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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 …
Thomas Sowell / Townhall.com:
Spoiled brat media — The first revolt of the American colonists against their British rulers was immortalized by Ralph Waldo Emerson as "the shot heard round the world." Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting accident has now become the shot heard round the Beltway.
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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.
AOL News:
Rove Pushed Cheney to Talk — (Feb. 16) — President Bush's top political aide, Karl Rove, pushed Vice President Dick Cheney to speak publicly about shooting a fellow hunter, sources tell CBS News. — Rove worried the vice president's silence on the issue was becoming a political problem …
Pete Yost / Associated Press:
Cheney Says He Can Declassify Secrets — WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney says he has the power to declassify government secrets, raising the possibility that he authorized his former chief of staff to pass along sensitive prewar data on Iraq to reporters.
Ralph Blumenthal / New York Times:From Arrival to Errant Shot, a Timeline of Cheney's Hunting Accident
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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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Michelle Malkin:
THE QUESTION EVERYONE'S ASKING — Watching the news in my hotel room before my speech, I just saw CNN air a few of the new, highly inflammatory Abu Ghraib photos now making the rounds. — No pixelation of the nude prisoners in the photos. No disclaimers about paying respect to members …
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BBC:
France steps up rhetoric on Iran — France has for the first time explicitly accused Iran of using its nuclear programme as a cover for clandestine military nuclear activity. — Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy told French TV no civilian programme could explain Iran's activity.
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."
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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.
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Court Veteran Remembers a Scary Start — WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 — No one will blame Justice Stephen G. Breyer if he flashes back more than 11 years to his own challenging start on the Supreme Court when Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. is ceremonially sworn in there on Thursday.
BBC:
Iraq 'death squad caught in act' — Iraq has launched an investigation into claims by the US military that an Iraqi interior ministry "death squad" has been targeting Sunni Arab Iraqis. — The probe comes after a US general revealed the arrest of 22 policemen allegedly on a mission to kill a Sunni.
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tcsdaily.com:
Blogging: for Love or Money? — People are making a living, or a decent chunk of one, by blogging. Some are warbloggers in the Middle East, like Michael Totten, who blogs from Beirut, with occasional sidetrips to Egypt, Turkey, and Iraq, or Michael Yon, who served as a war correspondent via blog …
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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Warren Hoge / New York Times:
U.N. Report Calls for End to Guantánamo Detentions — UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 16 — United Nations human rights investigators called on the United States today to shut down the Guantánamo Bay camp and give detainees prompt trials or release them.
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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