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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  —  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.
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.
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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Carol / Confirm Them:   On George Will's column
GrenfellHunt / President Aristotle:   Miss Miers the originalist and Mr Will
hughhewitt.com:
President Will, Justice Powell and Chief Justice Wilkinson
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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The Truth Laid Bear:
call to bloggers: take your stand on 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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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 …
Discussion: Concurring Opinions and TalkLeft
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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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.
Discussion: Votelaw and ParaPundit
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 …
Discussion: Daily Pundit and Ed Driscoll.com
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 …
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.
Discussion: L.A. Observed
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.
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.

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