I Know That From The Days Of Watergate... The Notion Of Two Sources On A Story Has Become The Popular Dogma About How You Confirm Something. And There Is A Lot Of Truth To That, But There Are All Kinds Of Ways To Check To The Extent That You Can, A Story That You Get.

I know that from the days of Watergate... the notion of two sources on a story has become the popular dogma about how you confirm something. And there is a lot of truth to that, but there are all kinds of ways to check to the extent that you can, a story that you get.

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Asked at the hearing why she hadn't pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn't know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn't her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is. By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?

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