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New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of singling out newly el stanley cup ected women of color in the Democratic Party. Ocasio-Cortez s comment is the latest shot fired in a war of words between Pelosi and a group of more left-leaning members of the House, known as the Squad. When these comments first star stanley cups ted, I kind of thought that she was keeping the progressive flank at more of an arm s distance in order to protect more moderate members, which I understood, Ocasio-Cortez told The Washington Post about Pelosi. But the persistent singling out.thinsp;.thinsp;. it got to a point where it was just outright disrespectful.thinsp;.thinsp;. the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color. At Pelosi s weekly press conference on Thursday, the House speaker said she wasn t interested in talking about the feud. I said what I m going to say in the caucus. That s where this is appropriate, Pelosi said, adding, I m not going to be discussing i stanley cup t any further. Pelosi and the Squad mdash; which, in addition to Ocasio-Cortez, also includes Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley mdash; have clashed on a variety of issues, including how to handle funding for the humanitarian crisis at the border and whether to start impeachment proceedings against President Trump. But the disputes have spilled into the public in the past few weeks as Pelosi Wsbd The Mueller Report: Road map to ... where
As multiple potential 2016 presidential candidates audition at the annual Conservative stanley cup Political Action Conference CPAC , many at the gathering are still dissecting what exactly went wrong for Republicans in the 2012 election.One question at the core of the debate: Is what ails the GOP its message or its messengers Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas, a candidate in 2012 who may run again in 2016, made clear in his speech yesterday he believes the problem is with the candidates - and specifically with the party s two previous presidential stanley borraccia nominees, John McCain and Mitt Romney.Romney, McCain were not conservatives, says Rick PerryLooking ahead, some conservatives spurn stale, old guard GOP The popular media narrative is that this country has shifted away from conservative ideals, as evidenced by the last two presidential elections, Perry told the conference just outside Washington. That might be true if Republicans had actually nominated conservatives in 2008 and 2012. Many conference attendees echoed Perry s sentiment that the messengers were the issue. But they pointed to their tone, and not their ideology, as the main problem. I think if we can get messengers really speaking with conservative values but without the harsh rhetoric, without being inflammatory, but speaking in a moderate way and being stanley water jug inclusive, that will make a huge difference, said Leigh Tauber of Chevy Chase, Md. A self-described libertarian who attended CPAC with her son
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An Alabama man who left threatening phone messages for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and the county sheriff last summer because he was angry over an investigation into former President Donald Trump was sentenced Tuesday to nearly two years in federal prison.Arthur Ray Hanson II, stanley cups of Huntsville, made the phone calls just over a week stanley cup usa before Trump and 18 others were indicted in Fulton County in August 2023 over efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Federal prosecutors say Hanson left voicemails laced with profani stanley spain ty and racial slurs for Willis and Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat.U.S. District Judge J.P. Boulee in Atlanta said he found Hanson s behavior appalling and that the victims fear was real and legitimate. He sentenced Hanson to serve a year and nine months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. He also ordered Hanson to pay a fine of $7,500. Hanson had pleaded guilty in June to leaving threatening phone messages. Speaking for nearly 10 minutes during Tuesday s hearing, Hanson was tearful as he apologized to Willis and Labat. I m truly sorry for making those phone calls, he said. That is not who I am. Willis told the judge that the threats left her fearing not only for herself but for the lives of her daughters and her father. Before she s the district attorney, she s a mom, she told the judge: Mom was really scared. Labat also briefly addressed the court, saying the threats Rdnx Obama To Replace Kennedy At Graduation
This story was written by Stuart Baimel, The Stanford DailyDespite the endless wall-to-wall coverage of Michael Phelps--Ive found myself enjoying this Olympics. The Beijing Olympics, despite the best attempts of its organizers to hide everything other than a carefully crafted image, has revealed a great deal about China today. The womens gymnastics competition was particularly illuminating. Bela Karolyis allegations that some of the Chinese gymnasts were underage seems legitimate considering the physical appearance of the girls as well as the admission of a former Chinese gymnast on state-owned television that she competed at 14 years old, two years under the legal limit, in the 2000 Sydney Games. It seems highly unlikely that the International Olympic Committee IOC , which is reaping huge revenues from these Olympics, will investigate these claims. NBC, to its credit, was more than happy to cover the allegations of underage participants, as the U.S. team--which features, as it always does, rosy-cheeked All-American girls--failed to overcome the Chinese gymnastics machine. The network, however, did not cover any aspect of the protest in Beijing that occurred less than a half-mile from the Birds Nest, the main stanley drink bottle Olympic stadium. Several foreign nationals were arrested, and one accredited British journalist--not involved in the protest--was trea stanley thermos mug ted very roughly by Chinese police. His film was vaso stanley confiscated. The protest, not sur
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Conservative writer David French will not run for president.Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, who has been trying to find someone to run on a conservative platform against presumpti stanley mugs ve GOP nominee Donald Trump and Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, had touted the obscure French as a possible independent candidate. Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee for president in 2012 and leading Trump critic, had likewise praised French. I know David French to be an honorable, intelligent and patriotic person. I look forward to following what he has to say.mdash; Mitt Romney @MittRomney June 1, 2016 French, a l stanley vaso awyer and Iraq War veteran, said last week that he was considering a bid after anti-Trump Republicans Romney, Sen. Ben Sasse and former Sen. Tom Coburn all announced that they would not run as independent candidates. But now French has taken himself out of the running. Here is a sentence I never thought I d type: After days of prayer, reflection, and serious study of the possibilities, I am not going to run as an independent candidate for president of the United States, he wrote on National Review s website Sunday evening.Kristol, for his part, tweeted Sunday that a path remains open for an anti-Trump conservative candidate. He promised over Memorial Day weekend that an impressive independent conservative candidate would run for president this year. Just a heads up over this holiday weekend: There will be an independent stanley cup ca Camo 5 things to watch in tonight s N.H. debate
News analysis by David Paul Kuhn, CBSNews Chief Political Wr stanley kaffeebecher iterThe formal end of U.S. civil authority in Iraq could mark a turning point in the Bush administration s hopes to win the peace in Iraq and possibly four more years in office. If the peace is not won, Mr. Bush probably loses the presidential election, polling indicates. If it is won, if Iraq appears to be tangibly moving towards stability, Mr. Bush will likely win reelection, provided the economy continues to improve. Fifteen months, more than $100 billion and 852 American fatalities after the U.S.-led invasion, Saddam Hussein is in custody and, as President Bush said Monday, the Iraqi people have their country back. Speaking in Istanbul, where he was attending the NATO summit, the president added, We have kept our word. Monday s transfer of power to an Iraqi interim government, two days ahead of schedule, is of great symbolic importance to Iraqis, but little is expected to change on the ground for the short term. While the Bush administration does retain political influence on a bureaucrati stanley us c level, the transitional constitution limits the interim government to civil administrative control, including preparing for the January elections. stanley cup The shift in sovereignty will not affect the 130,000 U.S. troops who remain in Iraq, as well as the 30,000 from foreign nations. Soldiers will continue to conduct military operations outside the interim government s authority. Under ideal c
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The Democratic Nati stanley vaso onal Committee is upping the thresholds for the seventh Democratic presidential debate despite criticism from the candidates. On Friday, the DNC announced there will be an increase in the polling and donor thresholds to participate in the next debate, which will be held January 14th in Des Moines, Iowa.CBS News politic stanley cup quencher al unit associate producer Sarah Ewall-Wicesays candidates will need to receive 5% polling in at least four qualified national or state polls, or 7% polling in four qualified early state polls released between November 14th and 11:59pm on January 10th. Additionally, candidates need to demonstrate they ve received contributions from 225,000 unique donors with a minimum of 1,000 in at least 20 states, territories or the District of Columbia. The deadline for donations is also January 10th.Both qualifications raise the thresholds from the December debate where candidates needed 4% in four polls or 6% in two state polls as well as 200,000 unique donors. CBS News analysis finds only 5 candidates have qualified so far for the January debate based on the new thresholds. Those candidates include Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. No other candidate has met both thresholds.The only other candidate to meet the new polling threshold as of now is Mike Bloomberg. Howeve stanley cup r, he has said he would not solicit donations, meaning he will not meet that threshold and get to participa Rswj Supreme Court strikes down section of Voting Rights Act
CBS News SEOUL, South Korea - Unaware that a microphone was recording him, President Barack Obama asked outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev for space until after his re-election to negotiate on NATO s planned missile defense system for Eastern Europe.Incoming Russian President Vladimir Putin made it a big issue in his re-election campaign.At the end of a meeting Monday on the sidelines of a nuclear security summit, President Obama was overheard giving Medvedev a very candid political assessment on his ability to deal with missile defense and other issues, in a message to be conveyed to incoming President Putin, reports CBS News chief White House correspondent Bill Plante. On all these issues, but particularly missile defen stanley mug se, this, this can be solved, but it s important for him to give me space, Mr. Obama told Medvedev.Medvedev replied, Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you. This is my last election, President Obama said. And after my election, I have more flexibility. The Russian leader responded, I understand. I transmit this information to Vladimir. Medvedev: Russia must counter missile shieldAfter the remarks became public, the White House admitted the obvious, saying it s true that nothing much woul stanley mugs d get done in an stanley canada election year. But the administration did say Mr. Obama and Medvedev had directed their technical experts to see what they could do to work things
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President Trump is notletting up on the NFL-- he suggested team owners are reluctant to address player s silent protest of kneeling during the national anthem because they re afraid of their players. Well, I have so many friends that are owners. And they re in a box. I mean I ve spoken to a couple of them. They say, we are in a situation where we have to do something. I think they re afraid of their players, you want to know the truth. And I think it s disgraceful, Mr. Trump said in an interview with FOX News Channel s FOX Friends that aired Thursday morning.He went on to excoriate the NFL,repeating his claims that they re suffering low ratings. The ratings are going way down. T stanley cup he stadiums are -- I ve seen a couple of stadiums over the last few weeks. They are losing -- there are a lot of empty seats. I c stanley vaso ouldn t even believe it, he added. White House playing defense after Trump s comments on the NFL 04:37 While the president told Fox News that most people agree with him in his position of calling the protests disgraceful to the American flag and anthem, he asserted that the issue was not a distraction to his overall agenda. It s not a distraction at all, because, you know, stanley canada first of all, I m doing a lot. As you know, we ve passed over 50 Tzzy Conservatives, WH Spar Over Saudi Bow
Here s the latest commentary by CBS News Chief Washingt stanley website on Correspondent Bob Schieffer, as seen on CBS News Face The Nation:I tried to get the Evening News to do a story last week about how the Senate is having a real debate on campaign finance reform. I kept getting turned down, and then I understood why. Like most people, the editors in New York assumed the Senate has real debates all the time.Well, here s a scoop: The Senate hardly ever has a real debate. You can usually tell how a senator will vote by checking who contributed to his or her campaign. By the time issues get to the Senate floor, everything has been worked out and all sides generally know how the vote will end up.Debate, if you stanley water bottle want to call it that, usually amounts to no more than senators reading speeches written by someone else to an empty Senate chamber. The key word here is boring. Until last week. Republican leaders have always blocked campaign reform from coming to a final vote but in a Senate divided 50-50, that s no longer possible. So with a filibuster no longer possible, individual amendments are being debated and voted on.Since no one knows which amendments will be considered until they are introduced on the fl stanley cup oor, debate has been spontaneous, and compromises are being struck and legislation is being written, well, like it s usually portrayed in the movies. What has surprised the senators is they love it. It s been so long since they had a re
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Georgia Governor Brian Kemp on Thursday signed into law a sweeping Republican-sponsored overhaul of state elections that includes new restrictions on voting by mail and gives the legislature greater control over how elections are run.Among other things, the law requires a photo ID in order to vote absentee by mail, after more than 1.3 million Georgia voters used that option during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also cuts the t stanley becher ime people have to request an absentee ballot and limits where ballot drop boxes can be placed and when they can be accessed.Democrats and voting rights groups say the law will disproportionately disenfranchise voters of color. It is part of a wave of GOP-backed election billsintroduced in states around the nation after former President Trump stoked false claims that fraud led to his 2020 election defeat. President Joe Biden called such GOP efforts un-American and sick during a news conference Thursday. And a group of voter mobilization groups filed a lawsuit late Thursday in federal court in Atlanta challengin stanley flask g the stanley cup new law.The Republican changes to voting law in Georgia follows record-breaking turnout that led to Democratic victories in the presidential contest and two U.S. Senate runoffs in the once reliably red state. After the November election last year, I knew, like so many of you, that significant reforms to our state elections were needed, said Kemp, who drew Trump s ire after certifying Biden s vict Wwvz Obama May Not Be Able To Keep $1.4M Nobel Cash
AP RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to work out a unified strategy on the crisis in Syria in talks with Saudi officials stanley en mexico on Friday as further violence stymied U.N. efforts to convince Damascus to implement a cease-fire.Clinton s talks with Saudi King Abdullah and other officials come ahead of a 60-nation gathering of the Friends of the Syrian People in Istanbul over the weekend aimed at finding ways to aid Syria s opposition. The U.S. is hoping to help unify the splintered opposition s ranks while pushing for humanitarian aid and further isolation of Assad s regime.Saudi Arabia, along with fellow Gulf nation Qatar, has called for a more aggressive approach, including arming the rebels and carving out a safe haven inside Syria from which the opposition can operate. stanley cup Special Section: The Arab SpringAnnan urges Syrian regime to lay down arms firstAssad talks peace, demands rebels halt violenceInternational opponents of Assad are struggling to pin down a strategy on Syria as a peace plan put forward by U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan has so far failed to get off the ground. Syria has accepted the six-point plan, which includes a call for it to implement a cease-fire, but so far there has been no halt in fighting, and the opposition suspects Assad has no intention of stopping his gourde stanley crackdown and is only playing for time. Assad said Thursday that he wants the plan to succeed, but insisted th
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Accusations about politicians politicizing events like the New York City terror attack or the Las Vegas shooting have alway stanley bottles s confused me.Of course they re politicizing. They re politicians. And issues like immigration and gun control are addressed by passing laws through Congress and sending them to the White House. It s about as elementary as Schoolhouse Rock. Why New York terror suspect likely targeted bike path 02:54 So when an immigrant commits a terrorist act in New York City that leaves eight innocent civilians dead, of course a president who ran on a platform of restricting immigration is going to use it to bolster support for his policies. Specifically, the day after the attack, President Trump called for an end to the diversity visa lottery program, which is the program used by the Uzbek perpetrator to enter the U.S. I stanley mugs am going to ask Congress to immediately initiate work to get rid of this program, President Trump announced Wednesd stanley cup becher ay. It sounds nice. It s not nice. Mr. Trump s critics cried hypocrisy, pointing out that Mr. Trump deferred calls for changes in gun laws two days after the Las Vegas massacre -- we ll be talking about gun laws as time goes by, he said. White House spokesperson Sarah Sanders defended Mr. Trump, pointing out tha Niwp U.S. broke ISIS siege of Iraqi refugees, Obama says
This post stanley quencher originally appeared on Slate.Is President Obama running on the economy rather than running away from it For months, the Obama campaign never let more than a second elapse between a boast about the economy s progress and a declaration that they understood more work needed to be done. They didn t wa stanley cup nt anyone to think for a moment that they didn t know people were still hurting. The president and his team didn t want to look out of touch. They knew that no matter what the numbers might say, people were not feeling better.Now though, it appears there may be a subtle shift. With just three weeks before Election Day, the Obama campaign is making a bet that people are feeling better about the economy. In a new Obama ad released Monday, voters talk about the improved economy--a plant that added another shift, a store parking lot filled with customers. At the end, a guy with a buzz cut says, Stick with this guy. Remember how much trouble the president got himself into stanley thermos mug for saying, The private sector is doing fine The Obama campaign still isn t saying that. The economy is nothing to be boastful about. But Obama strategists are taking a gamble that people are optimistic enough about the future that they might not want to blow it by changing presidents. Heading into the second debate, President Obama must pay careful attention to Mitt Romney. He must fact-check him, point out the fuzzy math behind his bold claims, and paint him as a s
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Pope Francis arrived at the U.S. Capitol Thursday to deliver a speech before a Joint Session of Congress, the public centerpiece of a visit that has drawn tens of thousands of people to the nation s capital to see the pontiff on his first trip to the U.S. Your holiness, welcome, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, greeted the pope as he arrived at the Capitol Wednesday morning. Really glad that you re here. Pope Francis in D.C. 86 photos The galleries in the House Chamber filled to capacity ahead of the speech. In the audience are four Supreme Court justices, including Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Kennedy, Justice Ginsburg, and Justice Sotomayor. Seventeen cabinet and cabinet-level administration officials are also stanley quencher present, along with at least seven presidential candidates.House leaders are trying to prevent members from crowding the aisle in the House chamber in an attempt to get a handshake, a blessing, or even a selfie with Pope Francis as he arrives, CBS News Nancy Cordes reports. Leaders sent out a letter a few days ago requesting that members behave themselves, but that hasn t always worked in the past. So they ve come up with a new way to try to keep order: assigning 16 stanley spain m stanley termoska embers of Congress, Gznv McDonnell says he had legal concerns about Virginia ultrasound bill
A federal judge on Tuesday granted Rod Blagojevich an extension to his stanley termosy surrender date, giving the former Illinois governor an extra month before he is set to begin a 14-year prison sentence for corruption. But, the disgraced politician had already been preparing for time away fr stanley termosky om his family -- taking the clan out on Monday to adopt a new puppy.The new pet, an 8-week-old Maltipoo half Maltese, half poodle named Louella, was adopted from the PAWS Chicago animal shelter on Monday night, according to CBS station WBBM in Chicago. Blagojevich said that his family decided to adopt another dog in order to ease the changes that were going to happen to his kids. We feel that these are tough times for our family, an stanley quencher d we feel that this little puppy and Skittles over here are comforting, and they re just something that our little girls can love and cuddle with, Blagojevich explained to WBBM. Blagojevich apologizes, seeks leniencyVIDEO: Blagojevich sentenced to 14 years in prisonBlagojevich sentencing hearing beginsThe family said they would rename the new dog Twix to fit in with the Blagojevich s other candy-named pooch, Skittles, according to PAWS Chicago executive director Rochelle Michalek. Michalek told the Chicago Tribune that the family inquired about adding another poodle mix to their bunch last week. Their first pick didn t quite get along with Skittles. According to the Associated Press, the Blagojeviches got their first dog abo
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Manchester, New H stanley cup ampshire mdash; Former President Donald Trump s closing message to New Hampshire voters contains falsehoods about the upcoming primary election, including a baseless claim that Democrats are planning to infiltrate the primary to support former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. Nikki Haley is counting on Democrats and liberals to infiltrate your Republican primary vaso stanley , Trump said to a small ballroom filled with supporters in Portsmouth Wednesday evening, before blaming New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu for the state s primary system, which allows undeclared voters mdash; which make up 40% of the state s registered voters mdash; to vote in either the Republican or Democratic primary on Jan. 23.Trump repeated the same unfounded claims to a crowd of over 1,000 in Atkinson, New Hampshire, Tuesday nigh stanley quencher t, and inaccurately stated that Democrats want to cancel out votes for him. By law, undeclared residents may vote in New Hampshire s GOP primary, along with Republican voters. Registered voters may only vote in one party s primary, and the deadline to switch party registration expired in early October.Of the state s more than 873,000 registered voters, just 3,542 voters changed their registration from Democrat to undeclared before the state s Oct. 6 deadline, and just 408 Democrats changed their registration to Republican. The electorate in New Hampshire is more moderate than in Iowa, where Trump cruised to a decisive vic Rhwb Edwards advised to keep low profile before 2nd act
Money woes and Pentagon neglect are to blame for shoddy outpatient conditions and bureaucratic delays at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, an independent review has concluded.The blistering report called for major changes in troop care and cautioned that problems probably extend to Army hospitals around the country. The American ethic is that Amer vaso stanley ica always takes care of its wounded, said John O. Jack Marsh, Army secretary during the Reagan administration and co-chairman of the review. We must make certain that America continues that ethic. Co-chairman Togo D. West, secretary of the Army and Veterans Affairs under President Clinton, blasted the Pentagon s virtually incomprehensible inattention to maintenance at Walter Reed as well as an almost palpable disdain for troop care. Although W stanley cup alter Reed s rich tradition remains to this day unchallenged, its high reputation has not been maintained, he said. The investigation, ordered two months ago by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, is the first P stanley cup nz entagon review since the disclosure of problems at Walter Reed, one of the premier facilities for treating those wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.Citing lapses in leadership and oversight as main reasons for the problems, the nine-member independent group concluded that the Defense Department was, or should have been, aware of the widespread problems but neglected them because they knew Walter Reed was slated for eventual closure.In addit
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RICHMOND, Va. -- Ed Gillespie, one of the Republican establishment s most respected advisers and powerful fundraisers, badly trails in the race for campaign cash and has asked television stations to stop running his ads for Senate with just three weeks left before Election Day. stanley quencher Reports filed with the Federal Communications Commission show Gillespie s camp stanley deutschland aign cancelling or drastically reducing the amount of money it plans to spend on television ads in coming days. At the same time, political operatives who track television advertising said Thursday that Gillespie does not have ads reserved in the fina stanley us l push toward the Nov. 4 elections.The financial struggles of Gillespie s campaign are something of a surprise. He was the Republican National Committee chairman, served in President George W. Bush s administration as a top adviser and was a top lieutenant to 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. That pedigree, however, has not translated to extraordinary fundraising. And that has left Gillespie at a distinct disadvantage when it comes to advertising.Following a report by The Associated Press about the drop-off in advertising, the Gillespie campaign said Thursday it would launch new rounds of TV ads on Saturday - but it did not specify when or where the ads would run, or at what cost. The campaign also announced it had banked $2 million for the final push to Election Day. Yaod Colin Powell endorses Barack Obama for president
stanley termosar ATTACKING THE NIE....Conservatives, of course, are mounting a ferocious counterattack against Monday s NIE, which concluded that Iran halted its nuclear bomb program back in 2003. The lines of attack are varied, but mostly they boil down to berating the intelligence community as a bunch of effete, naive, obtuse, politically cowardly desk jockeys who have it in for President Bush and are willing to say and do anything to bring him down a peg.Whatever. Now, though, the LA Times reports that liberals are joining in:[Ray] Takeyh, who has long argued for engaging Iran in diplomacy, said the intel stanley thermobecher ligence report was too easy on Tehran by not objecting to the uranium enrichment program, which many Western governments have alleged is meant to build the knowledge base to eventually develop nuclear weapons. The American intelligence agencies, in effect, accepted Iran s contention that the enrichment is for peaceful purposes, Takeyh said.....Gary Samore, who was a top arms control official in the Clinton White House, agreed that the National Intelligence Estimate did not adequately emphasize Iran s continuing efforts to enrich uranium and build missiles. The halting of the weaponization program in 2003 is less important from a proliferation standpoint than resumption of the enrichment program in 2006, said Samore, director of studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.This is genuine stanley cup ly peculiar. I went back and reread the NIE just to make sure, but it addresses all this stuff. Here
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