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I know how you feel folks...It's Monday, it's cold (at least in most of the country),
you're back from a long holiday weekend and all the leftovers are gone...It's
depressing I know...I didn't even want to get out of bed this morning myself...But
take comfort Mr. & Mrs. America (and of course my international friends), we've got a
great show lined up for tonight which should warm your spirits and get you back in the
swing of things...
We'll lead with the terrorist attack in Kenya last week and the resurgence of
Al-Qaeda...We'll talk to some terrorism expert types and maybe do a hit with the mayor
of Jerusalem as well...Is Al-Qaeda trying to bring Israel and the U.S. into the same
war on terror?...Later in the B/C block we'll talk to fmr. UN ambassador Ken Adelman
and Barry McCaffrey about the coming war with Iraq and what our allies in the region
may demand from us...
In the backhalf we'll take a look at the Dem 2004 field...As you know John Kerry
announced a "presidential exploratory committee" yesterday on MTP which is one step
away from announcing for real...Basically he'll see how much money he can raise and if
he can get any traction in the polls and decide from there...Right now he's at 6%
while Al is at 49%, according to a Wash Post poll of Dem voters...We'll survey the Dem
landscape with Howard, Donna and Tony...Plus team Shuster/Jamison is putting together
a package on it..
btw, dig Howie's piece on Tony in today's Post...Looks like he's the new conservative
power broker in town...
Kurtz: Since taking over the Washington Times editorial page last summer, Tony
Blankley has thrown some hard rhetorical punches. And it's not just Democrats who have
been on the receiving end.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61623-2002Dec1.html?referer=email
And of course, what segment on Kissinger's appointment to head the 9/11 Commission
would be complete without a visit from Hitch?? He'll do the Buzz with a "Henry the K"
defender...I just got off the phone with Hitchens and his wife who are both very
jazzed about this segment...Plus, we'll do the Dilulio/Esquire thing as well...Details
below...
Hitchens in da House!! The Latest Kissinger Outrage...Why is a proven liar and wanted
man in charge of the 9/11 investigation? http://slate.msn.com/?id=2074678
His book on the case against Kissinger
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1859846319/ref=lib_rd_ss_TFCV/102-6916146-3926516?v=glance&s=books&vi=reader&img=1#reader-link
"There is no precedent in any modern White House for what is going on in this one: a
complete lack of a policy apparatus. What you've got is everything, and I mean
everything, being run by the political arm. It's the reign of the Mayberry
Machiavellis." Fmr. White House faith based advisor John Dilulio, Jr. (The New York
Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/02/politics/02BUSH.html?ex=1039496400&en=5259a93662906113&ei=5006&partner=ALTAVISTA1
Ari: "I dismiss it as baseless and groundless"
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20021202/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_diiulio_1
Odds and Sods...Chris will be in Cambridge, MA tonight 7:30-8:30 pm at Wordsworth
Books, 30 Brattle Street...Tell him the Briefing sent you!
Dominic Bellone wrote, compiled and edited The Briefing from Washington, DC
"I always left that room feeling like a cheap prostitute who'd had a busy day" Sen.
Zell Miller (D-GA) after a day of fundraising
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61624-2002Dec1.html?referer=email
President Bush is honoring NASCAR champion and auto racing's reigning bad boy Tony
Stewart, adding a sport with a prized voter profile to the list of winners who get his
White House treatment. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=544&ncid=693&e=3&u=/ap/20021202/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_nascar
Kerry to Start Run for President...Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts said Sunday he
will file the necessary papers this week allowing him to raise money for a possible
run for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 2004. (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61537-2002Dec1.html?referer=email
"I've made a decision to file a committee. I'm going to file this week an exploratory
committee, a formal committee, and I'm going to begin the process of organizing a
national campaign," Mr. Kerry, 58, announced yesterday on NBC's "Meet the Press." (The
Washington Times) http://washingtontimes.com/national/20021202-23429179.htm
''I think there's a deep anxiety in the American people about security,'' not only
about national security, but about jobs, pensions, and education, Kerry said. ''And I
think on almost every issue, literally, on almost every issue facing the country, I
believe there is a better choice for this nation.'' (Boston Globe)
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/336/nation/Kerry_to_take_a_step_toward_04_run+.shtml
"49 percent of the Democrats surveyed said they favored Gore for the nomination. Sen.
Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.), who was Gore's running mate in 2000, placed second with
10 percent. Senate Democratic leader Thomas A. Daschle (S.D.) and Sen. John F. Kerry
(Mass.) were tied for third at 6 percent" (Wash Post poll)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51481-2002Nov28.html
The field of Democrats expected to run in the 2004 Iowa caucuses is beginning to take
shape, although most of the action right now consists of private conversations between
the likely candidates, their families, close advisers and fund-raisers. (Des Moines
Register) http://www.dmregister.com/news/stories/c4789004/19878876.html
New Sept. 11 commission chief Henry Kissinger said yesterday that it was too soon to
say whether he would press for testimony from President Bush or former President Bill
Clinton. (NY Daily News) http://www.nydailynews.com/news/story/40074p-37857c.html
Kissinger Denies Client Conflicts...Sept. 11 Panel Leaders Promise to Sever Any
Problematic Ties (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61425-2002Dec1.html?referer=email
Diplomatic fallout from a bomb...Kenya attack complicates US role in Mideast, pushes
US and Israel
closer together in world views on terror. (CS Monitor)
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1202/p01s01-usgn.html
WashPost: U.S. facing bigger bill for Iraq war...Although it is difficult to predict
how much Americans would pay for a new war with Iraq, one fact seems indisputable: It
will be many times more than the cost of the last war, if only because other countries
are much more reluctant to share the burden.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/841609.asp
Senators ask Bush to protect airliners...Leaders of the Senate intelligence committee
yesterday urged the Bush administration to move immediately to protect U.S. airliners
from shoulder-fired missiles. (The Washington Times)
http://washingtontimes.com/world/20021202-5251273.htm
Last week's terror attacks in Kenya have made the public aware of another threat -
surface-to-air missiles fired at commercial airplanes - and leaders of the Senate
Intelligence Committee say they anticipate more terrorist action ahead. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=512&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20021202/ap_on_go_co/us_kenya
Questions on evidence in Kenya blast...Kenya will not accede to Israeli demands to
turn over evidence in the Thursday attacks on an Israeli-owned hotel and an Israeli
jetliner, saying Sunday it would conduct the probe alone.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/840985.asp
Inspectors probe suspect Iraqi sites
U.N. disarmament teams conducted their fifth day of inspections in Iraq on Monday,
searching a military industrial complex and an alcohol plant for traces of outlawed
arms, including alleged weapons of mass destruction.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/821736.asp
The FBI is investigating a payment from the Saudi Embassy in Washington to an Islamic
charity that has been identified by the Bush administration as one of the principal
conduits of financing to the al Qaeda terror network, The Post has learned. (NY Post)
http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/63350.htm
An American court has issued a summons against the next Saudi ambassador to Britain,
saying that in his previous job he helped fund Afghanistan's Taliban regime while it
sheltered Osama bin Laden. (London Sunday Telegraph)
http://washingtontimes.com/world/20021202-24379397.htm
Campaign Finance Law Challenged...The new campaign finance law, which took effect Nov.
6, faces its first major legal test Wednesday in oral arguments before a special panel
of three federal judges (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61624-2002Dec1.html?referer=email
Seper: FBI ethics-unit cuts called 'retaliatory'...An FBI decision to assign fewer
agents to an ethics training unit "might reasonably be perceived as retaliatory."
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20021202-83951804.htm
Lott Keeps Pressure On K St....Picking up where he left off with K Street before the
midterm elections, incoming Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) is leaning on
industry chieftains to become single-party donors. (Roll Call)
http://www.rollcall.com/pages/news/00/2002/12/news1202b.html
The Changing 'Times'...A hard-charging editor's crusading style is coloring the Gray
Lady's reputation (Newsweek) http://www.msnbc.com/news/841753.asp
Page Six: The times they are a-changing too fast for literati Tom Wolfe and Hunter S.
Thompson, who are trying to make sense of the current conservative climate.
http://www.pagesix.com/pagesix/51301.htm
Cindy Adams: The Rudy-Judi Howdy Doody engagement ring, costly co-op, future wedding
are being abetted by the little piece of cash recently in from South of the Border.
http://www.pagesix.com/cindyadams/cindyadams.htm
Opinion/Editorial
Stevenson: Al Qaeda Strikes Again...What we can do about missile attacks on civil
aircraft and car bombs.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110002707
Pat: Is Islam a religion of peace?
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29838
Conason: The legend of the liberal media is finally dead. When the mightiest voices of
the mainstream gang up on Tom Daschle with Rush Limbaugh, who can believe in that old
myth any more? http://www2.observer.com/observer/pages/conason.asp
Novak: Farewell, Phil Gramm
http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak02.html
Peggy: Stand Up and Take It Like an American...In a free society, sometimes you pay a
price for your beliefs http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110002699
Barnicle: Americans fail to connect their teens & the war
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_opinions/story/39714p-37518c.html
Kelly: Return to reality...I'm thankful the Clinton White House, and all the damage it
wrought with its delusional Iraq policy, are finally history
http://www.msnbc.com/news/840238.asp?0dm=O14TO
Neal: GOP starts gunning for Fitzgerald
http://www.suntimes.com/output/neal/cst-edt-neal02.html
The Washington Post: Long Live the GOP
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61778-2002Dec1.html
Mallard Fillmore http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mallard.asp
Doonesbury http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/
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