set phrasers to stunt

* "Deep, unresolved tensions between new leaders and senior career officers at the Central Intelligence Agency threaten to set off a rebellion within the agency's clandestine service, according to current and former intelligence officials." http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/politics/14cia.html?pagewanted=all&position=

* ""The agency is being purged on instructions from the White House," said a former senior CIA official who maintains close ties to both the agency and to the White House. "Goss was given instructions ... to get rid of those soft leakers and liberal Democrats. The CIA is looked on by the White House as a hotbed of liberals and people who have been obstructing the president's agenda."" http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-uscia1114,0,4055608,print.story?coll=ny-top-headlines

* "Within the past month, four former deputy directors of operations have tried to offer CIA Director Porter J. Goss advice about changing the clandestine service without setting off a rebellion, but Goss has declined to speak to any of them" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48254-2004Nov13.html

* bliar on meetthepress 'first we liberated iraq from saddam, and now we have to liberate iraq from the terrorists.'

* given the alqaqaa disaster, can we start referring not to IEDs, but simply EDs?

* "Black Box Voting has launched a fraud audit into Florida. / Black Box Voting is implementing fraud diagnostics on the state of New Mexico / Black Box Voting is requesting legal assistance for a specific county in Georgia. / Black Box Voting is launching a fraud investigation on Pima County Arizona. / Black Box Voting is launching a fraud investigation on the state of Nevada. "http://www.blackboxvoting.org/

* " One British military official says, "[T]he jury is still out on whether Samarra was a success."" samarra of course was 'the easy one we'll do first' http://www.motherjones.com/news/dailymojo/2004/11/11_516.html


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