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The big stories we're tracking today: Chertoff (Michael) to head Homeland
Security Dept....More fallout from Black Rock's black eye...Howard Dean is
expected to throw his hat in the ring for DNC chair today, and of course we're
the Hardball-Newsweek special on the civilian/military split with regards to
Iraq...Chris has been down from day one on this issue so you know he'll be on
fire....Jon Meacham joins us as does retired General Barry McCaffrey and
retired General Al Haig...
We'll also chat with our favorite Senator from Utah, Orin Hatch, who'll give us
his take on Chertoff and his qualifications for Secretary of Homeland
Security...
We wrap up with Byron York, White House Correspondent for National Review
magazine who'll do some Iraq, Dean entering DNC race and maybe a dash of CBS
and Chertoff...
We're talking to other potential guests at this hour so I don't want to drop a
name that gets yanked from the show so I'll just leave it at this...
Dominic Bellone wrote, compiled and edited The Hardball Briefing from
Washington, DC
As his anchor career nears its end in March, Dan Rather's reputation as a
hard-charging news reporter took some damaging blows from the independent panel
that probed CBS' discredited story on President Bush's National Guard service.
(AP) http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050111/D87HTD5O0.html
CBS News veteran Don Hewitt called Dan Rather's disappearance from Monday's
Evening News "really stupid" during a damage control meeting on Monday, sources
tell the DRUDGE REPORT http://drudgereport.com/mattcr.htm
In media, truth is the goal, but how to get there?...The means, but not the
ends, are subject to debate (AP) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6809772/
Iraq insurgents kill 18 in string of attacks...Bombings, ambush among latest
violence to threaten Jan. 30 vote (MSNBC) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6727646/
Tiny Louisiana town mourns 6 soldiers...Neighbors in Guard, Reserves fight, die
together (The Washington Post) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6810735/
Bush picks judge to head homeland security...Chertoff is 2nd pick after Kerik
withdrew nomination (AP) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6812230/
When President Clinton took office, he fired all the U.S. attorneys who had
served under his Republican predecessor except one: New Jersey U.S. Attorney
Michael Chertoff. Chertoff had won support from a high-profile Democrat,
then-Sen. Bill Bradley, who asked that he be kept on. (AP)
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050111/D87I11P80.html
Chertoff backgrounder: Legal 'gladiator' wants Justice swift and sure
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002-08-13-chertoff_x.htm
Former presidential candidate Howard Dean, once the early front-runner for the
Democratic nomination whose candidacy stumbled, has decided to seek the party's
chairmanship, several Democrats said Tuesday. (AP)
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050111/D87I03C00.html
A Syrian inmate at Abu Ghraib said Army Spc. Charles Graner Jr. was the Baghdad
prison's primary torturer who laughed while physically abusing him and
threatened to kill him more than once. (AP)
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050111/D87I0TOG0.html
Bush trumpets call for Social Security reform...President asserts 'obligation
to lead,' pledges cover for backers (AP) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6811416/
In GOP, resistance on Social Security...Few share Bush's sense of urgency,
appetite for battle (The Washington Post) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6810084/
The White House said Monday that the case of the Education Department paying a
conservative commentator to plug its policies was an isolated incident, not a
practice widely used by the Bush administration. (AP)
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050111/D87HIQ3O0.html
Iraqi security forces are hunters, hunted...Intimidation campaign difficult to
fight (The Washington Post) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6810092/
Former NYC mayor addresses farm convention in N.C. (AP)
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/state/ny-bc-ny--giuliani-farmers0110jan10,0,1066048.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork
Bush team brushes off atheist's lawsuit...A California atheist's lawsuit to
prevent Christian clergy from praying in the presidential inauguration should
be dismissed because it is a recycled case about an issue that does not violate
the U.S. Constitution, attorneys for President Bush said. (The Wasington Times)
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050110-095925-1503r.htm
Morano: Jackson's Wall Street Project Loses NYSE Sponsorship
http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewPolitics.asp?Page=\Politics\archive\200501\POL20050111a.html
Opinion/Editorial
The Wasington Times: CBS ducks political motives...The report by the
independent panel asked by CBS News to investigate a fraudulent "60 Minutes
Wednesday" story on President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard is
far better than many expected. At the same time, the report is also a
whitewash. http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20050110-084509-7844r.htm
Terry: Video Game Vice http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=6202
Hitchens: Two Elections...Why Iraq's vote is not like Palestine's.
http://slate.com/id/2112077/
Sharansky: Our Test for Abu Mazen...Peace is possible only if Palestinians are
free. http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110006143
Doonesbury http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/
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