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The Miller Case: From a Name on a Pad to Jail, and Back — In a notebook belonging to Judith Miller, a reporter for The New York Times, amid notations about Iraq and nuclear weapons, appear two small words: "Valerie Flame." — Ms. Miller should have written Valerie Plame.
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Judith Miller / New York Times:
My Four Hours Testifying in the Federal Grand Jury Room — In July 2003, Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former ambassador, created a firestorm by publishing an essay in The New York Times that accused the Bush administration of using faulty intelligence to justify the war in Iraq.
rawstory.com:
Reporter in leak case to take leave of absence effective immediately — New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who spent 85 days in jail protecting her source in the recent CIA leak investigation, will take an indefinite leave of absence effective immediately.
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Shakespeare's Sister
Steve Soto / The Left Coaster:
Miller's Mea Culpa And Convenient Memory Lapses To Protect Cheney — Following up on Eriposte's post below, the long-awaited "Come to Jesus" account by Judy Kneepads of her role in Plamegate and in deceiving the American public over Iraqi WMDs have now hit Sunday's Times.
Hindrocket / Power Line:
JUDY MILLER SPEAKS — In today's New York Times, reporter Judith Miller offers a lengthy and seemingly comprehensive summary of her testimony before Patrick Fitzgerald's grand jury. Miller's account is interesting, but it falls short of explaining what all the fuss was about.
Jay Rosen / PressThink:
Times Report on Judith Miller is Up: Key Passages — Here are my initial annotations of the big report. Key passages and brief comments. Do add your own. I will have a (slightly) more considered view later tonight. Readers of the Report: what new information did you find?
Sooni:
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New York Times:
Iraqis Cast Votes on Constitution; Turnout Is Mixed — BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 15 - Iraqis streamed to the polls Saturday, casting ballots on a new constitution that would fundamentally alter the shape and nature of the nation. — With most vehicular traffic banned, and more than 150,000 American …
Washington Post:
Polls Close in Iraq — Large Numbers Turn Out Despite Sporadic Violence — BAGHDAD, Oct. 15 — Large numbers of Iraqi voters ignored sporadic outbreaks of violence and voted Saturday in a constitutional referendum that would increase the role of Islam in the government and formalize Iraq's democracy.
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Lee Keath / Associated Press:
Large Turnout for Iraq Constitution Vote — AP Photo BAG142 — BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Sunni Arabs voted in surprisingly high numbers on Iraq's new constitution Saturday, many of them hoping to defeat it in an intense competition with Shiites and Kurds over the shape of the nation's young democracy after decades of dictatorship.
Austin Bay Blog:
UPDATED: Iraq's Constitution Day- The Iraqi Reports On What It Means — Major players are coming more and more to realize that dialog, alliances, common interests and just plain politics is the way to win- not violence, intimidation and terror. So this [lesson] is apparently slowly …
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
The Constitution Referendum, and the Not-So-Great Ramadan Offensive — The Iraqis have voted on the referendum. Turnout is reported to be high in many areas of Iraq. Saddam's own hometown in Tikrit is estimated to have had a 78% turnout. Dr. Fareed Ayar, a member of the Independent Electoral Commission …
Roger L. Simon / Mystery Novelist and Screenwriter: Iraqi Freedom - How Short It Has Been - A Revolutionary Comparison
Hamza Hendawi / Associated Press:Polls Close for Vote on Iraq Constitution
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CNN:Polls close in historic Iraq referendum
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Associated Press:
Violence at Ohio Neo-Nazi March — TOLEDO, Ohio — A crowd protesting a white supremacists' march Saturday turned violent, throwing baseball-sized rocks at police, vandalizing vehicles and stores, and setting fire to a neighborhood bar, authorities said. — When Mayor Jack Ford (search) …
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toledoblade.com:
Violence in North Toledo after Nazi march canceled; mayor declares curfew — Mayor Jack Ford declared a state of emergency this afternoon following a violent uprising in North Toledo that erupted following an aborted march by a group of Nazis. — He issued a citywide curfew starting at 8 p.m. tonight, tomorrow, and possibly Monday.
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Criminalizing Conservatives — Fall of 2005 will be remembered as a time when it became clear that a strategy of criminalization had been implemented to inflict defeat on conservatives. — THE MOST EFFECTIVE CONSERVATIVE LEGISLATOR of—oh—the last century or so, Congressman Tom DeLay …
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