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Byron Calame / New York Times:
The Miller Mess: Lingering Issues Among the Answers — THE good news is that the bad news didn't stop The New York Times from publishing a lengthy front-page article last Sunday about the issues facing Judith Miller and the paper, or from pushing Ms. Miller to give readers a first-person account of her grand jury testimony.
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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.
Maureen Dowd / truthout.org:
Woman of Mass Destruction — I've always liked Judy Miller. I have often wondered what Waugh or Thackeray would have made of the Fourth Estate's Becky Sharp. — The traits she has that drive many reporters at The Times crazy - her tropism toward powerful men, her frantic intensity …
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 …
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The Moderate Voice, protein wisdom, Stop The ACLU, Althouse and A Chequer-Board of Nights …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Is Miers A Quota Queen, Or Just Misquoted? — Today's Washington Post alleges that Harriet Miers pushed for racial and gender set-asides in her role as president of the Texas State Bar, complete with the kind of specific numerical goals to which conservatives object as quota systems.
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Blogs for Bush, The American Mind, Patterico's Pontifications, Conglomerate Blog and AMERICAblog
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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.
Don Surber:
Cute Puppy Photo And Link Fest — Look at the cute little doggy all dressed up for Halloween. — Anyway, the reason I called you all here is to offer a linkfest. As you know, Blogger.com (Blogspot — google) does not make this easy. You have to trackback me, then I have to manually add your link …
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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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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 …
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 …
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
A RATHER RUDE ANTIWAR READER challenges me to admit that the Iraq invasion has produced a quagmire. This seems like an odd time to be claiming that given the recent elections, but I'll just endorse this statement from Kevin Drum: … I think the critics overstate their case …
Sean Rayment / Telegraph:
Secret MoD poll: Iraqis support attacks on British troops — Millions of Iraqis believe that suicide attacks against British troops are justified, a secret military poll commissioned by senior officers has revealed. — The poll, undertaken for the Ministry of Defence and seen by The Sunday Telegraph …
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.
Dana Bartholomew / L.A. Daily News:
Bush motorcade leaves other folks fuming — One hundred Brentwood kindergartners, many dressed in costumes, were all set to go see "The Wizard of Oz" on Friday when their first-ever field trip was blocked by the nation's 43rd president. — They never got to see the wizard.
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Richard W. Stevenson / New York Times:
Powerful Ears Still Turning to Adviser — WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 - In a city where proximity is power, I. Lewis Libby Jr. begins many of his days by sharing a limousine ride to work with his boss, Vice President Dick Cheney, and ends them long hours later having counseled Mr. Cheney behind …
