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Transparency at the Post: Q & A with Jim Brady of Washingtonpost.com
Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
In Preview of G.O.P. Campaign, Rove Tears Into Democrats  —  WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 - Karl Rove, the president's chief political adviser, gave nervous Republicans here a preview of the party's strategy to maintain its dominance in the fall elections today, assailing Democrats for their positions on terrorism …
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Ron Fournier / Associated Press:
Rove: GOP to Use Terror As Campaign Issue  —  WASHINGTON - Embattled White House adviser Karl Rove vowed Friday to make the war on terrorism a central campaign issue in November.  —  He also said Democratic senators looked "mean-spirited and small-minded" in questioning Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito.
Derrick Nunnally / JSOnline:
Sudden plea deals in tire-slashing case  —  In an unexpected twist in the Election Day tire-slashing trial, four former Kerry-Edwards campaign staffers, including the sons of U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Milwaukee) and former Acting Mayor Marvin Pratt, have agreed to plead no contest to misdemeanors.
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Sean Hackbarth / The American Mind:
Plea Agreement in Tire Slashing Case  —  Milwaukee District Attorney E. Michael McCann's office is known as a plea bargain machine.  Conservatives were pleasantly surprised when his office took the Milwaukee 5 to trial.  Prosecutors went through eight days of testimony and arguments and put it in the jury's hands.
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John Kerry / dailykos.com:
Real Hardball  —  There's something that doesn't sit right with me when, on the day Osama Bin Laden resurfaced in a disturbing audio tape, cable television ends up in a game of name calling as a war protester is compared to Osama Bin Laden.  —  That's reason to be outraged …
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Robert Fisk / Independent:
Osama bin Laden: Is it him? Almost certainly.
David Stout / New York Times:
U.S. Indicts 11 for Acts of Domestic Terrorism  —  WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 - Eleven people have been indicted on charges of carrying out a years-long spree of arson, bombings and other acts of domestic terrorism throughout five Western states, the Justice Department said today.
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Gay families plan to attend White House egg roll  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Three months before the annual Easter egg roll at the White House, the usually festive event is already taking on a divisive edge because of plans by gay- and lesbian-led families to turn out en masse in hopes of raising their public profile.
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Jacques Steinberg / New York Times:
Television Cul-de-Sac Mystery: Why Was Reality Show Killed?  —  AUSTIN, Tex. - A year ago, Stephen Wright and his partner, John Wright, embarked on a sociology experiment that only a reality show producer could concoct: theirs was one of seven families competing to persuade the residents …
David Johnston / New York Times:
Pentagon Analyst Gets 12 Years for Disclosing Data  —  WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 - A federal judge sentenced a former Defense Department analyst, Lawrence A. Franklin, to more than 12 years in prison today after Mr. Franklin admitted passing classified military information to two pro-Israel lobbyists and an Israeli diplomat.
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Steve / The Emerging Democratic Majority WebLog:
Dems Should Project Clarity, Unity On Government Spying  —  Dem candidates up for election in November already have plenty of knotty issues to chew on.  Not to add to that burden, but a new Salon.com post "Fear of Spying" by Walter Shapiro merits their attention.
San Francisco Chronicle:
CNN is still sick with Fox envy — and it's only getting worse  —  These must be great days to work at Fox News.  Not only does the 24-hour cable channel beat rival CNN like a sick, sad mule, but Roger Ailes is so deep in the heads of CNN's managers that every time they stumble over themselves in chaos …
Malia Rulon / news.cincinnati.com:
GOP boss urges Ney to resign if indicted  —  No charges filed against lawmaker yet in lobby case  —  WASHINGTON - Ohio Republican Chairman Bob Bennett said Thursday that he'd ask Rep. Bob Ney to resign from Congress if he were indicted on felony charges.  —  Bennett stressed that Ney …
Erica Solvig / USA Today:
Abramoff's dad bashes Clooney's 'ridiculous attack'  —  The father of controversial Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff is responding to actor George Clooney for what he's describing as a "glib and ridiculous attack" on his son.  —  Frank Abramoff, in a letter addressed to Clooney and sent to The …
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