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Kerry Might Reconsider USFK Reductions: Sandy Berger WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sandy Berger, former White House National Security Advisor and key foreign policy and security advisor to Democratic Party presidential candidate John Kerry, hinted Wednesday that should Kerry win the U.S. presidential election in November, it was possible that the decision to reduce U.S. troops in Korea would be reconsidered. In a keynote address for an international symposium entitled "Regionalism in Northeast Asia: Opportunities and Challenges," hosted by Johns Hopkins University and the Maeil Business Newspaper, Berger said USFK reductions were inappropriate, claiming that pulling 12,000 troops out of Korea at...

At the suggestion of a CBS News producer, a top adviser to John Kerry talked to the man at the center of the National Guard "memogate" imbroglio before the disputed documents were revealed, FOX News has confirmed. Joe Lockhart (search) said he got a call from CBS the Saturday before the Sept. 8 broadcast which launched the network into a firestorm of controversy. The CBS representative alerted Lockhart that a man in Texas, Bill Burkett (search), was interested in helping the Kerry-Edwards campaign. Lockhart then called Burkett, a former Texas Army National Guard official who CBS says provided the doubtful...

Brit interview with Sandra Ramsey Lines, Document Expert Showed signatures from the docs What can you tell us? These two sigs were compared to known docs from Jerry Killian, from WH docs. She intercompared the WH docs and all four of those appear to be consistent. Then, she looked at the CBS docs, intercompared, the partial and full sigs, both of them are Partial sigs…ending stroke of “J” always finished his FULL name “J E R R Y”…but in the forged docs, NO “E R R Y”…numerous differences. The J is not the same…K is not the same…very , very...

CNN is running a poll... Do you think the recently released memos on President Bush's National Guard service are authentic? YesNo Currently YES is winning! This needs to be fixed. Freep CNN NOW!

<p>Nothig more yet...</p> <p>CBS NEWS executives have launched an internal investigation into whether its premiere news program 60 MINUTES aired fabricated documents relating to Bush National Guard service, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.</p> <p>"The reputation and integrity of the entire news division is at stake, if we are in error, it will be corrected," a top CBS source explained late Thursday.</p>

Passions are running high inside CBS News as the network is facing yet another outpouring of public discontent, this time over 60 Minutes's boneheaded decision to publicize phony documents "proving" that George W. Bush was AWOL from the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War. Many staffers are placing the blame squarely on the shoulders of Dan Rather who they say was the driving force behind a shoddily researched story that ought never to have aired. Meanwhile, CBS's News publicity flacks have abandoned answering their phones, overwhelmed with calls from angry viewers and inquisitive journalists.

THE Sunday Times has tracked down a mysterious middleman who was a key figure in the notorious Niger uranium hoax before the Iraq war, writes Nicholas Rufford. Speaking to a reporter in a cafe in Brussels last week, he claimed he had been an unwitting dupe in the scam, which embarrassed both Tony Blair and George W Bush over Saddam Hussein’s phantom weapons of mass destruction. The middleman, an Italian who uses the name Giacomo, is a small-time tipster said to have worked for Italy’s armed forces and intelligence services. He says Sismi, the Italian foreign intelligence service, used him...

Berger Quits as An Adviser To Kerry Ex-Clinton Aide Facing Inquiry Over Papers By Susan Schmidt Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, July 21, 2004; Page A01 Clinton administration national security adviser Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger, under criminal investigation for removing copies of highly classified documents from the National Archives, severed his ties to John F. Kerry's campaign yesterday. Berger, who has been the subject of an investigation since October, stepped down as Kerry's informal adviser on foreign policy and national security as the campaign moved quickly to stem the unfolding story's political damage. A government official with knowledge of the...

THE safety of Tony Blair, George Bush and other world leaders at the G8 summit in Canada could have been jeopardised when a secret security document detailing their every movewas left in a busy picnic area close to the summit headquarters. To the horror of the Canadian Mounties and American Secret Service, the 134-page spiral-bound document, marked “confidential”, was left lying open on a large boulder in front of the main security barrier at the entrance to the luxury resort in the Rockies where the G8 leaders were holding their two-day meeting. It was found by The Times as British...

The parents of a little girl who died while on holiday in Spain are still waiting for her organs to be returned four months on. Debbie Ali and David Jones say they'll never recover from the horror of discovering that doctors removed every one of her organs - without their permission. Two-year-old Megan fell victim to a virus and died on the popular holiday island of Tenerife. Her parents agreed to donate Megan's liver and kidneys but it wasn't until a post mortem was carried out in Britain that they discovered pathologists had taken every organ and replaced them with...

Saddam, bin Laden link found: Canadian reporter Last Updated Sat Apr 26 22:54:29 2003 BAGHDAD-- Secret documents uncovered in the bombed headquarters of Iraq's former spy agency show the first clear link between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden's terrorist network, according to a Canadian journalist. 'It was marked top secret, and of course they went to great lengths to try to mask the contents' – Mitch Potter Mitch Potter, a foreign correspondent with the Toronto Star, says he discovered the file while digging through what's left of the Mukhabarat intelligence office. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency had already...

Doctors urged to support hike of cigarette tax By Mary Powers powers@gomemphis.com April 27, 2002 Tennessee Medical Association members heard a plea Friday to help increase the state's cigarette tax. Sen. Rosalind Kurita (D-Clarksville) and Sen. Curtis Person (R-Memphis) urged TMA delegates to lobby for passage of the first such increase since 1969. "It is important to pass this to prevent children from picking up this deadly addiction," said Kurita, whose appeal drew applause from several hundred attending a luncheon at the Adam's Mark hotel. In Tennessee, 41 percent of teenagers use tobacco products, which means Tennessee leads the nation....