------------------------------------------------------
The Hardball Briefing On MSNBC
------------------------------------------------------
We've got a great show lined up for you tonight...The Torch will most likely join us
on all things Bush-War on terrorism/first strike doctrine/Iraq, that kind of
thing...Maybe we'll throw in another senator as well..
We'll talk to Ralph Reed about his new group...Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, founder and
president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, and Ralph Reed,
prominent grassroots strategist and former executive director of the Christian
Coalition, joined forces today and announced that they will launch the "Stand For
Israel" campaign, an effort to strategically mobilize leadership and grassroots
support in the Christian community for the State of Israel.
http://www.standforisrael.org/
We'll do Ron Suskind on his Card/Hughes piece in Esquire
http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2002/020701_mfe_hughes_1.html
D Block...We've got the woman profiled in this piece to elaborate...Saudi Arabia's
American Captives...The State Department is complicit in a kidnapping.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110001826
In the e/f block we've got "Best and the Brightest" author David Halberstam on his new
book "Firehouse"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1401300057/qid=1023812527/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/102-8944170-3072115
We'll talk to him about the book and Bush's wartime performance...Expect high levels
of gravitas for this segment...
A New Yorker by way of Harvard, David Halberstam began his career as a reporter in
1955 at a small newspaper in West Point, Miss., because he had the prophetic sense
that the civil rights revolution would be one of the biggest stories of his
generation. (USA Today)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20020528/en_bo_usatoday/4144266
Chris liked Cohen's piece in the Post today (maybe we'll do something with that)
Kristol's Unwelcome Message
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28737-2002Jun10.html
This Briefing compiled and edited by Dominic Bellone in Washington, DC..
Ashcroft: 'Dirty bomb' attack averted...An al-Qaida plot to detonate a radioactive
"dirty bomb" in the United States was disrupted when a U.S. citizen was arrested in
Chicago last month, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced Monday.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/764658.asp
President Bush said today that Jose Padilla, the man arrested in an alleged plot to
spread radioactive material across parts of America, is one of many "would-be killers"
the United States has in custody. And there will be more, he promised. (AP)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/showcase/sns-worldtrade.story?coll=chi%2Dnews%2Dhed
"Pucho" Backgrounder:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/showcase/chi-0206110205jun11.story
...Padilla was a gang-banger who liked to fire guns, was prone to road rage, once
punched out a cop over a doughnut and, according to court records and sources, was
involved in a murder when he was 14. (Chicago Sun Times)
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-susp11.html
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is a "world-class liar" who is trying to fool the world
into thinking he has no interest in weapons of mass destruction, Defense Secretary
Donald H. Rumsfeld told U.S. troops Monday on this island nation in the Persian Gulf
(AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020611/ap_on_re_mi_ea/rumsfeld_gulf_25
A suspected American al Qaeda operative accused of plotting a radioactive "dirty bomb"
attack on the United States has not yet given authorities information on his
associates, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said on Tuesday. (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=topnews&StoryID=1074862
Making the case for pre-emptive strikes against terrorist enemies, President Bush says
he will use all his power to combat "the new totalitarians" who would threaten
Americans with weapons of mass destruction. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20020611/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_world_conservatives_8
Experts: 'Dirty bombs' would cause varying damage...While "dirty bombs" may not wreak
destruction on the scale of an atomic weapon, experts say they could cause panic,
enormous economic damage and spread toxic radioactive waste. (The Washington Times)
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020611-57465012.htm
Focus Shifts to U.S. Sources of Contaminants...Instead of smuggling in radioactive
contaminants, counterterrorist sources say, al Qaeda may be planning to buy or steal
them in the United States (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28585-2002Jun10.html?referer=email
Poll: Americans Back New Agency...Most Americans support President Bush's plan to
create a massive federal department to oversee homeland security, and a majority also
favor giving the FBI broad new powers to investigate terrorism, according to a
Washington Post ABC News poll.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110001826
A majority of Palestinians believe the aim of their 20-month-old uprising should be to
eliminate Israel and not just end Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip,
an opinion poll released Tuesday showed. (Reuters)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020611/wl_nm/mideast_palestinian_poll_dc_1&printer=1
Afghan assembly gets under way...Afghanistan's grand council opened on Tuesday after
the former king renounced any role in a new government, defusing a crisis with feuding
leaders, but exposing the country's volatile ethnic divide.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/760694.asp
With the arrest of a former Chicago street gang member in a suspected al-Qaeda plot to
explode a radioactive ''dirty bomb'' in the USA, Pakistani authorities have
apprehended others who might have been involved, U.S. and Pakistani officials said
early today (USA Today)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=676&ncid=716&e=17&u=/usatoday/20020611/ts_usatoday/4181560
Bush administration officials have met with Iraqi opposition leaders on how best to
mobilize against President Saddam Hussein and prepare for a new Iraqi government after
Hussein leaves power, the State Department said yesterday. (AP)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28300-2002Jun10.html?referer=email
Moroccan police arrested three Saudi nationals who were allegedly planning attacks
against U.S. and British war ships in the Strait of Gibraltar, key government
officials said Monday. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020611/ap_on_re_af/morocco_terror_arrests_6
A special envoy of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said Tuesday that he saw "zero
percent chance" of a nuclear war with India and said that the chances of a
conventional war were also receding. (Reuters)
http://webcenter.newssearch.netscape.com/aolns_display.adp?key=200206111024000247180_aolns.src
Milbank's White House Notebook: Global Conservatives Find a Congenial Host in Bush
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28415-2002Jun10.html?referer=email
Bush Sees Sharon and Says Time Isn't Ripe for Peace Conference (The New York Times)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=68&ncid=68&e=2&u=/nyt/20020611/ts_nyt/bush_sees_sharon_and_says_time_isn_t_ripe_for_peace_conference
Hunting the American dream...Ted Nugent discusses his new book, "Kill It and Grill
It," in which our God-given gifts are respected and the screaming,
testosterone-infested bull elk becomes supper (Salon.com)
http://salon.com/mwt/sust/2002/06/11/nuge/print.html
Roman Catholic Bishop J. Kendrick Williams resigned Tuesday amid accusations of sexual
abuse, becoming the third U.S. bishop to step down in the scandal rocking the church.
(AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020611/ap_wo_en_po/church_abuse_27
Rush & Molloy: Mick, Ari, McEnroe, Eastwood and other dish
http://www.nydailynews.com/today/News_and_Views/Daily_Dish/a-153929.asp
Neal Travis: No one knew they were bosom buddies, but Bill Clinton is apparently on
the list of 300 nearest and dearest invited to today's Paul McCartney/Heather Mills
nuptials. http://www.pagesix.com/nealtravis/43995.htm
White House press secretary Ari Fleischer fessed up: President Bush didn't actually
read that 268-page Environmental Protection Agency report on climate change, even if
he said he did. (AP)
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-wh/2002/jun/10/061000270.html
Opinion/Editorial
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The dirty bomb plot: Liberty V. Security
http://home.post-dispatch.com/channel/pdweb.nsf/TodayTuesday/86256A0E0068FE5086256BD500228006?OpenDocument
The Washington Post: Detaining Americans
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28730-2002Jun10.html
Talking war to bring peace...Talk of peace with Pakistan brought only more war, so
perhaps this time Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee is gambling that talk of
war will bring more peace, writes Chris Suellentrop in Slate.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/764880.asp
Mondo Washington: Ashcroft Hypes a Dirty Bomber; Thin Blue Line Gets Thicker; One
Grand Inquisitor; How Power Plants Make You Sick
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0224/ridgeway.php
Ingraham: Intelligence coup, with much more to do
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0602/ingraham.html
Norquist: Supermajority: A super idea
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20020611-81821824.htm
Vazsonyi: Rush Limbaugh finds himself under daily attack by some of his own
constituency. Why? Because he remains true to himself.
http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20020611-13093006.htm
Medved: Why Hollywood relies on deja vu films
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/medved.html
Doonesbury http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/viewdb.cfm?uc_full_date=20020611
Mallard Fillmore http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mallard.asp
=========================================
This email is never sent unsolicited. You have received
The Hardball Briefing Newsletter because you subscribed to it or,
someone forwarded it to you.
To remove yourself from the list (or to add yourself to the list if this
message was forwarded to you) simply go to
http://www.msnbc.com/tools/newstools/e/emailextra.asp?nfeature=19
