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Tonight we lead with the Bush-Putin Summit with three foreign policy heavy
hitters: Perle, Holbrooke and Ignatius...Talk about gravitas, eat your heart
out Charlie Rose!
We'll also do a hit with Norah from Europe with the latest on the meeting of
the two Cold War heavyweights...
We'll follow up on the e-mail Doug Wead sent us this week about the Bush
audiotapes with Wayne Slater of the Dallas Morning News ("Bush's Brain" author
guy) and Dana Milbank of the Post...
We tie it all up with a package from Shuster on the latest concerning
Gannon/Guckert...Campbell did an interview with him for Today this morning
which we'll chunk...We then bring in "Da Rev" (Sharpton) and Susie Molinari to
slice and dice
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7022981/
I'm sure we'll bring you an update on the breaking news at this hour...
Pope reportedly in operating room...Tracheotomy procedure expected, news
agencies say http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7022618/
Dominic Bellone wrote, compiled and edited The Briefing from Washington, DC
Ignatius Backgrounder: Beirut's Berlin Wall
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45575-2005Feb22.html
Author Regrets Secretly Taping Bush Talks (AP) http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6999860/
Former aide: Relationships more important than history...Doug Wead, who exposed
secret recordings with President Bush, says he wants to get the tapes "back to
the president to whom they belong" (MSNBC) http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7018065/
Amid disputes, Bush and Putin meet...Top issues are tackling terrorism,
Russia's democratic rollbacks (AP) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6992078/
U.S.-Russia pact targets nuclear terrorism...Bush, Putin plan announcement
Thursday (The Washington Post) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7020472/
Pentagon seeks freer hand for special ops...Secret missions could bypass U.S.
envoys (The Washington Post) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7019975/
An Army hearing officer has recommended a court-martial for a soldier charged
with desertion after he refused to deploy to Iraq. (AP)
http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050223/APA/502230819
Fineman: The win-at-all-costs president...Secret tapes show Bush's combative
side http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7017489/
Murray: Ready or not, here comes campaign season...Races from L.A. to N.Y.
offer some hope to Democrats http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7019427/
Many visions for Social Security...Congress gives alternatives a second look
(The Washington Post) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7019978/
A liberal advocacy group says any recommendations by U.S. Rep. Jim McCrery,
chairman of a congressional Social Security subcommittee, about privatizing
Social Security are suspect because he has been "compromised" by political
donations. (Shreveport Times)
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050224/NEWS01/502240353/1002/NEWS
Lebanon says Syria to withdraw more troops...Damascus says it will work with
U.N. envoy on formal process (MSNBC) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7023538/
U.S.' Prewar Visions Get Further Out of Focus (LA Times Analysis)
http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news3/latimes24.htm
Howard Dean has hit the ground running since his election as Democratic
national chairman in a cross-country speaking tour that is taking him deep into
Republican territory to re-energize his party's dispirited grass-roots forces
before next year's elections. (The Washington Times)
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050223-113815-4560r.htm
Feisty Biden toying with run for president...6-term senator on California swing
to gauge interest (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/24/MNG2PBG2K11.DTL
Lloyd Grove's Lowdown: After their bitter campaign 2004 experience with the
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, John Kerry and his fellow Dems aren't waiting to
be shot at again. Yesterday, aides to Sens. Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden
and Ted Kennedy jumped all over literary mugger Jerome Corsi, co-author of the
Kerry-bashing best seller "Unfit for Command."
http://nydailynews.com/news/gossip/v-echo/story/283899p-243240c.html
Opinion/Editorial
Today's blogs...GOP Master Plan Revealed! http://slate.msn.com/id/2113945/
Peggy: Hunter Thompson, Larry Summers, Hillary, Condi and the Internet's patron
saint. http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110006332
Pat: Democracies & double standards
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42987
Novak: Sandinistas again creating problems in our backyard
http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak24.html
Doonesbury http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/
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