The Leaker? 'Ask the President'
Carey? Where ya been?
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Newspaper columnist Robert Novak is still not naming his source in the Valerie Plame affair, but he says he is pretty sure the name is no mystery to President Bush. "I'm confident the president knows who the source is," Novak told a luncheon audience at the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh on Tuesday. "I'd be amazed if he doesn't." "So I say, 'Don't bug me. Don't bug Bob Woodward. Bug the president as to whether he should reveal who the source is.' "
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A $300 million Pentagon psychological warfare operation includes plans for placing pro-American messages in foreign media outlets without disclosing the U.S. government as the source, one of the military officials in charge of the program says. Run by psychological warfare experts at the U.S. Special Operations Command, the media campaign is being designed to counter terrorist ideology and sway foreign audiences to support American policies. The military wants to fight the information war against al-Qaeda through newspapers, websites, radio, television and "novelty items" such as T-shirts and bumper stickers. The program will operate throughout the world, including in allied nations and in countries where the United States is not involved in armed conflict.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-12-14-pentagon-pr_x.htm?POE=NEWISVAPresident Bush accepted responsibility on Wednesday for the decision to go to war with Iraq despite faulty intelligence but said the decision to oust Saddam Hussein was still correct.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10461235/Shayna Richardson will have to wait about six months before she can tell her skydiving survival story to someone who made the trip with her.
Richardson, 21, of Joplin, Mo., was making her first solo jump in Siloam Springs on Oct. 9 when her main parachute failed and her reserve chute didn't fully deploy. She was falling at about 50 mph when she hit face first in a parking lot. Badly injured, but alive, Richardson spent 16 days in a hospital. During treatment, doctors found that Richardson was pregnant, which was a surprise to her.
http://www.ardemgaz.com/ShowStoryTemplate.asp?Path=ArDemocratNW/2005/12/14&ID=Ar02000&Section=ArkansasOddball Extravaganza Preview -- NOT to be missed.
That's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.
Finally,
It's usually easy to tell where a person stands in the culture wars, but whose side is someone on when his Christmas decor is a blood-spattered Santa Claus holding a severed head? Joel Krupnik and Mildred Castellanos decked the front of their Manhattan mansion this year with a scene that includes a knife-wielding 5-foot-tall St. Nick and a tree full of decapitated Barbie dolls. Hidden partly behind a tree, the merry old elf grasps a disembodied doll's head with fake blood streaming from its eye sockets. In a telephone interview Wednesday, Krupnik explained that his family thought it would be a fun way to make a comment about the commercialization and secularization of Christmas.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SLASHER_SANTA?SITE=NWCN&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.html&SECTION=HOMEAh, the Christmas skirmish goes on.
-- Carey Fox
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Only one-fifth of the 1.8 million people made homeless by last December's tsunami will be in permanent homes by the end of this year, British-based aid group Oxfam International said on Wednesday.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10465263/DuPont Co. has agreed to pay $10.25 million in fines and $6.25 million for environmental projects in a settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the company's alleged failure to report the dangers of a toxic chemical used to make Teflon, the company said Wednesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10465449/The U.S. trade deficit unexpectedly rose to an all-time high in October, as oil shipments soared and the United States set deficit records with China, Europe, Canada and Mexico.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10463854/Chinese police said Wednesday that they were holding eleven people accused of beating up 16 Catholic nuns in an apparent land dispute.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10464443/Democrats giddy about chances in 2006. But plenty of obstacles remain before taking control of Congress.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10455096/Sen. John McCain and President Bush's national security adviser remained at an impasse Wednesday over the senator's proposed ban on cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of foreign terrorism suspects.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10463775/A Japanese space probe launched in an attempt to bring back the first ever rock samples from an asteroid will likely stay in space for three years longer than planned, Japan's space agency said Wednesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10463981/The Israeli military fired a missile Wednesday at a car in northern Gaza it said was packed with militants about to carry out an attack. Four Palestinians were killed and four were wounded, Palestinian hospital officials said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10464849/Running seven minutes past three hours, Peter Jackson's blockbuster remake of "King Kong" is nearly twice as long as the 1933 original. In this case, fortunately, more really is more. Instead of bloat, it offers a boldly personal re-imagining of a fantasy classic.
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