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Robin Wright / Washington Post:
Rice: Iraq Constitution Appears to Have Passed — Sunnis Appear Short of Threshold Required to Reject Controversial Charter — LONDON, Oct. 16 — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday that initial assessments indicate Iraqis had probably approved a controversial constitution …
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A Chequer-Board of Nights …, The Washington Monthly, Peaktalk, Decision '08 and ProfessorBainbridge.com
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New York Times:
Iraqi Officials Count Ballots Following Saturday's Vote — BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 16 - Iraqi officials were counting ballots today after a constitutional referendum on Saturday that appeared to have drawn as many as 10 million voters, about two-thirds of those eligible, to polling stations across this war-ravaged country.
Washington Post:
Sunni Turnout Is High In Vote on Iraqi Charter — Attacks by Insurgents Largely Halt During Referendum — BAGHDAD, Oct. 15 — Sunni Arab voters turned out in force for Iraq's constitutional referendum Saturday as insurgents largely suspended attacks, granting Sunnis a chance to try to defeat …
strategypage.com:
Another Election Carried Out Despite Terrorist Threats — October 16, 2005: The government is getting better at running national elections under the threat of terrorist attacks. The legislative elections last January had fewer than ten million people voting (69 percent of those registered) …
Time:
Contingency Plan — Karl Rove has a plan, as always. Even before testifying last week for the fourth time before a grand jury probing the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity, Bush senior adviser Rove and others at the White House had concluded that if indicted he would immediately resign …
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Taegan Goddard's …, The Mahablog, Think Progress, Oliver Willis, The Anonymous Liberal and Loaded Mouth
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Rove On The Bubble, Libby In Trouble — The NY Times told us yesterday that Karl Rove spent 4 1/2 hours with the grand jury. Today, the buzz is about the Times explanation of the Judy Miller saga, and her own account of her grand jury testimony. — Quickly - Rove is in trouble.
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The Corner on National …, David Corn, Hullabaloo, Decision '08, The Anonymous Liberal, TigerHawk and Power Line
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:Judith Miller's Account In Plame Leak Case …
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Talking Points Memo, Associated Press, Dan Gillmor's blog, The Huffington Post and BuzzMachine
Crooks and Liars:
Condi Rice: Verifies What we all Thought — Condi Rice: Verifies what we all Thought — On Meet the Press today, Condi destroyed the premise to go to war with Iraq that the White House pushed on the American people. (full transcript) — Video-WMP — Video-QT
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Mark Steyn / Agence France Presse:
Media utters nonsense, won't call enemy out — F rom Thursday's New York Times: ''Nalchik, Russia — Insurgents launched a series of raids today in this southern Russian city, striking the area's main airport and several police and security buildings in large-scale, daytime attacks that left at least 85 people dead.''
Washington Post:
How a Lobbyist Stacked the Deck — Abramoff Used DeLay Aide, Attacks On Allies to Defeat Anti-Gambling Bill — Lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his team were beginning to panic. — An anti-gambling bill had cleared the Senate and appeared on its way to passage by an overwhelming margin in the House of Representatives.
Haaretz:
Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claims two West Bank attacks — Three Israelis were killed Sunday afternoon and three other people were wounded, one seriously, when Palestinians opened fire on a hitchhiking station at the Gush Etzion junction, south of Jerusalem in the West Bank.
Todd S. Purdum / New York Times:
Plenty of Praise for a Nominee, but Few Details — WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 - Ask any of Harriet E. Miers's typically press-shy White House colleagues what she has been like in her years as a top Bush administration staff member, and the praise pours out. She is intelligent. Meticulous. Selfless.
Drudge Report:
LYNNE CHENEY: HUSBAND WON'T BE 2008 REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE — New York - Don't call her the Second Lady. The Vice President's wife keeps a high profile of her own, as an author of books on U.S. history. Her latest, A Time for Freedom, is a timeline of American history.
Independent:
Revealed: IRA bombs killed eight British soldiers in Iraq — Terror devices used by the IRA in a vicious murder campaign in Ulster blew up British servicemen as the world blamed Iran — Eight British soldiers killed during ambushes in Iraq were the victims of a highly sophisticated bomb …
Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution:
Should we confiscate Tamiflu property rights? — Tamiflu can combat avian flu, but the Swiss company Roche can't get us more Tamiflu for well over a year. They won't (can't?) set up a U.S. manufacturing plant for almost two years. (Face it, in a pinch neither the Swiss nor anyone else …
