No Cute Title Today

1.1. As Carroll weeps, pleads on new tape, outrage rises — …she appealed for U.S. and Iraqi authorities to free all woman prisoners to help “in winning her release.”
1.2. Male relatives were terror suspects, released Iraqi says — “The U.S. Army has been detaining Iraqi women to help track down husbands or fathers who are suspected terrorists”
1.3. From an Iraqi family: calls for Carroll’s release — She loved to help people, no more and no less than that. — RELEASE HER
2. Gonzales Is Challenged on Wiretaps — Feingold demanded to know why Gonzales dismissed the senator’s question about warrantless eavesdropping as a “hypothetical situation” during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in January 2005.
3. Americans’ savings rate hits lowest level since the Great Depression — Not one of the economic indicators the President will be talking about tonight when he tells us how strong the economy is.
4. Exxon adds it all up: $36 billion — That’s profit. (2005 profit: $36.13 billion, total revenue: $371 billion.) — “This might be the best macroeconomic environment ever for oil[.]”
5. Research Gives Reason to Sweat Drug Tests — Researchers develop a drug test that would require only a swipe of sweat. — “We hope down the road to have this in the back of every police car to aid in detection.”
6. Reports: Putin Boasts Over Russia Missiles — Vladimir Putin boasted on Tuesday that Russia has missiles capable of penetrating any missile defense system, an apparent allusion the U.S. defense network… — Big deal. Based upon how well the system works, it’s not that hard. —