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US Navy – The USS Ronald Reagan successfully completes builders trials.

• Virginian Pilot: Carrier Reagan returning home after successful initial sea trials

Background – Intelligence – Donald Rumsfeld has his own special sources. Are they reliable?

• The New Yorker: Selective Intelligence

Background – Intelligence – Seymour M. Hersh looks at a small circle of analysts and advisers at the Pentagon who came to rival the C.I.A. as the President’s primary source of intelligence about Iraq; Hersh reports that questions have been raised about the integrity of the intelligence the group relied on.

• The New Yorker: War and Intelligence