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ABCNEWS:
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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Athena / Terrorism Unveiled:
NYC SUBWAY THREAT — Sources say that three insurgents who were captured in Iraq released specific information on a date, time, target and method of attack in the NYC subway system. — This is being treated as a credible threat. — From ABC: … Fox News is saying that their sources from DHS are saying 19 suitcase bombs.
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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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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 …
Murray Waas / whatever already!:
Rove before grand jury in the morning — White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove will testify tomorrow morning for a fourth time before the federal grand jury investigating the Valerie Plame matter, according to sources close to the investigation. — Rove will appear voluntarily …
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Washington Post:
Rove to Testify Again in Grand Jury's CIA Leak Probe — Prosecutor's Warning That Bush Adviser Could Be Indicted Suggests New Information May Have Emerged — White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove will again testify to a grand jury that is in the final stages of investigating whether …
Lawrence O'Donnell / huffingtonpost.com:
UPDATE: Plamegate: the Next Step — This just in from the AP: … What this means is Rove's lawyer, Bob Luskin, believes his client is defintely going to be indicted. So, Luskin is sending Rove back into the grand jury to try to get around the prosecutor and sell his innocence directly to the grand jurors.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:The crafty ways of our man, Robert "Gold Bars" Luskin, lawyer for tadpole-on-deck Karl Rove.
CBS News:
Poll: Bush Ratings Hit New Low — (CBS) This CBS News Poll finds an American public increasingly pessimistic about the economy, the war in Iraq, the overall direction of the country, and the President. Americans' outlook for the economy is the worst it has been in four years.
Kelley Shannon / Associated Press:
DeLay conspiracy charge little used part of state law — AUSTIN — A little-used Texas law could decide the future of U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay, charged with conspiracy and money laundering in an alleged campaign finance scheme. — Grand jurors looking into 2002 campaign contributions indicted DeLay …
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Donald Sensing / One Hand Clapping:
The president's speech - an analysis, part 1 — As I posted earlier today, I think this morning's speech by President Bush was one of the finest (probably the finest) he has given on this subject, and really on any subject. It was lucid, well organized and detailed. Herewith my commentary on the first half or so.
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Robin Wright / Washington Post:
U.S. Obtains Treatise By Bin Laden Deputy — The United States has obtained a letter from Osama bin Laden's deputy to the leader of Iraq's insurgency that outlines a long-term strategic vision for a global jihad, with the next phase of the war to be taken into Egypt, Syria and Lebanon, according to U.S. officials.
BBC:
White House denies Bush God claim — The White House has dismissed as "absurd" allegations made in a BBC TV series that President Bush claimed God told him to invade Iraq. — "He's never made such comments," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said. — The comments were attributed …
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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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Thomas B. Edsall / Washington Post:
Report Warns Democrats Not to Tilt Too Far Left — The liberals' hope that Democrats can win back the presidency by drawing sharp ideological contrasts and energizing the partisan base is a fantasy that could cripple the party's efforts to return to power, according to a new study by two prominent Democratic analysts.
Stephen Farrell / Times of London:
No dancing and no gays if Hamas gets its way — A VISION of an Islamic society that bans mixed dancing and sternly disapproves of homosexuality has been given by Mahmoud Zahar, the most senior leader of Hamas in Gaza. — After controversies when a Hamas-led council halted a dance festival …
National Review:
McCain's Blunder — I am hearing two primary arguments for Harriet Miers by those who are close to the president: — 1. The president knows her, believes she is the best candidate, and we should trust him because his past judicial picks have been excellent; and
