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Steven R. Weisman / New York Times:
Powell Speaks Out on Domestic Spy Program  —  WASHINGTON, Dec. 25 - Former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said on Sunday that it would not have been "that hard" for President Bush to obtain warrants for eavesdropping on domestic telephone and Internet activity, but that he saw "nothing wrong" with the decision not to do so.
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Associated Press:
Powell Backs Eavesdropping to Stop Terror  —  Former Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday supported government eavesdropping to prevent terrorism but said a major controversy over presidential powers could have been avoided by obtaining court warrants.  —  Powell said that when he was …
The Heretik:
Waffle Suits the Man
Discussion: Prometheus 6
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Atrios / Eschaton:   Novakula on Lott
Thomas Bray / realclearpolitics.com:
And You Think America Is Repressive?  —  Spying on e-mail and cell phone traffic without a warrant.  Searching offices and residences without a court order.  Locking citizens away for weeks or months without filing charges.  —  Sound like your worst nightmare about the supposedly lawless Bush administration?
Charles Lane / Washington Post:
No Date Is Set for Troop Withdrawal From Iraq  —  General Says Insurgency Affects Timing; Powell Calls Current Levels Unsustainable  —  As American troops marked their third Christmas in Iraq since the war began in March 2003, the highest-ranking U.S. military officer said their number …
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Josh Meyer / Los Angeles Times:   Iraq Contingent May Grow if Attacks Persist, Pace Says
Tomi Soetjipto / Reuters:
Asia remembers tsunami disaster with prayer, silence  —  BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) - Mourners from across the world wept, prayed and observed moments of silence along ravaged Indian Ocean coastlines on Monday to remember those killed by one of nature's deadliest disasters.
Discussion: PunditGuy
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Peter Slevin / Washington Post:
Scholar Stands by Post-9/11 Writings On Torture, Domestic Eavesdropping  —  Former Justice Official Says He Was Interpreting Law, Not Making Policy  —  John Yoo knows the epithets of the libertarians, the liberals and the lefties.  Widely considered the intellectual architect …
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Mark R. Levin / The Corner on National Review Online:
YOO AND PRESIDENTIAL POWER
Discussion: Think Progress
Kenneth Anderson's Law of War and Just War Theory Blog:
Shame on Robert Kuttner for using Lincoln for cheap shots at Bush  —  Robert Kuttner engages in that most dangerous of all ideological games in American politics - "What would Lincoln have done?"  - as a means of baiting George W. Bush.  Here, in the Boston Globe.
Discussion: Instapundit.com
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Robert Kuttner / Boston Globe:
What Bush could learn from Lincoln
Marta Falconi / Associated Press:
Character Actor Vincent Schiavelli Dies  —  ROME - Vincent Schiavelli, the droopy-eyed character actor who appeared in scores of movies, including "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Ghost," died Monday at his home in Sicily.  He was 57.  —  He died of lung cancer, said Salvatore Glorioso …
Associated Press:
Gas Sickens 78 in Russian Store  —  ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - More than 70 people at a home-supply store were sickened Monday as employees at three other outlets of the chain found gas-filled containers and timers hidden in boxes.  Police said they believed a commercial dispute or blackmail attempt was behind the incidents.
Discussion: Secular Blasphemy and lgf
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Edward Rothstein / New York Times:
Seeing Terrorism as Drama With Sequels and Prequels  —  "There's no peace at the end of this," warns Avner, the morally anguished Mossad assassin, as Steven Spielberg's new film, "Munich," draws to a close.  And by "this" he means the targeted killings that Israel is said to have begun …
Michael Barone / realclearpolitics.com:
The New York Times' Christmas Gift  —  The New York Times' Christmas gift — sorry, holiday gift — to the nation's political dialogue was its Dec. 16 story reporting that the National Security Agency has been intercepting telephone conversations between terrorism suspects abroad and U.S. citizens …
Mohammed / IRAQ THE MODEL:
Will ten seats solve the crisis?  —  It's become clear from the active shuttle-like movement of the rival parties and mediators that the intensity of the political crisis began to subside compared to how things looked like a week ago.  —  In spite of the violence that disturbed Baghdad this morning …
Discussion: Gateway Pundit and Decision '08
Washington Post:
Bloggers, Money Now Weapons in Information War  —  U.S. Recruits Advocates to the Front, Pays Iraqi TV Stations for Coverage  —  BAGHDAD — Retired soldier Bill Roggio was a computer technician living in New Jersey less than two months ago when a Marine officer half a world away made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
Jim Yardley / New York Times:
Seeking a Public Voice on China's 'Angry River'  —  XIAOSHABA, China - Far from the pulsing cities that symbolize modern China, this tiny hillside village of crude peasant houses seems disconnected from this century and the last.  But follow a dirt path past a snarling watchdog …

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