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Washington Post:
Conservatives Confront Bush Aides — Anger Over Nomination of Miers Boils Over During Private Meetings — The conservative uprising against President Bush escalated yesterday as Republican activists angry over his nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court confronted …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:The Sales Calls Begin on Capitol Hill, but Some Aren't Buying
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Union Leader:The President can do better — AMERICA is not supposed to work this way.
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ABCNEWS:
Espionage Case Breaches the White House — Accused Marine Worked in Vice President's Office — Oct. 5, 2005 — Both the FBI and CIA are calling it the first case of espionage in the White House in modern history. — Officials tell ABC News the alleged spy worked undetected at the White House for almost three years.
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Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
F.B.I. Widens Investigation in New Jersey Espionage Case — WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 - The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Wednesday it had expanded a New Jersey espionage investigation in an effort to determine whether one of its own agents, charged last month with spying for the Philippines …
Michelle Malkin:
ESPIONAGE IN THE WHITE HOUSE — Drudge is headlining an ABC News story on a deeply disturbing espionage case at the White House involving a naturalized American of Filipino descent who worked for Vice President Dick Cheney (and also Al Gore). … It's actually more widespread than the ABC News story indicates.
Bill / PunditGuy:
SPY in the House of Bush — This is not good. — While much of this story has been out for nearly a month (see links below), ABC News has been investigating a possible White House angle. That part of the story is breaking for the first time today. … Undetected for 3 years?
Reuters:
US officials brace for decisions in CIA leak case — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The federal prosecutor investigating who leaked the identity of a CIA operative is expected to signal within days whether he intends to bring indictments in the case, legal sources close to the investigation said on Wednesday.
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CNN:
Bush plans 'major speech' on Iraq, terrorism — Democrats say they want to hear more than 'stay the course' — Programming Note: Watch President Bush's speech on U.S. efforts against terrorism, Thursday at 10 a.m. ET — WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush will deliver a "major speech" …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:There were rumors flying around all day today that Plame prosecutor …
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Washington Post:
Senate Supports Interrogation Limits — 90-9 Vote on the Treatment of Detainees Is a Bipartisan Rebuff of the White House — The Senate defied the White House yesterday and voted to set new limits on interrogating detainees in Iraq and elsewhere, underscoring Congress's growing concerns …
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Associated Press:
Senate votes to restrict treatment of detainees — Bush rebuffed in 90-9 vote to bar 'cruel, inhuman or degrading' treatment — WASHINGTON - The Republican-controlled Senate voted Wednesday to impose restrictions on the treatment of terrorism suspects, delivering a rare wartime rebuke to President Bush.
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Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:Senate Approves Detainee Treatment Rules
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Mark Tapscott / tapscottscopydesk.blogspot.com:
13 Plastic Bottles Found in Hinrichs' Car; Lots of Small, Round Holes Seen in Tree Near Bomb Site — EXCLUSIVE: — A Lincoln Town Car registered in the name of OU Suicide Bomber Joel Henry Hinrichs III remained as of 4:00 p.m. EST today in the parking lot of the apartment where he lived …
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Media Matters for America:
O'Reilly calls Media Matters "assassins" and "the worst" among "most vicious" political websites — In a segment on the October 4 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor that he promoted as examining "the most vicious political websites in the country," host Bill O'Reilly named Media Matters for America …
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Glasgow Herald:
Iran guards 'supplied know-how for attacks on British' — BRITISH officials yesterday accused Iran's Revolutionary Guards of supplying the lethal explosive technology responsible for killing British solders in Iraq. — American and British intelligence chiefs have long suspected that Iran was training …
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Michael J. Sniffen / Associated Press:
Former Bush Official Indicted in Probe — WASHINGTON — The Bush administration's former chief procurement official was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury on charges of making false statements and obstructing investigations into high-powered Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Wieland / Transparent Grid:
Unqualified Crony in Charge of Pandemic Response — This story may sound very familiar. — The National Response Plan (NRP), whose formulation was headed by the Department of Homeland Security, is intended to serve as the blueprint to the response to a host of possible disasters and terrorist attacks.
MSNBC:
Where do Democrats stand? — DNC Chair Dean says 'culture of corruption' exists in Republican party — Where do Democrats stand on the Miers nomination, the war in Iraq, and other key issues in Washington? — Dr. Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, played Hardball to give answers.
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Associated Press:
Python Tries to Eat Alligator, Explodes — MIAMI, Fla. — Alligators have clashed with nonnative pythons before in Everglades National Park. But when a 6-foot gator tangled with a 13-foot python recently, the result wasn't pretty. — The snake apparently tried to swallow the gator whole — and then exploded.
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