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CNN:
Iraqi draft constitution passes, election officials say — Two U.S. Marines killed in Anbar province — BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — The referendum on Iraq's draft constitution has passed, according to final provisional results issued Tuesday by Iraqi election officials.
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Agence France Presse:
US death toll in Iraq hits 2,000 — BAGHDAD (AFP) - The US death toll in Iraq reportedly hit 2,000 amid a sharp spike in violence that killed 14 Iraqis as the nation awaited results of a key vote on a charter aimed at curbing sectarian violence. — The US network CNN, quoting Pentagon sources …
Edward Wong / New York Times:Final Tally Shows Iraqi Voters Approved New Constitution
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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.
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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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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.
Laura Rozen / American Prospect:
La Repubblica's Scoop, Confirmed — Italy's intelligence chief met with Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley just a month before the Niger forgeries first surfaced. — With Patrick Fitzgerald widely expected to announce indictments in the CIA leak investigation …
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 …
Washington Post:
Husband Is Conspicuous in Leak Case — Wilson's Credibility Debated as Charges In Probe Considered — To his backers, Joseph C. Wilson IV is a brave whistle-blower wronged by the Bush administration. To his critics, he is a partisan who spouts unreliable information.
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hughhewitt.com:
More from NRO — I am trying to fairly represent the arguments being made against Miers and to respond to them. — But I am surprised how some excellent writers and friends are refusing to understand arguments the anti-anti-Miers people are mounting, choosing instead to read them so casually as to avoid responding.
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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.
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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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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.
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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 …
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.
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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 …
Steve Clemons:
Indictments Coming Tomorrow; Targets Received Letters Today — An uber-insider source has just reported the following to TWN (since confirmed by another independent source): … The shoe is dropping. — More soon. — Steve Clemons — Update: further commentary from CBS's John Roberts
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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.
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RightGirl / girlontheright.com:
The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 — A Brief Introduction — The events which led to the Witch Trials actually occurred in what is now the town of Danvers, then a parish of Salem Town, known as Salem Village. Launching the hysteria was the bizarre, seemingly inexplicable behavior of two young girls …
