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craigmurray.co.uk:
Damning documentary evidence unveiled. Dissident bloggers in coordinated exposé of UK government lies over torture. — Help us beat the British government's gagging order by mirroring this information on your own site or blog! … - Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, election hustings, Blackburn, April 2005
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New York Times:
Spy Agency Removes Illegal Tracking Files — By The Associated Press The National Security Agency's Internet site has been placing files on visitors' computers that can track their Web surfing activity despite strict federal rules banning most files of that type.
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David Corn, Shakespeare's Sister, Pen and Sword, Balloon Juice, Ezra Klein, Donklephant, scout prime, Loaded Mouth, PoliBlog, Decision '08 and philly
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Tabassum Zakaria / Reuters:
CIA couple outed by 5-year-old son — HOUSTON (Reuters) - The Washington couple at the heart of the CIA leak investigation had their cover blown by their small son as they tried to sneak away on vacation on Thursday. — "My daddy's famous, my mommy's a secret spy," declared the 5-year-old of his parents …
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Dohiyi Mir
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Linda Chavez / Townhall.com:Leak double-standards — Within days of the leak of former …
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PoliPundit.com
Joe Kot / ynetnews.com:
Brit Jew marries dolphin — Unusual wedding: British woman marries her beloved dolphin in Eilat ceremony — Till death do us part? An unusual wedding ceremony was held in the southern resort town of Eilat on Wednesday, as Sharon Tendler, a 41-years-old Jewish millionaire from London married …
Newsweek:
Kos-Eye View — The creator of the left's favorite political blog, The Daily Kos, handicaps the 2006 elections and shares his advice for the Democratic Party. — Photos (from left): Keith Srakocic / AP; J.D. Cavrich / AP; David J. Phillip / AP; Andrew H. Walker / Getty Images; Steve Nesius / AP; Matt Stroshane / Getty Images
Washington Post:
Bush Team Rethinks Its Plan for Recovery — President Bush shifted his rhetoric on Iraq in recent weeks after an intense debate among advisers about how to pull out of his political free fall, with senior adviser Karl Rove urging a campaign-style attack on critics while younger aides pushed …
Kevin Anderson / BBC:
Blogs offer taste of war in Iraq — The war in Vietnam is often referred to as the first war on television, and the wars in Afghanistan and now in Iraq will be known as the first wars to be blogged. — A new generation of soldier bloggers in the US, known as milbloggers …
Marc Schulman / AMERICAN FUTURE:
Is There an International Community? — The first thing that came to my mind when Dr. Demarche posed the question that's the title of this post is Bill Clinton's most famous words: "it depends on what the meaning of is, is." In this case, of course, it depends on the meaning of "community."
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Done With Mirrors
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tcsdaily.com:
The Most Important Economic News of the Year — Discuss This Story! Bookmark … — William Lewis — Politicians and pundits re-assess the state of the economy often. They look at many short-term indicators and statistics. They follow statistics, such as the unemployment rate and inflation, which come out monthly.
Reuters:
Would-be suicide bombers blown up in Afghan blast — Two would-be suicide bombers have blown themselves up while strapping on explosives in an Afghan town bordering Pakistan, police said. — No one else was hurt in the blast near the market in Spin Boldak, Afghan border force commander Abdul Raziq told Reuters.
Matt Stoller / MyDD:
The Hollywood Mythspiracy — This is a guest-post. One of our underused media assets is Hollywood. I asked my brother Nick, who co-wrote 'Fun with Dick and Jane', to chime in. I just saw it, and it's a very good smart film with a strongly liberal narrative. — Firstly, let's get the important stuff out of the way.
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Victor Davis Hanson / honoluluadvertiser.com:
Hollywood's misunderstood terrorists — When terrorism goes to the movies in the post-Sept. 11 world, we might expect the plots, characters and themes to reflect some sort of believable reality. But in Hollywood, the politically correct impulse now overrides all else.
Mary Beth Sheridan / Washington Post:
U.S. Says It Didn't Target Muslims — Mosques Among Sites Monitored For Radiation — Faced with angry complaints, U.S. officials defended an anti-terrorism program yesterday that secretly tested radiation levels around the country — including at more than 100 Muslim sites in the Washington area …
Matthew Yglesias / TAPPED:
THE LIBERAL HAWKS' LAMENT. On a related note, I find the sort of self-pity of hawkish Democrats reflected in this post from Marshall Wittman a bit baffling: … That's absurd. Progressive Iraq hawks are hardly some beleaguered minority. They compose maybe ten percent of the population at most …
John Crewdson / Wichita Eagle:
Al-Qaida operative became fountain of information for U.S. — Moral and legal aspects aside, conventional wisdom is that torture simply isn't practical: that someone who is being tortured will say anything to make the torture stop, and that information gleaned through torture is therefore not reliable.
