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		<title>Thousands in Fla. pay respect to long-lost Navy pilot finally laid to rest after 18 years</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Word</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Navy pilot Scott Speicher, the long-missing first casualty of the first Gulf War, was finally laid to rest Friday in his adopted hometown as thousands of people lined the streets to watch a funeral procession pass his school, church and former military base.

Speicher was shot down in 1991 on the first night [...]]]></description>
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		<title>18 years later, remains of Navy pilot downed over Iraq in Gulf War returning to Fla. hometown</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Word</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The remains of Navy pilot Michael Scott Speicher were headed back to his Florida home Thursday, 18 years after his FA-18 Hornet was shot down on the first night of the Gulf War in 1991.

For nearly two decades after Speicher disappeared over the Iraq desert, his family pushed the Defense Department to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family plans Fla. memorials for Navy pilot whose remains were found 18 years after Gulf War</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The family of Michael &#8220;Scott&#8221; Speicher received the first of a series of top-secret briefings Tuesday about the discovery of his remains in Iraq, 18 years after his Navy plane was shot down on the first night of the 1991 Gulf War, their attorney said.

Cindy Laquidara, an attorney representing the family, also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navy awaiting DNA results on body identified as Gulf War&#8217;s first casualty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Word</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Navy awaited DNA test results Monday on the skeletal remains identified through dental records as those of pilot Michael &#8220;Scott&#8221; Speicher, who was called the first casualty of the 1991 Gulf War.

The results, due later this week, are not expected to completely solve the mystery of how Speicher died on the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mary Cheney acted like a diva with Secret Service, claims new book</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK - Former US Vice President Dick Cheney daughter, Mary, threw diva tantrums with the Secret Service, a new book claims.

Ronald Kessler, the author of &#8216;In the President&#8217;s Secret Service&#8217;, alleges that Mary once complained about the Secret Service vehicle assigned to her.
&#8220;She saw that her sister [Elizabeth] had a brand-new Suburban,&#8221; the New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gulf War&#8217;s first casualty, Navy pilot&#8217;s remains found buried in Iraq&#8217;s Anwar desert</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pauline Jelinek</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Navy pilot Michael &#8220;Scott&#8221; Speicher was called the first casualty of the 1991 Gulf War. But his true status was a mystery, and the Pentagon didn&#8217;t know whether he was dead or missing.

For nearly two decades, Speicher&#8217;s family, from outside Jacksonville, Fla., pressured the Defense Department to find an answer. Finally, the Pentagon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gulf War mystery ends as US identifies remains of Navy pilot missing since 1991 crash in Iraq</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pauline Jelinek</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Navy pilot Michael &#8220;Scott&#8221; Speicher was shot down over the Iraq desert on the first night of the Gulf War in 1991, and it was there he apparently was buried by Bedouins, the sand hiding him from the world&#8217;s mightiest military.

For nearly two decades, the family Speicher left behind, from outside Jacksonville, Fla., [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navy says remains positively identified for Capt. Scott Speicher, pilot missing since 1991</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pauline Jelinek</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The remains of the first American lost in the Gulf War have been found in Iraq, the military said Sunday, a sorrowful resolution of a nearly two-decade old question about the fate of Navy Capt. Michael &#8220;Scott&#8221; Speicher.

The Pentagon said the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology on Saturday positively identified the remains, buried [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush considered sending troops into New York</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MELBOURNE - To arrest a group of men suspected of plotting with al Qaeda, the Bush Administration considered sending troops into New York.

Some of President George Bush&#8217;s advisers, notably Vice President Dick Cheney, contended that a sitting president had the power to use the military on US soil to sweep up the men, known as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush considered sending US troops into Buffalo suburb to arrest terror suspects, paper says</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Bush administration in 2002 considered sending U.S. troops into a Buffalo, N.Y., suburb to arrest a group of terror suspects in what would have been a nearly unprecedented use of military power, The New York Times reported.

Vice President Dick Cheney and several other Bush advisers at the time strongly urged that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conspiracy theory that won&#8217;t die: debunked claims about Obama birth return to the spotlight</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Crary</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — Six months after Barack Obama&#8217;s inauguration, a persistent and noisy legion of doubters won&#8217;t let go of an already debunked claim — that he is actually a foreign-born, illegal president.

The issue has flared again on political blogs, TV news shows and even a town hall meeting, widely circulated on YouTube, in which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama health care industry talks echo Cheney energy task force</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Theimer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — In cutting deals with hospitals and drug makers, President Barack Obama is giving a private inside track to special interests that&#8217;s at odds with his promise to make policy in the open.

Obama promised Americans he would hold special interests at arm&#8217;s length — that it would no longer be business as usual in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama health care industry talks less public than promised</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/promises-promises-obama-health-care-industry-talks-less-public-than-promised-116332/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Theimer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — In cutting deals with hospitals and drugmakers, President Barack Obama is giving a private inside track to special interests that&#8217;s at odds with his promise to make policy in the open.

Obama promised Americans he would hold special interests at arm&#8217;s length — that it would no longer be business as usual in Washington. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama meets with Mormon leader, gets detailed genealogical records for family</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama met with the leader of the Mormon church on Monday in the Oval Office, thanking the religion&#8217;s president for a thorough history of the first family.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints President Thomas S. Monson presented Obama with details of his family&#8217;s genealogy during their first face-to-face meeting. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CAPITAL CULTURE: First female presidential helo pilot says &#8216;It&#8217;s just about being a Marine&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/capital-culture-first-female-presidential-helo-pilot-says-its-just-about-being-a-marine-113148/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 06:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darlene Superville</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Jennifer Grieves wanted independence, exposure and something she could be proud of when she joined the Marine Corps. She got all that, and more — including a place in history as the first woman to ever pilot Marine One, the president&#8217;s helicopter.

For about 40 times in the past 14 months, she has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Georgia Sen. Miller says Obama should be glued to his seat to stop his overseas travels</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Bluestein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ATLANTA — Former U.S. Sen. Zell Miller criticized President Barack Obama&#8217;s recent travels overseas, telling a group of mostly Republican lawmakers Thursday that the White House Chief of Staff needs to put &#8220;Gorilla Glue&#8221; on Obama&#8217;s chair to keep him in the Oval Office.

&#8220;Our globe-trotting president needs to stop and take a break and quit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP sources: Former CIA directors canceled, then restarted secret al-Qaida hit team effort</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Hess</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — As CIA director in 2004, George Tenet terminated a secret program to develop hit teams to kill al-Qaida leaders, but his successors resurrected the plan, according to former intelligence officials.

Tenet ended the program because the agency could not work out its practical details, the officials told The Associated Press. The officials spoke on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP sources: House Intelligence Committee requests CIA documents on secret al-Qaida hit teams</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/ap-sources-house-intelligence-committee-requests-cia-documents-on-secret-al-qaida-hit-teams-109350/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Hess</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The CIA spent at least $1 million on the secret intelligence program that aimed to develop hit squads to kill al-Qaida leaders but never went beyond the planning stage, a congressional official said Tuesday.

The highly classified program, which never became operational but remained in existence until it was shut down by CIA Director [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democrats call for investigation of secret CIA effort to find, kill al-Qaida leaders</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Hess</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Congressional demands for an investigation grew on Monday over new disclosures that a secret CIA program to capture or kill al-Qaida leaders was concealed from Congress for eight years, perhaps at the behest of former Vice President Dick Cheney.

The program, which never got off the ground and remains shrouded in mystery, was designed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Officials: Panetta canceled CIA effort to find, kill al-Qaida leaders up close</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Hess</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — A secret intelligence program canceled by CIA Director Leon Panetta in June was meant to find and then capture or kill al-Qaida leaders at close range rather than target them with air strikes that risked civilian casualties, government officials with knowledge of the operation said Monday.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report: CIA had secret plan to get al-Qaida operatives dead or alive</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/report-cia-had-secret-plan-to-get-al-qaida-operatives-dead-or-alive-107901/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Wall Street Journal reports that the CIA program concealed from Congress was a secret plan to kill or capture al-Qaida operatives.

Former intelligence officials tell the Journal that the plan, which was ordered halted by agency Director Leon Panetta, was an attempt to carry out a 2001 presidential finding authorized by President George [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democrats push for probe into Bush anti-terror policies, despite Obama&#8217;s reluctance</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/democrats-push-for-probe-into-bush-anti-terror-policies-despite-obamas-reluctance-107693/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete Yost</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has been reluctant to probe Bush-era torture and anti-terrorism policies, but his Democratic allies aren&#8217;t likely to let the matters rest.

&#8220;I&#8217;ve always preferred my idea of a commission of inquiry to look at all these issues,&#8221; Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said Sunday.
Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., head of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Intelligence chair Feinstein suggests concealment of program broke the law</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/senate-intelligence-chair-feinstein-suggests-concealment-of-program-broke-the-law-107388/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete Yost</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Six months into Barack Obama&#8217;s presidency, his Democratic allies are pushing for twin investigations into Bush-era torture and anti-terrorism policies.

Two senators including the head of the intelligence committee suggested Sunday that the prior administration broke the law by concealing a CIA counterterrorism program from Congress.
The assertion that Vice President Dick Cheney ordered the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Intelligence chair Feinstein says concealment of program may have broken the law</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/senate-intelligence-chair-feinstein-says-concealment-of-program-may-have-broken-the-law-107360/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete Yost</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Six months into Barack Obama&#8217;s presidency, twin investigations may be on the horizon into Bush-era policies in the war on terror.

Two senators including the head of the intelligence committee suggested Sunday that the prior administration broke the law by concealing a CIA counter-terrorism program from Congress.
The assertion that Vice President Dick Cheney ordered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Intelligence chair Feinstein says concealment of program may have broken law</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/senate-intelligence-chair-feinstein-says-concealment-of-program-may-have-broken-law-107300/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee says the Bush administration may have broken the law if it ordered the CIA to conceal the existence of a counterterrorism program.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein says that CIA Director Leon Panetta told senators last month that Dick Cheney as vice president had ordered the program not be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senator calls for probe of whether Cheney ordered concealment of program from Congress</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/senator-calls-for-probe-of-whether-cheney-ordered-concealment-of-program-from-congress-107274/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin says Congress should investigate whether former Vice President Dick Cheney and others in the Bush administration ordered the CIA to conceal the existence of a counterterrorism program.

Speaking on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week,&#8221; Durbin says it may have been an illegal act if such a program was hidden from Congress.
The comments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP sources: Cheney told CIA not to discuss counterterrorism program soon after it was started</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/ap-sources-cheney-told-cia-not-to-discuss-counterterrorism-program-soon-after-it-was-started-106955/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Hess</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Dick Cheney directed the CIA eight years ago not to inform Congress about a nascent counterterrorism program that CIA Director Leon Panetta terminated in June, officials with direct knowledge of the matter said Saturday.

Subsequent CIA directors did not inform Congress because the intelligence-gathering effort had not developed to the point [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP sources: Cheney told CIA not to discuss counterterrorism program</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/ap-sources-cheney-told-cia-not-to-discuss-counterterrorism-program-106934/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Hess</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Government sources say Vice President Dick Cheney directed the CIA not to inform Congress about a nascent counterterrorism program eight years ago that CIA Director Leon Panetta terminated in June.

Government officials with direct knowledge of Panetta&#8217;s June 24 briefing to congressional intelligence committees confirmed that Cheney had told the CIA not to discuss [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP Interview: Former CIA chief Hayden says leading congressmen knew full scope of surveillance</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/ap-interview-former-cia-chief-hayden-says-leading-congressmen-knew-full-scope-of-surveillance-106897/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 04:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Hess</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden angrily struck back Saturday at assertions the Bush administration&#8217;s post-9/11 surveillance program was more far-reaching than imagined and was largely concealed from congressional overseers.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Hayden maintained that top members of Congress were kept well-informed all along the way, notwithstanding protests from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gov&#8217;t report: Bush secret surveillance effort extended beyond wiretapping, lacked oversight</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Hess</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Not enough relevant officials were aware of the size and depth of an unprecedented surveillance program started under President George W. Bush, let alone signed off on it, a team of federal inspectors general found.

The Bush White House pulled in a great quantity of information far beyond the warrantless wiretapping previously acknowledged, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gov&#8217;t report: Bush secret surveillance effort extended far beyond wiretapping without warrants</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/govt-report-bush-secret-surveillance-effort-extended-far-beyond-wiretapping-without-warrants-106351/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Hess</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Bush administration built an unprecedented surveillance operation to pull in mountains of information far beyond the warrantless wiretapping previously acknowledged, a team of federal inspectors general reported Friday, questioning the legal basis for the effort but shielding almost all details on grounds they&#8217;re still too secret to reveal.

The report, compiled by five [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush appointed Fed judges question Obama on terror policies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama&#8217;s claims of broad executive authority to carry out the war on terror are drawing fire from an unexpected source: federal judges nominated by President George W. Bush, who asserted the sweeping powers in the first place.

In recent weeks, three different Bush appointees considering cases relating to war-on-terror detainees have rejected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dispensing pricey glitter, Saudi and Libyan leaders were top gift-givers to US last year</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin Woodward</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — When U.S. presidents and their diplomats meet some Arab leaders, they come away with more than an earful about foreign policy. They also get exquisite baubles, objects of gold, robes, art — even a papier mache Santa Claus.

A new list of gifts bestowed by foreign leaders on U.S. officials shows particularly lavish treats [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court will not revive Valerie Plame&#8217;s lawsuit over leaked identity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will not revive a lawsuit that former CIA operative Valerie Plame brought against former members of the Bush administration.

The court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from Plame and her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson.
A lower court last year threw out the lawsuit in which Plame and Wilson accused [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rare rocket attack on main US base in Afghanistan kills 2 US troops, wounds 6 US personnel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Straziuso</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KABUL — A rare rocket attack on the main U.S. base in Afghanistan early Sunday killed two U.S. troops and wounded six other Americans, including two civilians, officials said.

Bagram Air Base, which lies 25 miles (40 kilometers) northeast of Kabul, is surrounded by high mountains and long stretches of desert from which militants could fire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rare rocket attack on US base at Bagram kills 2 US troops, wounds 6 US personnel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KABUL — A rare rocket attack on the main U.S. base in Afghanistan early Sunday killed two U.S. troops and wounded six other Americans, including two civilians, officials said.

Bagram Air Base, which lies 25 miles (40 kilometers) northeast of Kabul, is surrounded by high mountains and long stretches of desert from which militants could fire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge wants to review FBI interview of Cheney in CIA leak case, considers public release</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nedra Pickler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — A federal judge said Thursday that he wants to look at notes from the FBI&#8217;s interview with former Vice President Dick Cheney during the investigation into who leaked the identity of a CIA operative.

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan&#8217;s decision to review the documents followed arguments by Obama administration lawyers that sounded much like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Majority Americans believe Obama has no strategy to deal with economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK - A substantial majority of Americans believe that President Barack Obama has not developed a strategy to deal with the budget deficit, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

The poll also found that support for President Obama&#8217;s plans to overhaul health care, rescue the auto industry and close the prison at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CIA says Panetta never said he believes Cheney wants the US to be attacked again</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/cia-says-panetta-never-said-he-believes-cheney-wants-the-us-to-be-attacked-again-83585/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The CIA said Tuesday that its director, Leon Panetta, does not believe former Vice President Dick Cheney wants the U.S. to be attacked again.

&#8220;He did not say that,&#8221; CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano said regarding an interview Panetta gave to The New Yorker magazine. &#8220;He was simply expressing his profound disagreement with the assertion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah Palin says David Letterman owes women an apology</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Bauder</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — Sarah Palin says David Letterman owes an apology to young women across the country for his joke about her daughter.

The Alaska governor appeared on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Today&#8221; show Friday, continuing a feud with the CBS &#8220;Late Show&#8221; funnyman over his joke earlier this week that Palin&#8217;s daughter got &#8220;knocked up&#8221; by New York [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOP House official finds comparisons of Obama&#8217;s plan for the auto industry in Putin&#8217;s Russia</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie Kellman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The No. 2 Republican in the House on Thursday compared President Barack Obama&#8217;s plans for the auto industry to the policies of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, saying the White House has stripped credit holders of rights and given them to Democratic allies.

&#8220;They said, &#8216;Set aside the rule of law, let&#8217;s strip secured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gingrich urges inclusion at Republican fundraiser; Palin attends after sending mixed signals</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Evans</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Monday urged some 2,000 Republican party loyalists to stand up for GOP principles but to be inclusive as the party tries to retake the majority.

&#8220;I am happy that Dick Cheney is a Republican,&#8221; Gingrich said at the annual Senate-House fundraising dinner. &#8220;I am also happy that Colin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CIA director Leon Panetta urges judge to keep interrogation documents secret</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — CIA Director Leon Panetta told a federal judge Monday that releasing documents about the agency&#8217;s terror interrogations would gravely damage national security.

Panetta sent a 24-page missive to New York federal judge Alvin Hellerstein, arguing that release of agency cables describing tough interrogation methods used on al-Qaida suspects would tell the enemy far too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colorado, New York lawmakers want federal oversight of oil, gas deep well &#8216;fracking&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judith Kohler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[DENVER — The push to put a widely used oil and gas drilling process under federal oversight could gain ground with a new administration in place and concerns about the development of huge gas fields in the East.

Democratic Reps. Diana DeGette of Colorado and Maurice Hinchey of New York plan to reintroduce a bill that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush did not want to pull the plug on GM: Cheney</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - Former US Vice President Dick Cheney says that former President George W. Bush did not want to be the one who &#8220;pulled the plug&#8221; on General Motors, and instead, decided to pass on that responsibility to his successor Barack Obama.

&#8220;I thought that, eventually, the right outcome was going to be bankruptcy,&#8221; Cheney said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fugitive Philippine police official extradited from US to face double homicide charges</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hrvoje Hranjski</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MANILA, Philippines — A former senior Philippine police official accused of double homicide nine years ago was extradited from the U.S. on Thursday after agreeing to testify in a case implicating an opposition senator.

Cesar Mancao, who was arrested last year near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, will be asked to affirm his affidavit linking his former police [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheney&#8217;s secret 2005 briefings tried to shore up Capitol Hill support for CIA interrogations</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Hess</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Dick Cheney as vice president conducted secret briefings for lawmakers in 2005 aimed at defending harsh interrogations as their methods were coming under congressional scrutiny, according to current and former government officials.

The secret briefings followed the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal and public revelations about the CIA&#8217;s rendition and interrogation program, current and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheney favors gay marriage but believes states should make the decision, not the federal gov&#8217;t</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Hess</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday he supports gays being able to marry but believes states, not the federal government, should make the decision.

&#8220;I think, you know, freedom means freedom for everyone,&#8221; Cheney said in a speech at the National Press Club. &#8220;I think people ought to be free to enter into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush calls Clinton &#8216;his brother&#8217; in Canada as they appear together on stage for the first time</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 13:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Gillies</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TORONTO — Former President George W. Bush called former President Bill Clinton &#8220;his brother&#8221; and the two rarely disagreed in their first-ever appearance together on stage.

The Republican and Democratic ex-presidents defended each other at a Toronto forum on Friday, disappointing some in the crowd of 6,000 who expected a more heated debate.
Bush said that he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-President George W. Bush calls Bill Clinton &#8216;his brother&#8217; in appearance together in Toronto</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 09:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Gillies</dc:creator>
		
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Bush said that [...]]]></description>
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