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Washington Post:
U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Holds a Hearing on Wartime Executive Power and the National Security Agency's Surveillance Authority — SPECTER: It's 9:30. The Judiciary Committee will now proceed with our hearing on the administration's program administered by the National Security Agency on surveillance.
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Washington Post:
U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Holds a Hearing on Wartime Executive Power and the National Security Agency's Surveillance Authority — The transcript picks up with the testimony of Senator Herb Kohl. Return to Part I. — Senator Kohl? — KOHL: Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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Decision '08, The Volokh Conspiracy, The Huffington Post, This Modern World and Sister Toldjah
Washington Post:
U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Holds a Hearing on Wartime Executive Power and the National Security Agency's Surveillance Authority — SPECTER: Thank you very much, Senator Cornyn. — DURBIN: Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. — Thank you, Attorney General, for being here.
William Branigin / Washington Post:
Gonzales Defends Legality of Surveillance — Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales told a Senate committee today that a controversial surveillance program is "lawful in all respects" and that President Bush launched it under authority from both the Constitution and U.S. law.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:In Quizzing a Reticent Gonzales, Senators Encounter a Power Shortage
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:Spying and Lying: A Winning Issue for Dems... If They Stay Strong
NEWS.com.au:
Iran to publish Holocaust cartoons — IRAN'S largest selling newspaper announced today it was holding a contest on cartoons of the Holocaust in response to the publishing in European papers of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. — "It will be an international cartoon contest about the Holocaust …
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Times of London:
Iranian paper launches Holocaust cartoon competition — Iran's biggest-selling newspaper has waded into the Muhammad controversy by launching a competition to find the 12 "best" cartoons about the Holocaust. — Farid Mortazavi, graphics editor for Tehran's Hamshahri newspaper …
Deacon / Power Line:
SCOOPED BY MY OWN PARTNER — As John mentioned, this morning Senator Durbin met the new media and, more specifically, "Pajama Line." This occurred because I had the good fortune of accompanying filmmaker Andrew Marcus of Pajamas Media to the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the legality of the NSA intercept program.
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Mark Tapscott / tapscottscopydesk.blogspot.com:
Betcha Durbin Knows About Pajamas Media Now! (And Don't Miss Update V on an AP Schools Story) — Capitol Hill is buzzing with talk of a news conference earlier today in which Powerline's Paul Mirengoff was pushing some hard questions at Sen. Teddy Kennedy, D-MA, and Sen. Richard Durbin …
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Michelle Malkin
mccain.senate.gov:
MCCAIN RELEASES LETTER TO OBAMA — Washington D.C. - Today, Senator McCain sent the following letter to Senator Obama regarding ongoing Congressional efforts towards bipartisan lobbying reform. The following is the text from that letter: — The Honorable Barack Obama — United States Senate
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Hotline On Call:
McCain Blasts — And We Mean Blasts — Obama — An outraged Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) today called Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) insincere and partisan, suggesting the Illinois freshman as much as lied in private dicussions the two had about ethics reform last week.
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MyDD, Democrat Taylor Marsh …, Amygdala, Shakespeare's Sister, BrothersJudd Blog and Donklephant
Charles Levinson / Christian Science Monitor:
Sunni tribes turn against jihadis — To fight foreign terrorists, US and Iraqi forces are looking to the Sunni Arab resistance. — BAGHDAD - Sheikh Osama al-Jadaan, head of the influential Karabila tribe in Sunni Arab-dominated western Iraq, is more politician than traditional sheikh these days.
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In the Bullpen
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Robin Toner / New York Times:
Holding Fast to a Policy of Tax Cutting — WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 — George W. Bush ran for office as a "compassionate conservative," arguing that Americans did not have to choose between huge tax cuts and a government that would do its part to address social needs like education and health care.
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Democratic Veteran
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Gerard Baker / Times of London:
New roles take centre stage but old divisions lurk in the wings — Sabre-rattling Europe and emollient US will soon settle down to business as usual — WHEN European and US policymakers, led by Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, and Donald Rumsfeld, the US Defence Secretary …
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Polly Toynbee / Guardian:No more fantasy diplomacy: cut a deal with the mullahs
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Harry's Place
rawstory.com:
Reporter hits McClellan on taps: 'You know what happened to Nixon when he broke the law' — RAW STORY — White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan got in a heated row with a White House correspondent at Monday's press briefing over President Bush's warrantless domestic spying program, RAW STORY has learned.
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:Helen to Scotty: You know what happened to Nixon when he broke the law.
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Suburban Guerrilla
MSNBC:
Because they can — If I were the kind of blogger who ran contests, I'd have an essay contest today asking people to write in and explain which of the following two stories is the more perfect representation of the Bush Administration's overall approach to the rest of the world.
Gateway Pundit:
Danish Imams Busted! ** — Imam Ahmad Abu Laban, the leader of the Islamic Society of Denmark toured the Middle-East to "create awareness" about 12 cartoons that were published in Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, on September 30, 2005. — However, the truth is that Imam Ahmad Abu Laban …
Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff / Washington Post:
Tolerance Toward Intolerance — Last week the publication I work for, the German newsweekly Die Zeit, printed one of the controversial caricatures of the prophet Muhammad. It was the right thing to do. — When the cartoons were first published in Denmark in September, nobody in Germany took notice.
