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March 13, 2006: A Naval Criminal Investigative Service team arrives in Haditha to open an investigation. Marines begin briefing members of Congress about the probe
"It's my Ed Muskie moment." TONY SNOW, new White House press secretary and colon-cancer survivor, after tearing up in his first televised briefing when asked about his LIVESTRONG bracelet. Senator Muskie famously became emotional in front of REPORTERS during his 1972 presidential campaign
A welder's job is to put things together--hard, metal things that have to be melted and manipulated in order to be fused into something useful, like a pipeline, or a bridge. So maybe it was from his father, a welder in Pittsburgh, Pa., that General Michael Hayden long...
The festivities were delayed for the Oval Office announcement of the resignation of CIA Director Porter Goss. That gave McClellan one last bombshell. Seven minutes into the briefing, he had suddenly mentioned that the President would have "a pool coverage announcement" on "a personnel-related matter" 50 minutes hence.
When the party got under way, Ken Herman of Cox Newspapers, a Texan who has known McClellan more than 15 years, read a fake briefing as if he were McClellan. "As part of our new openness policy, I wanted to announce that we will be allowing the press to get...