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Welcome to another edition of "stress free" Friday at Hardball...Chris is off for the
next week so Lawrence "Money" O'Donnell will fill in today and Barnicle will sub all
next week...We'll do the latest from the Middle East, Bush's much anticipated speech
etc...Arafat now says he's ready to accept a peace plan: The one offered by Bill
Clinton in December 2000...Bibi will join us for reax...
Luntz has a big new poll out on college students and current affairs...You may be
surprised by what he found out! He'll be the B block
The "Dueling Revs" Sharpton and Falwell will be in the back half along with Janet
Parshall...We have a number of topics we're still kicking around for them...
Biggest news out of Washington this morning...A moment of silence please for the death
of Carville and Matalin's restaurant...Today is the very last for West 24, which
opened late during the 2000 presidential campaign but didn't make it to the next
election cycle.
Post restaurant critic Tom Sietsema, "It was the place to go for about 15 minutes."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20811-2002Jun20.html
Dominic Bellone compiled and edited this Briefing in Washington, DC
Plane Incident Shows Threat to D.C. Targets...The plane that violated Washington
airspace Wednesday was not intercepted by military jets until after it had flown
within a few miles of the presidential home, officials said. (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20572-2002Jun20.html
Poll: 59% say U.S. should take military action in Iraq
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020621/4213613s.htm
Tony Blankley, a Washington newspaper columnist and television commentator since he
left his job as press secretary to Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House of
Representatives, yesterday was named editor of the editorial page of The Washington
Times
Wes Pruden: "Tony knows Washington better than most, and he knows where all the bodies
are buried. He may have buried a few himself."
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020621-69387574.htm
Scarborough: Al Qaeda terrorists fleeing Afghanistan are using Iraq as an escape
route, and an unspecified number remain in Saddam Hussein's country while looking for
new bases of operation. http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020621-23453916.htm
Israel fires at West Bank market...Israeli forces fired on a market in the West Bank
city of Jenin on Friday, killing two people and wounding dozens after Palestinians
mistakenly thought a curfew had been lifted.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/677951.asp
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is prepared to accept a Mideast peace plan put
forward by then-U.S. President Bill Clinton in December 2000, the Israeli newspaper
Haaretz reported Friday. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&ncid=716&e=2&u=/ap/20020621/ap_on_re_mi_ea/arafat_peace_plan_9
House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt suggests President Bush delay his proposal for
creation of a Palestinian state in the midst of "barbaric suicide attacks against
Israelis." (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=703&e=2&u=/ap/20020621/ap_on_go_co/us_mideast_111
Israeli armor rumbled into the West Bank city of Nablus before dawn on Friday, just
hours after Palestinian gunmen killed five Israelis in an attack on a house filled
with children in a nearby Jewish settlement. (Reuters)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=586&ncid=721&e=1&u=/nm/20020621/wl_nm/mideast_dc_2710
Court Bars Execution Of Mentally Retarded...6 to 3 Ruling Cites Ban In Death-Penalty
States
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16760-2002Jun20.html?referer=email
FEC to Allow 'Soft Money' Exceptions...The Federal Election Commission finished
crafting the major rules of the new campaign finance system, leaving intact key
provisions of the law aimed at eliminating large, unregulated contributions but
allowing some important exemptions. (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20615-2002Jun20.html?referer=email
McCain says FEC subverts campaign finance reform...A political battle has erupted over
the Federal Election Commission's ongoing efforts to establish rules for the new
federal campaign finance law. (The Washington Times)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020621-29442176.htm
Thousands flee 'monster' Ariz. fire...Fire crews struggled Friday with a "monster"
wildfire racing through eastern Arizona and shooting tornado-like flames hundreds of
feet high, one of two new Western wildfires that forced thousands of people to flee
their homes.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/763669.asp
Ex-priest indicted in new rape counts...Paul Shanley, a central figure in the church
sex abuse scandal in the Boston Archdiocese, was indicted Thursday on multiple counts
of child rape and indecent assault for allegedly abusing four boys.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/732931.asp
President Bush and his wife were not relocated - or even informed - when many others
in the White House were evacuated because of an approaching wayward airplane, his
spokesman disclosed yesterday. (AP)
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/3515226.htm
Cheney Blames Leaks on Congress...Vice President Cheney chastised House and Senate
intelligence committees about leaks of classified information, and the panels'
chairmen responded by requesting a Justice Department investigation into the
disclosures. (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20394-2002Jun20.html
Security Dept. Urged...Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge pressed Congress to
swiftly approve the White House's proposal to create a new government department that
would defend the nation against terror. (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20669-2002Jun20.html?referer=email
Taking up what has become an annual abortion fight, the Senate voted Friday to lift a
ban on women using personal funds to obtain an abortion at military hospital overseas.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=716&e=3&cid=514&u=/ap/20020621/ap_on_go_co/military_abortions_9
Attorney Gen. John Ashcroft, initially considered one of President Bush's most
conservative appointments, is the target of criticism from unlikely sources. (The
Washington Times) http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020621-27385912.htm
Card: Sununu preferenceis purely personal matter (Manchester Union-Leader)
http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_show.html?article=12045
President Bush is shoring up his brother's re-election war chest, hoping to raise $2.5
million in one event for the Florida GOP (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&u=/ap/20020621/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_4&ncid=703&e=1
Senator Byrd has a new dog...Byrd's 'Trouble' is a new Shih Tzu (Charleston Daily
Mail) http://www.dailymail.com/news/News/2002062024/
Harper Trouble for Ted Turner's CNN...Ted Turner and CNN are suffering collateral
damage from a political bomb he dropped in an interview with a British newspaper.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020621-64430323.htm
Milbank: Political Notebook...Ashcroft's Credentials: Are They Suspect?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20467-2002Jun20.html
Opinion/Editorial
King George...How will George Stephanopoulos fare in his new role as Sunday talk show
anchor? Michael Kinsley, in Slate, says it's unlikely the former Clinton wunderkind
will turn "This Week" into a Democratic party propaganda show.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/770016.asp
Greeley: Zero tolerance also should apply to bishops
http://www.suntimes.com/output/greeley/cst-edt-greel21.html
Doonesbury Welcome to another edition of "stress free" Friday at Hardball...Chris is
off for the next week so Lawrence "Money" O'Donnell will fill in today and Barnicle
will sub all next week...We're gonna do the plane over the White House scare and what
it means for security around DC...We'll do the latest from the Middle East...Arafat
now says he's ready to accept a peace plan: The one offered by Bill Clinton in
December 2000...Arkin and Bibi will hit these topics..
Luntz has a big new poll out on college students and current affairs...You may be
surprised by what he found out! He'll be the B block
The "Dueling Revs" Sharpton and Falwell will be in the back half along with Janet
Parshall...We have a number of topics we're still kicking around for them...
Biggest news out of Washington this morning...A moment of silence please for the death
of Carville and Matalin's restaurant...Today is the very last for West 24, which
opened late during the 2000 presidential campaign but didn't make it to the next
election cycle.
Post restaurant critic Tom Sietsema, "It was the place to go for about 15 minutes."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20811-2002Jun20.html
Dominic Bellone compiled and edited this Briefing in Washington, DC
Plane Incident Shows Threat to D.C. Targets...The plane that violated Washington
airspace Wednesday was not intercepted by military jets until after it had flown
within a few miles of the presidential home, officials said. (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20572-2002Jun20.html
Poll: 59% say U.S. should take military action in Iraq
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020621/4213613s.htm
Tony Blankley, a Washington newspaper columnist and television commentator since he
left his job as press secretary to Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House of
Representatives, yesterday was named editor of the editorial page of The Washington
Times
Wes Pruden: "Tony knows Washington better than most, and he knows where all the bodies
are buried. He may have buried a few himself."
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020621-69387574.htm
Scarborough: Al Qaeda terrorists fleeing Afghanistan are using Iraq as an escape
route, and an unspecified number remain in Saddam Hussein's country while looking for
new bases of operation. http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020621-23453916.htm
Israel fires at West Bank market...Israeli forces fired on a market in the West Bank
city of Jenin on Friday, killing two people and wounding dozens after Palestinians
mistakenly thought a curfew had been lifted.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/677951.asp
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is prepared to accept a Mideast peace plan put
forward by then-U.S. President Bill Clinton in December 2000, the Israeli newspaper
Haaretz reported Friday. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&ncid=716&e=2&u=/ap/20020621/ap_on_re_mi_ea/arafat_peace_plan_9
House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt suggests President Bush delay his proposal for
creation of a Palestinian state in the midst of "barbaric suicide attacks against
Israelis." (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=703&e=2&u=/ap/20020621/ap_on_go_co/us_mideast_111
Israeli armor rumbled into the West Bank city of Nablus before dawn on Friday, just
hours after Palestinian gunmen killed five Israelis in an attack on a house filled
with children in a nearby Jewish settlement. (Reuters)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=586&ncid=721&e=1&u=/nm/20020621/wl_nm/mideast_dc_2710
Court Bars Execution Of Mentally Retarded...6 to 3 Ruling Cites Ban In Death-Penalty
States
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16760-2002Jun20.html?referer=email
FEC to Allow 'Soft Money' Exceptions...The Federal Election Commission finished
crafting the major rules of the new campaign finance system, leaving intact key
provisions of the law aimed at eliminating large, unregulated contributions but
allowing some important exemptions. (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20615-2002Jun20.html?referer=email
McCain says FEC subverts campaign finance reform...A political battle has erupted over
the Federal Election Commission's ongoing efforts to establish rules for the new
federal campaign finance law. (The Washington Times)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020621-29442176.htm
Thousands flee 'monster' Ariz. fire...Fire crews struggled Friday with a "monster"
wildfire racing through eastern Arizona and shooting tornado-like flames hundreds of
feet high, one of two new Western wildfires that forced thousands of people to flee
their homes.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/763669.asp
Ex-priest indicted in new rape counts...Paul Shanley, a central figure in the church
sex abuse scandal in the Boston Archdiocese, was indicted Thursday on multiple counts
of child rape and indecent assault for allegedly abusing four boys.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/732931.asp
President Bush and his wife were not relocated - or even informed - when many others
in the White House were evacuated because of an approaching wayward airplane, his
spokesman disclosed yesterday. (AP)
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/3515226.htm
Cheney Blames Leaks on Congress...Vice President Cheney chastised House and Senate
intelligence committees about leaks of classified information, and the panels'
chairmen responded by requesting a Justice Department investigation into the
disclosures. (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20394-2002Jun20.html
Security Dept. Urged...Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge pressed Congress to
swiftly approve the White House's proposal to create a new government department that
would defend the nation against terror. (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20669-2002Jun20.html?referer=email
Taking up what has become an annual abortion fight, the Senate voted Friday to lift a
ban on women using personal funds to obtain an abortion at military hospital overseas.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=716&e=3&cid=514&u=/ap/20020621/ap_on_go_co/military_abortions_9
Attorney Gen. John Ashcroft, initially considered one of President Bush's most
conservative appointments, is the target of criticism from unlikely sources. (The
Washington Times) http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020621-27385912.htm
Card: Sununu preferenceis purely personal matter (Manchester Union-Leader)
http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_show.html?article=12045
President Bush is shoring up his brother's re-election war chest, hoping to raise $2.5
million in one event for the Florida GOP (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&u=/ap/20020621/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_4&ncid=703&e=1
Senator Byrd has a new dog...Byrd's 'Trouble' is a new Shih Tzu (Charleston Daily
Mail) http://www.dailymail.com/news/News/2002062024/
Harper Trouble for Ted Turner's CNN...Ted Turner and CNN are suffering collateral
damage from a political bomb he dropped in an interview with a British newspaper.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020621-64430323.htm
Milbank: Political Notebook...Ashcroft's Credentials: Are They Suspect?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20467-2002Jun20.html
Opinion/Editorial
King George...How will George Stephanopoulos fare in his new role as Sunday talk show
anchor? Michael Kinsley, in Slate, says it's unlikely the former Clinton wunderkind
will turn "This Week" into a Democratic party propaganda show.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/770016.asp
Greeley: Zero tolerance also should apply to bishops
http://www.suntimes.com/output/greeley/cst-edt-greel21.html
Doonesbury http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/viewdb.cfm?uc_full_date=20020621
Mallard Fillmore http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mallard.asp
Organization Men...Mafia dons and Osama bin Laden look the same.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/dhenninger/?id=110001878
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