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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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Editor and Publisher:
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 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 …
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Ezra Klein
Steve Soto / The Left Coaster:
Did Harry Reid Hit Bill Frist This Week With The "Smoking Gun"? — When Harry Reid shut down the Senate earlier this week due to Pat Roberts and Bill Frist's stonewalling of a Phase Two investigation over how the Bush Administration used intelligence in making its case for war, many of us wondered why now?
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 …
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The Brussels Journal:The Fall of France — If Nicolas Sarkozy had been allowed …
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Olivier Guitta / Weekly Standard:Paris When It Sizzles — THE FRENCH USE THE EUPHEMISM …
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Austin Bay Blog
Olivier Guitta / The Counterterrorism Blog: Intifada in Paris — For the past week, the suburbs of Paris …
Pieter Dorsman / Peaktalk:FRANCE'S INTIFADA — It's hard to find some good reporting …
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Weapons of Mass Destruction
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.
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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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.
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?
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.
Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
Some in GOP Regretting Pork-Stuffed Highway Bill — The highway bill seemed like such a good idea when it sailed through Congress this summer. But now Republicans who assembled the record spending package are suffering buyer's remorse. — The $286 billion legislation was stuffed …
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.
