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Jane Roh / Fox News:
Cheney: 'I'm the Guy Who Pulled the Trigger' — NEW YORK — Vice President Dick Cheney said he and he alone was responsible for a weekend hunting accident in which he shot Austin attorney Harry Whittington. — "Ultimately I'm the guy who pulled the trigger, that fired the round that hit Harry …
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Cheney on TV: Takes Blame for Shooting But 'Unapologetic' About Aftermath, Admits Drinking One Beer at Lunch — NEW YORK In an exclusive interview with Fox News' Brit Hume this afternoon, Vice President Dick Cheney took full responsibility for shooting his hunting companion, who has until now been pictured as the guilty party.
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Daniela Deane / Washington Post:
Cheney Breaks Silence on Shooting — Vice President Cheney accepted responsibility today for the accidental shooting of a 78-year-old man in a hunting accident last weekend, saying that watching his friend fall to the ground bleeding after he was injured was an "image I'll never get out of my mind."
Hugh Hewitt:
The MSM Campaign Against Cheney — Headlines: — Los Angeles Times: Hunter Suffers Setback as Criticism of Cheney Grows — The Washington Post: Cheney's Response A Concern In GOP — The New York Times: Handling of Mishap Creates Strain in the White House — The Boston Globe: Hunter shot by Cheney has a heart attack
Barry Saunders / Raleigh News & Observer:
Dummy up, Scooter — Accident my eye. Or rather, Harry Whittington's eye. — If you believe it was just an accident that Vice President Dick Cheney shot his hunting companion last weekend, you obviously have never seen "The Godfather" movies. — Just as surely as a fish wrapped …
Maria Newman / New York Times:
Cheney Takes Full Responsibility for Shooting Hunter — Vice President Dick Cheney said this afternoon that "one of the worst days of my life" occurred on Saturday, when he accidentally shot and injured a friend of his while the two were hunting. — In his first public remarks on the accident …
Tony Blankley / realclearpolitics.com:
The Shooting Party — In the absence of any pressing news these days — other than Iran's nuclear weapons development crisis, the election of Hamas terrorists in Palestine, ongoing worldwide Muslim riots and killing in reaction to a cartoon, Al Gore's near sedition while speaking in Saudi Arabia …
Kevin Sites / Agence France Presse:
Democrats blast Cheney secrecy after shooting — WASHINGTON (AFP) - Democrats in Congress accused Vice President Dick Cheney of a pattern of secrecy, and demanded that he "level" with the public, after keeping mum about accidentally shooting an associate over the weekend.
David E. Sanger / New York Times:Handling of Accident Creates Tension Between White House Staffs
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EXCLUSIVE: The Secret Tapes — Inside Saddam's Palace — ABC News Obtains 12 Hours of Recordings of Saddam Hussein Meeting With Top Aides — Feb. 15, 2006 — ABC News has obtained 12 hours of tape recordings of Saddam Hussein meeting with top aides during the 1990s, tapes apparently recorded in Baghdad's version of the Oval Office.
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The American Thinker:
A second Iraqi former commander confirms WMDs — Slowly, very slowly, we are beginning to discover what happened to the WMDs of Saddam. The left and the antique media have made it an article of faith that there never were any WMDs, and that "Bush lied." So deep is their investment …
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Sherrie Gossett / CNSNews:
Secret Saddam WMD Tapes Subject of ABC Nightline Special — (CNSNews.com) - Secret audiotapes of Saddam Hussein discussing ways to attack America with weapons of mass destruction will be the subject of an ABC "Nightline" program Wednesday night, a former federal prosecutor told Cybercast News Service.
Monisha Bansal / CNSNews:Intelligence Summit to Air 'Saddam's WMD Tapes'
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Reuters:
New pictures from Abu Ghraib surface — *** VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED - GRAPHIC IMAGES *** — Feb. 15 - Australian network SBS broadcasts images of alleged abuse of what it says are prisoners at Abu Ghraib in Iraq. — Previously unpublished images of abuse of Iraqi prisoners …
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Thom Shanker / New York Times:
Abu Ghraib Called Incubator for Terrorists — WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 — American commanders in Iraq are expressing grave concerns that the overcrowded Abu Ghraib prison has become a breeding ground for extremist leaders and a school for terrorist foot soldiers.
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Jose Lambiet / Palm Beach Post:
Ballot botch: Coulter votes in wrong precinct — She may be smart enough to earn millions from her acidic political barbs, but when it comes to something as simple as voting in her tiny hometown, hard-core conservative pundit Ann Coulter is a tad confused. — Palm Beach County Supervisor …
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Leaders Lead — So it looks like the Judiciary Committee is going to do the big el-foldo on the NSA spying scandal and some Democrats in the congress are going to simply vote to make the Republicans make the president's illegal program legal and call it a day.
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:The NSA Scandal and public opinion myths
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Michael J. Totten:
The Dream City of the Kurds — ERBIL, IRAQ - Kurdistan is a place of the mind. It doesn't exist on any maps unless the maps are made by the Kurds. Southern Kurdistan is known to the rest of the world as Northern Iraq. Northern Kurdistan is described as Eastern Turkey.
Hindrocket / Power Line:
LOOK WHO'S SMILING — One of the things tracked by the Pew Research Center is happiness. Since the 1970s, the Pew pollsters have been asking Americans how happy they are and analyzing the results. This year's survey came out on Monday, and, as always, it shows that Republicans, on the average, are happier than Democrats:
Tom Zeller Jr / New York Times:
Online Firms Facing Questions About Censoring Internet Searches in China — For Internet companies doing business in China, a piece of a booming market has not come without compromises. — A series of episodes showing that the companies were bending to the restrictive demands of Beijing …
Kathleen Burge / Boston Globe:
Harvard students print Danish cartoons — A conservative student newspaper at Harvard University has become one of the few media outlets in the country to show inflammatory Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, angering students on campus and prompting a forum to discuss the controversy.
