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Police Investigate New York Subway Terror Threat — Security to be Increased Following Possible Plot Information — Oct. 6, 2005 — The New York Police Department is investigating what it deems a credible tip that 19 operatives have been deployed to the city to place bombs in the subway …
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New York Newsday:
Subway security boosted in response to threat — A "credible threat" to the subway system has prompted a vast mobilization of police officers, officials said Thursday. — Mayor Michael Bloomberg appeared at a news conference alongside Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly in which they announced the threat …
Tom Hays / Associated Press:
NYC Increases Subway Security After Threat — NEW YORK - Authorities stepped up mass transit security Thursday after receiving a credible threat that the city's subway system could be the target of a terrorist attack in coming days. — Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly …
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Fox News:
NYC Ups Subway Security After Bomb Threats — NEW YORK — Authorities stepped up security on the city's mass transit system Thursday after receiving a credible threat that the New York City subway may be the target of a terrorist attack (search) "in the coming days."
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The Strata-Sphere
Andrew Cochran / The Counterterrorism Blog:
NY Subways on Heightened Terrorism Alert (updated) — LAST POST AT 6:50 pm ET. NYPD & FBI & Mayor Bloomberg press conference on heightened threat "in the coming days": Mayor Bloomberg: this is first threat of this specificity and this event isn't tied to Jewish holy days or specific religion …
John Solomon / Associated Press:
Rove Said to Testify in CIA Leak Case — Federal prosecutors have accepted an offer from presidential adviser Karl Rove to give 11th hour testimony in the case of a CIA officer's leaked identity but have warned they cannot guarantee he won't be indicted, according to people directly familiar with the investigation.
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White House:
President Discusses War on Terror at National Endowment for Democracy — Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center — Washington, D.C. — In Focus: Homeland Security — In Focus: National Security — Fact Sheet: President Bush Remarks on the War on Terror — THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all.
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John Dickerson / slate.com:
Gods vs. Geeks — GOP evangelicals fight intellectuals over Harriet Miers. — The debate within the Republican Party over Harriet Miers has quickly devolved into a simple question: Is the nominee qualified because of her religious faith, or unqualified by her lack of intellectual heft?
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Ann Coulter / Townhall.com:
This is what 'advice and consent' means — Harriet Miers isn't qualified to play a Supreme Court justice on "The West Wing." — Text size: A A — Advanced Search — I eagerly await the announcement of President Bush's real nominee to the Supreme Court.
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Atrios / Eschaton:
Elitisms — Lots of discussion in wingnuttia about whether or not it's "elitist" to oppose Miers. These discussions seem to confuse different kinds of elitism. There's one kind of elitism which dares to suggest that smart qualified people should get the kinds of jobs that require smart qualified people.
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bbc.co.uk:
God told me to invade Iraq, Bush tells Palestinian ministers — This press release is embargoed until 2230 hours on Thursday 6 October. Before that time it is only available through the link which you have been sent. — President George W. Bush told Palestinian ministers that God had told …
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Ryan Welton / channeloklahoma.com:
Norman Police Investigated Hinrichs — NORMAN, Okla. — Norman police confirmed Thursday that they ran a routine investigation of a 21-year-old University of Oklahoma student who blew himself up on campus Saturday night. — At a 2 p.m. news conference, Norman Police Department spokesman J.D. Younger …
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Mark Tapscott / tapscottscopydesk.blogspot.com:Hinrichs was Known to Law Enforcement …
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Stanley Kurtz / The Corner on National Review Online:
MIERS & STEINEM — Although I would have chosen differently, I've tried to give the president the benefit of the doubt on the Miers nomination. Having said that, I note a worrisome report in today's Chronicle of Higher Education. It seems that Miers was a key figure behind the establishment …
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Drudge Report:
FBI FREEH UNLOADS ON CLINTON: 'CLOSETS WERE FULL OF SKELETONS' — Louis Freeh Speaks for the First Time About his Terrible Relationship with the President — Former FBI Director Louis Freeh says publicly for the first time that his relationship with President Bill Clinton …
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Rob Anderson / The New Republic:
The Quiet Americans — In late July, news surfaced that Iran had executed two gay teenagers—ostensibly for sexual assault, but most likely for the crime of being gay. As pictures of their executions spread around the Internet, American gay and lesbian activists responded swiftly …
Associated Press:
Text of Gore Speech at Media Conference — Here is the text of former Vice President Al Gore's remarks at the We — Media conference on Wednesday in New York: — I came here today because I believe that American democracy is in grave danger. It is no longer possible to ignore the strangeness of our public discourse .
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Outside The Beltway, RConversation, Classical Values, PunditGuy, Balloon Juice and Slant Point
