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David Johnston / New York Times:
Another Time Reporter Is Asked to Testify in Leak Case — WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 - A second reporter for Time magazine has been asked to testify under oath in the C.I.A. leak case, about conversations she had in 2004 with a lawyer for Karl Rove, the senior White House adviser, the magazine reported on Sunday.
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MSNBC:
Transcript for November 27 — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: the war in Iraq. The debate continues. — (Videotape): — VICE PRES. DICK CHENEY: A precipitous withdrawal from Iraq would be a victory for the terrorists, an invitation to further violence against free nations …
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Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
Russert Watch: "I'm No Bob Woodward" — During the roundtable segment in today's Meet the Press, Tim Russert turned to David Broder and Eugene Robinson, both with the Washington Post, and asked them what's going on at the Post in light of the Bob Woodward revelation.
ThreatsWatch.Org:
The Hounds of Husaybah — A night on patrol with the Jackals of Lima Company — By Bill Roggio — HUSAYBAH, IRAQ: The evening kicked off with a ride in the darkness from Camp Qaim, which is situated at the railroad station South of Al Qaim, to Camp Gannon, the outpost that sits directly between …
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Steel Curtain Unmasked — The Story Behind the Battle for the Western Euphrates — By Bill Roggio — AL QAIM: The western branch of the Euphrates River, what is know as the Al Qa'im region, which spans from Husaybah on the Syrian border to the town of Ubaydi, at a heart-shaped bend in the river …
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Seymour M. Hersh / New Yorker:
UP IN THE AIR — Where is the Iraq war headed next? — In recent weeks, there has been widespread speculation that President George W. Bush, confronted by diminishing approval ratings and dissent within his own party, will begin pulling American troops out of Iraq next year.
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Ademption / dailykos.com:Sy Hersh's new New Yorker article "Up in the Air"
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Sean Rayment / Telegraph:
'Trophy' video exposes private security contractors shooting up Iraqi drivers — A "trophy" video appearing to show security guards in Baghdad randomly shooting Iraqi civilians has sparked two investigations after it was posted on the internet, the Sunday Telegraph can reveal.
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Stephanie Saul / New York Times:
Gimme an Rx! Cheerleaders Pep Up Drug Sales — As an ambitious college student, Cassie Napier had all the right moves - flips, tumbles, an ever-flashing America's sweetheart smile - to prepare for her job after graduation. She became a drug saleswoman. — Ms. Napier, 26 …
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The leak that revealed Bush's deep obsession with al-Jazeera — The US president planned to bomb the Qatar-based channel - that was the remarkable claim made in a top-secret memo. Why is the world's most powerful man so worried about a TV station? — It was an ambush.
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
The Man With the Inside Scoop — For Bob Woodward, Proximity to Power Cuts Both Ways — It was a cinematic image that lured thousands of young people into journalism, Robert Redford coaxing information out of Hal Holbrook in a dimly lit parking garage. — And since, in real life …
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
IT'S A REVERSE-VIETNAM: On Reliable Sources I said that the Plame scandal was a reverse-Watergate, with the press, not the White House, keeping the important secrets about what happened. But looking at the transcript, I see that Iraq is also a reverse Vietnam, as made clear in this statement from UPI correspondent Pamela Hess:
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Henry Samuel / Telegraph:
Chirac's influence sinks to new low — Jacques Chirac's presidency hit a new low yesterday when a poll revealed that most voters think he now has little or no influence over events at home or abroad. — Of those polled, 72 per cent regarded the influence of their president …
John F. Burns / New York Times:
Hussein's Trial Resumes in Baghdad — BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 28 - Less than 24 hours before Saddam Hussein returned to court on charges of crimes against humanity, the police in northern Iraq said Sunday that they had arrested 10 Sunni Arab men carrying orders from a fugitive associate …
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Martin Mittelstaedt / Globe and Mail:
Canada's greenhouse-gas emissions rise — UN report shows lack of progress on Kyoto, reveals 24-per-cent increase in 1990-2003 — Looking over the record of industrialized countries in controlling their greenhouse-gas emissions is to see cases of the good, the bad and the downright ugly.
Reuters:
Fury in India over call for more Hindu babies — NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A leading Hindu hard-liner has angered women and Muslims by pressing Hindus to have as many children as they can to avoid being swamped by Muslims. — K.S. Sudarshan, who heads the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) …
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Jim Hoagland / Washington Post:
Middle East Surprises — Call it history's revenge or the Nixon-goes-to-China syndrome run amok: Events in the Middle East now force political leaders to eat vows never to do certain things and then pronounce the dish tasty. Their reversals carry seeds of hope for a desperate region.
