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WHISTLEBLOWER OFFERS NEW INFO ON CHINESE EMBASSY BOMBING IN BELGRADE
A mid-level intelligence officer assigned to the CIA persistently
questioned the targeting of a building that turned out to be the Chinese
Embassy in Yugoslavia, but his concerns went unheeded at the U.S.
military's European Command, the WASHINGTON POST is planning to report in
Thursday editions.
The warnings are noted in a classified internal report by the CIA's
inspector general.
NATO war planners say they meant to strike the Yugoslav Federal Directorate
of Supply and Procurement.
But the POST reports that the analyst had "some familiarity" with the
Directorate of Supply and Procurement and was not sure that his colleagues
had correctly located it on a map.
"I'm not sure that's the right building," the intelligence officer said.
"He was concerned, raised some questions, and they didn't get resolved,"
one source tells the paper. Another intelligence source tells the paper's
Steven Mufson and Vernon Loeb that the analyst "raised his doubts with
working level counterparts" at both the CIA and the NATO European Command
in Stuttgart, Germany, but the questions "were never raised to senior
levels before the strike took place."
GOT INFO OFF INTERNET
A "high-ranking State Department official" tells the POST that an
intelligence officer got the correct address of the Yugoslav arms
procurement agency "from the Internet" -- but then used the "numbering of
buildings on parallel streets to mistakenly identify a spot on a map of
Belgrade."
The bombs accurately hit those coordinates, which turned out to be the
Chinese Embassy.
Impacting Hard on Thursday...
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PAPER: HILLARY TO USE AIR FORCE JETS DURING CAMPAIGN
Senate candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton will do her campaigning on U.S. Air
Force jets, the New York's DAILY NEWS is reporting on Thursday.
The paper's Thomas M. DeFrank is planning to report that Mrs. Clinton's
campaign will reimburse the U.S. government for future political stumping
-- but not for the dozen or so trips she's already made at taxpayer expense
to the state while mulling her candidacy.
The paper estimates that the use of Air Force jets costs the first lady's
campaign up to $7,243 per hour.
"The First Lady has signed off on the Secret Service's 'very strong
recommendation' that she travel exclusively on military planes even after
officially becoming a candidate," the paper has learned.
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LUCIANNE GOLDBERG LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE
She has been quietly planning it for months. And late on Tuesday night,
with one stroke of her enter button, Lucianne Goldberg opened her
LUCIANNE.COM for business -- serious business.
"We will be doing some hard reporting...We will be doing some delicious
leaking...." Goldberg declares in her Mission Statement.
The site features new and original writings from Goldberg on the
mediapolitical scene, news stories and viewer reaction.
"Our guiding philosophy of life has always been - if it's not fun, don't do
it," said Goldberg, just moments before opening the gates.
http://www.lucianne.com
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DREAMWORKS HITS STUDIO FINANCING TROUBLE
SpielbergGeffenKatzenberg have been unable to arrange satisfactory
financing to build a proposed 47-acre studio lot in Los Angeles, according
to a new report.
"We don't need this... at a certain point, you come to realize that maybe
it wasn't meant to be," a DREAMWORKS SKG source tells Thursday LOS ANGELES.
Sources tell the paper's James Bates that SpielbergGeffenKatzenberg will
probably decide within as little as two weeks whether to continue to seek
financing or scrap the problem-plagued 4-year-old Playa Vista project
altogether.
The company now has alternatives, "two of which include expanding its
current headquarters on the UNIVERSAL STUDIOS lot and further developing
facilities in Glendale, where DREAMWORKS has its animation studio," reports
Bates.
[Marsh frogs secretly celebrating.]
Developing late....
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Filed by Matt Drudge
Reports are moved when circumstances warrant
http://www.drudgereport.com
(c)DRUDGE REPORT 1999
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