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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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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.
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 …
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."
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 …
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
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Associated Press:
Cheney Breaks Silence on Hunting Accident — WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney on Wednesday accepted full blame for shooting a fellow hunter and defended his decision to not publicly disclose the accident until the following day. He called it "one of the worst days of my life."
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 …
MSNBC:Cheney 'certainly' to speak about shooting
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:Handling of Accident Creates Tension Between White House Staffs
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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 …
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.
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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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 …
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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 …
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 …
Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Mike Turk, Mike Krempasky, and GOP.com — After the Hotline blog picked up my post about the GOP.com and the conflicts they are having with their netroots, both Mike Turk and Mike Krempasky went after me fairly aggressively. Turk, the former eCampaign Director of Bush-Cheney '04 and the RNC …
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:
Charles Lane / Washington Post:
Alito Hires as a Clerk Former Ashcroft Aide — Lawyer Played Key Role at Justice Dept. — Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. has hired one of the architects of then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft's policies to serve as his law clerk at the Supreme Court for the rest of the current term, the court announced yesterday.
