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William Branigin / Washington Post:
Alito Seeks to Distance Himself From Previous Abortion Statements — Nominee Faces Senators in Second Day of Hearing — Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr., facing tough questioning on the second day of his Senate confirmation hearings, distanced himself today from a statement …
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Chris Bowers / MyDD:
Is Alito Lying About Concerned Alumni for Princeton? — Well, yes, he is lying, but I wanted to ask other people the same question. So, during the lunch break, I went down to the press area with Tim Tagaris, armed with only a single question: — "Do you believe Judge Alito is telling …
Jonathan Turley / USA Today:Troubling times, a troubling nominee
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:Democrats cannot meekly accept defeat on Alito
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TAPPED, The Washington Monthly, The Carpetbagger Report, Unclaimed Territory and Lean Left
National Review:
The Abramoff Scandal (R., Beltway) — Republicans are looking for "their" John McCain. The popular Arizona maverick is already a Republican, of course. But the GOP needs a McCain in the "Keating Five" sense. Back in 1990, Senate Democrats roped McCain into the scandal over savings …
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Bush Issues Stark Warning to Democrats on Iraq Debate — WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 - President Bush issued an unusually stark warning to Democrats today about how to conduct the debate on Iraq as midterm elections approach, declaring that Americans know the difference "between honest critics" …
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White House:
President Addresses Veterans of Foreign Wars on the War on Terror — Washington, D.C. — Fact Sheet: Progress and the Work Ahead in Iraq — National Strategy for Victory in Iraq — In Focus: Renewal in Iraq — In Focus: National Security — In Focus: Veterans
Jason Leopold / truthout.org:
Fitzgerald Maintains Focus on Rove — Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is said to have spent the past month preparing evidence he will present to a grand jury alleging that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove knowingly made false statements to FBI and Justice Department investigators …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:A Crumb For The Plamaniacs — The WaPo teases us with a near non-story …
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Fred Kaplan / Slate:
GI Schmo — How low can Army recruiters go? — Three months ago, I wrote that the war in Iraq was wrecking the U.S. Army, and since then the evidence has only mounted, steeply. Faced with repeated failures to meet its recruitment targets, the Army has had to lower its standards dramatically.
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New York Times:
I.R.S. Limited Tax Refunds of Poor, Congress Is Told — Tax refunds sought by hundreds of thousands of poor Americans have been frozen and their returns labeled fraudulent, blocking refunds for years to come, the Internal Revenue Service's taxpayer advocate told Congress today.
Bull Moose:
The Donkey Differs — The Moose welcomes a healthy debate in the DLC Zoo. — The always erudite and eloquent New Donkey differs with the Moose on the NSA eavesdropping matter. Without belaboring the matter, the Moose continues to believe that the President had authority both under Article II …
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Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
The Bush Bombshell — Did the president propose to take out Al Jazeera? — Tomorrow morning, in a court in London, two men will appear to face charges under Britain's Official Secrets Act. The first man, David Keogh, a former employee of the Cabinet Office, is accused of unlawfully handing …
Kevin Zeese / rawstory.com:
National Security Agency mounted massive spy op on Baltimore peace group, documents show — The National Security Agency has been spying on a Baltimore anti-war group, according to documents released during litigation, going so far as to document the inflating of protesters' balloons …
Michael J. Totten:
Send Me to Iraq — It's time for me to go to Iraq. — I am not going to embed with the military. While it sounds exciting (as well as terrifying), I'm only going to be there a few weeks. War correspondence isn't something a person does for two weeks. — Instead I'm going to the part of Iraq most journalists ignore: the North.
radioblogger.com:
The Joseph Biden Princeton Waffle — Grab a drink, settle into your chair, because this is going to be fun. — First off, Senator Biden had half an hour today with Samuel Alito, and the judge's word count, according to John Podhoretz at the Corner, was about 72 words.
Francis Harris / Telegraph:
Syria 'tried to fuel holy war in Iraq against US and Britain' — President Bashar al-Assad of Syria secretly incited Iraq's top Shia leader to declare holy war against US and British forces, according to Washington's former administrator in the country. — In his new book, My Year in Iraq …
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Brian Ross / ABCNEWS:
NSA Whistleblower Alleges Illegal Spying — Former Employee Admits to Being a New York Times Source — Jan 10, 2006 — Russell Tice, a longtime insider at the National Security Agency, is now a whistleblower the agency would like to keep quiet. — For 20 years, Tice worked in the shadows …
