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New York Times:
Spy Agency Data After Sept. 11 Led F.B.I. to Dead Ends  —  WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 - In the anxious months after the Sept. 11 attacks, the National Security Agency began sending a steady stream of telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and names to the F.B.I. in search of terrorists.
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Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Two Groups Planning to Sue Over Federal Eavesdropping  —  WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 - Two leading civil rights groups plan to file lawsuits Tuesday against the Bush administration over its domestic spying program to determine whether the operation was used to monitor 10 defense lawyers, journalists …
PR Newswire:
ACLU Sues to Stop Illegal Spying on Americans, Saying President is Not Above the Law  —  Prominent Journalists, Nonprofit Groups, Terrorism Experts and Community Advocates Join First Lawsuit to Challenge New NSA Spying Program  —  NEW YORK, Jan. 17 /PRNewswire/ — Saying …
Gateway Pundit:
Al Gore Arrogates to Himself Power to Ignore His Past  —  An executive who arrogates to himself the power to ignore the legitimate legislative directives of the Congress or to act free of the check of the judiciary becomes the central threat that the Founders sought to nullify in the Constitution …
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Deacon / Power Line:   WHAT YOU'D EXPECT FROM A DEMAGOGUE
Gay Patriot:   Law School Dropout Accuses President of Breaking the Law
ReddHedd / firedoglake:
Living Up to Our Legacy of Liberty
Associated Press:
Gore assails domestic wiretapping program  —  Former vice president: Bush 'repeatedly and persistently' broke the law  —  WASHINGTON - Former Vice President Al Gore asserted Monday that President Bush "repeatedly and persistently" broke the law by eavesdropping on Americans without …
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radioblogger.com:
Arizona Congressman John Shadegg is the first of the three House leadership candidates to answer the hard questions.  —  HH: One of the men who would replace Tom Delay is the Congressman from the 3rd District in Arizona, John Shadegg, originally elected in the landslide year of 1994.
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Anne E. Kornblut / New York Times:
Spotlight on Lobbying Swings to Little-Known Congressman  —  WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 - Until recently, Representative Bob Ney was little more than an obscure, sometimes eccentric, lawmaker from Ohio.  —  He had made his biggest public splash in 2003, when he ordered the House cafeteria …
Discussion: TalkLeft
Robert Novak / Chicago Sun Times:
Will House GOP vote for reformer?
Discussion: Obsidian Wings
Marcia Kramer / wcbstv.com:
Controversial Words At Sharpton's MLK Event  —  Clinton's Use Of Word 'Plantation' Raises Eyebrows  —  (CBS) NEW YORK The Martin Luther King Day celebration at Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network is a rite of passage in an election year.  And with so many big races this year …
Discussion: Gateway Pundit and Generation Why?
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Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Senate Panel's Vote on Alito Delayed Until Next Week  —  The top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee reached an agreement yesterday evening to wait until next Tuesday to vote on the nomination of Samuel A. Alito Jr. to the Supreme Court.
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Confirm Them
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David Espo / Associated Press:
Supreme Court Press Releases
Warren P. Strobel / Knight Ridder:
Islamists gain ground from American push for Mideast democracy  —  WASHINGTON — Call it a case of why you should be careful what you wish for.  —  President Bush's efforts to spread democracy to the Middle East have strengthened Islamists across the region, posing fresh challenges for the United States …
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Jerusalem Post:
Saudi FM opposes Iranian attempts to build nukes
Discussion: Link Mecca and lgf
Carol Giacomo / Reuters:
US senators say military strike on Iran must be option
Brett Martel / Associated Press:
New Orleans Mayor Says God Mad at U.S.  —  Mayor Ray Nagin suggested Monday that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and other storms were a sign that "God is mad at America" and at black communities, too, for tearing themselves apart with violence and political infighting.  —  "Surely God is mad at America.
Lydia Polgreen / New York Times:
Africa's First Elected Female Head of State Takes Office  —  MONROVIA, Liberia, Jan. 16 - Standing before the bullet-scarred capitol of this war-torn nation, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the Harvard-trained banker and stalwart survivor of Liberia's brutal politics, took the oath today …
Discussion: BBC and ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
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ThreatsWatch.Org:
Security Incidents in Iraq  —  al-Qaeda and the Iraqi Insurgency, a week in review  —  al-Qaeda in Iraq has issued a statement claiming to "have set up an umbrella body to coordinate their fight against U.S.-led forces and the Iraqi government."  Notably excluded from this body of insurgent groups …
Discussion: Today in Iraq
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Patrick Quinn / Associated Press:   Iraq: 99 Percent of Voting Was Valid
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Murtha and the Mudslingers  —  I underestimated the viciousness of the right wing.  —  Last November, Rep. John Murtha, a Democrat and a decorated Marine combat veteran, came out for a rapid American withdrawal from Iraq.  At the time, I wrote: "It will be difficult for Bush's acolytes to cast Murtha …
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Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
The President Needs to Denounce the Swift-Boating of Murtha... Now!
Discussion: BobGeiger.com
USA Today:
U.S. tally of wounded drops 26%  —  WASHINGTON — The number of U.S. troops wounded in Iraq fell by more than a quarter in 2005 from a year earlier, Pentagon records show.  Military officials call that a sign that insurgent attacks have declined in the face of elections and stronger Iraqi security forces.
John Boehner / Opinion Journal:
Keep Politics Kosher  —  House Republicans need a low-pork diet.  —  WASHINGTON—The Republican agenda is at risk because of a growing perception that Congress is for sale.  The guilty plea of Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham for bribery, the guilty pleas of scam artists Jack Abramoff and Michael Scanlon …
Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
Amour Courtois  —  A trembling Sir Galahad comes to the defense of the Fair Deborah Howell over at the WaPo blog: … The links provided by this Derek Willis do in fact prove that the Post has been consistent in their attempts to tar Democrats all along.  —  This hardly works in his defense.
Discussion: Wampum, TBogg and Crooks and Liars
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
It's Curtains for al-Qaida  —  What happens when Iraqi "insurgents" take on Zarqawi's thugs?  —  The best news from Iraq this year would certainly be the long New York Times report of Jan. 12 on the murderous strife between local "insurgents" and al-Qaida infiltrators.  This was also among the best news from last year.

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