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New York Times:
How a Deal Became a Big Liability for G.O.P.  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 — Representative Peter T. King of New York was in a room packed with reporters last week, complaining that the White House had jeopardized national security by contracting with an Arab-owned company to manage terminals …
Discussion: State of the Day and AMERICAblog
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Review of Port Deal Will Leave Decision to Bush  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 — The Dubai company seeking to take over some terminal operations at six American ports formally asked the Bush administration on Sunday to conduct a deeper investigation into security concerns surrounding the deal.
National Review:
A CIA Leak Trial Without the CIA Leak  —  CIA leak prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald argued at a hearing Friday that, as far as the perjury charges against former Cheney chief of staff Lewis Libby are concerned, it does not matter whether or not Valerie Wilson was a covert CIA agent when she was mentioned …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:   How Covert Was Valerie Plame? Don't Ask!
Marc Kaufman / Washington Post:
Plan B Battles Embroil States  —  Filling a void left by the Food and Drug Administration's inability to decide whether to make the "morning-after" pill available without a prescription, nearly every state is or soon will be wrestling with legislation that would expand or restrict access to the drug.
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Roy Temple / Fired Up! Missouri:
Ed Martin: Governor Blunt's General In His War On The Pill
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Another White House Briefing, Another Day of Mutual Mistrust  —  Mike McCurry, who was President Bill Clinton's press secretary a decade ago, is kicking himself to this day for ever allowing the White House briefings to be televised live.  —  "It was a huge error on my part," …
time.blogs.com:
Send Clinton  —  It appears that Iraq's elites may be pulling back from the brink.  Zalmay Khalilzad has another mountain to climb - but, this time, the minds of his interlocutors might have been concentrated a little.  We may be at the most critical juncture in the future of Iraq.
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harpers.org:
The Case for Impeachment  —  Why we can no longer afford George W. Bush … On December 18 of last year, Congressman John Conyers Jr. (D., Mich.) introduced into the House of Representatives a resolution inviting it to form "a select committee to investigate the Administration's intent …
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Jihadi Turns Bulldog  —  The Taliban's former spokesman is now a Yale student.  Anyone see a problem with that?  —  Never has an article made me blink with astonishment as much as when I read in yesterday's New York Times magazine that Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, former ambassador-at-large for the Taliban …
Barry R. Posen / New York Times:
We Can Live With a Nuclear Iran  —  THE intense concern about Iran's nuclear energy program reflects the judgment that, should it turn to the production of weapons, an Iran with nuclear arms would gravely endanger the United States and the world.  An Iranian nuclear arsenal, policymakers fear …
Discussion: protein wisdom and lgf
Brian Ross / ABCNEWS:
From Cash to Yachts, Convicted Congressman Set Bribery Rates  —  Court Documents Show Randall 'Duke' Cunningham Set Bribery Rates  —  Feb. 27, 2006 — Prosecutors call it a corruption case with no parallel in the long history of the U.S. Congress.  And it keeps getting worse.
James Glanz / New York Times:
Army to Pay Halliburton Unit Most Costs Disputed by Audit  —  The Army has decided to reimburse a Halliburton subsidiary for nearly all of its disputed costs on a $2.41 billion no-bid contract to deliver fuel and repair oil equipment in Iraq, even though the Pentagon's own auditors had identified …
MSNBC:
A tipping point on Islam?  —  With the Cartoon Wars giving way to the ports imbroglio, Jim Geraghty, blogging from Turkey, wonders if we're seeing a tipping point in Western attitudes toward Islam.  Geraghty collects a lot of quotes, and writes of "my sense that in recent weeks …
Marc Humbert / Associated Press:
Sen. Clinton Says Rove Obsesses About Her  —  ALBANY, N.Y. - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that President Bush's chief political strategist Karl Rove "spends a lot of time obsessing about me."  —  The former first lady and potential presidential contender was reacting during …
Discussion: TigerHawk and Bring it On!
R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
Texas Nonprofit Is Cleared After GOP-Prompted Audit  —  Group Says Probe Was 'Political Retaliation' by DeLay Allies  —  The Internal Revenue Service recently audited the books of a Texas nonprofit group that was critical of campaign spending by former House majority leader Tom DeLay …

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