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MSNBC:
CIA watchdog faults agency on 9/11 — Agency watchdog says officials lacked comprehensive plan to stop al-Qaida — WASHINGTON - The CIA's top leaders failed to use their available powers, never developed a comprehensive plan to stop al-Qaida and missed crucial opportunities to thwart …
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Washington Post:
Tenet's Pre-9/11 Efforts Faulted — Agency Reluctantly Releases 2-Year-Old Document Critical of Tenet — Former central intelligence director George J. Tenet and his top lieutenants failed to marshal sufficient resources and provide the strategic planning needed to counter the threat …
CNN:
Bush to invoke Vietnam in arguing against Iraq pullout — WASHINGTON (CNN) — As he awaits a crucial progress report on Iraq, President Bush will try to put a twist on comparisons of the war to Vietnam by invoking the historical lessons of that conflict to argue against pulling out.
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New York Times:
Bush Takes a Step Away From Maliki — When President Bush and Nuri Kamal al-Maliki stood side by side in Jordan last November, the president proclaimed the prime minister "the right guy for Iraq." — By Tuesday, that phrase had all but evaporated from Mr. Bush's lexicon.
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Bush Admits 'Frustration' With Iraqi Leader
Bush Admits 'Frustration' With Iraqi Leader
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Fred File:
A New York State of Mind — When I was working in television, I spent quite a bit of time in New York City. There are lots of things about the place I like, but New York gun laws don't fall in that category. — Anybody who knows me knows I've always cared deeply about the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
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Alan Fram / Associated Press:
Book Chief: Conservatives Want Slogans — WASHINGTON (AP) - Liberals read more books than conservatives. The head of the book publishing industry's trade group says she knows why—and there's little flattering about conservative readers in her explanation.
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Alan Fram / Associated Press:
One in four read no books last year — WASHINGTON - There it sits on your night stand, that book you've meant to read for who knows how long but haven't yet cracked open. Tonight, as you feel its stare from beneath that teetering pile of magazines, know one thing — you are not alone.
Danny Hakim / New York Times:
Politics Seen in Nasty Call to Spitzer's Father — Lawyers representing Gov. Eliot Spitzer's father, Bernard Spitzer, say a prominent political consultant who has been working for State Senate Republicans threatened the elder Mr. Spitzer this month in an anonymous, invective-laced phone message.
Katrin Bennhold / International Herald Tribune:
France shifts its stance on the conflict in Iraq — PARIS: After years of shunning involvement in a war it said was wrong, France now believes it may hold the key to peace in Iraq, proposing itself as an "honest broker" between the Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish factions.
Telegraph:
David Cameron: Scrap the Human Rights Act — David Cameron last night called for the Human Rights Act to be scrapped outright for the first time amid mounting anger that the controversial law had allowed the killer of the head teacher Philip Lawrence to escape deportation.
Spiegel Online:
Norway's Moose Population in Trouble for Belching — The poor old Scandinavian moose is now being blamed for climate change, with researchers in Norway claiming that a grown moose can produce 2,100 kilos of methane a year — equivalent to the CO2 output resulting from a 13,000 kilometer car journey.
Audrey Hudson / Washington Times:
CAIR blames Justice for its troubles — The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) says it is suffering from a decline in membership and fundraising and blames the Justice Department for listing it as an unindicted co-conspirator in a case involving a charity accused of terrorist ties.
Brian Rokus / CNN:
Muslim women: My headscarf is not a threat — Editor's note: This is part of a series of reports CNN.com is featuring from an upcoming, six-hour television event, "God's Warriors," hosted by CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour. — (CNN) — Last year at Christmastime …
Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
Wrongly Arrested Bush Protesters Talk About Their $80K Government Settlement On Hardball — On July 4th, 2004, Jeffery and Nicole Rank attended an public Independence Day event in Charleston, WV where President Bush was to speak. Despite the fact that the event was open to the public …
WCBS-TV:
Arctic August: NYC Sets Record For Coldest Day — High Of 59 Degrees Ties Chilliest August High Set In 1911 — Featured Slideshows: — (CBS) NEW YORK Don't forget to bundle up if you're headed out in New York City today. After all, it is August 21. — The city along with the rest …