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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, The Left Coaster, TigerHawk and Power Line
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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RedState.org, The Washington Monthly, Peaktalk, Decision '08, ProfessorBainbridge.com and bRight & Early
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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.
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) …
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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The Moderate Voice, The Huffington Post, Think Progress, Booker Rising and Booman Tribune ~ Boo!
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John Podesta / Washington Post:
Freeh's Self-Whitewash — During his tenure as director of the FBI, Louis Freeh presided over a series of blunders and failures that brought the bureau to a low point in its history. From the embarrassment of the Russian mole Robert Hanssen to the bungling of the Wen Ho Lee investigation …
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MSNBC:
Transcript for October 16 — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: Ballots in Iraq are being counted as millions turned out yesterday to vote on a new constitution. What will this mean for violence and bloodshed and U.S. troop levels? With us, the secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice.
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.''
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.
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.
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.
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.
