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Two Hardball favorites tonight folks: Liddy and Friedman...Liddy will do the
"contemptuous words" of an Air Force Lt. Col. regarding his commander in chief...Story
below...Friedman of course, will do all things Middle East and war on terrorism...
Before I get into the Briefing though, some big news on the dot-com front...Required
Bookmark: Chris' new weblog http://www.msnbc.com/news/751547.asp
In the A block, UPI guy Eli Lake will bring us some exclusive information on what a
post Saddam Iraq might look like.
Friedman will dominate the B block and perhaps part of A...If you haven't seen him
before, he's a smart cookie, really knows his stuff on the Middle East...I think
you'll enjoy the interview...Here's his latest piece: The United States needs Egypt to
lead the Arab-Muslim world into modernity with an ideological message that is rooted
in Arab and Muslim tradition but is progressive, pluralistic and democratic.
http://nytimes.com/2002/06/05/opinion/05FRIE.html
More background for Friedman: A deadly suicide attack on an Israeli bus points once
again to the urgent need for a political settlement to the Mideast conflict, Prime
Minister Tony Blair and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Wednesday. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020605/ap_wo_en_po/britain_blair_mubarak_1
Terrorism guy and Oasis brothers lookalike Simon Reeve will be here to do this story:
United States intelligence and law enforcement officials said today that they had
concluded that a possible relative of Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, who coordinated the first
bombing of the World Trade Center, in 1993, and a later unsuccessful plot to bomb
American airliners over the Pacific, played a pivotal role in planning the Sept. 11
attacks on New York and Washington.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=68&ncid=68&e=2&u=/nyt/20020605/ts_nyt/sept__11_suspect_may_be_relative_of__93_plot_leader
We'll do the "fingerprinting" debate in D...We've got Fund and Zogby...The Justice
Department will propose new regulations this week requiring tens of thousands of
Muslim and Middle Eastern visa holders to register with the government and be
fingerprinted, administration officials said today. (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/05/national/05IMMI.html?ex=1023854400&en=4cbc784b3317ba49&ei=5006&partner=ALTAVISTA1
Fund's Diary Boxer: Rebellion...It's time for President Bush to stand up to
California's senators. http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110001801
Did you hear about the Colonel bad mouthing the Prez? We'll get into it with G.
Gordon..."He did nothing to warn the American people because he needed this war on
terrorism," Butler wrote. "His daddy had Saddam and he needed Osama. His presidency
was going nowhere...This guy is a joke." (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020605/ts_nm/attack_letter_dc_1
Dominic Bellone compiled and edited the Briefing in Washington, DC...btw, how about
Buckley's line last night: "Wilsonian aftertaste"...If you watched you know what I'm
talking about, if not, you wouldn't get it.
Nearly all Washington Post reporters, photographers and artists withheld their names
from work in today's editions of the paper in a "byline strike" called by union
leadership to protest the current contract offer by The Post's management. (The
Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61414-2002Jun5.html
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and British Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon said
Wednesday they were trying to put as much international pressure as possible on India
and Pakistan to get them to "step back from the brink" of conflict over Kashmir (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20020605/ap_on_re_eu/rumsfeld_4
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader and the League of Fans, a sports-industry watchdog, sent
a letter to NBA Commissioner David Stern on Tuesday urging a review of the officiating
in the aftermath of the "notorious" refereeing in Game 6 of the Western Conference
finals between the Kings and the Lakers in L.A. (SF Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/06/05/SP147361.DTL
Blast rips bus in northern Israel...A powerful blast ripped through a bus in northern
Israel during the Wednesday morning rush hour, killing 17 people and wounding more
than 45, police and rescue workers said.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/677951.asp
New plan to fingerprint U.S. visitors...It's the latest in a series of moves intended
to keep better tabs on tourists and students who arrive from countries where
terrorists are based. NBC's Pete Williams reports.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/761873.asp
Congress opens 9/11 investigation...Seeking to "improve the system," Congress on
Tuesday began what promises to be a lengthy examination of U.S. intelligence
shortcomings in the months before the Sept. 11 attacks.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/760369.asp
Bush concedes CIA, FBI faults, but doubts attacks avoidable...President Bush said the
FBI and CIA "clearly" were not communicating properly before September 11, but added
he had seen nothing to indicate the U.S. could have thwarted the terrorist attacks.
(The Washington Times) http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020605-448993.htm
Can FBI and CIA cooperate?...Lawmakers meet in secret this week to parse evidence of
9/11 intelligence failures (Christian Science Monitor)
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0605/p01s01-uspo.html
The United States on Wednesday increased the urgency of its warning to Americans to
leave India and Pakistan due to fears of conflict between the nuclear rivals, urging
them strongly to get out (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=topnews&StoryID=1053244
A White House report acknowledging that human activity is probably the cause of global
warming doesn't mean the administration will join the industrialized world's fight
against the problem. (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2002/06/04/warming-usat.htm
An adviser to Sen. John McCain told election regulators Tuesday that under the new
campaign finance law, members of Congress who create special fund-raising committees
would be allowed to have two of them and apply donation limits to each. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020605/ap_on_el_ge/campaign_finance_6
Under protest, the White House gave a Senate committee more than 2,100 pages of
subpoenaed documents related to contacts with Enron Corp. officials. (AP)
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-wh/2002/jun/05/060508862.html
SD: GOP's Janklow Wins S.D. House Primary (AP)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60500-2002Jun4.html
AL: Parker, McPhillips to meet in runoff (Birmingham News)
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/news/1023268683198690.xml
NJ: Forrester to take on Torricelli (Star Ledger)
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1023268227162582.xml
MT: It's Taylor vs. Baucus in November (Billings Gazette)
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2002/06/05/build/local/20-senate.inc
House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt, a possible 2004 challenger to President Bush,
yesterday said he'll back Bush if he uses military force to try to oust Iraq's Saddam
Hussein. (NY Post) http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/49635.htm
As if brotherly love from the White House weren't enough, Gov. Jeb Bush's reelection
campaign got an assist Monday from America's most popular politician. (Miami Herald)
http://www.miami.com/mld/miami/news/politics/3397169.htm
September 11's cultural loss...A wide breadth of historical items and artworks were
lost to the world in the terrorist bombing on September 11 (AP)
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020605-73760832.htm
Opinion/Editorial
Crovitz: [EMAIL PROTECTED] can't connect the dots unless they can collect the
dots. http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110001800
Rep. Jane Harman: Securing American homeland requires a strategy
http://www.thehill.com/060502/ss_harman.shtm
Gerald Ford: Curing, Not Cloning
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61042-2002Jun4.html
Kelly: Guilty at the Top
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61046-2002Jun4.html
Ledeen: Is George Tenet endangering peace in Israel?
http://jewishworldreview.com/michael/ledeen.html
Broder puff piece on Kerry:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61040-2002Jun4.html
Mallard Fillmore http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/viewdb.cfm?uc_full_date=20020605
Doonesbury http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/viewdb.cfm?uc_full_date=20020605
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