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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Times Editor Expresses Regrets Over Handling of Leak Case — Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times, told the newspaper's staff yesterday that he had several regrets over his handling of Judith Miller, the Times reporter who spent 85 days in jail for refusing to testify before a grand jury in the C.I.A. leak case.
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
A Split Between The Times & Miller? — Editor Says Reporter May Have Misled The Newspaper in Plame Leak Case — New York Times executives "fully encouraged" reporter Judith Miller in her refusal to testify in the CIA leak investigation, a stance that led to her jailing …
Michael J. Totten:
Mehlis Day — Fear and apprehension turned to anger and relief in Beirut after the Mehlis report named Syrian President Bashar Assad's brother-in-law as the chief suspect, and Lebanese President Emile Lahoud as a possible accomplice, in the assassination of Rafik Hariri. — The city didn't explode.
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Warren Hoge / New York Times:Bush Pushes U.N. to Move Swiftly on Syria Report
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Anthony Shadid / Washington Post:Syria Feels Heat Over U.N. Report
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Defending The Indefensible — Such is the perfect perversity of the nomination of Harriet Miers that it discredits, and even degrades, all who toil at justifying it. Many of their justifications cannot be dignified as arguments. Of those that can be, some reveal a deficit …
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner on National Review Online:
THIS IS WHERE I GET OFF — My official position on Miers has been to criticize the selection, but give her the benefit of the doubt until the hearings. In other words, bad pick but she's the nominee so let's give her a shot. — No more. — After reading this story I'm officially against Miers.
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euphoricreality.net:
Burning Taliban — *************scroll down for updates*************** — If this situation goes any further at all, I feel a war comin' on (Pantano style)… — Report Of U.S. Burning Bodies Investigated … The Australian photojournalist, Stephen Dupont, who shot the video footage …
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Fox News:
U.N. Procurement Scandal: Ties to Saddam and Al Qaeda — NEW YORK — The scandal engulfing the United Nations Procurement Department (search) now appears to be bottomless. It also shows signs of growing more sinister, especially where it involves a mysterious private company called IHC Services …
Don Surber:
Iraqi Semper Liberi — News Busters says the media ignores the good news in Iraq. Not everyone. … Iraq came closer to freedom and liberty when its constitution was approved by a direct vote of the people. May the civil war subside and the Shia, Sunni and Kurds learn to live together.
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Opinion Journal:
The Miers Blunder — Walking the nominee into a political crossfire. — Although skeptical from the start, we've restrained our criticism of the Harriet Miers nomination because we've long believed that Presidents of either party deserve substantial deference on their Supreme Court picks.
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Libby Remembers A Time He Knew What Happiness Was... White House supporters who read the Times' glowing profile of Special Counsel Fitzgerald will note this chilling detail: "[Fitzgerald] once went to considerable trouble to adopt a cat." — Like people, a dog in a pack can engage in uncharacteristic behavior.
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John Solomon / Associated Press:Editor Says He Missed Miller 'Alarm Bells'
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New York Times:
Colleges Protest Call to Upgrade Online Systems — The federal government, vastly extending the reach of an 11-year-old law, is requiring hundreds of universities, online communications companies and cities to overhaul their Internet computer networks to make it easier for law enforcement authorities …
Billmon:
Will the Grinch Steal Fitzmas? — John Dean — who knows something about these things — has some cautionary words for all the little lefties eagerly counting presents (indictments) under the tree: Don't be entirely surprised if "Santa" leaves a lump of coal in your stocking.
ynetnews.com:
Bomb hidden under toddler — The wife of a wanted Palestinian fugitive tried to hide a hand grenade under her baby; Five fugitives were arrested in a house where 10 Kg of explosives were found — Five wanted terror suspects have been arrested in overnight searches conducted by the IDF …
Tim Rutten / Los Angeles Times:
How Miller was used by source — In an extraordinary memo on the Judith Miller affair sent to the New York Times staff late Friday afternoon, the paper's executive editor, Bill Keller, did something far more important than admit errors and explain why they occurred.
Marc Humbert / Associated Press:
Poll: Clinton Would Lead Rice in '08 Race — ALBANY, N.Y. - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton leads Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in a hypothetical presidential matchup, according to an independent poll released Friday. — The poll, conducted by Marist College's Institute for Public Opinion …
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David Fiderer / The Huffington Post:
The Nobel Prize and Russert's Lies … Two-and-a-half years before Mohamed ElBaradei and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) won the Nobel Peace Prize, friends of the Administration were trashing them in the media. Pushing for war with Iraq, these hawks insisted that inspections don't work.
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Daily Kos:
The War Over The Debacle — Over at the normally cool TPM Cafe, there has been a pretty hot exchange going on between the Liberal Iraq Debacle Hawks (I use the word Debacle instead of War because I think it is important that we be clear that what they advocated for is a Debacle …
