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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 …
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nationaljournal.com:
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 …
Editor and Publisher:
'National Journal': Rove Told Bush He Did Not Leak to Reporters in Plame Case — NEW YORK The plot continued to thicken this afternoon in the Plamegate scandal, as veteran investigative reporter Murray Waas wrote in the National Journal online that Karl Rove had "personally assured President Bush …
Point Five:
IAEA Embarrassment As Nobel Committee Develops Warhead — On what should have been a day of triumph, Mohamed ElBaradei, and the International Atomic Energy Agency that he heads, have suffered another bitter embarrassment. — Just hours after the announcement that ElBaradei and the IAEA …
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James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:ElBaradei and IAEA Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
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Tom / Time Hath Found Us:
Idiot judge finds Mt. Soledad Cross unconstitutional — In a direct slap in the face of an overwhelming majority of voters, Superior Court Judge Patricia Yim Cowett has found Proposition "A", the save the Mt. Soledad War Memorial Cross measure, unconstitutional.
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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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California Conservative:
California'S Cruciphobia: Banning San Diego'S Mt. Soledad War Memorial — atheist Philip Paulson, who filed a lawsuit challenging the presence of the cross on city land in 1989. — A California judge has ruled that San Diego's Proposition A, a voter initiative to preserve …
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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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CBS News:
GOP Pushes Through Refinery Bill — (CBS/AP) The House narrowly approved a Republican-crafted energy bill Friday aimed at encouraging construction of new refineries, although opponents said it would do nothing to ease energy prices while handing unneeded benefits to a profit-rich oil industry.
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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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
… Lame. Meanwhile, blogger Eric Cowperthwaite isn't any happier with the response he got from Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA): "I plan to vote against Senator Boxer when she comes up for re-election and I plan to vocally and publicly let people know that she is absolutely unwilling to cut waste …
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Empty Wheel / The Next Hurrah:
Sweet Judy Blew Lies — By now you've all heard that Judy discovered some forgotten notes from June 2003. It seems she and Fitzgerald are going to have a lot to talk about the next time they get together. — It's looking increasingly likely that the outtamyarse speculations I made in July …
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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 …
Washington Post:
Nine Explain Interrogation Votes — Reacting to reports of abuse of detainees in Iraq and elsewhere, the Senate voted 90 to 9 Wednesday night for an amendment by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) that would ban the use of "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" against anyone in the custody of the U.S. military.
Tara Conlan / Guardian:
BBC shies away from Bush story — BBC programme editors turned lukewarm on a claim by a BBC2 programme that George Bush believed God told him to invade Iraq and Afghanistan after a strong denial by the White House. — Just 24 hours after accusations that the corporation's news coverage …
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US News:
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.
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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Ronald A. Cass / realclearpolitics.com:
Stop Whining - Right Choices and the Courts — To hear the howls from conservative commentators following President Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers, you would think that Bush just sold a seat on the Supreme Court to someone who's a cross between Ann Richards and Barney the White House pet.
