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Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Cited as Symbol of Abu Ghraib, Man Admits He Is Not in Photo — In the summer of 2004, a group of former detainees of Abu Ghraib prison filed a lawsuit claiming that they had been the victims of the abuse captured in photographs that incited outrage around the world.
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New York Times:
Editors' Note — A front-page article last Saturday profiled Ali Shalal Qaissi, identifying him as the hooded man forced to stand on a box, attached to wires, in a photograph from the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal of 2003 and 2004. He was shown holding such a photograph.
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Saddam's Philippines Terror Connection — SADDAM HUSSEIN'S REGIME PROVIDED FINANCIAL support to Abu Sayyaf, the al Qaeda-linked jihadist group founded by Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law in the Philippines in the late 1990s, according to documents captured in postwar Iraq.
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Looser Emission Rules Rejected — Court Says Changes By EPA Violated Clean Air Act — A federal appeals court blocked the Bush administration's four-year effort to loosen emission rules for aging coal-fired power plants, unanimously ruling yesterday that the changes violated the Clean Air Act …
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Michael Janofsky / New York Times:
Judges Overturn Bush Bid to Ease Pollution Rules — WASHINGTON, March 17 — A federal appeals court on Friday overturned a clean-air regulation issued by the Bush administration that would have let many power plants, refineries and factories avoid installing costly new pollution controls …
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Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Post:
House GOP Leader Well Traveled — House Majority Leader John A. Boehner (Ohio), who rose to power in the wake of a congressional lobbying scandal, spent the equivalent of nearly six months on privately funded trips over the past six years, according to a new study by a nonpartisan research group.
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Countdown: Warrantless physical searches — Countdown: Warrantless physical searches — It never stops with this administration. Turley is up in arms over this one, calling it horrific-saying it removes the 4th amendment from the Constitution. He also rips Congress for laying …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Operation Swarmer Not Intended As 'Torch II' — Sometimes the press demonstrates such incompetence as to be actually dangerous. The coverage of the latest effort in Samarra in clearing out the terrorists is just the latest example. Operation Swarmer is a significant operation in its scope …
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Jonathan S. Landay / Washington:
Pentagon hired contractor to advise on collecting information on churches, mosques, other U.S. sites - 3/17/2006 07:38 PM EST — WASHINGTON - A Pentagon intelligence agency that kept files on American anti-war activists hired one of the contractors who bribed former Rep. Randy "Duke" …
Irshad Manji / New York Times:
How I Learned to Love the Wall — ON March 28, Israelis will elect a new prime minister to replace the ailing Ariel Sharon. But I'd bet my last shekel that I'll continue to hear the phrase "Ariel Sharon's apartheid wall." It's a phrase spoken — make that spewed — on almost every university campus …
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stamfordadvocate.com:
U.S. Senate primary could be a plus — Ned Lamont, take a bow. By challenging Joseph Lieberman for the Connecticut Democratic Party's nomination for U.S. senator, Mr. Lamont is encouraging a debate that his party and this state need to have. — This is not to suggest that Mr. Lamont …
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Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
Mad Science — No question is too crazy to snare a prize — We're entering the science fair season, when schools teach children about science by making their parents conduct experiments. Across America, grown men and women will be watching crystals grow, grapes shrivel …
Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Senate passes funeral-protest bill 58-1 — Only Sen. Becky Lourey, mother of a fallen soldier, dissented. The bill may go to a conference committee. — With a lone dissenting vote from Sen. Becky Lourey, the Senate approved restrictions Thursday on funeral protests such as one that marred …
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Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
Lesson Learned — Dear HuffPost Readers, Commenters and Bloggers : — I've read all your insightful feedback over the last few days and realized something I did not see right away but should have. — At the beginning of the week, I was so focused on making it crystal clear that we did indeed …
Christopher Lee / Washington Post:
Advance Workers for Bush Impersonated Reporters — The White House said yesterday that it will discipline two government employees who masqueraded as journalists this month while scouting locations for a presidential visit to the Gulf Coast. — A Mississippi couple whose home was destroyed …
CNN:
Abramoff's sentencing delayed to further cooperation — Judge approves motion sought by federal investigators — WASHINGTON (CNN) — A federal judge Friday delayed sentencing of Jack Abramoff, a move the prosecutors requested to further the former lobbyist's cooperation with their investigation.
Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Rep. Sabo to end his long career in Congress — The Minneapolis Democrat will retire one of the nation's safest seats for an incumbent, setting off a DFL scramble to replace him. — WASHINGTON - Rep. Martin Sabo, a lion of Minneapolis DFL politics for four decades, is expected to announce …