. Thomas hanging up on Hugh. Here's how it went: — 02-15thomas.mp3
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
No Checks, Many Imbalances — The next time a president asks Congress to pass something akin to what Congress passed on Sept. 14, 2001 — the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) — the resulting legislation might be longer than Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past."
AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
The transcript of the Congressman Weldon's mid day press conference can be found here at the Able Danger blog. I have posted earlier on the big news of the press conference - Able Danger data still exists and is probably the data sets sent to SOCOM as the lead organization for Able Danger.
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Vadkins / QT Monster's Place:Able Danger Hearing - Liveblogging
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Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
The Lessons of Counterinsurgency — U.S. Unit Praised for Tactics Against Iraqi Fighters, Treatment of Detainees — TALL AFAR, Iraq — The last time the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment served in Iraq, in 2003-04, its performance was judged mediocre, with a series of abuse cases growing out of its tour of duty in Anbar province.
ABCNEWS:
Secret Tapes Show Saddam's Son-in-Law Admitted WMD Deception — In Recording, Iraqi Dictator Is Briefed on Efforts to Hide Weapons Programs — Feb. 15, 2006 — The following is a translation of portions of one pivotal tape-recorded meeting that took place in late April or May of 1995.
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USA Today:
Senate aide's spouse gets a windfall — WASHINGTON — Sen. Arlen Specter helped direct almost $50 million in Pentagon spending during the past four years to clients of the husband of one of his top aides, records show. — Specter, R-Pa., used a process called "earmarking" …
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Frank Phillips / Boston Globe:
Poll finds Patrick and Reilly running even among Democrats — Political newcomer Deval Patrick was running even with Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly among Democratic primary voters in a recent poll, a sign that Reilly's political missteps have cost him in the race for the party's gubernatorial nomination.
Richard Williamson / brandweek.com:
Report: Bush Spent $1.4 Billion on 'Spin' — DALLAS — The Bush administration spent $1.4 billion in taxpayer dollars on 137 contracts with advertising agencies over the past two-and-a-half years, according to a Government Accountability Office report released by House Democrats Monday.
Washington Post:
The Legal Woes Of Rep. Jefferson — Probe of La. Democrat Provides Fodder for GOP — Around Washington, Rep. William J. Jefferson nurtured a reputation as a serious, even wonkish, lawmaker, a grade-school dropouts' son who graduated from Harvard Law School and was elected Louisiana's first black congressman since Reconstruction.
