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David Johnston / New York Times:
Cover-Up Issue Is Seen as Focus in Leak Inquiry — WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 - As he weighs whether to bring criminal charges in the C.I.A. leak case, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the special counsel, is focusing on whether Karl Rove, the senior White House adviser, and I. Lewis Libby Jr. …
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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
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Coburn Amendment, on the floor — The Club for Growth blog is tracking the debate over the Coburn amendment that would cancel the Bridge to Nowhere and Don Young Way and use that $454 million for New Orleans reconstruction. — It's a pretty heated debate. Sen. Ted Stevens has threatened to resign if the amendment passes.
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Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D. / Heritage Foundation:The Bridge to Nowhere: A National Embarrassment
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Kevin Aylward / Wizbang:A BRIDGE TOO FAR
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Andrew Roth / The Club For Growth:Senator Coburn Issues a Statement
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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.
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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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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.
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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 …
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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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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 …
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 …
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
The Conservative Revolt — WHY have so many conservatives suddenly revolted against President Bush, nearly five years into his presidency? I think their split with Bush is ill advised, counterproductive, and in some ways childish. But there's no doubt it's happening and it's serious.
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 …
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
NOT AS DUMB AS IT SOUNDED — Several pundits whom we respect, including Patterico and Michelle Malkin, were apoplectic today over one aspect of the questionnaire Harriet Miers filled out for the Senate Judiciary Committee. This was the offending paragraph; it was part of Miers's recounting …
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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.
