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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.
MSNBC:
Transcript for October 23  —  MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, the war in Iraq, and the investigation into the CIA leak case.  With us, three United States senators with very different views: Republican George Allen of Virginia …
New York Times:
Fitzgerald Is Expected to Decide Whether to Seek Indictments  —  WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 - After a 22-month inquiry, the special counsel in the C.I.A. leak case, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, is expected to announce this week whether he will seek indictments against White House officials …
Washington Post:
Inquiry as Exacting As Special Counsel Is  —  A Tough Investigation Is Also Praised as Nonpartisan  —  CHICAGO, Oct. 23 — Patrick J. Fitzgerald's final witness was behind bars, refusing to testify, and no one was budging.  Hunting for room to maneuver, the special counsel talked with one side, then the other.
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Adam Entous / Reuters:
Lawyers see charges this week in CIA-leak case  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald appears to be laying the groundwork for indictments this week over the outing of a covert CIA operative, including possible charges of perjury and obstruction of justice …
Steve Clemons:
Brent Scowcroft "Breaks Ranks" with George W. Bush in Major New Yorker Article  —  Jeffrey Goldberg has written a critique in The New Yorker of the Bush White House that equals Ron Suskind's devastating critique of Bush before the last election titled "Without a Doubt."
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Richard Holbrooke / Washington Post:   'The System Worked'  —  Now we know for sure what we knew all along.
Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
'Mao': The Real Mao  —  If Chairman Mao had been truly prescient, he would have located a little girl in Sichuan Province named Jung Chang and "mie jiuzu"- killed her and wiped out all her relatives to the ninth degree.  —  But instead that girl grew up, moved to Britain and has now written …
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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.
Discussion: Right Wing News
David Adesnik / OxBlog:
WHAT DEMOCRATS BELIEVE: Earlier this week I participated in a sort of focus group for Democratic activists designed to clarify the party's core beliefs.  Not that I am a Democratic activist, but I took part because the participants in the focus group consisted specifically of moderate/DLC types committed …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Ian / The Political Teen:
Howard Dean: Bush Basher and Hypocrite (VIDEO)  —  DNC Chairman Howard Dean appeared on This Week to discuss the Harriet Miers nomation, Iraq, a recent speech, and the Plame "leak" scandal.  —  Notes:  — Stephanopoulos shows two opinions on leaving Iraq: (1) Feingold says we should pull out by Dec. 2006.
Discussion: Oblogatory Anecdotes
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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 …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Time:
Searching for Saviors in Strange Places  —  Could Ahmad Chalabi end up running Iraq?  —  You remember Ahmad Chalabi.  He was once the Bush Administration's favorite Iraqi exile.  His group, the Iraqi National Congress, provided all sorts of wondrous reports about Saddam Hussein's weapons …
Washington Post:
List of Foiled Plots Puzzling to Some  —  White House Document Mixes Half-Baked Plans With Serious Terrorist Threats  —  A White House list of 10 terrorist plots disrupted by the United States has confused counterterrorism experts and officials, who say they cannot distinguish between …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Brent Baker / NewsBusters.org:
Spike Lee: "Not Far-Fetched" to Say New Orleans Levees Deliberately Destroyed  —  Declaring "it's not far-fetched," movie director Spike Lee affirmed on Friday night's Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, that he believes Louis Farakhan's allegation that a levee was destroyed …
Discussion: Basil's Blog and Don Surber
Observer:
Just Say 'No'  —  They're the New Puritans.  A generation of young, educated and opinionated people determined to sidestep the consumerist perils of modern life.  So if you own a 4x4, spend all your time shopping, or are simply overweight - watch your back.  Lucy Siegle meets the moral minority aiming to mend our ways
Daniel Gross / New York Times:
If You Don't Eat or Drive, Inflation's No Problem  —  Steve Triantafillou of Bell Fuels prepares to fill an oil tank at a home in Chicago.  While the cost of energy has risen sharply, one price index intentionally excludes it.  —  ASIDE from the stuff that's becoming more expensive …
Discussion: The Big Picture and AMERICAblog

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