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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Senate Votes to Demand Regular Iraq Updates From White House — WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 - The Senate signaled its growing unease with the war in Iraq today, voting overwhelmingly to demand regular reports from the White House on the course of the conflict and on the progress that Iraqi forces are making in securing their own country.
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
GOP Senate Sends Bush Iraq Message But Balks On Exit Timetable — President George Bush has been sent a pointed message by the GOP-dominated Senate: give us detailed progress reports on Iraq, which include goals and progress so far. — In reality, the message sent by the GOPers …
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The Carpetbagger Report
Washington Post:
Woodward Was Told of Plame More Than Two Years Ago — Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward testified under oath Monday in the CIA leak case that a senior administration official told him about CIA operative Valerie Plame and her position at the agency nearly a month before her identity was disclosed.
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Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:Mr. Run-Amok — Bobby just can't stand to be out of the limelight.
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Crooks and Liars
White House:
Setting the Record Straight: The New York Times Editorial on Pre-War Intelligence — The New York Times Editorial Says Foreign Intelligence Services Did Not Support American Intelligence. "Foreign intelligence services did not have full access to American intelligence.
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Rantingprofs, baldilocks, The Common Room, In the Bullpen, Don Surber, Clayton Cramer's BLOG and Media Blog on National …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Now Its The Times Versus The Times — The Times editors choose their side as Bush pushes back against "baseless" charges: … Let's contrast that with the Times Week in Review from June 20, 2004 which includes a pop-up graphic with quotes from Rice, Rumsfeld, Powell, Cheney, and Bush.
John / AMERICAblog:
Very disturbing story about Bush's state of mind in the Wash Times magazine — The Washington Times, you may know, is an "independent" newspaper that is basically the mouthpiece of the Republican party. For that reason, it sometimes gets inside scoops as to what the GOP is thinking, and even what's going on inside the White House.
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Daily Kos, Wonkette, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Reaction, Seeing the Forest and Unfogged
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:PRESIDENTS ACTING BADLY....What's going on with the George Bush rumor mill?
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Bradford Plumer
Los Angeles Times:
A note to our readers — WHEN A columnist misses his usual spot in the rotation, we normally run a short note explaining his absence. Today, Robert Scheer's column will not appear. Consider this a longer-than-usual note of explanation. — Scheer's impassioned prose has graced these pages for 13 years.
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Washington Post:
Document Says Oil Chiefs Met With Cheney Task Force — A White House document shows that executives from big oil companies met with Vice President Cheney's energy task force in 2001 — something long suspected by environmentalists but denied as recently as last week by industry officials testifying before Congress.
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Hagel Defends Criticisms of Iraq Policy — Administration Calls Statements by Democrats Harmful to War Effort, Troops — Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) strongly criticized yesterday the White House's new line of attack against critics of its Iraq policy, saying that "the Bush administration must understand …
John F. Burns / New York Times:
Torture Alleged at Ministry Site Outside Baghdad — BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 15 - Iraq's government said Tuesday that it had ordered an urgent investigation of allegations that many of the 173 detainees American troops discovered over the weekend in the basement of an Interior Ministry building …
Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
Report Says Ex-Chief of Public TV Violated Federal Law — WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 - Investigators at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting concluded today that its former chairman repeatedly broke federal law and its own regulations in a campaign to combat what he saw as liberal bias.
Andrew Leigh / National Review:
Pajama-Clad Revolutionaries — A year ago, Jonathan Klein, current president of CNN, airily dismissed the bloggers who dethroned Dan Rather. "These bloggers have no checks and balances... You couldn't have a starker contrast between the multiple layers of checks and balances [at 60 Minutes] …
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Anick Jesdanun / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Web site to blend journalism with blogs — NEW YORK — A media Web site scheduled to debut Wednesday will seek to blend traditional journalism with the freeform commentary developed through the emerging Web format known as blogs. — Some 70 Web journalists, including Instapundit's Glenn Reynolds …
John C. Roper / Houston Chronicle:
City seeking network partner — Mayor wants company proposals to build citywide communications system — The city of Houston will begin looking in March for a company to not only build a wireless Internet network that blankets downtown, but for that business to pay for it as well.
