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Toni Locy / Associated Press:
Justice Dept. Probing Domestic Spying Leak — WASHINGTON - The Justice Department has opened an investigation into the leak of classified information about President Bush's secret domestic spying program, Justice officials said Friday. — The officials, who requested anonymity …
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Opens Inquiry Into Leak of Domestic Spying — WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 - The Justice Department said today that it had opened a criminal investigation into the disclosure of classified information about a secret National Security Agency program under which President Bush authorized eavesdropping …
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The Moderate Voice
Michelle Malkin:
FINALLY: JUSTICE DEPT. OPENS NSA LEAK PROBE — ***scroll for updates...leaks leading to both NYTimes' NSA story and WashPost secret CIA prison story are under investigation...*** — It's about time. Via Breitbart/AP: … Fox News reporting that the White House is expected to comment on the probe.
Mac Ranger / Macsmind:Calling Mr. Fitzgerald? — As I told you about in this post yesterday …
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ReddHedd / firedoglake:Guess Who? — Guess who has been put in charge of the Iraqi …
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Needlenose
Associated Press:
Florida teen skips school, sneaks to Iraq — 16-year-old survives his experiment in 'immersion journalism' — BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Maybe it was the time the taxi dumped him at the Iraq-Kuwait border, leaving him alone in the middle of the desert. Or when he drew a crowd at a Baghdad food stand …
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IRAQ THE MODEL
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Steve Martin / The Huffington Post:
Leap Second Lovers are Traitors Says Bill O'Reilly — "This year's leap second is an assault on the American public," says commentator Bill O'Reilly. "The reason the leap second is even being proposed is because of America Haters, because of Iraqi hate mongers, and let's be honest, Shiites.
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Shakespeare's Sister
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
So, Guy Walks Up to the Bar, and Scalia Says... Justice Antonin Scalia's wit is widely admired, and now it has been quantified. He is, a new study concludes, 19 times as funny as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. — Transcripts of oral arguments at the United States Supreme Court have long featured …
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Crescat Sententia
Rachel L. Swarns / New York Times:
Bill on Illegal-Immigrant Aid Draws Fire — WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 - Churches, social service agencies and immigration groups across the country are rallying against a provision in the recently passed House border-security bill that would make it a federal crime to offer services or assistance to illegal immigrants.
Amos Harel / Associated Press:
Islamic Jihad claims Thursday's West Bank suicide bombing — The Islamic Jihad militant group claimed responsibility Friday for a suicide bombing in the West Bank that killed one soldier and two other Palestinians. — Islamic Jihad activists in the West Bank village of Atil, near Tul Karm …
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The Volokh Conspiracy
R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
The DeLay-Abramoff Money Trail — Nonprofit Group Linked to Lawmaker Was Funded Mostly by Clients of Lobbyist — The U.S. Family Network, a public advocacy group that operated in the 1990s with close ties to Rep. Tom DeLay and claimed to be a nationwide grass-roots organization …
John / AMERICAblog:
Confidential British memos show how information procured by torture in Uzbekistan is being used by US and UK, in violation of international law — Markos has the story, and I'm repeating the gist of it here to help get it out there. Feel free to copy and past this entire post on your blog.
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Gateway Pundit:
Media Blackout on Iraqi Body Counts — This is startling news! It is a shame the media is not reporting it! — Iraq has seen a very dramatic decrease in the number of civilian casualties this past year! — (click on picture to enlarge) — In fact if you take out that horrible …
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TigerHawk
Cori Dauber / Rantingprofs:
Look What's Slipped in the Middle — I'm too far behind on most of the issues raised in Dana Priest's summary article on CIA programs post 9/11 to comment on them in a particularly thoughtful way, (although I'm sure the rest of the blogosphere will be all a-buzz today) but one thing raises big alarm bells for me.
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Charles Fried / Boston Globe:
The case for surveillance — PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH has acknowledged that he authorized surveillance of electronic communications between people in the United States and people beyond our borders without asking for court authorization. The president claims that congressional authorization …
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The Strata-Sphere
Brian McGuire / New York Sun:
Democrats Try To Block Kavanaugh Bid — WASHINGTON — With so much attention focused on Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, President Bush's lower-court nominees have drawn relatively little notice in recent months. But a quiet maneuver last week by Senate Democrats aimed at blocking …
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Power Line
Associated Press:
Pack of Angry Chihuahuas Attack Officer — FREMONT, California - A pack of angry Chihuahuas attacked a police officer who was escorting a teenager home following a traffic stop, authorities said. The officer suffered minor injuries including bites to his ankle on Thursday …
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Argghhh!
Michael Idov / Slate:
Bitter Brew — I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop. Then it destroyed my life. — You know that charming little cafe on New York's Lower East Side that just closed after a mere six months in business—where coffee was served on silver trays with a glass of water and a little chocolate cookie?
Associated Press:
Report: Trump Weighs Run for N.Y. Governor — ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Donald Trump is considering running for governor, a leading Republican said Friday. — Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno on Thursday suggested that a big-name candidate could be flirting with entering the 2006 contest.
