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New York Times:
Republicans Testing Ways to Blunt Leak Charges — WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 - With a decision expected this week on possible indictments in the C.I.A. leak case, allies of the White House suggested Sunday that they intended to pursue a strategy of attacking any criminal charges as a disagreement …
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Michelle Malkin:
SEN. HUTCHISON'S BLUNDER — The Left had a field day over Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's remarks on NBC's Meet the Press this morning in which she downplayed possible perjury and obstruction of justice indictments this week in the Rove/Plame/Miller/Libby/God-knows-who- else leak case.
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Thomas M. DeFrank / NY Daily News:
Bushies feeling the boss' wrath — Prez's anger growing in hard times - pals — WASHINGTON - Facing the darkest days of his presidency, President Bush is frustrated, sometimes angry and even bitter, his associates say. — With a seemingly uncontrollable insurgency in Iraq …
MSNBC:
Bush expected to name Bernanke next Fed chief — Administration official says announcement set for 1 p.m. ET — President Bush is poised to name Ben Bernanke, chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers, to succeed Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, NBC News and Reuters reported Monday.
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CNN:
Bernanke's the man — President Bush's nominee to succeed Greenspan is expected to be chief economic adviser. — NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - President Bush was expected to announce Monday that he has picked top economic adviser Ben Bernanke to succeed Alan Greenspan as Federal Reserve Chairman …
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
What Went Wrong — Lessons the White House should learn from the Miers debacle. — President Bush has returned from a weekend in Camp David, where much of the discussion centered on the beleaguered nomination of Harriet Miers. While the president is determined to press forward, the prognosis he received was grim.
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Protecting the Presidential Seal. No Joke. — You might have thought that the White House had enough on its plate late last month, what with its search for a new Supreme Court nominee, the continuing war in Iraq and the C.I.A. leak investigation. But it found time to add another item to its agenda …
Robert H. Reid / Associated Press:
Journalists' Hotel in Baghdad Attacked — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Three enormous bombs, including a cement-mixing truck packed with explosives, blew up near an Iraqi police post outside the Palestine Hotel — home to many foreign journalists in Iraq. Iraqi officials said 17 people were killed.
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Maura Reynolds / Los Angeles Times:
Senators Seek Miers' White House Files — Bipartisan requests to release the records warn that the nominee's confirmation is at stake. — WASHINGTON — Republican and Democratic senators called on President Bush on Sunday to release documents relating to Supreme Court nominee Harriet E. Miers' service …
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Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Letters Show Frist Notified Of Stocks in 'Blind' Trusts — Documents Contradict Comments on Holdings — Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) was given considerable information about his stake in his family's hospital company, according to records that are at odds with his past statements …
Bradley Graham / Washington Post:
Enemy Body Counts Revived — U.S. Is Citing Tolls to Show Success in Iraq — Eager to demonstrate success in Iraq, the U.S. military has abandoned its previous refusal to publicize enemy body counts and now cites such numbers periodically to show the impact of some counterinsurgency operations.
Bruce Kesler / American Enterprise Magazine:
Not a Sunni Day for the Left — Let's speculate, for a moment, that Jacques Chirac opposed U.S. action in Iraq because of a lesson drawn from his own country's role in the American War of Independence. — The French contribution was essential in securing Cornwallis's defeat at Yorktown and …
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Federal Prosecutor Paul McNulty Named Deputy Attorney General — Paul McNulty, a federal prosecutor in Virginia, was chosen Friday by President Bush to serve as the No. 2 Justice Department official, following the withdrawal of a nominee who faced questions about his business ties.
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Kevin / Louisiana Libertarian:
Carnival of the RINOs (10/24/05) — I would like to welcome everyone who has come to read the Carnival of the RINOs. My name is Kevin Boyd and I currently reside in Southeast Louisiana in a city called Slidell. This carnival almost did not happen because of Hurricane Katrina which forced …
Michael Yon / Online Magazine:
Purple Fingers — Baghdad — The Perch — I was in Baquba during the January elections. I'd hitched a ride with the US Army to a polling site. There were bombs exploding, mortars falling, and hot machine guns. The fact that the voting was going great despite the violence was something few people expected.
Martin Walker / UPI:
Walker's World: Bush at bay — WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (UPI) — The CIA leak inquiry that threatens senior White House aides has now widened to include the forgery of documents on African uranium that started the investigation, according to NAT0 intelligence sources.
