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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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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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John Solomon / Associated Press:
Rove Says He Wasn't Involved in CIA Leak — White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove told President Bush and others that he never engaged in an effort to disclose a CIA operative's identity to discredit her husband's criticism of the administration's Iraq policy, according to people …
Jay Tea / Wizbang:
AN ALTERNATIVE FOR THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE — Yesterday, I derided the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the International Atomic Energy Agency. In the ocmments, one reader questioned just who I thought might deserve the prize. So I started thinking. — The general requirements seem …
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James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:ElBaradei and IAEA Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
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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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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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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Al-Jazeera Finds Its English Voice — David Frost Joins New International Television Network — Al-Jazeera, which is launching an English-language network with Washington as a major hub, has landed its first big-name Western journalist: David Frost. And the veteran BBC interviewer …
Christopher Torchia / Associated Press:
Hundreds Dead in Pakistan-India Earthquake — ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake near the Pakistan-India border Saturday reduced villages to rubble, triggered landslides and flattened an apartment building, killing hundreds of people in both nations.
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BBC:
Hundreds die in South Asia quake — Pakistan says more than 1,000 people may have died in a powerful quake that also hit north India and Afghanistan. — The 7.6-magnitude quake with the epicentre 80km (50 miles) north-east of Islamabad wiped out several villages.
Michael Weissenstein / Associated Press:
Memo: NYC Attack Was Scheduled for Sunday — NEW YORK - Details emerged about an alleged plot to attack the city's subways with bombs hidden in bags and possibly baby strollers as local and federal officials jostled over the credibility of the threat. — A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained …
Guardian:
MI5 unmasks covert arms programmes — Document names 300 organisations seeking nuclear and WMD technology — The determination of countries across the Middle East and Asia to develop nuclear arsenals and other weapons of mass destruction is laid bare by a secret British intelligence document which has been seen by the Guardian.
Editor and Publisher:
Mary Mapes Hits Bloggers and MSM in Upcoming Book — NEW YORK Howard Kurtz of The Washington Post might have a bigger scoop than he thought. In his online column this morning, as a final, almost throwaway item, he quoted from the first chapter of the forthcoming book by former CBS producer Mary Mapes …
Townhall.com:
BUSH'S AGENT — Former Republican National Chairman Ed Gillespie, one of his party's rising stars, is off to a poor start in promoting Harriet Miers' confirmation to the Supreme Court. — According to published reports, Gillespie evoked a negative reaction from conservatives last Wednesday …
Cinnamon Stillwell / aim.org:
Terrorism Strikes the Heartland — If you happened to be browsing the Internet last weekend, the headline, "Suicide bombing in Oklahoma" just might have caught your attention. After all, it's not every day that there's a terrorist attack on U.S. soil and supposedly there hasn't been one since 9/11.
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
What Is To Be Done? — IT'S BEEN A BAD WEEK for the Bush administration—but, in a way, a not-so-bad week for American conservatism. George W. Bush's nomination of White House Counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court was at best an error, at worst a disaster. There is no need now to elaborate on Bush's error.
Jo Becker / Washington Post:
'The Right Result' Was Key to Miers — DALLAS, Oct. 7 — This city was already on edge, divided along racial and class lines over how to desegregate public housing, under court order to change an election system that kept minorities out of power, and seething from a series of police shootings that killed innocent blacks.
Scott Burgess / The Daily Ablution:
Two Year Old Story Leads Guardian, Indy; Black Activist Either Blind or Lying; Boobs at the Grauniad — For most of today's papers, the announcement of a vaccine for cervical cancer takes top billing, dominating as it does the front pages of the Telegraph, Times and Daily Mail.
