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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 …
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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 …
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
MARKETING THE WAR....UPDATE....Via Atrios, this is an example of what I was talking about yesterday. It's a preview of an article in Sunday's New York Times by Doug Jehl: … On balance, the CIA genuinely appears to have believed that Saddam Hussein was pursuing WMD programs before the war started …
Olivier Guitta / Weekly Standard:
Paris When It Sizzles — THE FRENCH USE THE EUPHEMISM "quartiers sensibles"—sensitive neighborhoods—for the troubled, predominantly Arab and African working-class suburbs of Paris and other cities that increasingly resemble a ticking bomb at the heart of their society.
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The Brussels Journal:
The Fall of France — If Nicolas Sarkozy had been allowed to have his way, he could have saved France. Last Summer the outspoken minister of the Interior was France's most popular politician with his promise to restore the law of the Republic in the various virtually self-ruling immigrant areas surrounding the major French cities.
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Don Surber:
Molly Ivins Can Say That, But Shouldn't — Molly Ivins has a flair for melodrama. This week she wrote that she would like to live in a nation "where we spend more money on educating people than we do on the military." — Welcome to America, sweetcakes. — We spend far more on education than we do on defense.
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Associated Press:
Cheney urges exception to torture ban for CIA — Vice president makes closed-door appeal to GOP senators — WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney made an unusual personal appeal to Republican senators this week to allow CIA exemptions to a proposed ban on the torture of terror suspects in U.S. custody …
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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.
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.
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?
Alan Clendenning / Associated Press:
Summit Leaders Deadlocked on Free Trade — MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina - Leaders from across the Americas, wrapping up a two-day summit overshadowed by rampaging protesters, faced a deadlock Saturday over the future of a U.S.-backed free trade zone spanning the Western Hemisphere.
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James Joyner / » Outside The Beltway:
Jarhead Suffers Typical Military Movie Flaws — Donald Sensing and the Mrs. went out to see "Jarhead" yesterday and he has a review. He has the same lament I often do with military movies: … I was only on active duty four years and have the same problem.
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Drudge Report:
JERSEY GOVERNOR RACE TURNS UGLY: CHARGES OF ABORTION, AFFAIRS DRIVE LAST DAYS — New Jersey Public Radio & Television aired a report Friday night in which New Jersey Democratic Candidate for Governor Jon Corzine was grilled about whether a staffer he allegedly had an affair with — had an abortion.
Associated Press:
Dutch police foil attack on El Al plane — A Dutch terrorism suspect arrested in October allegedly hoped to shoot down an El-Al airliner at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, a Netherlands television program reported Friday, citing police and secret service documents.
Hindrocket / Power Line:
ANOTHER CIA LEAK; WHO CARES? — For the last two years, we have been complaining about the CIA's war against the Bush administration, which has been fueled by one leak after another on the part of CIA officials. These leaks, all or most of which involved classified information …
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Townhall.com:
MONEY FOR MCCAIN — Sen. John McCain, a potential 2008 Republican presidential candidate, has gotten a tepid response to a New York City fund-raiser Monday for his "Straight Talk America" political action committee. — McCain signed a Sept. 27 letter announcing his appearance at the St. Regis Hotel Nov. 7.
Peter Nicholas / Los Angeles Times:
Gov.'s Effort to Engage Voters Stalls — SACRAMENTO — With only days before Tuesday's special election, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's attempt to jolt the campaign by taking unscripted questions from voters on live television appears to be stumbling, with little sign that he is persuading …
