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Despite the hullabaloo about what the Saudis knew about 9/11 and the now infamous 28
page redaction from last week's 9/11 report and several high level calls from Congress
as well as the Saudi Arabian government to declassify the info, The Bush
administration is sticking to its guns...Ahead of a meeting later Tuesday between
President Bush and Saudi Arabian officials, the White House rejected a congressional
request to declassify pages from last week's Sept. 11 intelligence report that related
to Saudi Arabia.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/943459.asp
What's in there that's so secret? Republican Senator Dick Shelby says that 95% of
that info is not vital to national security...If Saudi bashing seems to be so "in"
these days in Washington, why isn't The President joining in on the jamboree? Is this
some kind of CYA or are we protecting our strategic political or oil interests?
Or, is there really no "there" there as we like to say inside the Beltway? We'll
debate this burning question in the D block...Stephen Schwartz will go on the Offense:
Missing Links...From the July 29, 2003 New York Post: The evidence of Saudi complicity
in terrorism is worse than you thought
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/948zywaf.asp
Also, is it better to capture or kill Saddam? What are the rules of engagement?
What's the deal with the new audio tape? Yeah, homeboy has a new audio tape out just
like UBL where he's actually praising the killing of his boys, calling them martyrs...
Alleged Saddam tape on sons' deaths...Voice attributed to ousted dictator calls Odai,
Qusai martyrs http://msnbc.com/news/934483.asp?0cv=CA01
And in the B block, we've got Emerson on this troubling story...WashPost: Officials
warn of new hijacking plans...U.S. officials said Monday that they have learned of
credible threats of possible new airline suicide hijackings by terrorists planned for
the latter part of the summer.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/945301.asp
Some of us in this country are battling addiction problems with any number of vices
and that's unfortunate but tonight we're giving you a healthy addiction and one you
won't want to recover from....That's Laura Ingraham...She's hosts a talk radio show
thats actually not just a show but an actual addiction...If you don't believe me check
out her website http://www.lauraingraham.com/public/
Laura's got a big question for the White House: Why aren't you more involved in the
California Recall fight? The Chicago Tribune's Jim Warren will try to answer that
question and many others in the Buzz...
There's also a new New Hampshire primary poll which shows Dean and Kerry neck and
neck...Is this race going to be decided on the war question? And why is the
Democratic Leadership Council (That centrist band of Dems) saying there's a white
man's gap in the Dem party? Throw all that in the Buzz and it should be pretty hot
tonight...
Oh, btw, My buddy Charles has a must read byline in The Washington Times....Rousseaux:
Diwaniyas and democracy...It could have been Farmington Hills, Mich. or Des Moines,
Iowa, or any of the other last-minute rallies at the end of a long political campaign.
http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20030727-104301-4117r.htm
Dominic Bellone wrote, compiled and edited The Briefing from Washington, DC
A Pentagon plan to get information on the Middle East by setting up an online futures
market where investors would bet on the probability of war, terrorism and other events
is going to be scrapped, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said on Tuesday.
(Reuters) http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3179832
Guard's arrest aids hunt for Saddam...American soldiers arrested a bodyguard who
rarely left Saddam Hussein's side Tuesday and said they obtained documents and
information that could help them close in on the former dictator.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/934483.asp
Americans' confidence that former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein will be killed or
captured jumped dramatically since his sons were slain last week. But they're more
worried about the rising death toll of U.S. servicemembers, a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup
Poll shows. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-07-28-saddam-poll_x.htm
Poll: Democrats Lack Crucial Support...Dramatic erosion in support among white men has
left the Democrats in a highly vulnerable position, according to a new poll
commissioned for the centrist Democratic Leadership Council. (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58774-2003Jul28.html
DeLay profile: Just before flying here to meet with President Bush Tuesday, Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had a t�te-�-t�te with another powerful Texas Republican
(USA Today) http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-07-28-delay-profile_x.htm
The moderate Democratic group that helped elect Bill Clinton to the White House in
1992 warned today that Democrats were headed for defeat if they presented themselves
as an angry "far left" party fighting tax cuts and opposing the war in Iraq (The New
York Times)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=68&ncid=703&e=5&u=/nyt/20030729/ts_nyt/centristdemocratswarnpartynottopresentitselfasfarleft
President Bush told black leaders yesterday that his administration is working hard to
foster "greater opportunity and hope" for minorities and pledged "we will not tire
until we have extended the great promise of America to every neighborhood in America."
(The Washington Times) http://washingtontimes.com/national/20030728-113527-9338r.htm
Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (Conn.) criticized President Bush and fellow Democrats over
Iraq yesterday, arguing that the president's postwar policies threaten to erode public
support for a just war and that the postures of some of his rivals in the presidential
race threaten to brand their party as soft on terrorism. (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59185-2003Jul28.html
Riordan Is Closer to Recall Run...Schwarzenegger's candidacy appears less likely.
Former mayor meets with strategist (The Los Angeles Times)
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-me-gop29jul29001424,1,709442.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage
In changing sphere, Dean's Net fund-raising outdoes Cheney...Vice President Dick
Cheney got up yesterday morning, boarded Air Force Two and flew to Columbia, S.C.,
where he rode in a motorcade to a private home, shook hands, and posed for pictures
with 150 donors at a luncheon. There he raised $300,000 for the Bush-Cheney reelection
committee before flying home. (The Boston Globe)
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/210/nation/In_changing_sphere_Dean_s_Net_fund_raising_outdoes_Cheney+.shtml
In the clearest sign that she will not run for President next year, Sen. Hillary
Clinton launched a Web site yesterday for a 2006 reelection campaign. (NY Daily News)
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/story/104614p-94648c.html
Americans have become significantly less accepting of homosexuality since a Supreme
Court decision that was hailed as clearing the way for new gay civil rights, a USA
TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll has found. After several years of growing tolerance, the survey
shows a return to a level of more traditional attitudes last seen in the mid-1990s
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-07-28-poll_x.htm
Opinion/Editorial
Suellentrop: On the road with Howard Dean...Everywhere he goes, Democratic
presidential hopeful Howard Dean offers up a Unified Field Theory of Bush Lies: If
Bush will lie about the Iraq war, he will lie about anything.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/945233.asp
Kristol: Turning the Corner on Iraq; Stupidity on Saudi Arabia...The Bush
administration is handling the peace well in Iraq, but stumbling with the U.S.-Saudi
relationship (The Weekly Standard)
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/947wnfag.asp
Dan's Closing Argument...Why it makes no sense to keep the public and the victims in
the dark about a key section of the 9/11 report from Congress.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/945508.asp
Lindberg: Bush-bashing won't work in 2004
http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20030728-084138-4030r.htm
Mondo Washington...Guerrillas in the Midst...Death Hits Mr. Rumsfeld's Neighborhoods
In response to the continued killing of Yankee soldiers, U.S. commanders are staging
raids on whole neighborhoods-killing those thought to be guerrillas, rounding up
hundreds of others, ransacking homes.
http://villagevoice.com/alertrd.php3?article=45880
Mallard Fillmore http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mallard.asp
Doonesbury http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/
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