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Obama's new rumor shredder makes it easy to find both the "lies" and the "facts" behind the "mystery tape rumor." Secondary pages note that "even some conservatives don't buy it" and list two well-read conservative bloggers who have debunked the tape tale. And in what is likely to be the most read part of the new site, the campaign cites the probable sources of the stories in a section called "Who's behind the lies?" As the Obama sleuths explain it, the "Michelle Obama Mystery Tape Rumor" appears to be a work of fiction lifted "almost word...
According to quotes from the tape cited by The New York Times, Kennedy is heard speaking with his aides and staffers about the growing tension with Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett over allowing James H. Meredith, a black student, to attend the University of Mississippi...
Despite the severity of the situation at the Oxford, Miss. campus, Kennedy tried to lighten up his aides through jokes. “I haven’t had such an interesting time since the Bay of Pigs,” Kennedy said on the tape...
...Kennedy was worried by delays in the deployment of two battalions of Army military police to assist U.S. marshals, and is heard in one tape asking his aides, “I wonder if it takes this long to get everybody ready...
Four police officers will be fired and four more disciplined for their role in the brutal May 5 beating of three shooting suspects, captured on tape by a news helicopter. Among 19 officers identified in the footage, seven are accused of using excessive force, and a sergeant was demoted for failing to intervene. The speedy response by newly appointed police commissioner Charles H. Ramsey was praised by local NAACP leadership, which also criticized the Rev. Al Sharpton's involvement in the controversy. Sharpton had called the incident "worse than Rodney King." A criminal investigation continues...