"A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.
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"It is now beyond dispute that Iraq did not possess any weapons of mass destruction or have meaningful ties to al-Qaida," according to Charles Lewis and Mark Reading-Smith of the Fund for Independence in Journalism staff members, writing an overview of the study. "In short, the Bush administration led the nation to war on the basis of erroneous information that it methodically propagated and that culminated in military action against Iraq on March 19, 2003."
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"The Wrong Number Generator does just what the name implies, it causes calls placed from the target phone to reach the wrong number. It easily connects somewhere between the phone and the telephone jack, and if properly hidden will make it next to impossible for someone to notice."
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http://www.theonion.com/content/news/bill_clinton_screw_it_im_running
Bill Clinton: "It is with a great sense of relief that I say to all of you today, 'Screw it. I'm in.'"
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http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2008/01/dont_freak_out_portland_advise.html
"On paper, today wasn't a particularly big deal on Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrial average and the S&P 500 each lost about 1.1%, and the Nasdaq composite index shed about 2%. Big whoop."
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