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Douglas Jehl / New York Times:
Report Warned Bush Team About Intelligence Suspicions — WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 - A high Qaeda official in American custody was identified as a likely fabricator months before the Bush administration began to use his statements as the foundation for its claims that Iraq trained Al Qaeda members …
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Smoking Gun on Manipulation of Iraq Intelligence? 'NY Times' Cites New Document — NEW YORK Ever since the Democrats briefly closed the U.S. Senate from view earlier this week, to protest alleged Republican foot-dragging in probing Bush administration pre-war manipulation of intelligence …
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:MARKETING THE WAR....UPDATE....Via Atrios, this is an example …
Tyler / T. Longren:
France: To Hell in a Handbasket - UPDATED — [Nine] Ten nights of muslims rioting in the streets so far. All due to a couple kids who got in trouble by the cops and fled to a power station. Do cops in Paris just chase people for the hell of it? I doubt it. — The protests/rioting continues to grow more violent.
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Don Surber:
L'Intifada (continued) — From Deutsche Presse Agentur (Hat tip Lucianne.com): … I prefer to fight Baghdad in Baghdad. — You know the French rioting is serious when Jo at Jo's Cafe starts blogging about it. She is a military wife whose priorities are more focused on the light …
Olivier Guitta / The Counterterrorism Blog:Intifada in Paris — For the past week, the suburbs of Paris …
The Brussels Journal:The Fall of France — If Nicolas Sarkozy had been allowed …
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Jay / Stop The ACLU:Weekend Trackback Party!
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Barton Gellman / Washington Post:
The FBI's Secret Scrutiny — In Hunt for Terrorists, Bureau Examines Records of Ordinary Americans — The FBI came calling in Windsor, Conn., this summer with a document marked for delivery by hand. On Matianuk Avenue, across from the tennis courts, two special agents found their man.
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The Blogging of the President
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
President Has Little to Say About Questions on Rove — MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina, Nov. 4 - President Bush was asked four times on Friday about Karl Rove and the C.I.A. leak investigation, and four times he refused to answer. — Speaking to reporters in this seaside resort city …
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Eleanor Clift / Newsweek:
Pick Your Battles — Democrats shouldn't waste their time filibustering Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito. There are bigger fights coming down the pike. — Nov. 4, 2005 - Democrats shouldn't filibuster Samuel Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court unless he really bungles the hearings.
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Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
Senate Votes Again for Ban on Abusing Prisoners — WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 - The Senate restated its support on Friday for banning the abusive treatment of prisoners in American custody, and the measure's Republican sponsor chided the House Republican leadership for delaying a vote on it.
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Michael Wines / New York Times:
The Forgotten of Africa, Wasting Away in Jails Without Trial — LILONGWE, Malawi - Since Nov. 10, 1999, Lackson Sikayenera has been incarcerated in Maula Prison, a dozen iron-roofed barracks set on yellow dirt and hemmed by barbed wire just outside Malawi's capital city. — He eats one meal of porridge daily.
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A Man / The Right Nation:
Weekend Round-Up — â-ºAnn Coulter, su RealClear Politics (via Nickie Goomba), spiega perché l'ultima settimana ha raffreddato, per l'ennesima volta, le speranze del fronte anti-Bush. â-ºA Michael Moore, nemico giurato delle big corporations …
Bill Gertz / Washington Times:
Four arrests linked to Chinese spy ring — Four persons arrested in Los Angeles are part of a Chinese intelligence-gathering ring, federal investigators said, and the suspects caused serious compromises for 15 years to major U.S. weapons systems, including submarines and warships.
Colbert I. King / Washington Post:
Credentials Are Fine, but Values Matter, Too — Thus sayeth the high priests of far-right conservatism: To be worthy of appointment to the Supreme Court, a nominee must be scholarly, a great intellect and a possessor of sterling conservative credentials. In addition, the nominee …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:Alito Smear #3: The Rock-Ribbed Racist's Candidate
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Herbert E. Meyer / The American Thinker:
Finally, the spotlight has started to swing away from Lewis Libby and his allegedly perjurous grand-jury testimony toward where that spotlight should have focused all along: on the CIA's incompetent, weird - and possibly treasonous—response to Vice President Cheney's inquiry about Iraq's interest in purchasing yellowcake from Niger.
James M. McPherson / New York Times:
'Team of Rivals': Friends of Abe — Mathew Brady/Corbis; Time Life Pictures/Getty Images; Mathew Brady/Hulton Archive/Getty Images; Hulton Archive/Getty Images — MORE books about Abraham Lincoln line the shelves of libraries than about any other American. Can there be anything new to say about our 16th president?
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Fight Back, Mr. President — Last week, I suggested that the Bush administration's second-term bear market had bottomed out. Since then, we've been pummeled by polls showing Bush in continued decline. Perhaps my bullish call on Bush was a bit early. Or perhaps it was wrong. Which is it?
Joseph T. Hallinan / Wall Street Journal:
Media — The Bad News in Black and White — The Fourth Estate is braced to get more bad news about itself next week. — On Monday, the Audit Bureau of Circulations releases its semiannual figures on circulation — and they are expected to show that paying readers continue to disappear …
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