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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 …
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Cheney seen retiring after midterm elections — Vice President Dick Cheney is expected to retire within a year. — Senior GOP sources envision the retirement of Mr. Cheney in 2007, months after the congressional elections. The sources said Mr. Cheney would be persuaded to step …
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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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 …
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 …
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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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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," …
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.
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 …
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 …
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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 …
India / White House:
Press Briefing by Scott McClellan — MR. McCLELLAN: Good afternoon, everyone. Let me begin with a couple of issues, one, a world leader call, and then, two, a meeting the President had earlier today. — First of all, President Uribe of Colombia called the President this morning to express …
Mohammed / IRAQ THE MODEL:
The shrine crisis...words that need to be said. — Life is coming back to normal in Baghdad and marketplaces and offices are open again after being shut for 4 days. Although there were a few security incidents today people are mostly looking at these as part of the usual daily situation and not related to the latest shrine crisis.
