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Lacking biolabs, trailers carried case for warwhite House pushed Iraq bioweapons claim despite evidence to contraryby Joby Warrickupdated: 1: 28 a.m. ET April 12, 2006on May 29, 2003, 50 days after the fall of Baghdad, President Bush proclaimed a fresh victory for his administration in Iraq: Two small trailers captured by U.S. troops had turned out to be long-sought mobile "biological laboratories." He declared, "We have found the weapons of mass destruction." The claim, repeated by top administration officials for months afterward, was hailed at the time as a vindication of the decision to go to war. But even as Bush spoke, U.S. intelligence officials possessed powerful evidence that it was not truehttp: // www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12275328/
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I watched American Idol again tonight with David and Blythe. It was awesome as always. They sung a bunch of Queen songs, which really just makes me want to go and listen to Queen or buy a cd or something.
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How can I tell? Because White House press secretary Scott Mcclellan apparently went ballistic at today's press briefing over the subject of whether, in 2003, Dubya said that Saddam Hussein had biological weapons when he knew that wasn't true.
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I've just been to a screening of An Inconvenient Truth, the new film about climate change featuring Al Gore. Gore, it turns out, has spent the past few years perfecting a new stump speech, this one solely dedicated to the issue that he still calls "global warming". This movie is essentially the film of the speech. It's a powerful speech, so it makes a powerful movie.
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There have been repeated claims that this past year's hurricane activity was another sign of human-induced climate change. Everything from the heat wave in Paris to heavy snows in Buffalo has been blamed on people burning gasoline to fuel their cars, and coal and natural gas to heat, cool and electrify their homes. Yet how can a barely discernible, one-degree increase in the recorded global mean temperature since the late 19th century possibly gain public acceptance as the source of recent weather catastrophes? And how can it translate into unlikely claims about future catastrophes?
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday that Iran ’ s assertion it has enriched uranium will require “ strong steps ” from the United Nations Security Council.
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OTTAWA, April 12/CNW Telbec/- The Canadian Taxpayers Federation and the Canadian Newspaper Association are calling on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to honour campaign promises to end a culture of...
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In this modern era when technology forces an urgency to get things done quickly and efficiently, it is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the NEW Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County's (Clerk's Office) website. This site was created to provide Clerk's Office customers with an easy to use, clearly organized window to the Office's information, forms and data.
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Awesome — Vice President Cheney threw out the first pitch at the Washington Nationals home opener yesterday, and was resoundingly booed from the moment he stepped foot on the field through the moment he disappeared back into the dugout. (You can listen yourself here, although it ’ s Fox News, and the producers unsurprisingly muted the crowd for a few seconds in the middle before giving in and letting us hear the disapproval.)
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Ethics got cancelled for today, so I have a little break between Music Theory Lab (where we had an exam... eish) and Music Theory Class (which is always like pulling teeth). Also after that, I have a practice with Mr. Kregler at 11: 30, except I think I forgot to tell him what piece I was playing, so I may be back in time for lunch! So lalalalala! This Date in Civil War History, 1861 At 4: 30 AM, Confederates under General Pierre Beauregard opened fire with fifty cannons upon Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The Civil War begins... Go figure that the Civil War nearly lasted 4 years to the day. The rest of my day: 10: 30 Music Theory, 11: 30 Practice with Mr. Kregler, 2: 30 Concert Band. That's right, all of my classes today are in Smith. Oy vey...
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(CNN) -- Veteran commander John Young and his rookie pilot Robert Crippen faced a lot of uncertainties April 12, 1981, as they waited for the space shuttle Columbia to lift off from Florida's Kennedy...
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Finally the birth of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes baby is iminent. I can't say I care too much, but if I were gon na have Jamies baby and he told me I had to be silent through the birth and have little contact with my child during the first 24hours so as not to stress it out I would tell him in no uncertain terms - "darling, Fuck off!" If women have had'loud'births for centuries, and it was so bad then surely we'd be more fucked up than we actually are? I know nothing of scietology but i ai nt too fond of these practices. Katie should leave that control freak. I could say more, but it's best not. Now, what was i saying bout not caring .....?
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Republican Congressional leaders have called for removing language in an immigration bill that would make illegal immigration a felony. In a joint statement, House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-ill., and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-tenn., said they couldn ` t support the provision contained in an immigration reform bill passed by the House in December. However, the statement did not offer an alternative, CNN said.
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June Pointer, the youngest of the US group Pointer Sisters - known for hits such as I'm So Excited, Fire and Slow Hand - has died of cancer, aged 52. Two sisters, Ruth and Anita, and two brothers,...
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As the federal government braces for the June 1 start of the 2006 hurricane season, Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff is calling Hurricane Katrina a "wake-up call." Will former FEMA chief Michael Brown keep a hand in hurricane planning?
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"Hi there! We 're Missy and Mandee Taylor, the identical Taylor Twins sisters! Taking pictures together and internet modeling like this is so new and exciting to us! We've always wanted to do something together and show off the fact that we 're twins, since twins are kind of rare, right? We can already tell it's going to be a lot of fun! We met Nikki out and about one night, she mentioned Phil-flash, and not too long after that night, * Bam! * We are half naked in front of Phil's camera!"
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A High Court judge ruled on Friday that Dan Brown's bestseller The Da Vinci Code did not steal central themes from a 1982 work of non-fiction. The ruling was welcomed by authors and copyright lawyers as a victory for commonsense.
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The initial beta release of Windows Live Academic Search focuses on computer science, electrical engineering and physics and is available in seven countries.
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I've always wanted to be like Maggie Gyllenhaal. She's pretty. She's quirky. Her brother is JAKE Gyllenhaal. She got to say "You can go suck a fuck!" Which might be the best line in any movie ever. Now I have one more reason to wish I was her. Peter Sarsgaard's genetic material I think, if I were in Chicago right now, it would be time to head over to Christine's house and sob into our mixed vodka drinks.
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Michelle Malkin has the scoop on what could easily be called a seditious act on the campus of UC Santa Cruz! It seems that our military recruiters were forced from a job fair on campus.
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The Seattle quintet ’ s follow-up to the universally acclaimed The New Romance, and their first album since the addition of keyboardist Leona Marrs, is by far their most ambitious, multifarious, and scorching to date. The new material, road-tested at gigs around the globe with Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, and Death Cab For Cutie, shows a blindingly original American band who are improving with each successive album.
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While most experts have said it would be months, if not years, before Iran could build a nuclear weapon, the State Department thinks it could be 16 days away: Stephen Rademaker, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation, told reporters today in Moscow. “ Using those 50,000 centrifuges they could produce enough [...]
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I doubt that the editors of The New Republic met with Michelle Malkin and decided to craft of message of the day. It's probably just luck that puts Rob Anderson's screed against "The Left's military hatred" on the same calender date as Malkin's expose of the fifth column at UC Santa Cruz.
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As expected, Romano Prodi has come out on top in the Italian general election, but it was a lot closer than many expected. Outgoing prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is demanding a recount, but the best he can hope for is a hung parliament and a possible rerun or, even more unlikely, a grand coalition with Prodi.
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ȁc; Lucky Number Slevin "stars Josh Hartnett, Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley, Lucy Liu, Stanley Tucci, and Bruce Willis. The film is set for broad theatrical release on Friday, April 7, 2006.
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In recent weeks, retired Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Gregory Newbold, Army Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton and Marine Corps Gen. Anthony Zinni all spoke out against Rumsfeld. This comes as opinion polls show eroding public support for the 3-year-old war in which about 2,360 U.S. troops have died.
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Colin Powell told Robert Scheer that he and other experts with the State Department did not believe that Iraq posed an immediate nuclear threat during the lead-up to the current war. Powell stated that Dick Cheney was the big proponent of going to war to take out Iraq's supposed nuclear capabilities. Powell addressed the United Nations, justifing the invasion of Iraq, out of loyalty to the Bush/Cheney administration.
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In the race to fill the seat of discraced former Congressman Duke Cunningham, the Los Angeles Times is reporting that Democrat Francine Busby has placed first with 44% of the vote and will face Former Republican Congressman Brian Bilbray in a June run-off. Bilbray received 15%, about 900 votes more than wealthy businessman Eric Roach.
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… in 1945, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 63. Vice President Harry S Truman became president.
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Some of the so-called climate-change ‘ sceptics ’ – not political sceptics and not cranks, but bona fide scientists who, as is commonplace in science, disagree with the consensus in their fields – have been sounding an alarm. In a recent very disturbing article Prof. Richard Lindzen (who is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT) says that
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Tuesday June 27th I head to Minneapolis for what has to be an amazing show. It starts out with Pearl Jam and is followed by Tom Petty. Its likely I will have front row seating thanks to Led and a decent sized check.
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So I was leafing through some of my comics and I saw an ad for "The Benchwarmers" - a new comedy from the director of Big Daddy, produced by Adam Sandler and starring Rob Schneider, David Spade and Jon Heder. The first thing that came to mind was "Could they possibly plunge any more turd into the toilet water?" Much to my amusement apparently a critic out there agreed with me: "With the writers of Grandma's Boy, the director of Big Daddy, and Schneider, Spade and Heder,'Benchwarmers'can't be accused of a stealth campaign of suck." How any of those men can still get work is utterly beyond me.
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Robert Scheer writes: On Monday, former Secretary of State Colin Powell told me that he and his department ’ s top experts never believed that Iraq posed an imminent nuclear threat, but that the president followed the misleading advice of Vice President Dick Cheney and the CIA in making the claim. Now he tells us.
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American Idol judge Simon Cowell misses his former TV sparring partner Sharon Osbourne from their days on The X Factor -- and wishes he could work with her instead of Paula Abdul.
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NEW YORK - Michael Douglas says he was misquoted in a GQ article last month in which he slammed "good friend" Brad Pitt and girlfriend Angelina Jolie regarding Pitt's divorce from Jennifer Aniston.
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In the rasx () context, David Byrne and Brian Eno come from this ‘ genuine interest ’ camp — this is the same camp shared by David Bowie, Peter Gabriel and a wealthy host of others (for today ’ s adolescents, Moby may come to mind). David Byrne and Brian Eno, their collaboration
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Building on Mac OS X version 10.4 "Tiger" innovations such as Spotlight, Dashboard and Automator, Apple Remote Desktop 3 is a Universal application optimized to take advantage of the power of Intel-based Macs with more than 50 new features that deliver improvements in software distribution, asset management and remote assistance.
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• 3. Take The D-train. The Yankees got a pair of three-run home runs -- one of them possibly steroid-enhanced, one of them possibly not -- to win their ninth straight home opener. It was Derek Jeter's blast in the eighth that brought New York back from a 7-6 deficit a bring smiles to the faces of their fans, if only for a day. Don't get too excited though folks, it was only the Royals. It was Jason "Juice Box" Giambi who got the other homer. Jeter's blast followed a Johnny Damon at-bat in which he struck out on three pitches.
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Lindsay Lohan and Kate Moss at a Calvin Klein party yesterday (04/10/06). Moss will appear in a new ad campaign for Calvin Klein with Keira Knightley's ex, Jamie Dornan. It's been 14 years since she first appeare...
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French President Jacques Chirac congratulated Romano Prodi for his victory in the Italian election but British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been silent.
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Beverly Cleary. The author I think most profoundly affected my life. After hearing her on the radio recently it brought flashbacks of childhood back into my mind. I was Ramona Quimby. I had taken the first bite of 20 apples thinking that the first bite was always the best. I did grow up having parents slightly exasperated with me but still love me. It's so odd how a book written about suburbanite white American culture resembled my life so much. I can't believe she's already 90. I always pictured her to be a petite woman with pink lipstick and curly brown hair. Times are changing like crazy. Crazy. I sort of miss the past. I sort of hate growing up and not have anyone to blame for my mistakes. I can feel waves pushing me against the door to the ocean. It's scary as hell.
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+] By Patricia Reaneylondon (Reuters) - An international team of scientists have discovered 4.1 million year old fossils in eastern Ethiopia that fill a missing gap in human evolution. The teeth...
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At least tonight ’ s game should be infinitely more interesting: Pedro Martinez is on the mound in his first start following his beanball orgy last week at Shea. (A quick refresher: Pedro had hit Jose Guillen three times in 45 at-bats prior to last week. Then, last Wednesday, Pedro hit Guillen twice in his first two at-bats, which led to a shouting match and Guillen storming the mound. Pedro also hit another National player, but at no time was he giving a warning by the umpiring crew, the same crew that missed Paul Lo Duca dropping the ball at home plate in the season opener, a gaffe which led to the Mets win.)
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"Rookie right-hander Brian Bannister won his first game with a brilliant effort, and Jose Reyes and Carlos Beltran drove in two runs apiece to lead the Mets to victory. New York is now 5-1 for the first time since 1985." (TV-G)
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• 1. Clerical Mixup Has Reds In First. Hmmm, wasn't Cincinnati scheduled to suck this season? We know it's early, and there's a three-way tie up there, but the Reds are in first place in the NL Central, bringing back memories of those great teams in the'70s featuring Pete Rose and Joe Morgan and George Fos... OK, maybe not. But Cincy did collect six home runs in a 9-2 win over the Cubs on Tuesday, including two by Adam Dunn and one each by pitcher Bronson Arroyo, Edwin Encarnacion (a grand slam), Austin Kearns and Ken Griffey Jr., the latter who is just gon na sneak up and pass Ruth after Bonds fails to do so, you watch.
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, I've performed a detailed debunking of a key claim made by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt in their execrable paper, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy." There they assert that Israel "pressured" the United States to attack Iraq, and that Israeli pressure was a "critical element" in the Bush administration's decision to go to war. I bring counter-evidence. We report, you decide.
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The Reds lost to that wily old Greg Maddux and the Cubs by a 4-1 score that could have been a lot worse. As many things as went right yesterday, went wrong today. Maddux and two relievers held the Reds to four hits, and issued only four walks, far below the Reds'average thus far. Brandon Claussen wasn't bad in his start, but wasn't especially sharp either. He went five innings and gave up four runs, three earned, on five hits and two walks with three strikeouts. The good news is the bullpen held, as Mike Burns tossed two shutout innings while allowing three hits, and David Weathers threw a 1-2-3 8th.
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Trot Nixon left the game with a groin pull after three innings and will miss five to seven days. Nothing serious, but Trot is getting hurt a little more frequently these days. He missed a good chunk of 2004, and had nagging injuries last season. I suppose on the positive said, this will get more at-bats for Wily Mo Pena right out of the gate. Pena had a tough day yesterday, striking out badly, and letting a fly ball off the bat of Frank Catalonotto glance off his glove and into the bullpen for a home run. It cut the lead to 5-3 in the eighth, and made Keith Foulke's outing look worse then it really was.
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• John Travolta and Kelly Preston's son, Jett, may be autistic -- but, as ardent Scientologist, they won't do a thing about it. And so poor Jett goes back to staring at 246 toothpicks. [R&M]
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China is under considerable pressure from the United States to liberalize its managed -- make that manipulated -- currency ahead of President Hu Jintao's US visit next week. Washington contends that an artificially low yuan -- perhaps undervalued by as much as 40 percent -- makes Chinese exports unfairly inexpensive and contributes to the surging US trade deficit with China.
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I predict Kellie, Ace and Elliot as the bottom three. Only Taylor ’ s “ Crazy Little Thing Called Love ” and Katherine Mcphee with “ Who Wants To Live Forever ” were any good, although Mcphee missed the same note over and over. Chris missed with “ innuendo ” but his vocal was half-decent. Paris almost had it with “ The Show Must Go On. ” The band drowned her out and she didn ’ t hit the chorus as big as she should have.
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60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky 61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens 64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen Mccollough65. Mort, Terry Pratchett66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton67. The Magus, John Fowles68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding 71. Perfume, Patrick Susskind72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett74. Matilda, Roald Dahl75. (Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding) 76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins78. Ulysses, James Joyce 79.
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Singers Stevie Nicks, Bonnie Raitt, Annie Lennox, June Pointer of the Pointer Sisters, Carly Simon and Sheryl Crow, left to right, gather at a pre-grammy party thrown by Arista Records chief Clive Davis at the House of Blues in Los Angeles Tuesday night, Feb. 28, 1995. Pointer, the youngest of the singing Pointer Sisters known for the 1970s and 1980s hits "I'm So Excited," "Fire," and "Slow Hand," has died, her family said Wednesday. She was 52. She died of cancer Tuesday here. (AP photo)
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Conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Wednesday called his 2004 decision not to recuse himself from a case involving his friend Vice President Dick Cheney the “ proudest thing ” he's done on the court.
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John Lott, economist and author of the book "More Guns, Less Crime," has filed suit against Steven Levitt, co-author of the best-seller "Freakonomics," which said that other economists could not replicate Lott's findings that increased issuance of CCW permits coincided with drops in violent crime.
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For those of you that don't know, Colin Firth is the Mr. Darcy that every woman wants, so after he played the character, my wife and every other female in the world will not accept another.
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The current # 2 ranked middleweight in Canada has an impressive professional MMA record of 8-0-1. Kalib currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia and is part of the renowned Revolution Fight Team. When he is not competing in mixed martial arts, Kalib is participating in spoken-word competitions and is an avid reader of poetry and linguistics. He lists Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn among his favorite authors. Kalib grew up in Surrey, British Columbia and attended Nakusp Secondary School where he played soccer. He began his fighting career when he took up Brazilian jiu jitsu in his late teens.
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That's why I don't understand what all the fuss about Armand Morin becoming the Vice President of Marketing for country music singer Michael Lee Austin is all about.
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's youngest host, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, is being stalked by phone. Apparently, a woman "with a Southern twang" has been calling Grove and New York City's Administration of Child Services making unsubstantiated allegations against Elisabeth and her husband, New York Giants'quarterback Tim Hasselbeck.
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The records show that Bush campaign operative James Tobin, who recently was convicted in the case, made two dozen calls to the White House within a three-day period around Election Day 2002 -- as the phone jamming operation was finalized, carried out and then abruptly shut down.
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