Ex-CIA official faults agency's work:

Richard J. Kerr, the former deputy director of the agency, said he found failings with the way the data was analyzed and presented, and gaps in the underlying intelligence itself.
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/nation/7843345.htm

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White House Considers Intel Commission:

Until now, President Bush has reacted coolly toward the idea of a new commission, refusing to endorse it publicly. But his administration is under mounting election-year pressure to agree to an independent inquiry about Iraq's alleged arsenal of banned destruction.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/7845290.htm

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Blair fears being hung out to dry by Bush over WMD:

White House confirms possibility of independent inquiry into war. PM isolated over wait-and-see policy as weapons hunt flounders
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=486662

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MI6 chief to face new parliamentary inquiry:

The head of MI6 is expected to be called before a new inquiry into the intelligence that made the case for war in Iraq.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=486006

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In case you missed it: Saddam Poses World Terror Threat, Wolfowitz Says:

"Disarming Iraq and the war on terror are not merely related," Wolfowitz said. "Disarming Iraq of its chemical and biological weapons and dismantling its nuclear weapons program is a crucial part of winning the war on terror."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,76456,00.html

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Wolfowitz: We will completely remove PKK from northern Iraq:

Wolfowitz made assurances that would convince Turkey that no federation based on ethnicity will be established in Iraq.
http://www.turkishdailynews.com/FrTDN/latest/for.htm#f6

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Castro accuses Bush of plotting with Cuban American exiles to kill him:

Fidel Castro accused U.S. President George W. Bush on Friday of plotting with Miami exiles to kill him as part of his administration's hardening policies against the communist-run island.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/7836101.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

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Israel Says Has Backing of 30 States in Barrier Row :

Israel said on Saturday some 30 countries had joined it in objecting to the World Court's right to rule on the legality of a huge barrier it is building in the West Bank.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=4255543

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Workers at several companies give $100,000 or more to Bush campaign:

 Employees of five financial services companies accounted for more than $1 million of the record $132.7 million President Bush raised last year for his re-election campaign.
http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2004/01/31/news/national_world/b9128e91a913385586256e2c0019089b.txt

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Blast Kills at Least Five in Baghdad Neighborhood (Reuters)

 A projectile slammed into a crowded residential area in Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least two people and injuring several others, witnesses and medical sources said.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040131/ts_nm/iraq_blast_dc

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Pakistan Warns U.S. About Crossing Border:

A hard-line Islamic coalition warned Friday that Pakistani tribesmen might open fire on American troops if the United States extends a planned spring offensive against Afghan rebels into Pakistan.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63947-2004Jan30.html

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Pentagon seeks significant spending increase in missile defense :

The Pentagon is seeking a 13-percent increase in spending for missile defense next year as part of its military budget request that sets an increase of 7 percent from 2004, said Pentagon budget documents released on Friday.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200401/31/eng20040131_133579.shtml

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States Eye Terror Database :

For now, Matrix - short for Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange - involves Florida, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York and Michigan.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20040131/ap_on_hi_te/terror_database

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Already, GOP framing a Kerry fight:

The long-serving senator could be an especially ripe target for Bush
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0130/p01s01-uspo.html

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BA, Air France Cancel Flights; U.S. Sees Qaeda Threat (Reuters)

 British Airways and Air France on Saturday canceled seven flights to and from the United States after U.S. officials said they had new intelligence pointing to an al Qaeda plot to target the planes.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040131/ts_nm/security_airlines_dc

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Donations For Terrorists?:

 Imagine if some bugaboo of the right -- Hilary Clinton, say -- gave the keynote address at a charity event linked to terrorists.
http://www.thenation.com/outrage/index.mhtml?bid=6

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 At Least 12 Killed in Iraq Bomb Attacks:

A car bomb explosion in front of an Iraqi police station in the northern city of Mosul has killed at least nine people and injured dozens. And a roadside bomb killed three American soldiers in north-central Iraq Saturday morning.
http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=ACF26735-E5A9-43FE-B4DAE1E994BE1DEA

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Turkmen official killed in Iraq :

 An Iraqi Turkmen party official was killed Saturday and another injured in an attack near this northern oil city, a police official said.
http://www.iribnews.com/Full_en.asp?news_id=197607

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Dutch embassy in Baghdad attacked:

The Dutch embassy in Baghdad was engulfed in flames late on Friday after a rocket-propelled grenade struck the unoccupied building and sparked a major alert.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/758D816A-74B4-4F9D-82F4-12BEA103ACFB.htm

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Karzai pins civilian deaths on US:

The Afghan leader says 10 civilians were killed in a US air raid earlier this month despite American denials.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3447843.stm

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Ad Agency Is Sought To Pitch Elections :

The U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad wants to hire an advertising agency to sell the Iraqi public on its plans for a new democratic government
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A54144-2004Jan27?language=printer

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Iraqis divided as cleric's role widens:

 Sadr's followers denied they were breaking with Sistani, they were also adamant in going well beyond his position, calling the UN untrustworthy and a tool of the United States.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2004/01/31/iraqis_divided_as_clerics_role_widens/

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Arab Press : A daily selection of views from the Middle East :

Unidentified Arab country offers Saddam asylum
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/opinion/31_01_04_i.asp

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Christian foot soldiers battle for Bush:

 An increasingly polarised presidential election appears to be in the offing. One of the fault-lines is religion and, in particular, President George W Bush's evangelical faith and how that guides his political beliefs
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3445229.stm

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Bush policies exploit Reserves :

So you get called up. You have to serve, so you do -- except that if you spent 180 days on duty, they'd have to give you benefits like a career soldier, so you get pulled out and sent home on day 179. When you get home, you find that your private business has collapsed without you and your benefits as a veteran have been cut
http://www.jhunewsletter.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/01/30/4019b663ae039

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.This is how Bush supports our troops :

The Bush Administration's 2004 budget proposed gutting Veterans Administration (VA) services, including health care funding. Proposed cuts included: denying at least 360,000 veterans access to health care; $250 annual premiums; increased pharmacy co-payments; a 30 percent increased primary care co-payments; and increased waiting time for a first medical appointment.
http://www.usavanguard.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/01/28/401970abb42d7

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9/11 Investigation:

The commission looks serious about naming names and assessing responsibility for the horrific attacks. Commission chairman Thomas H. Kean contends the terrorists could have been stopped.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/7820491.htm

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White House Holding Notes Taken by 9/11 Commission :

 The White House, already embroiled in a public fight over the deadline for an independent commission's investigation of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, is refusing to give the panel notes on presidential briefing papers taken by some of its own members, officials said this week.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64628-2004Jan30.html

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Never forget that they lie :

Hutton's charitable vision of our rulers flies in the face of experience
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1135709,00.html

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Total surveillance becoming reality:

Last week the Supreme Court let stand the Justice Department's right to secretly arrest noncitizen residents.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107_2-5150608.html

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Within prison walls:

Camp 22 is one of a network of prisons in North Korea modelled on the Soviet Gulag where hundreds of thousands of prisoners are held. Most of them have been charged with no crime. They are there because of the "Heredity Rule".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/this_world/3440771.stm

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Surveillance powers should stand, U.S. officials say:

The Bush administration is warning Congress not to tinker with the Internet surveillance powers that the USA Patriot Act awarded to federal police.
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040130.gtspyjan30/BNStory/Technology/

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Internet Cafes May Be Required to Conduct Video Surveillance:

A local ordinance requiring Internet cafes to conduct video surveillance of their customers as an anti-gang measure is constitutional, the Fourth District Court of Appeal ruled yesterday.
http://www.metnews.com/articles/2004/voxx013004.htm

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Pakistan Adopting a Tough Old Tactic to Flush Out Qaeda:

 If 72 men wanted for sheltering Al Qaeda were not produced, they said, the Pakistani Army would punish the tribe as a group, demolishing houses, withdrawing funds and even detaining tribe members.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/31/international/asia/31STAN.html?ex=1076130000&en=4b0182917e4868b4&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

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Danger for Bush as doubts grow over prewar intelligence:

"They've made a pretty huge mess of it," said one senior Republican who has been talking to Mr Bush's top advisers about what steps they should take next.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/01/30/1075340841731.html

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Hill Probers Fault Iraq Intelligence:

 Panels' Early Findings Are Similar to Kay's
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A61648-2004Jan29

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In case you missed it:

Seymour M. Hersh: The Stovepipe:

How conflicts between the Bush Administration and the intelligence community marred the reporting on Iraq's weapons.
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?031027fa_fact

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In case you missed it:

Sidney Blumenthal: Bush's other war:

US intelligence is being scapegoated for getting it right on Iraq
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5121.htm

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"Charge of the Light Brigade":

Bush administration blames the intelligence services and the services deny responsibility:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5611.htm

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US's Kurdish ban risks backfiring:

In news that must have been music to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ears, L Paul Bremer, the US proconsul in Iraq, on Wednesday announced that the United States-led coalition regards the Kurdish Workers' Party, or PKK, as a terrorist organization.
http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FA31Ak01.html

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Iraq: Sistani...What Are You Waiting For?:

The American people, in their apathetic and naive wish to see their government act in accordance to the lofty goals proclaimed by its Constitution and by its national values, ignore the truth in front of their eyes: their boys and girls in uniform are becoming pawns in a global, imperial chess game played by neoconservative ideologues and supportive corporations.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5612.htm

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Sweatshops And Military Recruitment :

High school students and parents were shocked to find out that according to a clause buried in a recently passed Bush administration education bill, any school eligible for government funds must automatically turn in the names and addresses of its students to the military to help them in their recruitment efforts. .
http://www.duckdaotsu.org/recruit.html

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Court Keeps Guantanamo Suspects Isolated:

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor granted a request from the Bush administration to stop a lower court from communicating with a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040129/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_guantanamo_7

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MATRIX: Dossier program alarms Utahns :

 It sounds like a sci-fi thriller: a super computer program that gathers dossiers on every single man, woman and child - everything from birth and marriage and divorce history to hunting licenses and car license plates. Even every address you have lived at down to the color of your hair.
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,590039368,00.html

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Utah unplugs its MATRIX link :

Privacy concerns lead state to opt out of data program
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,590039724,00.html

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Liberty can not be preserved without general knowledge among people." (August 1765) John Adams