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Matea Gold / Los Angeles Times:
Critics slam Cheney's interview choice  —  New York — For days, the White House news corps has pounded the Bush administration, demanding to learn more about Vice President Dick Cheney's accidental shooting of a hunting companion Saturday.  —  Cheney finally addressed the incident Wednesday …
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Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
Can Cheney be His Own Declassification Machine?  —  In my view, the law says "No". . .but I have little doubt Alberto Gonzales and his minions will construct a rationale that says otherwise.  —  But I have run across some interesting information — and have some questions that we should all pose …
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.
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 …
National Review:
The Little-Noticed Order That Gave Dick Cheney New Power  —  In addition to discussing his hunting accident, Vice President Dick Cheney, in his interview on the Fox News Channel Wednesday, also pointed to a little-known but enormously consequential expansion of vice-presidential power …
Thomas Sowell / Townhall.com:
Spoiled brat media
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Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
Hit Refresh?  —  Why Bush may be thinking about replacing Cheney.
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Brit Hume, Cheney's Choice For a Straight Shooter
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Kevin Sites / Associated Press:
Iran Renames Danish Pastries  —  TEHRAN, Iran - Iranians love Danish pastries, but when they look for the flaky dessert at the bakery they now have to ask for "Roses of the Prophet Muhammad."  —  Bakeries across the capital were covering up their ads for Danish pastries Thursday …
White House:
President Discusses Health Care  —  Reforming Health Care for the 21st Century  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thanks for coming.  Please be seated.  (Applause.)  Jack, thanks for the introduction, thanks for letting us convert your lobby into a — (laughter) — place to come and visit.
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Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Bush Promotes Health Accounts at Wendy's
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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.
MSNBC:
U.S. must release domestic spying documents  —  Judge rules in favor of civil liberties group in Freedom of Information case  —  WASHINGTON - A federal judge Thursday ordered the Justice Department to respond within 20 days to requests by a civil liberties group for documents about President Bush's domestic eavesdropping program.
Raleigh News & Observer:
Able Danger hearing sets intelligence officers at odds  —  The Pentagon's top intelligence official clashed repeatedly Wednesday with former operatives of the clandestine Able Danger program over how much the government knew about al-Qaeda before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Eli Lake / New York Sun:
Furor Erupts Over Recordings of Saddam  —  CAIRO, Egypt - Two former CIA directors have resigned from the board of the organization planning tomorrow to make public secret recordings of Saddam Hussein and his advisers.  —  In the last week both John Deutch and James Woolsey abruptly left …
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.
Dorkafork / INDC Journal:
The Birdshot Conspiracy  —  You're close to the truth, Mr. Marshall.  Closer than you know.  —  I was in New Zealand 20 hours after the shooting.  And there was no mention of it in any of the newspapers.  Not one.  If I had been in the press office I would have sent out a press release immediately.
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