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MSNBC:
U.K. charges official with leaking Blair memo — Document allegedly says PM dissuaded Bush push for attack on Al-Jazeera — LONDON - A civil servant has been charged under Britain's Official Secrets Act for allegedly leaking a government memo that a newspaper said Tuesday suggested …
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Shakespeare's Sister, The Big Pharaoh, The Left Coaster, Fact-esque and Middle Earth Journal
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Washington Post:
Paper Says Bush Talked of Bombing Arab TV Network — LONDON, Nov. 22 — President Bush expressed interest in bombing the headquarters of the Arabic television network al-Jazeera during a White House conversation with Prime Minister Tony Blair in April 2004, a British newspaper reported Tuesday.
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mirror.co.uk, Crooked Timber, Abracadabrah, Liberty Street, Shakespeare's Sister, IntoxiNation-News … and The American Mind
CNN:
U.S.: Al-Jazeera bomb story 'outlandish' — British paper: Blair talked Bush out of airstrike on network — LONDON, England (CNN) — The White House characterized as "outlandish" Tuesday a British newspaper report that President Bush once discussed bombing the headquarters …
Murray Waas / nationaljournal.com:
Key Bush Intelligence Briefing Kept From Hill Panel — Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime …
Balkinization:
Padilla Indicted — Today the U.S. government formally indicted Jose Padilla, an American citizen arrested in the United States who had been held as an enemy combatant for three years outside the reach of the criminal justice system. — Originally the Justice Department claimed that Padilla …
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David Stout / New York Times:U.S. Indicts Padilla After 3 Years in Pentagon Custody
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Happy Furry Puppy Story …
U.S. Newswire:
CNN Caught Off-Guard; Recording Proves Damaging 'X' Over Vice President's Face was Intentional Says Team Hollywood — Contact: Jane Redding of Team Hollywood Inc., 310-289-2143 — SANTA MONICA, Calif., Nov. 22 /U.S. Newswire/ — The following statement concerning CNN's airing of an 'X …
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All Things Beautiful, Project LOGIC, Stop The ACLU, A Blog For All, Six Meat Buffet and GOP and the City
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Bill Quick / Daily Pundit:
CNN EMPLOYEE ON TAPE: CHENEY "X" IS "FREEDOM OF SPEECH" - "TELL BUSH AND CHENEY TO STOP LYING" — EXCLUSIVE - MUST CREDIT BILL QUICK OF DAILY PUNDIT — *** Listen to the tape here. I interviewed Preska Thomas of Team Hollywood, an "international marketing company" today, after Team Hollywood sent out the following press release:
Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
On Torture (updated) — Given the impromptu discussion over torture that broke out in the comments of my last WP post, I thought now might be a good time to devote a dedicated post to the subject. To begin, here's Thomas Sowell, from "Tortured Reasoning":
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Thomas Sowell / Townhall.com:Tortured reasoning — Some people seem to see nothing between zero and infinity.
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Sadly, No!
Jack Kelly / realclearpolitics.com:
Zarqawi's Bad Week — Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the al Qaida chieftain in Iraq, has had a bad week. If it turns out Zarqawi was among seven al Qaida leaders killed in Mosul Saturday, it'll have been a really bad week. But even if Zarqawi got away again, it's been a rotten week for him.
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Edward Jay Epstein / Opinion Journal:
Atta in Prague? — An Iraqi prisoner holds the answer to this 9/11 mystery. — PRAGUE—On Oct. 27, 2001, the New York Times reported (erroneously) that 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta "flew to the Czech Republic on April 8 and met with [an] Iraqi intelligence officer," helping to give credence to the so-called Prague connection.
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The Corner on National …, Blogs for Bush, The American Thinker, A Blog For All and Power Line
wkrc.com:
Congresswoman Jean Schmidt Talks With Local 12 — STATEMENT FROM CONGRESSWOMAN JEAN SCHMIDT Washington, DC - — Last week as I returned to the Capitol Building after attending a funeral at Arlington National Cemetery for a local fallen Marine, I found out that the Democrats had just announced …
Doug Windsor / 365gay.com:
FOF Brings 'Ex-Gay' Crusade To Macy's Parade — (New York City) Focus on the Family has announced plans to distribute 5,000 balls during Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to promote a website it operates that claims homosexuality is a disorder that can be changed through faith.
John O'Neill / Democracy Project:
John O'Neill on "Kerrying" our soldiers — A few minutes after I posted "Cowardly Congressional Snipers" below, John O'Neill and I were on the phone chuckling about how we still think alike 34-years after we first joined to bring truth to John Kerry's lies. John has a great op-ed in today's New York Sun, "Summer Soldiers."
Jacob Gershman / New York Sun:
At Columbia, an Invitation to a Night of Nakedness — An invitation to an all-night party at an undisclosed location is spreading among Columbia University's student body with viral intensity. — "Compadres," the e-mail states, "join us in refusing to comply with a culture that tells us to hide our body …
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Captain's Quarters
PJM Death Pool:
The Death Pool — Pajamas Media, née Open Source Media, née Pajamas Media, nee Tulips Advertising, have we come to this? A death pool? Well, this blog is proof of it. So far, many have expressed their displeasure with the project at virtually every stage of its organization …
Steve Clemons:
"A Man for All Seasons": I Give the Devil Benefit of Law for My Own Safety's Sake — Yesterday evening, I went to another in a series of dinners and movies hosted by Margaret Carlson, Washington political commentator and Editor-at-Large of The Week Magazine, and this relatively new newsy weekly, The Week.
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Sirotablog
Jim Lobe / ipsnews.net:
Cheney Tries to Raise the Stakes — WASHINGTON, Nov 21 (IPS) - Amid growing pressure to begin withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq and mounting charges by Democrats that senior administration officials misled the nation into war there, Vice President Dick Cheney appears to have taken charge of defending his boss and taking on the critics.
