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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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Washington Post:
Vice President Cheney Interviewed by Fox News — Eisenhower Executive Office Building 2:01 P.M. EST — Q Mr. Vice President, how is Mr. Whittington? — THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, the good news is he's doing very well today. I talked to him yesterday after they discovered the heart problem …
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Editor and Publisher:
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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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 …
Brit Hume / Fox News:
Exclusive Interview With V.P. Dick Cheney — This is a partial transcript of "Special Report With Brit Hume" from Feb. 15, 2006, that has been edited for clarity. — BRIT HUME, FOX NEWS HOST: Mr. Vice President, how's Mr. Whittington? — DICK CHENEY, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES …
CNN:
Cheney: 'It's a day I'll never forget' — Vice president talks publicly about hunting accident — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Four days after shooting and wounding a friend during a hunting trip, Vice President Dick Cheney publicly addressed the incident for the first time Wednesday in an interview with a cable network.
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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."
ReddHedd / firedoglake:Cheney Speaks — Fox has played a first clip from the Brit Hume interview.
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Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:Troubling Questions About Cheney's Boss
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ABCNEWS:
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 …
Lorie Byrd / PoliPundit.com:Breaking News On Saddam WMD
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Washington Post:
Australian TV Network Airs More Abu Ghraib Photos — An Australian television channel today broadcast more photographs of abuse of Iraqi prisoners at the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad. The graphic images, which included naked, blood-soaked prisoners, were quickly picked …
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Thom Shanker / New York Times:Abu Ghraib Called Incubator for Terrorists
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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 with the Republicans make the president's illegal program legal and call it a day.
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Bob Cesca / The Huffington Post:
Was Cheney Hiding His Lewinsky? — Sirius radio's Alex Bennett just broke a rumor that the delay in reporting the news that Cheney shot an old man in the heart was due to an effort to hide or spin Cheney's female companion. — Pamela Willeford (shown right), ambassador to Switzerland and …
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David Hammer / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Hackett's departure from Ohio Senate race highlights gulf between old, new politics — WASHINGTON - With a shove from party leaders, Iraq war veteran Paul Hackett abruptly quit a key Senate race in Ohio and further exposed a disconnect between the Democratic establishment and Internet-fueled challengers.
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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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Richard Williamson / brandweek.com:
Report: Bush Spent $1.4 Billion on 'Spin' — DALLAS — The Bush administration spent $1.4 billion in taxpayer dollars on 137 contracts with advertising agencies over the past two-and-a-half years, according to a Government Accountability Office report released by House Democrats Monday.
federalreserve.gov:
Testimony of Chairman Ben S. Bernanke — Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress — Before the Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives — Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee, I am pleased to be here today to present the Federal Reserve's Monetary Policy Report to the Congress.
Joseph Kahn / New York Times:
Beijing Censors Taken to Task in Party Circles — BEIJING, Feb. 14 — A dozen former Communist Party officials and senior scholars, including a onetime secretary to Mao, a party propaganda chief and the retired bosses of some of the country's most powerful newspapers, have denounced …
