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Time:
A Second TIME Reporter Cooperates — W hen a grand jury indicted vice presidential chief of staff I. Lewis Libby in late October for perjury and obstruction of justice in the Valerie Plame case, special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald said no one should assume the leak inquiry was now completed.
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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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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.
Observer:
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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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 …
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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Laurence Simon / IMAO:
Know Thy Enemy: Cats — Well, it's time for The Carnival of the Cats, but what do you really know about that furry little beast that you leave in your home unsupervised for nine to twelve hours a day while you slave away at a keyboard earning barely enough money to pay for their food …
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Running Scared
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 …
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Hit and Run
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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Vox Popoli
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.
James Q. Wilson / Opinion Journal:
A Fitting Address — The speech President Bush should give about Iraq. … My fellow Americans: We are winning, and winning decisively, in Iraq and the Middle East. We defeated Saddam Hussein's army in just a few weeks. None of the disasters that many feared would follow our invasion occurred.
Associated Press:
Iran Leader's Radicalism Hurts Even Allies — AP Photo XHS112 — By ALI AKBAR DAREINI — TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Critics say the 1980s-style radicalism of ultraconservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is hurting Iran at home and abroad - to the point that even his natural allies in parliament …
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Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Weekend's Sales Rush Largely Bypasses Smaller Stores — As the nation's retail executives began poring over - and in some cases, despairing over - sales receipts from the holiday weekend, one pattern was hard to miss: consumers mobbed discount chains, with their $487 laptops and 5 a.m. openings …
Goodwin Liu / Los Angeles Times:
Life and death and Samuel Alito — All the attention being paid to the nominee's position on abortion has diverted attention from his history with capital punishment. — ALTHOUGH abortion rights have dominated the debate over the nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. to the Supreme Court …
