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Palin’s career in Juneau mirrors McCain’s tenure in Washington. McCain pilloried former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld’s military strategy in Iraq , scrutinized lobbyist Jack Abramoff??€™s dealings with Indian tribes , and railed against the pork barrel projects approved by a Republican Congress . While Palin scraped the pork barrel for federal dollars herself, she also line-item-vetoed $268 million worth of hometown projects from the state budget, or about 10 percent of state spending. These political victories have enabled the McCain campaign to sell her as a bull moose...
...included Washington Post writer Dana Priest, who wrote on the secret prisons outside the U.S. that the Central Intelligence Agency used to detain and interrogate terrorist suspects. Susan Schmidt, James V. Grimaldi, and R. Jeffrey Smith, also of The Washington Post, were nominated for revealing details about lobbyist Jack Abramoff??€™s network and ties to then-House Majority Leader Tom Delay. Risen and Lichtblau, who beat out three more teams of reporters from The Los Angeles Times, Copley News Service, and The Toledo Blade, will receive a $25,000 prize. “All six of these [nominated...
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