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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.
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.
Bloomberg:
Syrian President Assad's Relatives Implicated in Hariri Murder
Discussion: NewsHog and Roger L. Simon
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  —  CQ reader Tom Holsinger notes a key development in the Harriet Miers nomination to the Supreme Court, one that probably will signal a merciful end to the conservative split over the controversial selection.  Two key Republican Senators …
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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Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Team Is Preparing Miers for Tough Senate Hearing  —  WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 - The briefing books are the same.  The White House and Justice Department inquisitors are the same.  Even the questions are largely the same, like queries about abortion rights, the right to privacy and the 14th Amendment.
Discussion: Althouse
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Charles Babington / Washington Post:
After the Home Run, a White House Balk?
Discussion: AMERICAblog
Kieran Healy / Crooked Timber:
Ye Ladies of Easy Leisure  —  So by now everyone and his same-sex partner knows that Maggie Gallagher's stint at Volokh is one long struggle between her strong argument that marriage has many benefits and her handwaving about gay people bringing down the Roman Empire.
Discussion: Roger Ailes and Bloggledygook
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jdnews.com:
Time to close up this federal trough  —  One of the smartest things President Bush did to reduce recovery costs in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita was to suspend Davis-Bacon Act rules in the hardest hit states.  But Congress is frantically trying to overrule the president …
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
Jack Shafer / Slate:
The Exorcism of the New York Times  —  In the name of journalism, the paper must cast out the unclean spirits.  —  The ongoing Judith Miller scandal—like Jayson Blair's journalistic malfeasance and the embarrassments of the Wen Ho Lee episode before it—has sent the old gray palooka …
Discussion: mediabistro and Roger Ailes
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Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
Sorry, Judy... Everybody Didn't Get it Wrong on WMD
Discussion: The Sideshow and The Talent Show
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 …
Discussion: Michelle Malkin
James K. Glassman / Tech Central Station:
Are Americans Becoming Europeans?  —  MILAN - I have just finished a two-week trip to Europe — my honeymoon, if you must know — and, as usual with a European trip, I have come away with two completely different impressions.  —  Europe, or at least the parts I go to, is a wonderful place to live and to visit.
Discussion: TAPPED
Los Angeles Times:
Bush Critic Became Target of Libby, Former Aides Say  —  Cheney's chief of staff reportedly sought an aggressive campaign against Wilson.  —  WASHINGTON — Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff was so angry about the public statements of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV …
Billmon:
Imperial Candor  —  I just got finished reading the full transcript of the talk given by Larry Wilkerson (Colin Powell's chief of staff) at the New America Foundation on Wednesday.  There is some truly scary stuff in there — going way beyond the "cabal" comment that's been the soundbite of choice for the corporate media.
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
John W. Dean / FindLaw's Writ:
Waiting For The Valerie Plame Wilson Grand Jury: The Big Question Is Whether Dick Cheney Was a Target  —  Washington is truly abuzz with rumors about what Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald may, or may not do, as his grand jury comes to the close of its almost two-year investigation of the leak …

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