Top Items:
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
President Pushover — Under other circumstances, President Bush's choice of Judge Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court would have been seen as a bold move by a strong president with a clear policy objective. By choosing a man of superior intellectual heft and an indelible record of conservative views …
Discussion:
Althouse, Bench Memos …, California Conservative, The American Thinker, AMERICAblog, Below The Beltway and Confirm Them
RELATED ITEMS:
David W. Moore / Gallup:
Alito's Ratings Similar to Miers', Lower Than Roberts' — Majority says Supreme Court nominee should be rejected if opposed to Roe v. Wade — PRINCETON, NJ — Americans greet the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court with about the same degree …
Discussion:
AMERICAblog
Charles Lane / Washington Post:
Nominee's Reasoning Points to a Likely Vote Against Roe v. Wade — As far as anyone yet knows, Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. has not made any public declaration calling for the overruling of Roe v. Wade , the 1973 Supreme Court decision that recognized a constitutional right to abortion.
Dana Priest / Washington Post:
CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons — Debate Is Growing Within Agency About Legality and Morality of Overseas System Set Up After 9/11 — The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe …
Discussion:
The American Street, The Left Coaster, Right Wing Nut House, The Heretik, www.AndrewSullivan.com, The Next Hurrah, War and Piece, firedoglake, Balloon Juice, PrawfsBlawg, Ace of Spades HQ, Simianbrain, Think Progress, BillHobbs.com, Obsidian Wings, Balkinization, Fact-esque and Just a Bump in the Beltway
RELATED ITEM:
New York Times:
Detainee Policy Sharply Divides Bush Officials — WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 - The Bush administration is embroiled in a sharp internal debate over whether a new set of Defense Department standards for handling terror suspects should adopt language from the Geneva Conventions prohibiting "cruel," …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Mad About You — In the genteel club that is the United States Senate, Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) had a screaming temper tantrum yesterday. — Minutes after his Democratic counterpart, Harry Reid (Nev.), used a surprise parliamentary maneuver to throw the Senate into a rare closed session …
RELATED ITEMS:
William Branigin / Washington Post:
GOP Angered by Closed Senate Session — The U.S. Senate went into a rare closed session today after Democrats invoked a seldom used rule to back their demands for greater oversight by the Republican-controlled body, particularly on the Bush administration's use of intelligence in taking the country to war in Iraq.
Discussion:
The Left Coaster, Newsday, The Carpetbagger Report, Betsy's Page, Power Line, The Moderate Voice, New York Times, The Reaction, California Conservative, This Blog Is Full Of Crap, Taegan Goddard's …, Los Angeles Times, Pandagon, Hotline On Call, bRight & Early, JasonColeman.com, » Outside The Beltway, Don Surber, The Corner on National …, Bark Bark Woof Woof, TAPPED, The Political Teen, baldilocks, Confederate Yankee, Donkey Stomp and The Road To Surfdom
Laura Litvan / Bloomberg:U.S. Senate Closed Session Yields Intelligence Accord (Update1)
Discussion:
The Washington Monthly
Max Boot / Los Angeles Times:
Plamegate's real liar — 'SCOOTER" LIBBY'S indictment was not exactly good news for the White House, but it could have been a lot worse. Feverish speculation had been building that Karl Rove would soon be "frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs," as Valerie Plame's bombastic hubby, Joe Wilson, had hoped.
RELATED ITEMS:
New York Times:
Remember That Mushroom Cloud? — The indictment of Lewis Libby on charges of lying to a grand jury about the outing of Valerie Wilson has focused attention on the lengths to which the Bush administration went in 2003 to try to distract the public from this central fact …
Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Alito nomination to test 'Gang of 14' — Senate Republicans said yesterday they will use the "nuclear option" to ban judicial filibusters if Democrats try using the tactic to block the confirmation of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. to the Supreme Court. — "Certainly, this does not rise …
RELATED ITEMS:
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Harry Reid's Press Conference — Harry Reid responded to questions about the nature of his decision to shut down the Senate. He was obviously upset. — Video-WMP low res — Video-QT Bittorrent-QT — He explained that if he notified Bill Frist, then Frist could have shut down his attempt to have the many questions answered.
RELATED ITEM:
CNN:
Chirac urges calm as riots spread — PARIS, France — French President Jacques Chirac has called for calm and warned of a "dangerous situation" following a sixth night of violence in poor Paris suburbs. — "The law must be applied firmly and in a spirit of dialogue and respect," Chirac told a Cabinet meeting Wednesday.
RELATED ITEMS:
Matt Margolis / Blogs for Bush:
Victory: One Year Later — Sometimes, don't you just miss the old days? — Today marks one year from Election Day 2004. It was a long and suspenseful day. I ended up spending most of the day away from this blog and was in New Hampshire knocking on doors all morning and afternoon, and at an election party in the evening.
RELATED ITEMS:
Alicia A. Caldwell / Associated Press:
Pentagon: Top al-Qaida Operative Escaped — FORT BLISS, Texas - A man once considered a top al-Qaida operative escaped from a U.S.-run detention facility in Afghanistan and cannot testify against the soldier who allegedly mistreated him, a defense lawyer involved in a prison abuse case said Tuesday.
Jeff Jacoby / Boston Globe:
The good news from Iraq is not fit to print — WHAT WAS the most important news out of Iraq last week? — That depends on what you consider ''important. " Do you see the war against radical Islam and Ba'athist fascism as the most urgent conflict of our time?
