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Washington Post:
A Palpable Silence at the White House  —  At 7:30 each morning, President Bush's senior staff gathers to discuss the important issues of the day — Middle East peace, the Harriet Miers nomination, the latest hurricane bearing down on the coast.  Everything, that is, except the issue on everyone's mind.
Wall Street Journal:
CIA Leak Queries Look at Disclosure Of Classified Data
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Associated Press:
U.N.: Syria, Lebanon Involved in Slaying  —  UNITED NATIONS - Top Syrian intelligence officials approved the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and their Lebanese counterparts helped organize it, according to a U.N. probe that officially linked Damascus to the slaying for the first time.
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Washington Post:
U.N. Report Sees Syrian Involvement in Hariri's Death  —  A U.N. investigation has implicated senior Syrian and Lebanese officials in the assassination of Lebanon's leading reformer in a move that U.S. and European officials expect will generate new international pressure on the Syrian government of President Bashar Assad.
Warren Hoge / New York Times:
Syria Involved in Killing Lebanon's Ex-Premier, U.N. Report Says  —  UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 20 - The assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri of Lebanon was a carefully planned terrorist act organized by Syrian and Lebanese intelligence services, according to a United Nations report made public this evening.
Bloomberg:
Syrian President Assad's Relatives Implicated in Hariri Murder
Discussion: NewsHog and Roger L. Simon
Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D. / Heritage Foundation:
The Bridge to Nowhere: A National Embarrassment  —  Today, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) will offer an amendment to the Senate's appropriation bill to transfer the $223 million that Congress had previously approved for a bridge in Ketchikan, Alaska, to fund reconstruction of a hurricane-damaged bridge in Louisiana.
Discussion: Blogs
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Jim Abrams / Associated Press:
Senate Comes to Halt in Battle of Bridges
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
DeLay Smile May Foil Democrat Campaign Ads  —  WASHINGTON — Why is Tom DeLay smiling?  After all, he's been indicted.  Forced out of his job as House majority leader.  And called into court for fingerprinting and a mugshot like a common criminal.  —  Answer: A photo of DeLay grinning …
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Miers: The Only Exit Strategy  —  It's no secret that I think the Harriet Miers nomination was a mistake.  Nonetheless, when asked how she will do in her confirmation hearings, my answer is, I hope she does well.  I have no desire to see her humiliated.  Nor would I take any joy in seeing her rejected …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
The Final Act Of Miers Nomination Begins
Discussion: TMH's Bacon Bits
Murray Waas / nationaljournal.com:
Secret Service Records Prompted Key Miller Testimony  —  New York Times reporter Judith Miller told the federal grand jury in the CIA leak case that she might have met with I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby on June 23, 2003 only after prosecutors showed her Secret Service logs that indicated she and Libby …
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ReddHedd / firedoglake:   Crap! Those Pesky Records!
Jon Sanders / johnlocke.org:
*Former* NC State visiting prof Kamau Kambon DID call for the extermination of white people  —  Go to C-SPAN online, click on the recent archives and scroll down till you find "Black Media Forum on Image of Black Americans in Mainstream Media" (Oct. 14 at Howard University).
Discussion: Betsy's Page
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Mike S. Adams / Townhall.com:   Exterminating Whitey  —  Columnist Jon Sanders of the John …
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Lotto Trouble  —  The Miers nomination pits a Swift Boat author against a Bush National Guard detractor—in reverse.  —  The politics of the Harriet Miers nomination are getting stranger as attention turns toward Ms. Miers's tenure as head of the Texas Lottery Commission.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
New York Times:
Winter Is the Enemy for Quake's Homeless Millions  —  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 20 - United Nations and private aid workers said Thursday that the pressing need to shelter up to three million Pakistani earthquake survivors before the harsh Himalayan winter sets in was threatening to become …
Discussion: Rantingprofs
Charles Babington / Washington Post:
After the Home Run, a White House Balk?  —  Handling of Miers Nomination Cannot Stand Up to Ease of Roberts Approval  —  Two months after engineering a nearly flawless confirmation process for Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., the Bush administration's bid to add Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court …
Discussion: Washington Times and AMERICAblog
Crooks and Liars:
Exclusive John Amato interviews Lawrence O'Donnell  —  Exclusive: John Amato interviews Lawrence O'Donnell  —  Mr. O'Donnell was the first person to say that Karl Rove was Matt Cooper's source and he was kind enough to come on the blog to do an interview.  He was very revealing to C&L …
Discussion: onegoodmove
National Review:
The Miers Support Team: Gloomy and Demoralized  —  Strategists working with the White House in support of the Supreme Court nomination of Harriet Miers are becoming increasingly demoralized and pessimistic about the nomination's prospects on Capitol Hill in the wake of Miers's meetings with several Republican and Democratic senators.
Robin Abcarian / Los Angeles Times:
The timeless art of flattery  —  Harriet Miers.  Eddie Haskell.  Your co-workers.  They've all indulged in currying favor with higher-ups.  But the payoff isn't always clear — unless you live in Los Angeles or Washington, where there seems to be no such thing as inappropriate fawning.

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