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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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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.
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Nit Picks And Quick Hits on Plame — My think piece is below, but there was some fun stuff in the reporting today that I wanted to mention. — (1) Flame On! Novak said that Plame's name was available in Who's Who, but he never said that was where he got it.
The Corner on National Review Online:Valerie Flame — That's the name that appears in Judith …
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The Washington Monthly
Swopa / Needlenose:Explaining Plame, part 2: Judith Miller does Scooter Libby's laundry
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Blogenlust, War and Piece, Media Blog on National …, The Left Coaster, The Huffington Post and The Next Hurrah
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:Quite a lot is contained in these five grafs from the Times mega-piece …
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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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) …
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Hit and Run, Instapundit.com, Roger L. Simon, Daily Pundit, CatHouse Chat, BuzzMachine, Argghhh! and Iraq Elections newswire
Sameer N. Yacoub / Associated Press:Iraqi Charter Seems Assured of Passage
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The Counterterrorism Blog, Gateway Pundit, Centerfield, Secular Blasphemy and The All Spin Zone
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.
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Brendan Nyhan
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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!
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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MyDD
Editor and Publisher:
'Hidden Scandal' in Miller Story, Charges Former CBS Newsman — NEW YORK Since the posting of The New York Times lengthy article on Judith Miller's involvement in the Plame scandal Saturday night, much Web buzzing has ensued concerning the revelation that she had some sort of special classified status …
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The Left Coaster
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Sisyphean Musings, Loaded Mouth, Just a Bump in the Beltway, Decision '08 and Suburban Guerrilla
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Mike Allen: Why They Can't Hit The Right Note — With even Laura off-key on Miers, Bush plans to change the message—again — Get ready for a whole new Harriet. After a disastrous two weeks, White House officials say they hope to relaunch the nomination of Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court …
Lockergnome / Chris Pirillo:
Google: Kill Blogspot Already!!! — In the past few days, I've been inundated with an enormous amount of subscribed search spam for designated keywords. To the tune of hundreds, if not THOUSANDS, of bunk entries. Who knew "lockergnome" and "pirillo" would be THAT popular?!
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.
Tom Brune / Newsday:
Blot on Miers' image — Court nominee was slow to respond to several liens placed on properties she controls in Dallas, records show had to reimburse Texas city for failing to clear weeds, debris from vacant lots — WASHINGTON — The year Harriet Miers began work as a senior presidential aide …
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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.
