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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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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.
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.
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.
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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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Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:VP accepts blame in shooting accident
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Ralph Blumenthal / New York Times:From Arrival to Errant Shot, a Timeline of Cheney's Hunting Accident
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Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:Cheney Talks, the Coverup Continues
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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:
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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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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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."
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.
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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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crisisgroup.org:
In Their Own Words: Reading the Iraqi Insurgency — EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS — In Iraq, the U.S. fights an enemy it hardly knows. Its descriptions have relied on gross approximations and crude categories (Saddamists, Islamo-fascists and the like) that bear only passing resemblance to reality.
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.
Yost / Michigan Football Forum:
'Bama Riots Over Bear Bryant Cartoons — (from M Zone wire reports) Tuscaloosa, AL — Riots broke out across the University of Alabama campus and the state itself today following reports that the M Zone's Danish affiliate - Den M Distrikt - posted cartoons showing former University …
