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John Pain / Associated Press:
Airline Passenger Who Made Threat Killed  —  MIAMI - A passenger who claimed to have a bomb in a carry-on bag was shot and killed by a federal air marshal Wednesday on a jetway to an American Airlines plane that had arrived from Colombia, officials said.  —  Homeland Security Department …
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Associated Press:
Air Marshal Kills Erratic Passenger in Miami  —  MIAMI — An agitated passenger who claimed to have a bomb in his backpack was shot and killed by a federal air marshal Wednesday after he bolted frantically from a jetliner that was boarding for takeoff, officials said.  No bomb was found.
CNN:
Official: Marshal shoots passenger on Jetway at Miami airport  —  MIAMI, Florida (CNN) — A person was shot and wounded on the Jetway to an American Airlines passenger jet that was at the terminal at Miami International Airport, an airline official said.  —  A federal official told CNN …
Carol Leonnig / Washington Post:
Fitzgerald Presents New Information to Grand Jury  —  First Appearance in Probe Since Libby Indictment  —  Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald appeared this morning to present information to a new grand jury in the CIA leak investigation.  —  Fitzgerald has been probing for two years …
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Lawrence O'Donnell / The Huffington Post:
Rove's Lawyer an On-the-Record Liar  —  At Arianna's HuffPo party last month, Mickey Kaus was surprised when I told him I did not think Bob Luskin was a liar.  In several posts here, I've had my fun with Luskin's endless media spinning on behalf of his most famous client, Karl Rove, but I have never said he is a liar.
Richard Leiby / Washington Post:
The Liberal on Karl Rove's Case  —  Politics Aside, Robert Luskin May Be Just What the Bush Aide Needs  —  Karl Rove's greatest defender in Washington these days is a Democratic lawyer and onetime newspaper reporter named Robert Luskin.  He is Rove's attorney in the high-stakes CIA leak case …
Discussion: Power Line and firedoglake
philippinenews.com:
Is Ralston still at the White House?
Associated Press:   Prosecutor Pushes on With CIA Leak Probe
Media Matters for America:
O'Reilly promised to "bring horror" to alleged "anti-Christian forces" who oppose Christmas … On the December 2 broadcast of Fox News' The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly, host Bill O'Reilly stated that he would "use all the power that I have on radio and television to bring horror into the world of people" …
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Brad / THE BRAD BLOG:
SOURCE: 'Daily Show' to Run Piece Tonight …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Rice Clarifies U.S. Interrogation Methods  —  Statement Appears to Mark Significant Shift in Policy  —  KIEV, Ukraine, Dec. 7 — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday the United States had banned all of its personnel from conducting cruel or inhumane interrogations of prisoners.
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White House:
President Discusses War on Terror and Rebuilding Iraq  —  Washington, D.C.  —  In Focus: Renewal in Iraq  —  Fact Sheet: Rebuilding Iraq  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, all.  Richard, thanks for the invitation.  Thanks for letting me come by and address the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
Bush Admits 'Fits and Starts' in Iraq Plan
Peter Heinlein / Voice of America:
US Blasts Security Council for Failing to Condemn Terror Attack in Israel  —  Washington's ambassador to the United Nations has criticized the Security Council for failing to condemn the latest terrorist attack in Israel.  —  The envoy singled out Algeria for blocking a U.S. drafted statement.
Shane Harris / govexec.com:
Army project illustrates promise, shortcomings of data mining  —  In the spring of 2000, a year and a half before the 9/11 attacks, Erik Kleinsmith made a decision that history may judge as a colossal mistake.  —  Then a 35-year-old Army major assigned to a little-known intelligence organization …
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Governor's Relative Is Big Contract Winner  —  PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss., Dec. 6 - Rosemary Barbour happens to be married to a nephew of Mississippi's governor, Haley Barbour.  Since the Reagan administration, when Mrs. Barbour worked as a White House volunteer as a college student, she has been active in the Republican Party.
Discussion: firedoglake and Angry Bear
Mark Preston / CNN:
Sources: Menendez tapped for U.S. Senate seat  —  Democratic Caucus head reported to succeed Corzine  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — New Jersey Gov.-elect Jon Corzine will name Rep. Robert Menendez, chairman of the Democratic Caucus, as his successor in the U.S. Senate, multiple New Jersey Democratic sources told CNN Wednesday.
Discussion: Swing State Project and MyDD
Donald Sensing / One Hand Clapping:
Remember Pearl Harbor  —  Last May my wife and traveled to Oahu.  On Memorial Day Sunday we visited the USS Arizona Memorial.  The ship was sunk on Dec. 7, 1941, along with many others.  —  This is the original ship's bell of USS Arizona, recovered from the sunken vessel and now on display …
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Mean Dean / La Shawn Barber's Corner:
The attack on Pearl Harbor remembered 64 years later
Ron Hutcheson / Knight Ridder:
Administration objects to story describing Alito as conservative  —  WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is mounting an aggressive effort to counter a Knight Ridder story that described Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito as a committed judicial conservative.
White House:
President and Mrs. Bush Participate in Menorah Lighting Ceremony  —  THE PRESIDENT: Welcome to the White House.  Laura and I are glad you're here, and we're glad to be here to celebrate the festival of Hanukkah.  Hanukkah begins later this month; it's a time to remember the story …
Discussion: Kesher Talk

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