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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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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 …
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:Times Editor Expresses Regrets Over Handling of Leak Case
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The Truth Laid Bear:
call to bloggers: take your stand on miers — Folks: — The Miers nomination is reaching a critical point, with rumors of her withdrawl swirling and conservative fixtures such as Jonah Goldberg and George Will coming out in opposition. — Recognizing that the Supreme Court …
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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 …
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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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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 …
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Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Letter Shows Authority to Expand CIA Leak Probe Was Given in '04 — Weeks after he took over the investigation 22 months ago into the unauthorized disclosure of a CIA operative's identity, special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald got authority from the Justice Department to expand his inquiry …
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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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Tom Raum / Associated Press:
Newsview: Like Father, Like Son for Bushes — WASHINGTON - Throughout his first term, President Bush struggled to avoid repeating his father's mistakes. Yet less than a year after he claimed the re-election mandate denied his dad, he is confronting some of the same problems that bedeviled the first Bush presidency.
Haaretz:
IDF troops kill Palestinian, 19, suspected of planting bomb — Israel Defense Forces troops on Saturday evening shot dead a 19-year-old Palestinian man suspected of planting a roadside bomb northwest of the West Bank city of Ramallah. — This was the latest in a string of incidents across …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
Knight Ridder:
Miers family received 'excessive' sum in land case — WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers collected more than 10 times the market value for a small slice of family-owned land in a large Superfund pollution cleanup site in Dallas where the state wanted to build a highway off-ramp.
Robert Mayer / Publius Pundit:
LEBANON ROUNDUP: MEHLIS, BABES, AND JUSTICE — For those of you who have been here with Publius since the beginning, you may remember that I used to do daily roundups of the news in Lebanon during the Cedar Revolution. It's been quite a while since then, but with the dissemination …
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