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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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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:Administration Official Told Bob Woodward About Plame's CIA Role Before Leak: Post
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Sydney H. Schanberg / villagevoice.com:Woodward's Dis … . . . a media marketplace that long ago …
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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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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 …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:Senate Votes to Demand Regular Iraq Updates From White House
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Right Wing Nut House:REPUBLICAN NERVOUS NELLIES
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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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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.
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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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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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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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 …
Robert Burns / Associated Press:
Pentagon Used White Phosphorous in Iraq — WASHINGTON — Pentagon officials acknowledged Tuesday that U.S. troops used white phosphorous as a weapon against insurgent strongholds during the battle of Fallujah last November. But they denied an Italian television news report …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Tide Turning in GOP Senators' War View — For the past three years, President Bush has set the course on U.S. policy in Iraq, and Republicans in Congress — and many Democrats, too — have dutifully followed his lead. Yesterday the Senate, responding to growing public frustration …
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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.
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.
Associated Press:
Deal averts Internet showdown — TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A summit focusing on narrowing the digital divide between the rich and poor residents and countries opened Wednesday with an agreement of sorts on who will maintain ultimate oversight of the Internet and the flow of information, commerce and dissent.
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Jay / Stop The ACLU:
Stop The ACLU Interviews Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) — Many of you may remember our reaction to Glenn Reynold's sympathy for the ACLU. We received a lot of flak for this reaction, and suprisingly a lot of praise. However, many commented on my close mindedness of other views.
