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Washington Post:
Cheney's Office Is A Focus in Leak Case — As the investigation into the leak of a CIA agent's name hurtles to an apparent conclusion, special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald has zeroed in on the role of Vice President Cheney's office, according to lawyers familiar with the case and government officials.
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rawstory.com:
New York Daily News source believes senior White House official has flipped in leak case — RAW STORY — The case of outed CIA agent Valerie Plame is set to explode. — The New York Daily News is set to report in Tuesday editions that a well-placed source interviewed by the newspaper believes …
Associated Press:
Inaccurate Info May Help CIA Leak Probe — WASHINGTON - Information attributed to Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff in New York Times reporter Judith Miller's interview notes is incorrect, offering prosecutors a potential lead to tracking the bad information to its original source.
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Roger L. Simon
Lee Keath / Associated Press:
Iraqis Probe 'Unusually High' Yes Tally — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's election commission announced Monday that officials were investigating "unusually high" numbers of "yes" votes in about a dozen provinces during Iraq's landmark referendum on a new constitution, raising questions about irregularities in the balloting.
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Dexter Filkins / New York Times:
Vote Totals Under Inquiry in 12 Iraqi Provinces, Panel Says — BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 17 - Iraqi election officials said today that they were investigating what they described as "unusually high" vote totals in 12 Shiite and Kurdish provinces, where as many 99 percent of the voters were reported …
Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Karl Rove's Garage Proves to Be Typical — He is "the architect" who steered George W. Bush to victory four times, twice as Texas governor and twice as president. — But can Karl Rove organize his own garage? Can the master of Bush's political planning figure out where to put the ladders, paint cans and cardboard boxes?
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Judd / Think Progress:
BREAKING: Barber Cancels Ed Schultz's Debut on Armed Forces Radio — Armed Forces Radio (AFR) is a station that broadcasts to American troops overseas through "over 1,000 outlets in more than 175 countries." It currently features an hour of programming by right-wing host Rush Limbaugh.
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USA Today:
Bush approval hits 39%, lowest of his presidency — WASHINGTON — Beset by political and economic troubles at home and a difficult war in Iraq, President Bush's job approval rating has slipped to 39%, the lowest measure of his presidency, according to a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll.
Ronald Brownstein / Los Angeles Times:
Time to Bring Down the Gavel on Lifetime Tenure for Justices? — Nowhere in the oath of office taken by Supreme Court justices does the phrase "until death do us part" appear. — It just seems that way. — Justices today, on average, remain on the high court longer and retire at a more advanced age than ever before.
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Bradford Plumer, Begging to Differ, The Washington Monthly, Stop The ACLU and The Reaction
Los Angeles Times:
Their views, their dues — IN 1998, THIS PAGE OPPOSED Proposition 226, the so-called paycheck-protection measure that sought to bar labor unions from spending a member's dues for political activities in the absence of that member's consent. We considered that initiative a disingenuous …
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Ezra Klein
Sebastian Rotella / Los Angeles Times:
France's Economic Model Showing Signs of Stress — The government is looking to 'economic patriotism.' But the policy raises questions. — PARIS — After taking office this summer, French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin promised that "economic patriotism" would drive his effort …
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Insults Unpunished
Dennis Coyle / National Review:
Dubya Closes a Door? — "The horror, the horror," seems to sum up the reaction of many conservatives to the nomination of Harriet Miers to serve on the Supreme Court. One can almost hear the ominous organ of Doors's keyboardist Ray Manzarek in the background, as Jim Morrison intones, "This is the end."
Media Matters for America:
O'Reilly called Media Matters "paid assassins," told caller they "will never set foot, not only in my program, but at Fox News Channel" — On the October 14 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly called Media Matters for America "paid assassins" …
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skippy the bush kangaroo
The MaryHunter / TMH's Bacon Bits:
Limbaugh Op-Ed: Liberals Miss the Point — There's been much to do today about Rush Limbaugh's Op-Ed in The Wall Streeet Journal/OpinionJournal.com today. The only problem is that the focus has been on this paragraph: … Some commentators have been taking this out of context, focusing on the …
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The Poor Man Institute:
Ladies' Nite — Posted by The Editors under golden winger — I don't know what it was this week, but there was a whole lotta wankin' going on. The Poor Man Institute wingnutologists worked day and night, sifting through the mounds of wingnuttery in order to pick out those few precious pieces which rose above the rest.
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