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• American Conservative's Phil Girardi: It was Feith's office, not CIA, that forged the Habbush letter
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• Bolten and Miers Appeal Contempt Ruling
• Conyers Tells RNC to Turn Over Documents in US Attorney Probe
• The USS Forrestal fire: Did John McCain's hot-dogging kill 134 American sailors?
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• McCain to return bundler's $50K
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