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Laura / War and Piece:
Blowback  —  Broken yesterday by the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times has another major installment on the story that the Pentagon is paying the Lincoln Group tens of millions of dollars, and Iraqi journalists hundreds of dollars per month, to plant US written and storyboarded propaganda in Iraqi newspapers disguised as journalism.
New York Times:
U.S. Is Said to Pay to Plant Articles in Iraq Papers
Discussion: Silent Running
New York Times:
In C.I.A. Leak, More Talks With Journalists  —  WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 - A conversation between Karl Rove's lawyer and a journalist for Time magazine led Mr. Rove to change his testimony last year to the grand jury in the C.I.A. leak case, people knowledgeable about the sequence of events said Thursday.
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Memory Hole  —  Jane is reporting that Rove's lawyer Luskin …
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Reuters:
Iraqi rebels attack in Ramadi, seize some streets  —  RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - Masked militants attacked a U.S. base and a local government building with mortars and rockets in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Thursday, before holding ground on central streets, residents said.
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Cori Dauber / Rantingprofs:
Who You Gonna Believe — Me, Or Your Lyin' Eyes?
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Robert H. Reid / Associated Press:
Insurgents Attack U.S. Bases in Iraq
Associated Press:
Murtha Says Army Is 'Broken, Worn Out'  —  LATROBE, Pa. (AP) — Most U.S. troops will leave Iraq within a year, and the Army is "broken, worn out" and may not be able to meet future military threats to the country's security, Rep. John Murtha said.  —  Two weeks ago, Murtha created a storm …
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BBC:
Miller 'sorry' for WMD inaccuracies  —  Judith Miller, the US journalist at the heart of the CIA leak probe, has apologised to her readers because her stories about WMD and Iraq turned out to be wrong.  —  The US journalist, who spent 85 days in prison over the summer before agreeing …
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Tina Brown / Washington Post:
Anonymous Sources And a Known Quantity
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Andrea Held Hostage - Day 4
Associated Press:
Iraq suicide blasts at lowest level in 7 months  —  U.S. military attributes decline to 'effectiveness of our operations'  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military said Thursday that suicide bombings fell in November to their lowest level in seven months after joint U.S.-Iraqi operations west of the capital.
Steve Clemons:
Bush Gossip & Tonight's Ten Minutes on Air America' Majority Report  —  Barbara Bush is allegedly TICKED off at Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Andy Card, nearly all of them — except Karen Hughes — for how her boy is faring in the hearts and minds of Americans.  —  The matriarch of the Bush clan …
Emily Kaiser / Reuters:
Majority says Wal-Mart bad for America: poll  —  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Some 56 percent of U.S. consumers think Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is bad for America, according to a Zogby International poll released on Thursday by one of the retailer's most vocal critics.  —  The national poll …
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David Sirota / The Huffington Post:
Wal-Mart & "Liberals" Who Spit Back Right-Wing PR
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Matt Stoller / MyDD:
The Role of Labor in a Political Campaign  —  The blogosphere isn't very conducive to discussing labor issues, mostly because blog readers probably don't belong to unions and don't know much about them.  I know I didn't know anything about unions a few years ago.  This can often blind us to important political developments.
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Pelosi's Disastrous Miscalculation  —  Today, Nancy Pelosi endorsed withdrawal from Iraq.  Her statement is a political opportunity for the GOP.  —  Until now, it seemed to me more likely than not that Democrats would win back the House in 2006: Bush's numbers are bad …
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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Justice Staff Saw Texas Districting As Illegal  —  Voting Rights Finding On Map Pushed by DeLay Was Overruled  —  Justice Department lawyers concluded that the landmark Texas congressional redistricting plan spearheaded by Rep. Tom DeLay (R) violated the Voting Rights Act …
Discussion: Burnt Orange Report
Bill Roggio / ThreatsWatch.Org:
The Sulemani  —  Airstrikes, a Meeting with Sheikhs, a Cache on the River and a Trip to Camp al-Qaim  —  HUSAYBAH, IRAQ: Thursday morning started off with strikes at undisclosed locations near the Syrian border by "the task force", presumably Task Force 626, the group assigned to hunt Zarqawi and the leaders of al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Discussion: Secular Blasphemy
Anne E. Kornblut / New York Times:
Lobbyist's Role in Hiring Aides Is Investigated  —  WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 - With a federal corruption case intensifying, prosecutors investigating Jack Abramoff, the Republican lobbyist, are examining whether he brokered lucrative jobs for Congressional aides at powerful lobbying firms in exchange …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
South African Court Rules for Same-Sex Marriage  —  JOHANNESBURG Dec. 1 — South Africa's highest court ruled on Thursday that gays and lesbians have a right to marry, and it gave the national parliament one year to change the words "husband" and "wife" to "spouse" in its marital laws.
Trevor / The Will to Exist:
Pulling out early and other lunacy … I watched Bush speaking on television last night.  It was my first day off since arriving in theater one month ago.  —  Please, America, listen to the man.  —  The moment anyone puts a timetable on coalition forces leaving, we've lost the war.
Hilary Leila Krieger / Jerusalem Post:
PM: Iranian nukes unacceptable  —  Israel "can't accept a situation where Iran has nuclear arms" and "is making all the necessary preparations to handle a situation like this," Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Thursday.  —  Iran's enemies have "the capability" to use military force …
Dalton Conley / New York Times:
A Man's Right to Choose  —  MANY liberals who oppose Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s nomination to the Supreme Court focus on his (losing) position in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a 1991 case about a Pennsylvania law that would have required women seeking abortions to notify their husbands.
Discussion: Liberty Street and Eschaton

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