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Judd / Think Progress:
Source to Stephanopoulos: President Bush Directly Involved In Leak Scandal  —  Near the end of a round table discussion on ABC's This Week, George Stephanopoulos dropped this bomb: … This would explain why Bush spent more than an hour answering questions from special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald.
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rawstory.com:
As CIA leak probe passes Rove, Cheney is eyed, lawyer says
Discussion: firedoglake
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:   Source to Stephanopoulos: President Bush Directly Involved In Leak Scandal
Washington Post:
Role of Rove, Libby in CIA Leak Case Clearer
Mark / Decision '08:
The Most Painful Correction of All Time  —  Paul Krugman can rest easy - he will not be forced by Gail Collins into personally admitting the error behind his continued stubborn insistence that he got the story right on the 2000 Florida recounts despite widespread evidence to the contrary.
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Tim Worstall:
New York Times Corrections Policy.  —  Gail Collins has a piece in the New York Times today about corrections to op ed pieces.  This is obviously a response to the Public Editor's (Byron Calame) concerns expressed in his web page four days back.  —  It isn't the specifics of which facts that were corrected which is of most interest.
EU Rota:   MSM: Erratum  —  In a bid to help that paper of record in it's new …
Michelle Malkin:
YET ANOTHER KRUGMAN KORRECTION
Discussion: Don Surber
Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
CIA Leak: 'Awkward' Talk Helps Free Miller From Jail  —  Oct. 10, 2005 issue - New York Times reporter Judy Miller broke her silence and agreed to testify before a federal grand jury last week.  This followed tense, often acrimonious negotiations that began after special Justice Department …
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Jay Rosen / PressThink:
Judith Miller and Her Times  —  "Notice how it affects what the New York Times, a great institution, can tell the public, and yet Judy's decision was hers: personal when she made it (her conditions weren't met), personal when she changed it (her conditions were met.)  That's what I mean by Miller's Times."
Gateway Pundit:
Bomb Blast at University of Oklahoma!  —  BOMB BLAST OUTSIDE OF SOONER FOOTBALL GAME  —  VIDEO HERE  —  One person said he felt his house shake a mile from the blast.  —  Police cordoned off an area around the George Lynn Cross Hall, Botony, Microbiology building on the OU campus.  (SI)
Discussion: The American Mind
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:   A BLAST IN NORMAN  —  Shawn Wasson of Bare Knuckle Politics …
Michelle Malkin:
SUICIDE BOMBER IN OKLAHOMA
Steve Holland / Reuters:
Bush battling to climb out of popularity slump  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush is battling to climb out of a slump caused by the slow federal response to Hurricane Katrina, the Iraq war and soaring gasoline prices, events that have all combined to damage his credibility and deflate Americans' confidence in him.
BBC:
Bali bombs 'were suicide attacks'  —  Suicide bombers carried out the attacks on three Bali restaurants that killed at least 19 people, a senior Indonesian anti-terror official has said.  —  Maj Gen Ansyaad Mbai said the remains of three bombers were found at the scenes in the tourist areas of Jimbaran and Kuta.
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Olivier Guitta / The Counterterrorism Blog:   Indonesia giving in to Radical Islam?
Tim B. / Tim Blair:
BOMB AFTERMATH  —  Newcastle's Jennifer Williamson …
Discussion: Peaktalk
Marcus Mabry / Newsweek:
Finding His Floor  —  The new NEWSWEEK Poll finds President Bush's support holding steady despite the DeLay indictment.  But even the party faithful are starting to question the GOP.  —  Tough times: House Speaker Dennis Hastert (left) and interim Majority Leader Roy Blunt at a press conference last week after DeLay's indictment
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Presstitutes:
Pre$$titutes & Polls: A Self-Perpetuating Loop
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Kit Jarrell / euphoricreality.net:
Drop Zone - 10/01/05  —  Welcome October!  Let's get started with today's open post deliciousness.  —  World Net Daily has a fantastic article on the ACLU and its hatred for America.  Key quote: … Excuse me?  Let me tell you how many heads would roll if my son was put into a seminar like that at school.
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Basil / Basil's Blog:
Try one of these specials with your weekend brunch:
Discussion: Jo's Cafe, Point Five and Public Eye
The Florida Masochist:   Someone should write President Bush a memo
TigerHawk:
Lt. Gen. David Petraeus speaks at Princeton  —  The festivities surrounding the 75th anniversary of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School For Public and International Affairs continued yesterday with a speech by Lt. General David Petraeus (M.P.A. '85, Ph.D. '87).
Discussion: Mudville Gazette and COUNTERCOLUMN
Evan Coyne Maloney / >bt: Brain Terminal:
Bucknell Accusing Students of Lying?  —  I've gotten reports from a large number of people who have been expressing their displeasure with a Bucknell administrator who called three students into her office to discuss the inappropriateness of the phrase "hunting terrorists."
Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy
Mark Tapscott / tapscottscopydesk.blogspot.com:
Data Shows Military Recruits Highly Representative of America; More From Rich Zip Codes Than Poor  —  How often are we told the volunteer military draws predominantly from the poor and uneducated, people for whom becoming cannon fodder is the only career choice available?
Jesselee / The Stakeholder:
Rahm vs. Reynolds on MTP: Clear Cut Victory  —  Following the Chris Matthews show this morning, where 8 of his 12 pundits surveyed predicted a Democratic takeover of the House and Senate, Rahm Emanuel showed America why the Democratic alternative will prevail.
Washington Post:
Housing Promises Made to Evacuees Have Fallen Short  —  Red Cross to Halt Hotel Stipends in 2 Weeks, And Hundreds of Shelters Have Closed  —  Two weeks before President Bush's mid-October goal for moving Hurricane Katrina victims out of shelters, more than 100,000 people still reside …
Discussion: The Mahablog

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