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John Solomon / Associated Press:
Miller Agrees to Testify in CIA Leak Probe — WASHINGTON - After nearly three months behind bars, New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released Thursday after agreeing to testify about the Bush administration's disclosure of a covert CIA officer's identity.
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Editor and Publisher:
Judith Miller Out of Jail, Will Testify Friday — NEW YORK Judith Miller, The New York Times reporter who has been jailed since July 6 for refusing to identify a source, has been released, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported on its Web site tonight. The account was confirmed by The New York Times shortly after 8 p.m.
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Judy Miller Walks, Will Talk — The NY Times confirms early accounts from Knight Ridder: … OK, Lewis Libby had been everybody's pick for months, so there is no surprise there. But who knew the Times could execute so lovely a pirouette? … Why did it take so long for Ms. Miller to receive this waiver?
Editor and Publisher:
Statements by Sulzberger, Keller, Miller on Her Release — NEW YORK The New York Times' publisher, editor, and formerly jailed reporter all issued statements Thursday night after her release, with Judith Miller's grand jury testimony now set for Friday, they confirmed separately.
John Solomon / Associated Press:
Miller Agrees to Testify in CIA Leak Probe — New York Times Reporter Judith Miller Agrees to Testify in CIA Leak Investigation, Leaves Prison — WASHINGTON Sep 29, 2005 — After nearly three months behind bars, New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released from a federal prison Thursday …
Jesse J. Holland / Associated Press:
Senate Confirms Roberts As Chief Justice — WASHINGTON - John Glover Roberts Jr. won confirmation as the 17th chief justice of the United States Thursday, overwhelmingly approved by the Senate as the jurist to lead the Supreme Court through turbulent social issues for generations to come.
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Daily Kos, Stop The ACLU, MyDD, Power Line, Don Surber, Confirm Them and Outside The Beltway
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Fox News:
Roberts Sworn In as Chief Justice — WASHINGTON — John Glover Roberts Jr. (search) was sworn in as the 17th chief justice of the United States at the White House Thursday. — "The Senate has confirmed a man with an astute mind and kind heart," President Bush said before John Paul Stevens …
White House:
President's Remarks at Swearing-In Ceremony of Chief Justice Roberts — THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon and welcome to the White House. Laura and I are pleased that all of you could join us in witnessing a very meaningful event in the life of our nation. It's a rare privilege to welcome seven current Justices of the Supreme Court.
Fred Barbash / Washington Post:Roberts Confirmed by Senate
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Billmon, The Sideshow, Julie Saltman, The Heretik, Blog for America and A CERTAIN SLANT OF LIGHT
Mark Noonan / Blogs for Bush:
Do the Democrats Want a Civil War? — As our Sister Toldjah noted earlier, the "indictment" of Tom Delay is entirely bogus - from what I've read, Tom Delay didn't know about the perfectly legal transaction he is accused of conspiring to make. We have now left entirely the field …
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The Moderate Voice, Washington Post, Peaktalk, Bloomberg, PunditGuy, Mathew Gross and Conservative Outpost
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National Review:
Coming Soon: The Ronnie Earle Movie — For the last two years, as he pursued the investigation that led to Wednesday's indictment of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Travis County, Texas prosecutor Ronnie Earle has given a film crew "extraordinary access" to make a motion picture about his work on the case.
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Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:
Judge Orders Release of Abu Ghraib Photos — NEW YORK A federal judge ruled today that graphic pictures of detainee abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison must be released over government claims that they could damage America's image. Last year a Republican senator conceded that they contained scenes of …
Opinions:
The DeLay Indictment — YESTERDAY'S indictment of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on charges of conspiring to violate Texas campaign finance laws won't come as a surprise to anyone who's watched the Texas Republican operate over the years. In his drive to consolidate Republican power …
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Mary Flood / Houston Chronicle:Legal experts say Earle better have 'smoking gun'
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Laurence Simon / This Blog Is Full Of Crap:
Carnival of the Vanities #158 - Avignon Edition — Once again, a piss-poor pathetic and lazy blogger has managed to get a slot for the Carnival of the Vanities and posted something that calling it "half-assed edition" would be an insult to people with just half an ass.I linked them once in my outburst …
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Geoffrey Allen Cole / EXPATRIOTS UNITED:THE CARNIVAL OF THE VANITIES-WATCH — GEOFF'S SPECIAL PICKS FOR CARNIVAL 158
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
The blogs Kevin is referring to are run by, how shall I say this, rather young bloggers. ("Immature" might be another word, "naive" another, "downright silly sometimes" another). — I don't mind the silliness every once in a while, after all its not like conservatives are adverse to this type of thing …
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Shakespeare's Sister:
Sacked and Begging — (This post will stay at the top for awhile; new posts below.) — Well, all the joy I felt yesterday has evaporated in record time. Last night, Mr. Shakes and I got a notice that our property tax had been increased 100% on our matchbox of a house, and effectively immediately …
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The Tattered Coat, A MOCKINGBIRD'S MEDLEY, Big Brass Blog, Blanton's and Ashton's and Pam's House Blend
Matthew Yglesias / TAPPED:
MORE GOOD NEWS SUPPRESSED BY THE MSM. The other day, American forces in Iraq killed Abu Azzam who we were told was the number two al-Qaeda commander in the country, deputy to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi himself. Newsweek reports that the dead man was, in fact, no such thing.
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Ezra Klein / TAPPED:
OP-ED PAGE TRENDS. Over at Duncan Black's place yesterday, historian Rick Perlstein, now at work on a book on Richard Nixon's southern strategy and the political dimensions of recent racial tensions, finally gave up circulating his post-Katrina op-ed to newspapers and put it to pasture on the blogs.
Richard Norton-Taylor / Guardian:
Forthright civil servant to be PM's security adviser — ·Job put in spotlight by Iraq weapons dossier furore — ·Mandarin hit headlines for frank view on scandal — Sir Richard Mottram, hitherto renowned in Whitehall for supposedly telling a colleague "We're all completely f**ked …
citypaper.net:
The Path of the Righteous Man — Rick Santorum is taking a piss. He'd been tapping his foot and fidgeting with his suit jacket throughout the awards ceremony, and after draping the last medal around the last neck, he waved to the crowd and quickly disappeared offstage …
