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Fox News Channel's Ollie North reports from the front lines with fellow Marines. CNN's Walter Rodgers tells The Washington Post via satellite phone from inside Iraq, "I don't believe I've ever had such access over 36 years of reporting." ABC's Sam Donaldson calls the whole idea "a stroke of genius."

Who's behind the strategy of "embedding" reporters inside coalition combat units? Bush administration insiders say it's the brainchild of Victoria "Torie" Clarke, the Pentagon's assistant secretary for public affairs. She developed the idea last fall in an effort to win the spin war. By early winter, she persuaded her boss, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who then made the case to the National Security Council in a 10-page memo drafted by Ms. Clarke and obtained by WORLD.

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