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Breaking news today from Ashcroft: Attorney General John Ashcroft on Monday said U.S.
authorities had captured an American al Qaeda operative and prevented an attack on the
United States with a radioactive dirty bomb. (Reuters)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=1&u=/nm/20020610/ts_nm/attack_dirtybomb_dc_4
AP:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&ncid=716&e=1&u=/ap/20020610/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/terror_arrest_10
Video: Ashcroft announcement from Moscow http://msnbc.com/news/764658.asp
Ashcroft verbate http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25134-2002Jun10.html
We'll obviously go big on the story with the latest including a special appearance by
"Holy War, Inc." author Peter Bergen...He really is the "go to guy" for all things Al
Qaeda and bin Laden...
Gary Hart will do the new National Security Agency...He and Rudman we're proposing
this deal a couple of years ago...
In the d block debate, we'll most likely revisit the controversy surrounding the
Boston Phoenix and their publishing of Danny Pearl photos and posting that gruesome
video on their website...
http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/editorial/documents/02299081.htm
I'm again working on Stephen Mendich (Publisher of the Boston Phoenix) and MSNBC's
Jerry Nachman for that segment...
Sebastian Junger ("Perfect Storm" & "Fire" author, NYC bar owner, freelance war
correspondent, yada, yada...) will join us for the buzz...His latest piece appears in
Vanity Fair and is on the Kosovo sex slave trade...We'll ask him about that and other
topics.
Here's the bar Sebastian owns in New York http://www.thehalfking.com/index.html
I like this story a lot and I'm sure Chris will be hot on it as well...WashPost: U.S.
endorses preemptive strikes...The Bush administration is developing a new strategic
doctrine that moves away from the Cold War pillars of containment and deterrence
toward a policy that supports preemptive attacks against terrorists and hostile states
with chemical, biological or nuclear
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/764396.asp
Scarborough: Inside help against Iraq weighed...A U.S. military operation against Iraq
would be designed to end as quickly as possible by turning Iraqi military units
against Saddam Hussein in the early stages.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020610-78592204.htm
Cool Cheney Pic http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020608/168/1nxgg.html
Very inside Washington baseball...GOP Monitoring Lobbyists' Politics...White House,
Hill Access May Be Affected (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22406-2002Jun9.html
Join us tonight...Dominic Bellone compiled and edited this Briefing in Washington, DC
As Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon headed into his latest Mideast talks with
President Bush on Monday, the White House defended Israel's latest assault on the
Palestinian Authority headquarters in the West Bank. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&ncid=716&e=2&u=/ap/20020610/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_mideast_143
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon meets President Bush Monday after Israeli tanks
encircled Yasser Arafat's compound to drive home a message the Palestinian leader has
failed to stop suicide attacks. (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=topnews&StoryID=1069596
Israeli tanks and troops charged into Ramallah before sunrise Monday, surrounding the
compound of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and arresting 20 suspected militants in
searches throughout the city. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&ncid=716&e=1&u=/ap/20020610/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_palestinians_4720
Israeli troops enter Ramallah...Israeli troops entered the West Bank town of Ramallah
early Monday, searching for alleged terrorist suspects. The move came hours before
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was due to meet with President Bush in Washington.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/677951.asp
Most Americans approve of President Bush's proposal to create a homeland security
department in his Cabinet, but more than a third are skeptical about the reasons
behind his plan, according to a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/2002/06/09/bush-poll.htm
WSJ: Bush's security plan faces inertia...President Bush's ambitious goal of
overhauling homeland security faces many obstacles, the biggest of which may well be
the political inertia that makes change a hard thing to come by in Washington, D.C.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/764393.asp
Unintended Tasks Face New Security Agency...To hear President Bush tell it, the new
Department of Homeland Security will improve government's "focus and effectiveness,"
but the confusion attending many aspects of his proposal suggests that government may
be headed for a prolonged period of bureaucratic chaos before things are sorted out.
(The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22493-2002Jun9.html
Hill Confronts Reorganization...With Congress facing its most dramatic reorganization
in more than 50 years to deal with the President's call for a Cabinet-level Department
of Homeland Security, a dizzying array of options were being floated on Capitol Hill
late last week. (Roll Call)
http://www.rollcall.com/pages/news/00/2002/06/news0610a.html
Fineman: Bush's Homeland Shuffle...Facing fire, the president hatched a secret plan.
The roots of a shake-up--and whether it'll make us safer
http://www.msnbc.com/news/764128.asp
Panel Questions New Agency's Powers...President Bush's plan to create a Department of
Homeland Security doesn't go far enough to prevent the kind of intelligence lapses
that took place before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, leaders of the Senate
intelligence committee said Sunday. (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22280-2002Jun9.html?referer=email
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Monday dismissed claims by the Iraqi
government that it has no nuclear, chemical or biological weapons and is making no
effort to acquire them. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20020610/ap_on_re_mi_ea/rumsfeld_gulf_16
A rabbi said residents armed with shotguns would begin patrolling heavily Jewish city
neighborhoods this month after a suspected terrorist said Muslim extremists once
planned attacks on New York Jews. (AP)
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2002/jun/10/061008542.html
The Republican team of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney is closing in on
$90 million raised for the party for this fall's congressional elections. That's nine
times the take so far of the marquee Democratic draw, Bill Clinton. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020609/ap_on_go_pr_wh/presidential_fund_raising_2&printer=1
Democratic fund-raising groups are getting ready to reap the unlimited soft-money
donations that their party will be unable to accept when the new campaign finance
reforms take effect after the November elections. (The Washington Times)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020610-72474836.htm
DCCC Plays Hardball...In an attempt to steer money away from one of this cycle's most
vulnerable incumbents, House Democrats last week distributed a memo urging former
donors not to contribute to Minnesota GOP candidate John Kline. (Roll Call)
http://www.rollcall.com/pages/politics/00/2002/06/pol0610a.html
Losing Karen Hughes, President Bush's closest confidante and adviser, will leave a
void in the White House, chief of staff Andrew Card said Sunday (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=703&e=6&u=/ap/20020609/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_esquire_1
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore on Saturday criticized President Bush for refusing
to accept a federal agency report that blames humans for global warming (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&ncid=753&e=7&u=/nm/20020608/sc_nm/environment_bush_gore_dc_2
here's talk that Rudy Giuliani might be tapped to head the proposed federal Homeland
Security Department -- but the former mayor said yesterday no one has offered him the
job. (NY Daily News)
http://www.mostnewyork.com/2002-06-10/News_and_Views/Beyond_the_City/a-153807.asp
During the 2000 presidential campaign, Dick Cheney called his years at the helm of
Halliburton "a great success story." Today, the energy services conglomerate is
struggling. The Securities and Exchange Commission is examining practices at the
company from when he was CEO. (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/2002/06/10/cheney-usat.htm
The News That Didn't Fit To Print...In the N.Y. Times, No Room for Terror (The
Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22319-2002Jun9.html
Clint Eastwood has been sworn in as a state parks commissioner...The ceremony was part
of the 100th birthday celebration for Big Basin Redwood State Park in California.
(Ananova) http://www.ananova.com/entertainment/story/sm_604443.html?menu=
Janet Reno added star power to her gubernatorial campaign Sunday, visiting a Tampa
church with actor Martin Sheen of the popular television series ``The West Wing.''
(Tampa Tribune) http://www.tampatrib.com/MGAJOV6Q92D.html
Opinion/Editorial
Reorganizing government...President Bush's proposal for a Cabinet-level department to
oversee homeland security won't be cost-free and won't automatically eliminate
bureaucracy, writes William Saletan in Slate.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/762383.asp
Nobles & Knaves http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20020608-21020726.htm
Novak: Business as usual in Senate
http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak10.html
Hentoff: J. Edgar Hoover is back http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20020610-2055888.htm
Witcover: A bold move on security
http://www.sunspot.net/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.witcover10jun10.column?coll=bal%2Dnews%2Dcolumnists
The Wall Street Journal: The Bureaucratic Mind...Real homeland defense requires
Washington to think differently.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110001824
USA Today: Checks on visitors have a place, if imposed fairly...Cries of ethnic and
religious profiling erupted the moment Attorney General John Ashcroft announced plans
last week to fingerprint some foreign visitors to the USA, starting with those from
five Middle Eastern countries that sponsor terrorism.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/comment/2002/06/10/nceditf.htm
Miniter: Shake It Up...Homeland security can't coexist with bureaucratic security.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/bminiter/?id=110001822
Bossie: Blame America Firsters
http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20020610-24486074.htm
Conason: Ashcroft's Failures Deserve a Hearing
http://www.observer.com/pages/conason.asp
Greenberg: Yasser, that's our baby: How long will this farce continue?
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/greenberg.html
Doonesbury http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/viewdb.cfm?uc_full_date=20020610
Mallard Fillmore http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mallard.asp
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