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Jane Roh / Fox News:
Cheney: 'I'm the Guy Who Pulled the Trigger' — NEW YORK — Vice President Dick Cheney said he and he alone was responsible for a weekend hunting accident in which he shot Austin attorney Harry Whittington. — "Ultimately I'm the guy who pulled the trigger, that fired the round that hit Harry …
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Hugh Hewitt:
The MSM Campaign Against Cheney — Headlines: — Los Angeles Times: Hunter Suffers Setback as Criticism of Cheney Grows — The Washington Post: Cheney's Response A Concern In GOP — The New York Times: Handling of Mishap Creates Strain in the White House — The Boston Globe: Hunter shot by Cheney has a heart attack
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 …
Tony Blankley / realclearpolitics.com:
The Shooting Party — In the absence of any pressing news these days — other than Iran's nuclear weapons development crisis, the election of Hamas terrorists in Palestine, ongoing worldwide Muslim riots and killing in reaction to a cartoon, Al Gore's near sedition while speaking in Saudi Arabia …
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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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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.
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.
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Lawrence K. Altman / New York Times:
Account of Doctors Raises Questions on Heart Injury — The account given yesterday by doctors caring for the Texas lawyer accidentally shot by Vice President Dick Cheney last weekend raises serious questions about how and when a pellet entered his heart and what tests were done to establish …
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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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Thom Shanker / New York Times:
Abu Ghraib Called Incubator for Terrorists — WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 — American commanders in Iraq are expressing grave concerns that the overcrowded Abu Ghraib prison has become a breeding ground for extremist leaders and a school for terrorist foot soldiers.
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Monisha Bansal / CNSNews:
Intelligence Summit to Air 'Saddam's WMD Tapes' — See Related Story: Secret Saddam WMD Tapes Subject of ABC Nightline Special — (CNSNews.com) - Reportedly armed with 12 hours of Saddam Hussein's audio recordings, the organizers of an upcoming "Intelligence Summit" are describing the tapes as the …
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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 …
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.
BBC:
Smoking ban in all pubs and clubs — MPs have voted by a huge margin to ban smoking from all pubs and private members' clubs in England. — Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt said the change, expected to take effect in summer 2007, would "save thousands of people's lives".
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 …
Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press:
House Probe Blasts Katrina Preparation — WASHINGTON - The deaths and suffering of thousands of Hurricane Katrina's victims might have been avoided if the government had heeded lessons from the 2001 terror attacks and taken a proactive stance toward disaster preparedness, a House inquiry concludes.
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Daniel Finkelstein / Times of London:
How I woke up to a nightmare plot to steal centuries of law and liberty — THE POINT IS, I don't want to seem like a nutter. It's a very common human emotion, that — not wanting to stand out for thinking something hardly anyone else thinks. Best keep your head down and say nothing.
