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New York Times:
Republican Speaks Up, Leading Others to Challenge Wiretaps — WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 — When Representative Heather A. Wilson broke ranks with President Bush on Tuesday to declare her "serious concerns" about domestic eavesdropping, she gave voice to what some fellow Republicans were thinking, if not saying.
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Associated Press:
Oops! - Bush Unaware Mikes Were Still On — CAMBRIDGE, Md. - The eavesdropping tables were turned on President Bush on Friday. The president apparently believed he was speaking privately when he talked about listening in without a warrant on domestic communications with suspected al-Qaida terrorists overseas.
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La Shawn / La Shawn Barber's Corner:
CPAC: Endangered Species, Bloggers, Etc. — I'm coming to you live from CPAC. I met a member of an endangered species: a single, straight, black, socially conservative, Christian man (and he reads my blog - excellent). Did I mention that he was single? — I couldn't resist uploading …
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Wonder Woman / A North American Patriot:
Oh Ann! — "If you're going to be a conservative in America, you can't be a pussy!" — Ann Coulter made an over the top speech to a packed room — In fact, I was relegated to watching it on the tv feed from bloggers row, because the room was bursting at the seams.
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Right Wing News
Jonathan Alter / Newsweek:
The Shoe (Bomb) on the Other Foot — President Bush's revelation about a foiled bomb plot shows the dangers of declassification for purely partisan purposes. — Feb. 10, 2006 - Poor Porter Goss. First, the longtime Florida congressman leaves his safe seat to become director of the CIA …
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Los Angeles Times:
Bush Gives New Details About Old Report of L.A. Terror Plot — WASHINGTON — With pressure mounting on the White House to more fully explain its anti-terrorism strategy, President Bush offered new details Thursday of a reported plot against downtown Los Angeles as evidence of success in foiling attacks.
Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Carter allowed surveillance in 1977 — Former President Jimmy Carter, who publicly rebuked President Bush's warrantless eavesdropping program this week during the funeral of Coretta Scott King and at a campaign event, used similar surveillance against suspected spies.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Bob Barr, Bane of the Right? — You could find just about everything at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference this week: the bumper sticker that says "Happiness is Hillary's face on a milk carton," the "Straight Pride" T-shirt, a ride on an F-22 Raptor simulator at the Lockheed exhibit …
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The Next Hurrah, Unclaimed Territory, Stygius, The Reaction and Just a Bump in the Beltway
Philip Shenon / New York Times:
E-Mail Notes Say Lobbyist Met President Many Times — WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 — The disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff told a magazine editor in recent days that he had met with President Bush many times and was invited to the president's Texas ranch for a gathering of campaign contributors in 2003, the editor said Thursday.
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Diana Jean Schemo / New York Times:
In Small Town, 'Grease' Ignites a Culture War — FULTON, Mo. — When Wendy DeVore, the drama teacher at Fulton High here, staged the musical "Grease," about high school students in the 1950's, she carefully changed the script to avoid causing offense in this small town.
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Ex-FEMA Leader Faults Response by White House — WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 — Michael D. Brown, the former federal emergency management chief who became a ridiculed symbol of the Bush administration's flawed response to Hurricane Katrina, returned in anger to Capitol Hill on Friday and lashed back at his former superiors.
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Censorship Is Alleged at NOAA — Scientists Afraid to Speak Out, NASA Climate Expert Reports — NEW YORK, Feb. 10 — James E. Hansen, the NASA climate scientist who sparked an uproar last month by accusing the Bush administration of keeping scientific information from reaching the public …
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Paul Pillar Speaks, Again — IN A BREATHLESS front-page, above-the-fold article in today's Washington Post, Walter Pincus reports that a former senior CIA official named Paul Pillar accuses the Bush administration of "misusing" intelligence to take the country to war in Iraq.
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Pakistan Daily Times:
VIEW: Modernity and protests by Muslims —Farish A Noor — Islamist NGOs, parties, movements, civil society groups, media outlets and politicians have mobilised Muslims and got them on the streets to demonstrate the will of the Muslim masses and — more importantly — the power of the Muslim dollar
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Olivier Guitta / Weekly Standard:
The Cartoon Jihad — IT IS NOW ABUNDANTLY CLEAR that the recent murderous protests over cartoons of the prophet Muhammad published in a Danish newspaper last September were anything but spontaneous. The actions of Islamist agitators and financiers have deliberately drummed …
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
RNC Chief Defends Domestic Wiretaps — Mehlman Assails Democrats on Security Issues — Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman yesterday accused Democratic leaders of wanting to deny law enforcement officials the tools they need to defend against terrorism and criticized …
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War and Piece
Deborah Hastings / Associated Press:
Turin Games Kick Off With Surreal Ceremony — This gritty city below the Alps gave a heartfelt "benvenuto" Friday night to the Winter Games, a fiery opening ceremony dedicated to passion and to igniting the competitive spirits of more than 2,500 of the world's best athletes.
