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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 …
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New York Times:
Accord in House to Hold Inquiry on Surveillance — WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 — Leaders of the House Intelligence Committee said Thursday that they had agreed to open a Congressional inquiry prompted by the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program. But a dispute immediately broke …
George F. Will / Washington Post:No Checks, Many Imbalances — The next time a president asks Congress …
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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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Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:Can Cheney be His Own Declassification Machine?
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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 …
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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta:
Exclusive: Prisoner Abuse Photos from Iraq that MSM Won't Show You — **Jawa Report Exclusive** — The Jawa Report has obtained new photos from a new prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq. The photos show Iraqi prisoners being murdered by troops. The photos have not been published by a single mainstream news outlet.
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Mark Benjamin / Salon:Salon exclusive: The Abu Ghraib files
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Shankar Vedantam / Washington Post:
Glacier Melt Could Signal Faster Rise in Ocean Levels — Greenland's glaciers are melting into the sea twice as fast as previously believed, the result of a warming trend that renders obsolete predictions of how quickly Earth's oceans will rise over the next century, scientists said yesterday.
William Lobdell / Los Angeles Times:
Bedrock of a Faith Is Jolted — DNA tests contradict Mormon scripture. The church says the studies are being twisted to attack its beliefs. — From the time he was a child in Peru, the Mormon Church instilled in Jose A. Loayza the conviction that he and millions of other Native Americans …
Anthony Faiola / Washington Post:
Japanese Putting All Their Energy Into Saving Fuel — KAMIITA, Japan — When the Japanese government issued a national battle cry against soaring global energy prices this winter, no one heeded the call to arms more than this farming town in the misty mountains of western Japan.
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 …
New York Times:
Radical Cleric Rising as a Kingmaker in Iraqi Politics — BAGHDAD, Iraq, Feb. 15 — Late Saturday night, on the eve of a crucial vote to choose Iraq's next prime minister, a senior Iraqi politician's cellphone rang. A supporter of the Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr was on the line with a threat.
Cathy's World:
I get credit for is Lawrence O'Donnell an idiot — Make sure the entire blogosphere knows that I'm the one who asked is O'Donnell an idiot. Let me make it clear, the person who suggested this question to me is not a psychologist. The person who suggested the question to me is an idiot, OK?
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Proposed law targets tech-China cooperation — Nearly every U.S. company with a Web site located in China will have to move it elsewhere or its executives would face prison terms of up to a year, according to proposed legislation expected to be introduced this week in the U.S. Congress.
Greg Krikorian / Los Angeles Times:
Secret Data Exposed in Terrorism Case — Federal officials erred in releasing intelligence documents to an Islamic charity's defense team. — Federal officials in Dallas mistakenly disclosed classified counter-terrorism information in a breach of national security that could also threaten …
Mario F. Cattabiani / Philadelphia Inquirer:
Swann sat out on most election days — When Lynn Swann votes for himself in the May Republican primary, it will be a rare springtime trip to the polls. — Despite once saying that the right to vote should never be taken for granted, Swann missed 20 of the state's 36 elections in the last 18 years …
