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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Miers Is Asked to Redo Reply to Questions — WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 - The Supreme Court nomination of Harriet E. Miers suffered another setback on Wednesday when the Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee asked her to resubmit parts of her judicial questionnaire …
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Washington Post:
Senators Assail Miers's Replies, Ask for Details — The top two members of the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday complained about the written responses they received from Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers this week, and warned her to expect tough questions from Republicans and Democrats alike …
Robert Novak / Chicago Sun Times:
Vulnerable Miers might not survive — President Bush's agents have convinced conservative Republican senators heartsick over his nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court that they must support her to save his presidency. But that does not guarantee her confirmation.
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Michelle Malkin:
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRIET — I have stayed away from the depressing and divisive subject of Harriet Miers for a few days. It was a healthy little respite. But things have taken yet another grim, embarrassing turn—and it is becoming increasingly difficult to imagine that this nomination …
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Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications: Out on the Ledge — If you need me this morning, I'll be out on the window ledge.
Edward Alden / Financial Times:
Cheney 'cabal' hijacked foreign policy — Vice-President Dick Cheney and a handful of others had hijacked the government's foreign policy apparatus, deciding in secret to carry out policies that had left the US weaker and more isolated in the world, the top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell claimed on Wednesday.
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Colin Blow — There's a very detailed but almost certainly very fake e-mail making the rounds in Left Blogstan, purporting to reveal Colin Powell's behind-the-scenes cooperation with the Fitzgerald investigation. Crooks and Liars has linked to a blog that posted it. Sean-Paul Kelly at The Agonist also has posted it.
Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson / Financial Times:
Transcript: Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson — The following is a transcript of talk given by Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to Mr Powell until last January. — Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson:The 1947 National Security Act. In other words, he thought it was a piece of legislation …
Washington Post:
Rove Told Jury Libby May Have Been His Source In Leak Case — Top Aides Talked Before Plame's Name Was Public — White House adviser Karl Rove told the grand jury in the CIA leak case that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, may have told …
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Los Angeles Times:
Cheney, CIA Long at Odds — The vice president's history of tension with the agency may help explain why his office is an area of interest in the blown-cover probe. — WASHINGTON — For more than a decade, Dick Cheney has tussled with the CIA, first as secretary of Defense and later as vice president.
Robert H. Bork / Opinion Journal:
Slouching Towards Miers — Bush shows himself to be indifferent, if not hostile, to conservative values. — With a single stroke—the nomination of Harriet Miers—the president has damaged the prospects for reform of a left-leaning and imperialistic Supreme Court, taken the heart …
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Mark Tapscott / tapscottscopydesk.blogspot.com:
Mr. Smith is Back in Washington and His Name is Tom Coburn — Sen. Tom Coburn, R-OK, has done the unthinkable and proposed an amendment to the Treasury, Transportation and HUD appropriations bill to transfer the $220 million previously earmarked by Rep. Don Young, R-AK, to build …
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Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
Army Examining an Account of Abuse of 2 Dead Taliban — WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 - The Pentagon announced Wednesday night that the Army had started a criminal investigation into allegations that American soldiers in Afghanistan had burned the bodies of two dead Taliban fighters and then used …
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Jim Hoagland / Washington Post:
Legacies of a Leak Case — When historians write about the Weimarization of Washington in the Bush years, they will highlight the tawdry and divisive case involving the publication of Valerie Plame's CIA association and the unjust incarceration of reporter Judith Miller.
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RealClearPolitics:
Myths About Gun Control — Guns are dangerous. But myths are dangerous, too. Myths about guns are very dangerous, because they lead to bad laws. And bad laws kill people. — "Don't tell me this bill will not make a difference," said President Clinton, who signed the Brady Bill into law.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Shock Jock's Audience Is Beating Him to the Door — The Howard Stern exodus has begun. Unfortunately for Stern, it's his audience that's leaving, not him. — The shock jock won't jump to satellite radio until January, but in the meantime, his listeners in the Washington area seem to be heading for the exits.
Robert Pear / New York Times:
U.S. Gives Florida a Sweeping Right to Curb Medicaid — WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 - The Bush administration approved a sweeping Medicaid plan for Florida on Wednesday that limits spending for many of the 2.2 million beneficiaries there and gives private health plans new freedom to limit benefits.
