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NEW YORK Former White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater criticized Vice President Dick Cheney Tuesday for delaying the release of information about his hunting accident on Saturday, saying Cheney "ignored his responsibility to the American people." He told E&P he was "appalled by the whole handling of this."

  Today: February 14, 2004 at 8:35:09 PSTFitzwater: Bush Mishandled WMD ArgumentsBy BILL DRAPERASSOCIATED PRESSLAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) -A former reporter who served as press secretary to two presidents said the Bush administration is paying the price for its handling of intelligence about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Marlin Fitzwater, who worked for Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush, said Friday that the current president should have been more careful with how he used information about Saddam Hussein's weapons program. "He got caught up in arguments he didn't need to make," said Fitzwater, who spoke at the University of Kansas...

Is You Wicked? By MAUREEN DOWD ames Baker, the former secretary of state who helped make two Bushes president, the first by sniping at Massachusetts, the second by snatching away Florida, is an extremely careful man. A dignified diplomat with a deep fear of ridicule, Mr. Baker always keeps his suit jacket and his public utterances buttoned. That is why I was dumbfounded one recent night to see him being interviewed on HBO by a hip-hop guy wearing fatigues, shades, a skullcap and bling-bling and talking like a British gangsta/Rasta rapper. The young man was asking a skeptical and increasingly...