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Rove Assured Bush He Was Not Leaker — By Murray Waas, Washington-based journalist, for National Journal — White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove personally assured President Bush in the early fall of 2003 that he had not disclosed to anyone in the press that Valerie Plame …
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Miller Surrenders Additional Notes — According to sources involved in the Judith Miller case, lawyers for Miller have turned over an additional, previously unreported batch of notes on the New York Times reporter's conversations with I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby to prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald.
Adam Entous / Reuters:
Reporter turns over notes in CIA leak case — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A New York Times reporter has given investigators notes from a conversation she had with a top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney weeks earlier than was previously known, suggesting White House involvement started …
Editor and Publisher:'National Journal': Rove Told Bush He Did Not Leak to Reporters in Plame Case
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:Miller To Be Called Back; Statute Suggested
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Washington Post:
ElBaradei, IAEA Share Nobel Peace Prize — Mohamed ElBaradei and the International Atomic Energy Agency, the nuclear watchdog agency he heads, won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Peace today. — The Norwegian Nobel Committee called ElBaradei "an unafraid advocate" for nuclear nonproliferation …
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Jay Tea / Wizbang:THE FAILURE OF A NOBEL EXPERIMENT
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Laurence Simon / This Blog Is Full Of Crap:Who would I have proposed for a Nobel Peace Prize?
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Think Progress:
Right-Wing House Twists Arms, Thwarts Democracy To Pass Oil Industy Windfall — Emotions erupted on the floor of the House of Representatives this afternoon as the right-wing-led Congress held open yet another vote to twist arms and pass a bill that would line the pockets of energy company executives.
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BREITBART.COM:
White House denies Bush claimed divine inspiration — The White House has denied that US President George W. Bush said God told him to invade Iraq and Afghanistan, as a new BBC documentary is expected to reveal. — "That's absurd. He's never made such comments," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Thursday.
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Damian / Daimnation!:A MEME IN THE MAKING
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
DeLay accuses Earle of taking corporate funds — Rep. Tom DeLay said District Attorney Ronnie Earle, who is prosecuting him for trying to involve corporate money in Texas politics, has taken such contributions himself. — "It's real interesting he has this crusade against corporate funds.
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The president's speech — I was in the hall at the Ronald Reagan Building (irony: Washington's largest federal building is named after the president who said government was the problem not the solution) when George W. Bush delivered his speech to the National Endowment for Democracy.
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10news.com:
Fate Of Soledad Cross Questioned — Judge Rules Cross Proposition Unconstitutional — SAN DIEGO — A Superior Court judge has ruled that a proposed transfer of the Mount Soledad Cross to the federal government is unconstitutional. — Judge Patricia Cowett found Friday that maintenance …
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Kevin P. Martin / Boston Globe:
Miers's qualifications — PRESIDENT BUSH'S nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court has been met with a remarkable amount of resistance from conservative pundits, including such luminaries as George Will, who have stumbled over themselves rushing to question her credentials.
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Dionne Notes Chickens Coming Home To Roost — Earlier, I warned about the approach taken by some conservatives to rely so publicly on the evangelicalism of Harriet Miers could create a political environment that we will later rue legitimizing. E.J. Dionne notices my post and picks …
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Reuters:
Looking for work? Consider Al Qaeda... DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda has put job advertisements on the Internet asking for supporters to help put together its Web statements and video montages, an Arabic newspaper reported. — The London-based Asharq al-Awsat said on its Web site this week that al Qaeda had …
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Will Lester / Associated Press:
Poll: Groups Unhappy With Bush Performance — WASHINGTON - Evangelicals, Republican women, Southerners and other critical groups in President Bush's political coalition are worried about the direction the nation is headed and disappointed with his performance, an AP-Ipsos poll found.
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BBC:
David Frost joins al-Jazeera TV — Veteran UK broadcaster Sir David Frost is to join Arabic-language TV station al-Jazeera, the network has confirmed. — Sir David is to appear on al-Jazeera International, the pan-Arab news network's new English-language channel, due to be launched next spring.
Tom Hays / Associated Press:
Officials Shut Down Part of Penn Station — NEW YORK - Authorities closed part of Penn Station on Friday and commuters headed to work under the watchful eyes of police after a newly disclosed terror threat against the New York subway system. — Workers in hazardous material suits inspected …
Todd Zywicki / volokh.com:
[Continue Reading Warren Defends Times Editorial on Bankruptcy Reform and Hurricane Katrina under hidden text]: — DEMOCRACY, KELO-STYLE: When I first read Kelo, one thing that jumped out at me was the cute and endearing description of the way in which local land-use and redevelopment plans are made and implemented.
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Elizabeth Gibson / media.dailynorthwestern.com:
Carville: Dems need stronger narrative to win — The problem with Democrat campaign speeches is "litany," and they need more narrative like Winnie the Pooh stories, political consultant and pundit James Carville said. — At a speech sponsored by the Northwestern College Democrats Thursday evening …
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Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
Training the Iraqi Army - Revisited, Again — The issue of the number of "fully operational Iraqi Army units" has raised its ugly head yet again. The "news" that the number of "fully operational" Iraqi battalions dropped from three to one has created quite a stir in media and political circles …
Stephen Henderson / Knight Ridder:
Miers espoused progressive views as elected official, records show — WASHINGTON - In what appear to be some of her only public statements about a constitutional issue, Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers testified in a 1990 voting rights lawsuit that the Dallas City Council had too few black …
MSNBC:
'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' for October 6 — Read the transcript to the Thursday show — Guest: Lawrence O'Donnell, Craig Crawford, Evan Kohlmann, Mo Rocca, Peter — KEITH OLBERMANN, HOST: Which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? — Story continues below ↓
