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New York Times:
Cheney Told Aide of C.I.A. Officer, Notes Show — WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 — I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, first learned about the C.I.A. officer at the heart of the leak investigation in a conversation with Mr. Cheney weeks before her identity became public in 2003 …
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rawstory.com:
Cheney aide passed Plame's name to Libby, Hadley, those close to leak investigation say — With the possibility of indictments just days away, sources close to the investigation into who outed covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson have provided RAW STORY a more detailed account …
Steve Clemons:
Libby's Source Was Vice President Richard Cheney — Not Journalists — Scooter Libby has been caught in a very serious lie about the source of his knowledge that Valerie Plame Wilson was a CIA agent. He apparently testified before the grand jury that his source had been a journalist.
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Eschaton
Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution:
Ben Bernanke, economist — I associate Ben Bernanke with several major contributions: — 1. The theory of irreversible investment, circa 1983. Before Bernanke, Dixit, and Pindyck, models often assumed that investments could be reversed or "taken back." Bernanke outlined how the irreversibility of investment might matter.
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New York Times:
Bush Nominates Bernanke to Succeed Greenspan as Fed Chief — WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 - President Bush nominated Ben S. Bernanke, his top economic adviser, to replace Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. — Calling him the "right man to build on the record that Alan Greenspan has built …
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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 …
William Branigin / Washington Post:Bush Selects White House Economist Bernanke to Replace Greenspan
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The Next Hurrah, Obsidian Wings, Donklephant, The Left Coaster and The Volokh Conspiracy
Wall Street Journal:Taking Bernanke's Measure
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Economist's View, Bradford Plumer, PrestoPundit, EconLog, MaxSpeak and Brad DeLong's Semi …
Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution:Ben Bernanke — The new Fed nominee is Ben Bernanke …
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NY Daily News:
W pals bushwhack CIA leak prosecutor — WASHINGTON - As the White House and Republicans brace for possible indictments in the CIA leak probe, defenders have launched a not-so-subtle campaign against the prosecutor handling the case. — "He's a vile, detestable, moralistic person with no heart …
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Kirk Semple / New York Times:
Three Blasts Shake Hotels Used by Foreigners in Baghdad — BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 24 - Three suicide vehicles, one of which appeared to be a cement mixer packed with explosives, exploded this evening near a government ministry and two prominent hotels popular with foreign journalists and contractors …
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In the Bullpen
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Robert H. Reid / Associated Press:Journalists' Hotel in Baghdad Attacked
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Carla McClain / Arizona Daily Star:
Rape victim: 'Morning after' pill denied — Although it is safe, effective and legal, emergency contraception - the "morning after" pill - can be hard to find in Tucson. — After a sexual assault one recent weekend, a young Tucson woman spent three frantic days trying to obtain the drug …
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Rupert Cornwell / Independent:
Galloway lied over Iraqi oil payments, says Congress report — George Galloway, the British MP, was last night accused of lying by a US Congressional committee when he testified earlier this year that he had not received any United Nation food-for-oil allocations from the deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
The Age:
Piggy banks 'offend UK Muslims' — British banks are banning piggy banks because they may offend some Muslims. — Halifax and NatWest banks have led the move to scrap the time-honoured symbol of saving from being given to children or used in their advertising, the Daily Express/Daily Star group reports here.
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Gates of Vienna, Gut Rumbles, Not Exactly Rocket Science, Daimnation!, Say Anything and Hyscience
Deborah Zabarenko / Reuters:
Iraq war foes ready for 2,000th military death — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cindy Sheehan, the military mother who made her son's death in Iraq a rallying point for the anti-war movement, plans to tie herself to the White House fence to protest the milestone of 2,000 U.S. military deaths in Iraq.
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zombietime.com:
ANTI-SEMITIC MATERIAL FEATURED IN THE IRAN PAVILION OF THIS YEAR'S FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR — FRANKFURT-AM-MAIN, GERMANY (Zombietone News) — The official Iranian pavilion at this year's Frankfurt Book Fair prominently featured virulently anti-Semitic literature, in violation of German law.
Cassandra Spratling / Detroit Free Press:
Rosa Parks, civil rights heroine, is dead — When Rosa Parks refused to get up, an entire race of people began to stand up for their rights as human beings. — It was a simple act that took extraordinary courage in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955. It was a place where black people had no rights white people had to respect.
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.
Daniel J. Solove / Concurring Opinions:
Are Bloggers Having an Influence Inside the Beltway? — From the National Journal's Beltway Blogroll Blog, Daniel Glover takes a skeptical look at the influence of blogs: … I don't agree. As I blogged earlier, I believe that the blogosphere has been playing an extremely important role in the Miers appointment process.
