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2:35 PM ET, March 8, 2006

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New York Times:
G.O.P. Senators and Bush Reach Wiretap Accord  —  WASHINGTON, March 7 — Moving to tamp down Democratic calls for an investigation of the administration's domestic eavesdropping program, Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee said Tuesday that they had reached agreement with the White House …
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Post-mortem on the Intelligence Committee vote  —  (updated below)  —  The Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday rejected Sen. Rockefeller's motion to hold hearings to investigate the President's warrantless eavesdropping program by an 8-7, strict party line vote.
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Senate Panel Blocks Eavesdropping Probe  —  The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence voted along party lines yesterday to reject a Democratic proposal to investigate the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program and instead approved establishing, with White House approval, a seven-member panel to oversee the effort.
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Bush Orders DHS to Create Center for Faith-Based Aid  —  President Bush ordered the Department of Homeland Security yesterday to create a center for faith-based and community initiatives within 45 days to eliminate regulatory, contracting and programmatic barriers to providing federal funds …
Thomas B. Edsall / Washington Post:
Democrats' Data Mining Stirs an Intraparty Battle  —  With Private Effort on Voter Information, Ickes and Soros Challenge Dean and DNC  —  A group of well-connected Democrats led by a former top aide to Bill Clinton is raising millions of dollars to start a private firm that plans …
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Raymond Hernandez / New York Times:
Clinton Says New York, but Money Hints at '08  —  WASHINGTON, March 7 — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is locking up some of the Democratic Party's top fund-raisers, in a move that party officials and strategists say seems intended to complicate the efforts of any potential rivals in the 2008 presidential contest.
Sylvia Moreno / Washington Post:
DeLay Wins Tex. GOP Primary  —  Former House Majority Leader Easily Beats Three Challengers  —  AUSTIN, March 7 — Rep. Tom DeLay, facing an unusual four-way Republican primary, won the party's nomination Tuesday, calling his victory a rejection by voters of "the politics of personal destruction."
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
House Agrees To Vote On Ports  —  Efforts by the White House to hold off legislation challenging a Dubai-owned company's acquisition of operations at six major U.S. ports collapsed yesterday when House Republican leaders agreed to allow a vote next week that could kill the deal.
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
G.O.P. Leaders Vowing to Block Ports Agreement  —  WASHINGTON, March 7 — Defying President Bush, House Republican leaders said Tuesday that they would take immediate steps to scuttle a deal giving a Dubai company control of some major seaport operations without awaiting the outcome of a 45-day review of potential security risks.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
At Conservative Forum on Bush, Everybody's a Critic  —  If the ancient political wisdom is correct that a charge unanswered is a charge agreed to, the Bush White House pleaded guilty yesterday at the Cato Institute to some extraordinary allegations.  —  "We did ask a few members …
William Saletan / Slate:
Take the Fifth  —  South Dakota's invitation to snuff your embryo.  —  Monday morning, Gov. Mike Rounds signed into law a ban on nearly all abortions in South Dakota.  He called it a "direct challenge" to Roe v. Wade.  But the ban also poses a direct challenge to the pro-life movement …
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George Jahn / Associated Press:
Iran Threatens U.S. With 'Harm and Pain'  —  VIENNA, Austria (AP) — Iran threatened the United States with "harm and pain" Wednesday for its role in hauling Tehran before the U.N. Security Council over its nuclear program.  America's ambassador to the United Nations said Iran's comments reflected the menace it poses.
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
NJ's dumb bill on anonymity  —  New Jersey Assemblyman Peter Biondi has proposed a numbskulled, unconstitutional, offensive, and downright stupid bill that would force operators of internet services — presumably, forums, chats, blog hosts, web hosts, perhaps even email services and ISPs …
Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
Delivering the Conservative Line on 'Monologues'  —  Monique Stuart was a teenager when Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" first appeared off-off-Broadway a decade ago.  —  But by the time the 24-year-old saw the play in her senior year of college, she'd already made up her mind that it wasn't worth much.
Clinton W. Taylor / Townhall.com:
Giving Yale the finger  —  Since the New York Times and Wall Street Journal broke the news about the admission of Taliban official Sayeed Rahmatullah Hashemi to a special student program at Yale, we've received numerous emails from outraged Yale Alumni.  One email stood out from the rest …
Jamie Glazov / Front Page Magazine:
Symposium: To Rape an Unveiled Woman  —  A Muslim rape epidemic in sweeping over Europe — and over many other nations host to immigrants from the Islamic world.  The direct connection between the rapes and Islam is irrefutable, as Muslims are significantly overrepresented among convicted rapists and rape suspects.
New York Times:
Elite Troops Get Expanded Role on Intelligence  —  WASHINGTON, March 7 — The military is placing small teams of Special Operations troops in a growing number of American embassies to gather intelligence on terrorists in unstable parts of the world and to prepare for potential missions to disrupt, capture or kill them.
Bloomberg:
Libby Briefings Request Would Be a Security Risk, CIA Says  —  March 7 (Bloomberg) — A request by former White House official I. Lewis ``Scooter'' Libby for copies of daily presidential briefings to help in his defense poses a risk to national security, the CIA said in court papers in his case.
Orac / Respectful Insolence:
Trial By Fire: The Holocaust History Project Won't Be Silenced  —  Today's regularly scheduled post has been delayed due to an important and tragic development.  —  Something bad happened a couple of days ago, something that cuts rather close to home.  —  Arsonists targeted the offices used …
Associated Press:
New animal resembles furry lobster  —  PARIS, France (AP) — Divers have discovered a new crustacean in the South Pacific that resembles a lobster and is covered with what looks like silky, blond fur, French researchers said Tuesday.  —  Scientists said the animal, which they named Kiwa hirsuta …
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Brenda Goodman / New York Times:
Defendant Offers Details of Jeep Attack at University  —  The man charged with nine counts of attempted murder for driving a Jeep through a crowd at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill last Friday told the police that he deliberately rented a four-wheel-drive vehicle so he could …
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