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Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Congressional Probe of NSA Spying Is in Doubt  —  Congress appeared ready to launch an investigation into the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance program last week, but an all-out White House lobbying campaign has dramatically slowed the effort and may kill it, key Republican and Democratic sources said yesterday.
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Washington Post:
Cheney's Response A Concern In GOP  —  Vice President Cheney's slow and unapologetic public response to the accidental shooting of a 78-year-old Texas lawyer is turning the quail-hunting mishap into a political liability for the Bush administration and is prompting senior White House officials …
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Handling of Accident Creates Tension Between White House Staffs  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 — When the White House press secretary, Scott McClellan, came to the press room just before 10 a.m. Tuesday and suggested he was wearing an orange tie to avoid a stray shot from Vice President Dick Cheney …
Discussion: The Next Hurrah
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
An Arrogance of Power  —  There is a temptation that seeps into the souls of even the most righteous politicians and leads them to bend the rules, and eventually the truth, to suit the political needs of the moment.  That arrogance of power is on display with the Bush administration.
Paul Burka / Slate:
Full of Holes  —  The gossip about Cheney's bad shot.  —  Austin, TEXAS—The headquarters of Harry Whittington, the 78-year-old Austin lawyer who was shot by Vice President Dick Cheney in a hunting accident Saturday, is the nondescript 10-story Vaughn Building, located a block from the Texas Capitol in downtown Austin.
Nedra Pickler / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Cheney issued a warning for breaking Texas hunting law  —  WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney has been given a warning citation for breaking Texas hunting law by failing to buy a $7 stamp allowing him to shoot upland game birds.  —  The warning came from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department …
Los Angeles Times:
Cheney Lacked $7 Hunting Credential  —  CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Although he was not cited with breaking any laws, Vice President Dick Cheney did not have proper hunting credentials when he accidentally shot a fellow hunter at a private ranch over the weekend, authorities said Monday.
New York Times:
Fellow Hunter Shot by Cheney Suffers Setback  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 — The 78-year-old lawyer shot by Vice President Dick Cheney in a hunting accident over the weekend suffered a minor heart attack early Tuesday caused by birdshot lodged in his heart, hospital officials in Texas said.
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
NSA Probe Losing Steam On Capitol Hill
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere
Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:   Ari Fleischer Joins Criticism Of Cheney's Response to Shooting
Opinion Journal:
Cheney's Coverup  —  The Vice President shoots a man.  Questions must be asked.
Discussion: Say Anything
Aram Roston / MSNBC:
Cheney's hunting host lobbied White House
National Review:
Meet the Press  —  Never has an accidental shooting occasioned so much glee.
Discussion: The RCP Blog and PunditGuy
Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
What Happens in Texas Hunting Accidents If You're Hispanic?
Discussion: Expose the Left and News Blog
Matthew Moore / Sydney Morning Herald:
The photos America doesn't want seen  —  MORE photographs have been leaked of Iraqi citizens tortured by US soldiers at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad.  —  Tonight the SBS Dateline program plans to broadcast about 60 previously unpublished photographs …
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Washington Post:
325,000 Names on Terrorism List  —  Rights Groups Say Database May Include Innocent People  —  The National Counterterrorism Center maintains a central repository of 325,000 names of international terrorism suspects or people who allegedly aid them, a number that has more than quadrupled since …
Media Matters for America:
CNN's Morton: Bush "likes to hunt quail"; Cheney "loves to hunt" — but Kerry "spent time posing with guns" … During a report on hunting and politics on the February 13 edition of CNN's The Situation Room, CNN national correspondent Bruce Morton commented that President Bush …
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Journalistic Venereal Disease  —  Glenn has another great post up today in which he throws down the gauntlet to the right wing bloggers like the Old Perfesser who are all quick to require that Democrat purge the party of radicals while they cheer and applaud the eliminationist fascists in their own midst.
David S. Cloud / New York Times:
Quick Rise for Purveyors of Propaganda in Iraq  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 — Two years ago, Christian Bailey and Paige Craig were living in a half-renovated Washington group house, with a string of failed startup companies behind them.  —  Mr. Bailey, a boyish-looking Briton, and Mr. Craig …
Discussion: CorrenteWire
David Rennie / Telegraph:
Tiny island that's ready to stop Europe in its tracks  —  In the decade since they voted to join the European Union the islanders of the Aland archipelago in the Baltic Sea have been outvoted and overruled by Brussels, time and again.  —  Now Aland, a unique, autonomous region of Finland …
Discussion: Vox Popoli and EU Referendum
Carlotta Gall / New York Times:
Afghan Suicide Bombings, Tied to Taliban, Point to Pakistan  —  KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Feb. 12 — Arrests and interrogations of suspects in a recent series of suicide bombings in Afghanistan show that the attacks have been orchestrated from Pakistan by members of the ousted Taliban government …
Discussion: Rantingprofs
Guardian:
Denmark's new values  —  What was once a liberal country lurched to the far right while the world was not looking  —  Kiku Day  —  Denmark has at last managed to catch the world's eye, after so many years of failing to get credit for being at the cutting edge of liberalism.

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