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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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John Pain / Associated Press:
Air Marshal Kills Passenger, Citing Threat  —  MIAMI (AP) - 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.
Discussion: Wizbang and Sister Toldjah
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.
Discussion: TalkLeft
Richard Leiby / Washington Post:
The Liberal on Karl Rove's Case
Discussion: Power Line and firedoglake
Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
Will Rover Skate?  —  CBS News is reporting that Fitzgerald …
Associated Press:   Prosecutor Pushes on With CIA Leak Probe
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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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 …
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.
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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David Stout / New York Times:
Bush Cites Progress in Iraq, but Says It Is Uneven
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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AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
Able Danger, China, Cohen, AQ Data Purge = 9-11
Discussion: Captain's Quarters and Macsmind
CBS News:
Poll: Bush's Ratings Bump Up  —  (CBS) There is good news and bad news in this poll for President George W. Bush.  Americans have become more positive about the economy; more than half think the economy is in good shape, an 8-point increase since October.  —  The President's overall approval rating …
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
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.
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
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
Nigel Reynolds / Telegraph:
Pinter rails against US in Nobel prize speech  —  Age and sickness have not wearied him.  Harold Pinter used the platform of his Nobel prize for literature yesterday to call for the prosecution of George W Bush and Tony Blair for the invasion of Iraq.  He called it "a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism".
Discussion: TalkLeft
Richard Lloyd Parry / Times of London:
How do you tackle an invasion of giant jellyfish?  Try making sushi  —  THEY are called echizen kurage and they sound like monsters from the trashier reaches of Japanese science fiction.  —  They are 6ft wide and weigh 450lb (200kg), with countless poisonous tentacles …

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