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New polling places, unresponsive
websites create confusion in Cook County
Chicago Tribune, by Jodi S. Cohen and David Kidwell
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Posted By:NorthernDog, 11/6/2012 2:24:12 PM
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| The Chicago elections website continued to be non-functioning at noon today, adding to the confusion among voters who didn't realize their polling sites had changed. By noon, the Board of Elections had documented 539 cases of Chicago voters showing up at the wrong polling place. About 20 percent of Cook County voters were sent to new polling sites this year due to redistricting. And when voters and elections officials tried to find the correct locations, the Chicago elections website was not there to help. "We are investigating the possibility that our website problems
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[with Bridget Doyle, Heather Gillers, Dahleen Glanton, Angie Leventis Lourgos and Colleen Mastony]
Why even bother? Just dump a million prep-marked Obama ballots into the ballot box.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Father of Internet, 11/6/2012 3:00:53 PM (No. 8992820)
Republicans should get a court order to gag any disclosure of how many people have voted up to that point, and not release it until the polls close. This is a PLOY to find out how many votes they need to miraculously come up with to win.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
PLPointer67, 11/6/2012 3:51:57 PM (No. 8992950)
Can none of these voters READ? When you get the sample ballot, does it not have the address of your polling place?
Sheesh!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
WIBadger, 11/6/2012 3:52:24 PM (No. 8992951)
The Chicago Way....
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
mominNoCA, 11/6/2012 3:54:10 PM (No. 8992954)
It's Cook County. It'll go for Obama. Still, the few brave Republicans who vote should not be disenfranchised. May God bless those hardy souls.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
TXknitter, 11/6/2012 4:03:49 PM (No. 8992976)
...and "confusion" is exactly what the Cook County Democrats want...
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Analysts surprised by alleged
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Los Angeles Times, by Emily Alpert
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/22/2013 10:03:47 PM
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Police in Canada said Monday that two men suspected of plotting to derail a passenger train were guided by Al Qaeda elements in Iran, but the statement surprised many experts who study terrorism in the Middle East and Iran. “It frankly doesn’t compute for me,” said Barbara Slavin, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. "If there is any link, I would think it was extremely tangential." Iran and Al Qaeda have frequently had chilly relations, according to Slavin and other experts. Iran is majority Shiite, while Al Qaeda is firmly Sunni. In Syria, Al Qaeda has jumped
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If Sea Levels Keep Rising, a Lot
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The 20th anniversary of Earth Day in 1990 was momentous for me for a simple reason: My second book, Saving the Earth, A Citizen’s Guide to Environmental Action, was published on that day. It was one of a handful of books that came out that spring—including Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking End of Nature—that attempted to draw attention to a handful of environmental concerns that we all saw at the time as being grave, though not very well understood. Climate change was one of those concerns. “Global warming” was a phrase just starting to be heard, in large part
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Boston attacks may finally
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Postmedia News [Ottawa, Canada], by Matthew Fisher
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/21/2013 6:11:37 PM
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LONDON — The most savage wars that I have witnessed were the Rwandan genocide and the two Chechen wars. Much of the slaughter in Chechnya was murder at close quarters. The Chechens killed Russians with great exuberance. Lacking other means, they primarily used crude homemade bombs, booby traps, snipers and assault weapons. The Russian troops were often drunk, demoralized and badly led. They mostly fought back with cannon fire, heavy artillery and attack aircraft, which they used promiscuously and indiscriminately to kill civilians. The FBI and CIA are obsessed right now with the riddle of why Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
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Official: Boston bombing suspect suffers
throat injury, may not be able to talk
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CNN, by Staff
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/21/2013 12:32:40 PM
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BOSTON - The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings suffered an injury to his throat and may not be able to talk, a federal official told CNN on Saturday, possibly hindering attempts by authorities to question him about a motive in the attack. With one suspect dead, authorities believe answers to a motive and whether the brothers had help rest with Dzhokar Tsarnaev, who was captured Friday night just minutes after authorities had indicated that a massive manhunt for the suspect appeared to come up empty. The official, who was briefed on Tsarnaev´s condition
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Mass. governor says he has no idea what
motivated Boston Marathon bombers
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/21/2013 9:08:53 AM
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Washington — The governor of Massachusetts says he has no idea what motivated the terrorists who exploded two bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Speaking Sunday on CBS’ ”Face the Nation,” Deval (deh-VAL’) Patrick said it’s hard to imagine why someone would deliberately harm, quote “innocent men, women and children in the way that these two fellows did.” Patrick also said law enforcers believe the immediate threat ended when the police killed one of the alleged terrorists and captured the other. The two men were brothers whose family had come to the U.S.
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Muslims guard against backlash
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Chicago Tribune, by Manya A. Brachear
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/20/2013 11:22:13 PM
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The Council on American Islamic Relations again offered sympathy to victims of the Boston Marathon bombing on Friday, but added a plea for Americans not to generalize and conclude that Muslim teachings influenced the suspect in any way. "Our focus is primarily on the victims," said Ahmed Rehab, executive director of the Chicago chapter at a press conference Friday afternoon. "We don´t want to be drawn into defending ourselves." Citing acts of violence in Boston and New York, Rehab blamed Islamophobic forces for inciting hate crimes.
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5 snowboarders die in
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Los Angeles Times, by Michael Mello
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/20/2013 11:16:40 PM
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Five snowboarders died in a backcountry avalanche Saturday afternoon about 60 miles west of Denver, authorities said. A group of six snowboarders started out at Loveland Pass, which is just short of 12,000 feet in elevation, but got no more than a mile down the mountain when the slide swept them away, Clear Creek County Sheriff Don Krueger told the Los Angeles Times. One snowboarder dug himself out and called for help. The Sheriff’s Office said the call came in around 2 p.m., about an hour after the avalanche. Colorado Avalanche Information Center forecaster
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North Korea reiterates it
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Reuters, by Robert Birsel
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/20/2013 9:41:20 AM
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SEOUL - North Korea reiterated on Saturday that it would not give up its nuclear weapons, rejecting a U.S. condition for talks although it said it was willing to discuss disarmament. North Korea, in a sign of a possible end to weeks of heightened hostility on the Korean peninsula, offered the United States and South Korea a list of conditions on Thursday for talks, including the lifting of U.N. sanctions. But the United States said it was awaiting "clear signals" that North Korea would halt its nuclear weapons activities. The U.S. should not think about the denuclearization
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After Boston and Tsarnaevs,
Russians Urge U.S. to Rethink Chechnya
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New York Times, by Harvey Morris
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/20/2013 9:37:07 AM
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LONDON — Russian commentators are speculating that a Chechen connection in the Boston Marathon bombings will force the United States to reassess its view of the Kremlin’s actions in the troubled Caucasus region. After the capture on Friday night of Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, the second suspect in Monday’s attack, following the death of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, his brother, in a gun battle with police, U.S. authorities have yet to establish a motive for the crime. In Russia, as in the United States, attention focused on whether the bombings were connected with the politics of Chechnya, where the brothers’ family originated.
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No Miranda rights for now
for bombing suspect
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Politico, by Josh Gerstein
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/19/2013 10:25:57 PM
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The Boston Marathon bombing suspect captured Friday night will not be immediately read his Miranda rights, a Justice Department official said. The announcement came as a debate broke out among lawmakers, lawyers and political activists over whether the suspect, Dzhokar Tsarnaev, should be prosecuted in a civilian criminal court or subjected to military interrogation and over when and whether Tsarnaev should be told about his right to an attorney. (Snip) The Obama administration appeared to be taking a middle course, holding off on advising Tsarnaev of his rights, but still directing him into the criminal justice system for prosecution.
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Chechnya: How a remote Russian
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Christian Science Monitor, by Fred Weir
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/19/2013 9:43:49 PM
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Moscow - The main suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing are said to be two brothers from Chechnya, a mountainous and mainly Muslim republic in southern Russia that has been the scene of cyclical revolts and brutal crackdowns by Moscow´s forces for the past 200 years. Though Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev have spent most of their lives outside of Chechnya, their postings on YouTube and the Russian-language VKontakte social media site illustrate a proud attachment to their ancestral homeland and offer many hints that both identified closely with Chechnya´s defiant and fiercely independent mountain warrior traditions. Where is Chechnya?
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Cheers erupt on streets of
Watertown after suspect´s arrest
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CNN, by Staff*
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/19/2013 9:39:53 PM
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Watertown, Massachusetts -- First there was a burst of gunfire. Then a series of blasts. Then, less than an hour later, cheers. After nearly 24 hours of a massive manhunt for one Boston Marathon bombing suspect that terrorized several cities and riveted a nation, the shouting and applause on the streets of Watertown, Massachusetts, was a welcome sign of victory. Police shouted, "Yay!" Neighbors clapped. "Is that him?" someone asked as an official in a law enforcement vehicle drove by the crowd. A person inside the vehicle said "Yes" -- and the crowd of residents erupts
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The Kennedy meth
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/21/2013 5:09:29 AM
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In 1962, at the Carlyle Hotel in New York, a man “peeled off his clothing and began prancing around his hotel suite.” His bodyguards were cautiously amused, until the man “left the suite and began roaming through the corridor of the Carlyle.” The man in question was delusional, paranoid and suffering a “psychotic break” from the effects of an overdose of methamphetamine. He was also the president of the United States. The reason for John F. Kennedy’s bizarre behavior was that, according to an explosive new book, the president was — unbeknownst to him, at first — a meth addict.
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Boston bombers: FBI hunting
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Mirror [UK], by Christopher Bucktin, Andy Lines
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The FBI was last night hunting a 12-strong terrorist “sleeper cell” linked to the Boston marathon bomb brothers.Police believe Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were specially trained to carry out the devastating attack.More than 1,000 FBI operatives were last night working to track down the cell and arrested a man and two women 60 miles from Boston in the hours before Dzhokhar’s dramatic capture after a bloody shootout on Friday. A source close to the investigation said: “We have no doubt the brothers were not acting alone. The devices used to detonate the two bombs were highly sophisticated
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Don’t Rule Out Anything
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Weekly Standard, by Stephen F. Hayes
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“In this age of instant reporting and tweets and blogs, there´s a temptation to latch on to any bit of information, sometimes to jump to conclusions,” said President Obama, in the late evening of April 19, after Dzokhar Tsarnaev was captured alive in Watertown, Mass. (Snip)In an exceptionally well-reported story in the Daily Beast Friday, we read this: "One U.S. intelligence official who was regularly briefed on the investigation told Newsweek that he and his colleagues all but ruled out al Qaeda central or one of its affiliates giving direct and specific instructions for the attack."
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No Bully in the Pulpit
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THE graying man flashing fury in the Rose Garden on behalf of the Newtown families, the grieving man wiping away tears after speaking at the Boston memorial service, is not the same man who glided into office four years ago. President Obama has watched the blood-dimmed tide drowning the ceremony of innocence, as Yeats wrote, and he has learned how to emotionally connect with Americans in searing moments, as he did from the White House late Friday night after the second bombing suspect was apprehended in Boston.
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In debate classes or law school, it is often referred to as the ‘arguing against the non-existing opponent’ tactic. The way it works is you imply your opponent is making an outlandish, unsavory claim (though he isn’t), hoping others will run with it or, at worst, that your opponent won’t sufficiently correct it and the claim sticks. To illustrate, imagine Sally is arguing in favor of marijuana’s legalization against Tom. In the middle of the debate, Tom suddenly shrieks: “Well, Sally, you can talk about legalizing marijuana all you want but I just don’t believe
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Official: Boston bombing suspect suffers
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CNN, by Staff
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/21/2013 12:32:40 PM
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BOSTON - The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings suffered an injury to his throat and may not be able to talk, a federal official told CNN on Saturday, possibly hindering attempts by authorities to question him about a motive in the attack. With one suspect dead, authorities believe answers to a motive and whether the brothers had help rest with Dzhokar Tsarnaev, who was captured Friday night just minutes after authorities had indicated that a massive manhunt for the suspect appeared to come up empty. The official, who was briefed on Tsarnaev´s condition
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Mass. governor says he has no idea what
motivated Boston Marathon bombers
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/21/2013 9:08:53 AM
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Washington — The governor of Massachusetts says he has no idea what motivated the terrorists who exploded two bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Speaking Sunday on CBS’ ”Face the Nation,” Deval (deh-VAL’) Patrick said it’s hard to imagine why someone would deliberately harm, quote “innocent men, women and children in the way that these two fellows did.” Patrick also said law enforcers believe the immediate threat ended when the police killed one of the alleged terrorists and captured the other. The two men were brothers whose family had come to the U.S.
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Boston Mayor:
Bombing Suspects Acted Alone
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: BaseballFan- 4/21/2013 2:36:56 PM
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Washington - Boston Mayor Tom Menino says information he has indicates that the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing acted alone. Menino tells ABC's "This Week" that he agreed with the decision to lock down Boston all day Friday, based on information officials had at the time. He tells ABC's "This Week" that a pipe bomb was found at another location and that another person was taken into custody. The mayor did not elaborate. One suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-KHAR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv), is in the hospital in serious condition. His older brother, Tamerlan, died in a police shootout
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Report: Suspects not
licensed to own guns
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Mike Lillis
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/22/2013 9:49:28 AM
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The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings were not licensed to have the firearms they used in several shootouts with police on Friday, Reuters reported Sunday night.The news that the suspects were not authorized to own firearms will likely add fuel to calls for tougher gun laws – an issue that was put on the back-burner last week after the Senate blocked the central elements of a gun-control package backed by President Obama. Because Massachusetts state law bars handgun ownership for those younger than 21, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, age 26, was the only brother who could have
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Mass. police: Bomb suspects
didn´t have gun permit
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: CEP- 4/21/2013 6:28:15 PM
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A Massachusetts police official say the brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon before having shootouts with authorities didn´t have gun permits. Cambridge Police Commissioner Robert Haas tells The Associated Press in an interview Sunday that neither Tamerlan Tsarnaev (tsahr-NEYE´-ehv) nor his brother Dzhokhar had permission to carry firearms. He says it´s unclear whether either ever applied and the applications aren´t considered public records.
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The Tailor Who Sewed the Obama
Empty Suit Has Sewn Others
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American Thinker, by Bruce Walker
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/22/2013 3:27:01 AM
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The most glaring fact about our president is that he is an empty suit. The people around him are also empty suits. They believe in nothing, really, but unearned luxury, unmerited adulation, and unaccountable power. Those whom we have come to call "leftists" are in fact nothing but nihilists, and we flatter them when we presume that they value anything beyond their vanities, their avarice, and their selfishness. When tragedy strikes, like in the Boston bombing, these empty suits can look and
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Terror Expert: Boston Attack More
Columbine More Than 9/11, These
Are ‘Murderers Not Terrorists’
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Mediaite, by Noah Rothman
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/21/2013 11:13:04 AM
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Philip Mudd, former counterterror expert for the CIA and the FBI, joined Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday to discuss the nature of the threat posed by the Tsarnaev brothers and any network they may have been associated with in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings. He said the Boston attack reminded him more of the 1999 attack on Columbine than a terror event orchestrated by a foreign network. “I would charge these guys as murders not terrorists,” Mudd said of the suspects in the attack on the Boston Marathon. “Do you think we have to fear copycats – more of these small,
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