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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
An Arrogance of Power — There is a temptation that seeps into the souls of even the most righteous politicians and leads them to bend the rules, and eventually the truth, to suit the political needs of the moment. That arrogance of power is on display with the Bush administration.
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Handling of Accident Creates Tension Between White House Staffs — WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 — When the White House press secretary, Scott McClellan, came to the press room just before 10 a.m. Tuesday and suggested he was wearing an orange tie to avoid a stray shot from Vice President Dick Cheney …
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Craig Gordon / Newsday:
Cheney's shot gives critics ammo — WASHINGTON — He had a father-knows-best quality beside a relatively green White House hopeful, the strong-but-silent political type George W. Bush picked to help reassure voters he was up to the job. — In Vice President Dick Cheney …
Los Angeles Times:
Cheney Lacked $7 Hunting Credential — CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Although he was not cited with breaking any laws, Vice President Dick Cheney did not have proper hunting credentials when he accidentally shot a fellow hunter at a private ranch over the weekend, authorities said Monday.
Kevin Sites / Agence France Presse:
Democrats blast Cheney secrecy after shooting — WASHINGTON (AFP) - Democrats in Congress accused Vice President Dick Cheney of a pattern of secrecy, and demanded that he "level" with the public, after keeping mum about accidentally shooting an associate over the weekend.
Media Matters for America:
CNN's Morton: Bush "likes to hunt quail"; Cheney "loves to hunt" — but Kerry "spent time posing with guns" … During a report on hunting and politics on the February 13 edition of CNN's The Situation Room, CNN national correspondent Bruce Morton commented that President Bush …
Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:Ari Fleischer Joins Criticism Of Cheney's Response to Shooting
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Opinion Journal:Cheney's Coverup — The Vice President shoots a man. Questions must be asked.
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New York Times:Fellow Hunter Shot by Cheney Suffers Setback
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Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Congressional Probe of NSA Spying Is in Doubt — Congress appeared ready to launch an investigation into the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance program last week, but an all-out White House lobbying campaign has dramatically slowed the effort and may kill it, key Republican and Democratic sources said yesterday.
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Washington Post:
Cheney's Response A Concern In GOP — Vice President Cheney's slow and unapologetic public response to the accidental shooting of a 78-year-old Texas lawyer is turning the quail-hunting mishap into a political liability for the Bush administration and is prompting senior White House officials …
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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Matthew Moore / Sydney Morning Herald:
The photos America doesn't want seen — MORE photographs have been leaked of Iraqi citizens tortured by US soldiers at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad. — Tonight the SBS Dateline program plans to broadcast about 60 previously unpublished photographs …
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Gareth Porter / ipsnews.net:
U.S. Risks Reporter's Life to Strike Tough Pose — WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (IPS) - The George W. Bush administration went well beyond refusing to negotiate with terrorists in its handling of the threat by freelance journalist Jill Carroll's abductors to kill her if all female detainees were not released from U.S.-run prisons in Iraq.
Washington Post:
325,000 Names on Terrorism List — Rights Groups Say Database May Include Innocent People — The National Counterterrorism Center maintains a central repository of 325,000 names of international terrorism suspects or people who allegedly aid them, a number that has more than quadrupled since …
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Michael J. Totten:
The Dream City of the Kurds — ERBIL, IRAQ - Kurdistan is a place of the mind. It doesn't exist on any maps unless the maps are made by the Kurds. Southern Kurdistan is known to the rest of the world as Northern Iraq. Northern Kurdistan is described as Eastern Turkey.
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David Mendell / Chicago Tribune:
School editors say they were suspended for running Islamic cartoons — The editor in chief of a student-led newspaper serving the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been suspended for printing cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that, when published in Europe …
Jonathan Ewing / Associated Press:
Scalia Dismisses 'Living Constitution' — PONCE, Puerto Rico - People who believe the Constitution would break if it didn't change with society are "idiots," U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says. — In a speech Monday sponsored by the conservative Federalist Society …
Carlotta Gall / New York Times:
Afghan Suicide Bombings, Tied to Taliban, Point to Pakistan — KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Feb. 12 — Arrests and interrogations of suspects in a recent series of suicide bombings in Afghanistan show that the attacks have been orchestrated from Pakistan by members of the ousted Taliban government …
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 …
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USA Today:
Poll: Americans fear Iran will develop, use nukes — WASHINGTON — Americans are deeply worried about the possibility that Iran will develop nuclear weapons and use them against the USA, a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll finds, but they also fear that the Bush administration will be "too quick" to order military action against Iran.
David S. Cloud / New York Times:
Quick Rise for Purveyors of Propaganda in Iraq — WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 — Two years ago, Christian Bailey and Paige Craig were living in a half-renovated Washington group house, with a string of failed startup companies behind them. — Mr. Bailey, a boyish-looking Briton, and Mr. Craig …
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