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Washington (AP) -- Seeking to stem a rising tide of incredulity, the Bush Administration released a second President's Daily Briefing today, to show reporters what National Security Advisor Condi Rice meant by describing them as "historical", with "no actionable items." The latest one is a copy of today's PDB, and unlike the August 6, 2001 PDB, unredacted.

President's Daily Briefing and Word Jumble for April 12, 2004

Soviets Determined to Achieve Supremacy in Outer Space; Suspected Islamists Determined to Bomb Oklahoma City Federal Building

Today in History

• Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin became the first human being to travel into space. During the flight, the 27-year-old test pilot and industrial technician also became the first man to orbit the planet, a feat accomplished by his space capsule in 89 minutes. He orbited Earth at a maximum altitude of 187 miles and was guided entirely by an automatic control system. The only statement attributed to Gagarin during his one hour and 48 minutes in space was, "Flight is proceeding normally; I am well."
  
• The Civil War started. No foreign involvement suspected.

True Americans Born on this Day

• Vince Gill
  
• Tom Clancy

Also this Month

• On April 19, 1993, members of a Texas faith-based group trying to exercise its First and Second Amendment rights were killled in cold blood by jackbooted thugs from the Clinton Administration.
  
• Exactly two years later, terrorists exploded a home-made bomb outside the Alfred R. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City killing hundreds of people including children.
  
• Although some concluded from the coincidence that the attacks were in revenge for the earlier killings in Texas, and although two American men were convicted in the attacks, suspicions remain of Islamist involvement. Currently there are 70 investigations underway seeking to establish this connection, both within government agencies and in the press. Although no evidence has been found, the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, as we know.

Today's Word Jumble
NMOAIUMM TIRNTEA

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PSUNTKI

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Connect the Dots

Draw a line connecting the items in Column A with the correct item in Column B
A                                                        B
Saddam Hussein                              Oklahoma City
                                                        World Trade Center 1993
                                                        9/11
                                                         Joe Wilson

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