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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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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 …
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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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Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Believe It or Not — Are you sure you want to keep saying we were fooled by Ahmad Chalabi and the INC? — What do you have to believe in order to keep alive your conviction that the Bush administration conspired to launch a lie-based war? As with (I admit) the pro-war case, the ground of argument has a tendency to shift.
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Fred Kaplan / Slate:
I Was Wrong, but So Were You — Parsing Bush's new mantra. — Download the MP3 audio version of this story here, or sign up to get all of Slate's free daily podcasts. — President George W. Bush has suddenly shifted rhetoric on the war in Iraq. Until recently, the administration's line …
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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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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 …
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 …
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.
CNN:
Feinstein: Alito backs away from memo — 1985 letter denying abortion rights raises concerns — WASHINGTON (CNN) — A member of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Tuesday that Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito had distanced himself from a memo he wrote 20 years ago that said …
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Associated Press:
Iraqis say U.S. soldiers threw them to lions — Businessmen were imprisoned, interrogated by U.S. forces in 2003 — WASHINGTON - Two Iraqi businessmen, who were imprisoned by U.S. forces in Iraq, claimed Monday that American soldiers threw them into a cage of lions in a Baghdad palace, as part of a terrifying interrogation in 2003.
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William K. Rashbaum / New York Times:
Kerik Is Accused of Abusing Post as City Official — New Jersey officials said yesterday that Bernard B. Kerik abused his position as New York City correction commissioner in the late 1990's by accepting tens of thousands of dollars from a construction company that he was helping to pursue business with the city.
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.
