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rawstory.com:
Fitzgerald has decided to seek indictments, those near inquiry say  —  Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has decided to seek indictments in the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson and has submitted at least one to the grand jury, those close to the investigation tell RAW STORY.
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Robert H. Reid / Associated Press:
U.S. Military Deaths Reach 2,000 in Iraq  —  A U.S. Army sergeant died of wounds suffered in Iraq, the Pentagon announced Tuesday.  The death _ along with two others announced Tuesday _ brought to 2,000 the number of U.S. military members who have died since the start of the Iraq conflict in 2003.
Discussion: As I Please and The Reaction
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Times of London:
US Senate 'finds Iraq oil cash in Galloway's wife's bank account'  —  From James Bone in New York and David Charter in Washington  —  GEORGE GALLOWAY faces possible criminal charges after a US Senate investigation tracked $150,000 (£85,000) in Iraqi oil money to his wife's bank account in Jordan.
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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
The Incredibles  —  ON JUNE12, 2003, when he first published a story about the matter, Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus became the second journalist to have been used by Ambassador Joseph Wilson to peddle bogus information about his February 2002 trip to Niger.
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Los Angeles Times:
Fitzgerald Focuses Again on Rove  —  WASHINGTON — As his investigation nears a conclusion, special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald has returned his attention to White House adviser Karl Rove, interviewing a Rove colleague with detailed questions about contacts that President Bush's close aide …
La Shawn / La Shawn Barber's Corner:
Rosa Parks, 1913-2005  —  Call her "the woman who refused to get up," but I'm sure Rosa Parks had no idea what her tired feet and frustrating treatment would lead to on December 1, 1955.  —  What became known as the Civil Rights movement was bound to start sooner or later.
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Chris Kromm / Facing South:
Rosa Parks: Symbols, myths and movements
Washington Post:
Cheney Plan Exempts CIA From Bill Barring Abuse of Detainees  —  The Bush administration has proposed exempting employees of the Central Intelligence Agency from a legislative measure endorsed earlier this month by 90 members of the Senate that would bar cruel and degrading treatment of any prisoners in U.S. custody.
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Notes Ex Machina  —  The NY Times delivers a shocker in the Plame case - per notes taken by Lewis Libby, George Tenet, former director of the CIA, told Dick Cheney that Ms. Wilson was involved in Joe Wilson's trip to Niger.  Dick Cheney then relayed this information to Libby on June 12 …
Matthew Mosk / Washington Post:
Steele Announces Md. Senate Bid  —  Early Poll Shows Republican Trailing Cardin But Ahead of Mfume  —  Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele today formally announced he will run for the U.S. Senate, recasting the successful political partnership that enabled him to become the first African American elected to statewide office.
Lawrence B. Wilkerson / Los Angeles Times:
The White House cabal  —  IN PRESIDENT BUSH'S first term, some of the most important decisions about U.S. national security — including vital decisions about postwar Iraq — were made by a secretive, little-known cabal.  It was made up of a very small group of people led by Vice President Dick Cheney …
Gary Hart / The Huffington Post:
Here is the Crime in Outing a CIA Agent  —  It is now fashionable among columnists supporting the Bush administration, New York Times journalist Judith Miller, Robert Novak and the increasing network of senior administration officials implicated in the Valerie Plame Wilson outing to say, "So what?
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Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:
SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO?  —  The Salt Lake Tribune reports that 80% of Utah National Guard troops intend to reenlist - a number similar to retention rates nationwide.  Army and Air Guard members have served numerous deployments to the Middle East and elsewhere, and many of the Utah troops surveyed are now preparing for Iraq.
Kenneth R. Bazinet / NY Daily News:
Bushies take aim at probe  —  WASHINGTON - President Bush's damage-control handlers are plotting a sophisticated war room offensive to fight back against possible indictments in the CIA leak probe.  —  Trying to change the subject yesterday, Bush announced a new Federal Reserve chairman …
Discussion: Needlenose and firedoglake
Josephine Hearn / The Hill:
Dems test new slogan  —  House Democratic leaders are holding a closed-door meeting with members of their caucus this afternoon to discuss a new slogan for the 2006 midterm elections: "Together, We Can Do Better" or "Together, America Can Do Better," according to Democratic sources.
CNN:
Poll: Bush would lose an election if held this year  —  (CNN) — A majority would vote for a Democrat over President Bush if an election were held this year, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll released Tuesday.  —  In the latest poll, 55 percent of the respondents said that they would vote …

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