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Dexter Filkins / New York Times:
Police Seize Forged Ballots Headed to Iraq From Iran — BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 13 - Less than two days before nationwide elections, the Iraqi border police seized a tanker on Tuesday that had just crossed from Iran filled with thousands of forged ballots, an official at the Interior Ministry said.
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Reuters:
Iraq border chief denies forged ballots seized — BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The head of Iraq's border guards denied police reports on Wednesday that a tanker truck stuffed with thousands of forged ballot papers had been seized crossing into Iraq from Iran before Thursday's elections.
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Edward Wong / New York Times:
Sunni Bastion Now Turning to Ballot Box — TIKRIT, Iraq, Dec. 13 - Along the main boulevard here in Saddam Hussein's hometown, hundreds of campaign posters have flowered where insurgents once tossed homemade bombs at American troops. — The guerrilla war found fertile ground in Tikrit …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Paper Of Rumor And Urban Legend — The Confederate Yankee catches the New York Times with its pants down, reprinting rumor as fact and getting caught on a single-sourced story that attempts to discredit the upcoming Iraqi elections. Dexter Filkins reported this morning that trucks inbound …
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
washingtonpost.com > Live Discussions — washingtonpost.com's Daily Politics Discussion — Don't want to miss out on the latest buzz in politics? Start each day at wonk central: The Post Politics Hour. Join in each weekday morning at 11 a.m. as a member of The Washington Post's team …
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Jay Rosen / PressThink:
John Harris and Jim Brady Get Into It About "White House Briefing." Dan Froomkin Replies. — PressThink interviews two key players in a dispute at the Washington Post over Dan Froomkin's Web column, White House Briefing. National politics editor John Harris, and washingtonpost.com's …
Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:Update: 'Wash Post' Editor and Others …
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Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:Fire in the Cat House
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Brad DeLong / Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal:The Future of the Washington Post
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:Splitting newsrooms and hairs
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Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
New Army Rules May Snarl Talks With McCain on Detainee Issue — WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 - The Army has approved a new, classified set of interrogation methods that may complicate negotiations over legislation proposed by Senator John McCain to bar cruel and inhumane treatment of detainees in American custody …
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MSNBC:
Is the Pentagon spying on Americans? — Secret database obtained by NBC News tracks 'suspicious' domestic groups … By By Lisa Myers, Douglas Pasternak, Rich Gardella and the NBC Investigative Unit — WASHINGTON - — Lisa Myers — A year ago, at a Quaker Meeting House in Lake Worth …
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
A Prosecutor's Rebuttal — My posts on the Stanley Williams execution and my opposition to the death penalty has generated a number of comments and e-mails. One e-mail comes from a prosecutor who wrote such a good argument that it deserves a wider exposure, even though he disagrees with my position.
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David Kaspar / Davids Medienkritik:SPIEGEL ONLINE: "Williams' Excruciatingly Long Death"
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Vanessa Gera / Associated Press:Europeans Outraged at Schwarzenegger
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Associated Press:
Iran President: Holocaust Is a 'Myth' — TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday the Holocaust is a "myth" that Europeans have used to create a Jewish state in the heart of the Islamic world. — "Today, they have created a myth in the name of Holocaust and consider …
Washington Post:
A Religious Protest Largely From the Left — Conservative Christians Say Fighting Cuts in Poverty Programs Is Not a Priority — When hundreds of religious activists try to get arrested today to protest cutting programs for the poor, prominent conservatives such as James Dobson, Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell will not be among them.
Eric / Viking Pundit:
Amazing Race update - Who Dey? - The Linz family wins the Race — Here's how tonight's two-hour finale went down, after the requisite review of the season: — Teams left from Montana in the middle of the night, heading for the next stop in Montreal, Canada.
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Ezra Klein / TAPPED:
"Reality." This whole Dan Froomkin/John Harris dust up is pretty interesting stuff. Dusty, too. Deep down, what it's about isn't so much Froomkin's column as the obscene ways the press has taught itself to patrol for that-thing-people-who-don't-like- skeptical-reporting-call-bias:
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New York Times:
Prosecutors in DeLay Case Look Into Ties With Lobbyist — WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 - Texas prosecutors in the criminal case against Representative Tom DeLay revealed in subpoenas made public Tuesday that they were investigating ties between Mr. DeLay and a lobbyist who is at the center …
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Hollywood's Crude Cliches — I don't know if anyone does time capsules anymore, but if they do I suggest that a DVD of the George Clooney movie "Syriana" be included. I'm not sure it tells you much about today's America — not as much as an iPod, for instance, or a clip from "Entertainment Tonight" …
ThreatsWatch.Org:
Jihadis, Elections and Ramadi — More splits in the insurgency as Election Day nears; and more of the Ramadi Problem — RAMADI, IRAQ: As Election Day quickly approaches in Iraq, the various jihadi factions and the non-jihadist insurgents are taking their varied positions on how to deal with the voting process.
