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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 …
Discussion: AMERICAblog and Decision '08
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
Patriot Act Moves Closer to Renewal
Discussion: ThoughtCrimes.org and Prometheus 6
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 …
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.
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Federal court orders Justice Dept. to release NSA documents
Washington Post:   Senate Rejects Wiretapping Probe
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?  —  In my view, the law says "No". . .but I have little doubt Alberto Gonzales and his minions will construct a rationale that says otherwise.  —  But I have run across some interesting information — and have some questions that we should all pose …
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  —  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.
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.
Associated Press:
Sheriff: Dick Cheney Won't Face Charges  —  SARITA, Texas (AP) - The sheriff's department closed its investigation Thursday into Dick Cheney's accidental shooting of a hunting partner and said no charges will be filed.  —  The Kenedy County Sheriff's Department issued a report that largely supports …
Discussion: PunditGuy and Expose the Left
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Nancy Martinez / knoxstudio.com:
Sheriff, deputy explain responses to Cheney shooting
White House:
President Discusses Health Care  —  Reforming Health Care for the 21st Century  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thanks for coming.  Please be seated.  (Applause.)  Jack, thanks for the introduction, thanks for letting us convert your lobby into a — (laughter) — place to come and visit.
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Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Bush Promotes Health Accounts at Wendy's
Discussion: Demagogue and TalkLeft
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.
Discussion: Cafe Hayek and Majikthise
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 …
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 …
The Anchoress:
Money fer nothin'  —  Glenn Reynolds (that would be the Instapundit if you don't know) has a nice column up at TCS Daily wherein he looks at the profitability of blogging. … I had an email from a rather new-ish blogger just last week, wondering if there is money to be made in blogging.
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?
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 …
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 …

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