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Newsweek:
Full Speed Ahead — After 9/11, Bush and Cheney pressed for more powerand got it. Now, predictably, the questions begin. Behind the NSA spying furor. — Jan. 9, 2006 issue - The talk at the White House in the days and weeks after 9/11 was all about suitcase nukes and germ warfare and surprise decapitation strikes.
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Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
NSA Gave Other U.S. Agencies Information From Surveillance — Fruit of Eavesdropping Was Processed and Cross-Checked With Databases — Information captured by the National Security Agency's secret eavesdropping on communications between the United States and overseas has been passed …
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
THE NEW YORK TIMES' PUBLIC EDITOR, Byron Calame, criticizes the Times' handling of the NSA story. Jeff Jarvis calls Calame's column "almost tough," and points to this post by Jay Rosen. — The Times' behavior on this story, and the Plame story, has undermined the unwritten …
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Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
Turning the Corner — I have no idea whether or not 2006 will be the year the power of the despots in this country will be checked, but if it happens it will be due to people like James Comey who after only three weeks on the job as the number two man in the Justice Department went …
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Shaft of Sunlight — I wrote the other day that I thought it was time for some angry Justice Department lawyers to step up and reveal what in the hell went on with the White House cherry picking and stovepiping the legal advice that allowed them to create a new commander in chief infallibility doctrine.
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Mathew Gross
Tabassum Zakaria / Reuters:Bush defends eavesdropping amid calls for testimony
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:Breaking the Daou Cycle: Conservative opposition to Bush's law-breaking
Steve Benen / The Washington Monthly:RESISTANCE AT JUSTICE ON WARRANTLESS SEARCHES....After the Bush …
Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
Bush Defends Domestic Spying Program — SAN ANTONIO - President Bush on Sunday strongly defended his domestic spying program, saying it's a limited initiative that tracks only incoming calls to the United States. — "It's seems logical to me that if we know there's a phone number associated …
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Associated Press:
Schumer Seeks Motive in U.S. Spy Probe — WASHINGTON - The investigation into leaks about a domestic spying program should determine whether the motivation was damaging security or revealing a potentially illegal activity, a Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday.
Judd / Think Progress:Lugar Supports Investigation Of Bush's Spying Program
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Crooks and Liars
MSNBC:
Transcript for January 1 — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Jon Meacham, William Safire & Eugene Robinson — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this New Year's Day: What was the biggest story of 2005? What stories should we watch for in 2006? And the New Hampshire primary is only two years away.
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Julian E. Barnes / US News:
Cracking An Insurgent Cell — Finding—and breaking—the ruthless killers of Iraq is not a pretty business. An exclusive inside look at how it's done — OSUL, IRAQ—It is 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, December 10, five days before Iraq's national elections. A red four-door sedan carrying …
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Coldplay's new CD has rules: No MP3s, no DVD players, no car stereos — Coldplay's new CD comes with an insert that discloses all the rules enforced by the DRM they included on the disc. Of course, these rules are only visible after you've paid for the CD and brought it home …
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Jason Straziuso / Associated Press:
13 Car Bombs Wound 20 People Across Iraq — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents exploded 13 car bombs across Iraq on Sunday, including eight in Baghdad within a three-hour span, but the New Year's Day onslaught killed no one and injured only 20 people, police said. — A Sudanese official, meanwhile …
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Clearing The Ranchette — This is the wierdest damned article I've read in ages. I knew that Junior did the brush clearing thing, but I assumed that he did it for photo-op purposes. It turns out that he's actually obsessed with it. — He's obsessed with brush clearing.
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Washington Post:
A Snapshot of the Uninsured Life — What does it mean to be uninsured in the United States? — A recent study revealed that if you don't have health insurance, you might as well have a scarlet letter sewn on your shirt because you will be identified as someone who can be ignored, discarded and shamed with impunity.
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Just a Bump in the Beltway
