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Jay Rosen / PressThink:
Dick Cheney Did Not Make a Mistake By Not Telling the Press He Shot a Guy  —  "The public visibility of the presidency itself is under revision.  More of it lies in shadow all the time.  Non-communication has become the standard procedure, not a breakdown in practice but the essence of it …
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National Review:
The Little-Noticed Order That Gave Dick Cheney New Power  —  In addition to discussing his hunting accident, Vice President Dick Cheney, in his interview on the Fox News Channel Wednesday, also pointed to a little-known but enormously consequential expansion of vice-presidential power …
AOL News:
Rove Pushed Cheney to Talk  —  (Feb. 16) — President Bush's top political aide, Karl Rove, pushed Vice President Dick Cheney to speak publicly about shooting a fellow hunter, sources tell CBS News.  —  Rove worried the vice president's silence on the issue was becoming a political problem …
Matea Gold / Los Angeles Times:
Critics slam Cheney's interview choice  —  New York — For days, the White House news corps has pounded the Bush administration, demanding to learn more about Vice President Dick Cheney's accidental shooting of a hunting companion Saturday.  —  Cheney finally addressed the incident Wednesday …
Thomas Sowell / Townhall.com:
Spoiled brat media
Kevin Sites / Associated Press:
Iran Renames Danish Pastries  —  TEHRAN, Iran - Iranians love Danish pastries, but when they look for the flaky dessert at the bakery they now have to ask for "Roses of the Prophet Muhammad."  —  Bakeries across the capital were covering up their ads for Danish pastries Thursday …
Mark Benjamin / Salon:
Salon exclusive: The Abu Ghraib files  —  Never-published photos, and an internal Army report, show more Iraqi prisoner abuse — evidence the government is fighting to hide.  —  Print EmailFont: S / S+ / S++  —  An unknown detainee with women's underwear on his head, strapped to a bed frame.
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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Court Veteran Remembers a Scary Start  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 — No one will blame Justice Stephen G. Breyer if he flashes back more than 11 years to his own challenging start on the Supreme Court when Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. is ceremonially sworn in there on Thursday.
Discussion: Althouse and PrawfsBlawg
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National Review:
Checked and Unbalanced  —  As a reverent admirer of George Will, it pains me to say that his diatribe today against the National Security Agency's terrorist-surveillance program is an embarrassing magpie of hyperbole and error.  —  Will's premise is that the administration, in authorizing the program …
Discussion: Power Line
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Bush Promotes Health Accounts at Wendy's  —  DUBLIN, Ohio, Feb. 15 — President Bush campaigned for his plan to expand health savings accounts on Wednesday here at the headquarters of the Wendy's fast-food chain, declaring that his proposals were not just for the wealthy and would help …
Discussion: Demagogue and TalkLeft
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David Stout / New York Times:
Senate Panel Decides Against Eavesdropping Inquiry, for Now  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 — The Senate Intelligence Committee decided today not to investigate President Bush's domestic surveillance program, at least for the time being.  —  "I believe that such an investigation is currently unwarranted …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Decision '08
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Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
Patriot Act Moves Closer to Renewal
Discussion: ThoughtCrimes.org and Prometheus 6
tcsdaily.com:
Blogging: for Love or Money?  —  People are making a living, or a decent chunk of one, by blogging.  Some are warbloggers in the Middle East, like Michael Totten, who blogs from Beirut, with occasional sidetrips to Egypt, Turkey, and Iraq, or Michael Yon, who served as a war correspondent via blog …
Polly Curtis / Guardian:
Abortions at home are safe - pilot study  —  Women who are less than nine weeks pregnant can safely have medical abortions at home, according to the head of a government-backed pilot project.  —  Abortion services for the 20,000 women who seek a chemically induced abortion every year …
Raleigh News & Observer:
Able Danger hearing sets intelligence officers at odds  —  The Pentagon's top intelligence official clashed repeatedly Wednesday with former operatives of the clandestine Able Danger program over how much the government knew about al-Qaeda before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
MSNBC:
U.S. must release domestic spying documents  —  Judge rules in favor of civil liberties group in Freedom of Information case  —  WASHINGTON - A federal judge Thursday ordered the Justice Department to respond within 20 days to requests by a civil liberties group for documents about President Bush's domestic eavesdropping program.
Chris Bowers / MyDD:
CT-Sen: First Poll  —  The primary in Connecticut will take place in almost six months—173 days to be precise— on Tuesday, August 8, 2006.  Given this, I would like to take a look back at Lieberman's poll performance in another recent Democratic primary in Connecticut over a similar amount of time.
Discussion: Greg's Opinion and Daily Kos
Dorkafork / INDC Journal:
The Birdshot Conspiracy  —  You're close to the truth, Mr. Marshall.  Closer than you know.  —  I was in New Zealand 20 hours after the shooting.  And there was no mention of it in any of the newspapers.  Not one.  If I had been in the press office I would have sent out a press release immediately.
Discussion: protein wisdom
Eli Lake / New York Sun:
Furor Erupts Over Recordings of Saddam  —  CAIRO, Egypt - Two former CIA directors have resigned from the board of the organization planning tomorrow to make public secret recordings of Saddam Hussein and his advisers.  —  In the last week both John Deutch and James Woolsey abruptly left …
Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
The Lessons of Counterinsurgency  —  U.S. Unit Praised for Tactics Against Iraqi Fighters, Treatment of Detainees  —  TALL AFAR, Iraq — The last time the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment served in Iraq, in 2003-04, its performance was judged mediocre, with a series of abuse cases growing out of its tour of duty in Anbar province.

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