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Obviously the big story tonight folks is the new Homeland Security Agency...What is
it? Who'll run it? How will it work? How will it play on the Hill? When you're out
at those swanky dinner parties tonight, this will be a hot topic of conversation and
you need to be appropriately prepped...We'll also go big on the missing girl in Utah
story and the Skakel guilty verdict...
Calls are being made, editorial maps are being laid out and action memoranda are
flying between Hardball producers...Of course, if it's Friday, it's the back half
Matthews Group...Or in this case, the Barnicle Group....A bit of "Barnicle Buzz" shall
we say...Caddell, Sharpton, Jeffrey & Parshall...Speech reax, the Atta/USA loan story
and NOW protesting the Tyson fight will top the agenda...NOW head Gandy will join the
fray for that last piece.
I just got off the phone with Dana Milbank, who's enjoying coffee and beignets at Cafe
Du Monde in the Big Easy...He'll join us to discuss his behind the scenes tick tock:
Plan Was Formed in Utmost Secrecy...Final Proposal Came From 4 Top Bush Aides; Most
Others Out of Loop http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9149-2002Jun6.html
We'll also get into this sad piece of news out of southeast Asia with Ken Allard and
Michael Vickers...U.S. hostage killed in Philippines...An American missionary was
killed and his wife wounded during an attempt by the Philippines government to rescue
the couple, who had been held hostage for more than a year by Muslim extremists in the
Philippines.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/758715.asp
We'll do something on the the Skakel guilty verdict with Marcia Clark and Posner:
Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel was convicted Friday of beating Greenwich neighbor
Martha Moxley to death in 1975 when they were 15 -- a crime that opened a window onto
a world of privilege and raised suspicions that his family ties had protected him over
the years. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&ncid=716&e=1&u=/ap/20020607/ap_on_re_us/skakel_trial_36
A U.S. Department of Agriculture official says terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta tried
to get a $650,000 government loan to buy a small airplane, telling her he intended to
outfit it with a large chemical tank. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=703&e=9&u=/ap/20020607/ap_on_re_us/attacks_atta_loan_2
Have a great weekend folks...This Briefing was compiled and edited by Dominic Bellone
in Washington, DC
President Bush on Friday warned Congress against sparking a "turf battle" over his
plan to create a Department of Homeland Security, and said he was sending top adviser
Tom Ridge to Capitol Hill to promote the terrorist-fighting plan. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&ncid=716&e=2&u=/ap/20020607/ap_on_go_pr_wh/attacks_bush_39
Bush wants home security on Cabinet...President Bush on Thursday proposed the creation
of a Cabinet-level domestic security agency as part of a "sweeping transformation"
intended to prevent more terror attacks on the United States.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/762744.asp
Speech verbate http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8701-2002Jun6.html
Some Bush advisers said Ridge is Bush's first choice to head the new department. If
Ridge doesn't want the job, they said, the president might try to recruit a
high-profile figure such as former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani. (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/attack/2002/06/06/attacks-bush.htm
WashPost: Analysis: Blurring the boundaries...Analysis: A new Department of Homeland
Security, as envisioned by President Bush, would mark a huge shift in the way the
federal government manages the country's internal security.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/762043.asp
Balz Analysis: A Bid to Regain The Initiative...In calling on Congress to approve the
creation of the new agency by the end of the year, Bush put Democrats on notice that
he will hold them accountable if they fail to act on his agenda.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9143-2002Jun6.html?referer=email
Cabinet post gets bipartisan support...Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill
yesterday enthusiastically endorsed President Bush's plan to create the Department of
Homeland Security. (The Washington Times)
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20020607-954987.htm
In Washington, Mixed Reviews for Homeland Department...Unions Say They Will Oppose
Consolidation; Critics Say Reorganization May Not Be Effective (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9040-2002Jun6.html?referer=email
Cynical, calculating or utterly sincere, President Bush's address to the nation
Thursday night had the same effect: He changed the national conversation. (Chicago
Tribune) http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/3416845.htm
FBI whistle-blower Coleen Rowley, thrust into the spotlight after her blistering
letter alleged missteps by the bureau before Sept. 11, said in her first public
appearance yesterday that the FBI's bloated bureaucracy, risk-averse culture and
arcane procedures have seriously hindered the fight against terrorism. (The Washington
Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9068-2002Jun6.html?referer=email
Rowley: 'Climate of fear' impeded agents...A veteran FBI agent, who complained that
senior bureau executives mishandled a pre-September 11 probe, yesterday said a
"climate of fear" inside the FBI had inhibited aggressive investigations. (The
Washington Times) http://washingtontimes.com/national/20020607-6895196.htm
Despite profiling fears, FBI won't do it...Fears of racial profiling did impede the
FBI's terrorism investigation of Arab men, Director Robert S. Mueller III testified
yesterday. (The Washington Times)
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20020607-247642.htm
The Bush administration said yesterday that it does not necessarily expect Israel to
negotiate directly with Yasser Arafat, opening the door to dealing with other
Palestinian figures who could replace the beleaguered leader. (The Washington Times)
http://washingtontimes.com/world/20020607-967507.htm
Chandra update...Investigators working for Chandra Levy's parents discovered a human
leg bone and twisted wire near the site where her remains were found in a Washington
park.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020607/ap_wo_en_ge/us_missing_intern_2
Gore returning to Wisconsin, perhaps to survey battleground...Undeclared for 2004, he
seeks to maintain ties in state (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/jun02/49164.asp
The war on terror may be ending -- at least on one CNN program...Lou Dobbs, host of
the nightly CNN business show "Moneyline," said on the air Wednesday that he is
abandoning the phrase "war on terror" in favor of the more specific "war on
Islamists." (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=529&ncid=529&e=3&u=/ap/20020607/ap_en_tv/tv_dobbs_terror_3
Monica Lewinsky, apparently tired of dealing with lawyers, found an effective way of
getting out of jury duty in Manhattan yesterday: by turning on the waterworks. (NY
Daily News)
http://www.nydailynews.com/2002-06-07/News_and_Views/Scandal_Sheet/a-153488.asp
You can't make this stuff up folks...A gaffe by China's usually staid state-run media
has left a popular newspaper here with onion on its face....Readers of the Beijing
Evening News, the city's largest-circulation newspaper, were told this week that the
U.S. Congress had threatened to move out of Washington unless a fancy new Capitol was
built. (LA Times) http://www.austin360.com/statesman/editions/friday/news_5.html
Hallow: GOP 'in political shock' over Card's magazine leak...Republicans expressed
shock yesterday at reports that White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr.
discussed internal dissent within the Bush administration in an interview.
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20020607-24507438.htm
R&B superstar R. Kelly, singer of uplifting spirituals like "I Wish" and low-down
ditties like "Bump n' Grind," is expected to surrender to Chicago Police today on
charges of child pornography. (Chicago Sun Times)
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-kelly07.html
Kurtz: White House Takes Back the Spotlight
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11364-2002Jun7.html?referer=email
Opinion/editorial
Channeling global capitalism...Because of the power of money, global corporations and
CEOs can help influence world policy and win the war on terrorism, writes Robert
Wright in Slate.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/762890.asp
The Washington Times: Profiling or common sense?...Attorney General John Ashcroft is
proposing to fingerprint and photograph visitors to the United States from the Middle
East, mostly men, in order to make them easier to track once they have crossed onto
U.S. soil. http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20020607-339396.htm
Wall Street Journal: Big Bad John...Why is Andy Rooney such a fraidy-cat
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110001816
Peggy: The Other Shoe...Obsessing over Sept. 11 distracts us from preventing the next
attack. http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/
Podhoretz: W. Didn't make his case
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/43654.htm
Mallard Fillmore http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mallard.asp
Doonesbury http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/viewdb.cfm?uc_full_date=20020607
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