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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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Deborah Tate / Voice of America:
US Senate Calls for Iraqis Take Lead in Securing Iraq — The Republican-led U.S. Senate has approved a measure calling for Iraqis to take the lead in securing their country next year to allow for a phased withdrawal of U.S. troops. But it turned down a Democrat-sponsored measure calling …
Marty Lederman / Balkinization:Confusing Developments Senate-Side on GTMO Detention, Commissions and Habeas
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Hilzoy / Obsidian Wings:Habeas and Guantanamo: Breaking News
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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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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.
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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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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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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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.
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 …
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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 …
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Lorie Byrd / Michelle Malkin:
HERE IS WHY DEMOCRATS THOUGHT THEY WOULD GET AWAY WITH IT — When you watch this incredibly good RNC web video you might ask how on earth the Democrats ever thought they would get away with accusing the President of lying and misleading the country into the war in Iraq. I would answer that with the following:
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Thomas Oliphant / Boston Globe:
Bush's magnificent deception — JUST FOR the record, the polling numbers President Bush claims not to read show the following with regard to the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003: — According to The Wall Street Journal-NBC News survey last week, 57 percent of the sample believe Bush …
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.
Noahmax / Defense Tech:
RUMMY BACKING OFF FROM IRAQ? — This article from Sunday's Washington Post Magazine is the second major attempt I've seen in the last few months to separate Donald Rumsfeld from the Iraq war. (Here's the other.) — The idea, basically, is that Rummy was more fixated on modernizing the military than invading any country.
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