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Documentary of reactions from crowd following Butler attempted assassination. Includes interviews with surviving victims and witnesses. Very well done! 49 mins

Donald Trump struck back at 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney Thursday, blasting the former Massachusetts governor for "begging" for his endorsement four years ago only to sharply criticize him now. "I don't know what happened to him," Trump said during a rally in Portland, Maine. "You can see how loyal he is. He was begging for my endorsement. I could have said, 'Mitt, drop to your knees.' He would have dropped to his knees." "Mitt is indeed a choke artist," Trump said. "He choked like I've never seen anyone choke. Other than Rubio." Trump also said that his net...

....Bill gave his four-hour testimony on Monday afternoon in the Map Room. Starr had agreed to withdraw the subpoena, and the voluntary session was videotaped and relayed on closed circuit to the grand jury chamber. This spared Bill the indignity of appearing in court as the first sitting President summoned before a grand jury, but it was the only humiliation dispensed with that day. When it was over, at 6:25 p.m., Bill emerged from the room composed but deeply angry. I had not been present for his testimony, and I was not ready to talk to him, but I could...

WASHINGTON - The CIA (news - web sites) missed the big-picture significance of "tell-tale indicators" of impending terrorist attacks, partly because of its culture of a piecemeal approach to intelligence analysis, a federal panel probing the Sept. 11 attacks said Wednesday. With the commission holding a second day of hearings on U.S. intelligence leading up to the 2001 hijackings, preliminary findings from the panel's latest report concluded that a more detailed look at clues prior to Sept. 11 could have unveiled the plot behind the attacks. A more strategic analysis could have identified that the plot might require suicide hijackers...