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2:15 PM ET, March 25, 2006

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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Camp Saddam  —  REPRESENTATIVE John Murtha, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, appeared on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday, March 19, to evaluate the war in Iraq on its third anniversary.  Murtha, a decorated veteran and longtime hawk, has become a leading spokesman for his party on the war.
Discussion: Ray Robison
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Washington Post:
Russians Helped Iraq, Study Says  —  Papers Show Hussein Was Tipped Off About U.S. Strategy During Invasion  —  Russian officials collected intelligence on U.S. troop movements and attack plans from inside the American military command leading the 2003 invasion of Iraq and passed that information …
Patrick Baz / MSNBC:
Report: Russia gave Iraq info on U.S. war plan  —  But intelligence from Russians may have confused, not helped, Saddam  —  Smoke billowing from burning oil trenches covers Baghdad on April 2, 2003.  Russian intelligence reportedly told Saddam Hussein of plans for that day's attack.  —  NBC VIDEO
Discussion: Ray Robison and The Left Coaster
Thom Shanker / New York Times:   U.S. Inquiry Finds Russians Passed Spy Data to Iraq in '03
Associated Press:
Pentagon: Russia Gave Saddam War Intel
Discussion: Right Wing Nut House
Will Dunham / Reuters:
Pentagon report says Russia gave Iraq intelligence
Discussion: Right Wing News
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Russia, Unmasked  —  Thanks to the release of the captured …
Gateway Pundit:   Ouch! Photos Show Iraqi & Russian Defense Reps Days Before War!
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Washington Post Blogger Quits After Plagiarism Accusations  —  A 24-year-old blogger for The Washington Post, Ben Domenech, resigned yesterday after being confronted with evidence that he had plagiarized articles in other publications.  —  His resignation came after writing six blog items …
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Krempasky / RedState:
On behalf of RedState  —  A young man took something and called it his own.  He owes apologies to those writers, his editors, and especially his friends who have rushed to his defense in the past 48 hours.  It is an embarrassing offense — and one rightly criticized.
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Will Blogs Eat Themselves?
Discussion: Riehl World View
The Corner on National Review Online:
DOMENECH, CONTINUED [The Editors]  —  As we mentioned …
Michael Powell / Washington Post:
Near Paul Revere Country, Anti-Bush Cries Get Louder  —  HOLYOKE, Mass. — To drive through the mill towns and curling country roads here is to journey into New England's impeachment belt.  Three of this state's 10 House members have called for the investigation and possible impeachment of President Bush.
Mark Steyn / ocregister.com:
Steyn: Will we stick our necks out for his faith?  —  Fate conspires to remind us what this war is really about: civilizational confidence.  And so history repeats itself: first the farce of the Danish cartoons, and now the tragedy - a man on trial for his life in post-Taliban Afghanistan …
Discussion: Wizbang and Below The Beltway
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Greg Risling / Associated Press:
'Hee Haw' Co-Host Buck Owens, 76, Dies  —  LOS ANGELES - Singer Buck Owens, the flashy rhinestone cowboy who shaped the sound of country music with hits like "Act Naturally" and brought the genre to TV on the long-running "Hee Haw," died Saturday.  He was 76.  —  Owens died at his home, said family spokesman Jim Shaw.
Discussion: Silflay Hraka and phronesisaical
Cam Edwards:
The Rally for Rahman  —  Went pretty well.  Here's the obligatory protest babe.  —  And here's an image of one little girl from Sudan who was in attendance.  —  Media turnout was good.  There were, by my count, four television cameras there, including one from NBC Nightly News.
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
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Luis David / Age of Hooper:   Abdul Rahman  —  UPDATE: one installment of video is now up.  Click HERE.
Curt A. Levey / New York Sun:
Bollinger on the Spot  —  Columbia University and its president, Lee Bollinger, have some explaining to do.  The university recently announced that its law school had awarded a coveted faculty position to Olatunde "Olati" Johnson, a woman with a scandal-plagued connection to Mr. Bollinger.
Discussion: Phi Beta Cons …
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The American Thinker:   Ivy League in disgrace
Katherine Shrader / Associated Press:
DOJ: NSA Could've Monitored Doctor's Calls  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - The National Security Agency could have legally monitored ordinarily confidential communications between doctors and patients or attorneys and their clients, the Justice Department said Friday of its controversial warrantless surveillance program.
Los Angeles Times:
Iran's Nuclear Steps Quicken, Diplomats Say  —  Tehran reportedly is gearing up for uranium enrichment.  A split in the Security Council may impede efforts to halt the program.  —  VIENNA — With efforts to halt its nuclear program at an impasse, Iran is moving faster than expected …
Nicola Woolcock / Times of London:
Bomb plot suspect sold poisoned burgers, says supergrass  —  AN ISLAMIST terrorist sold poisoned burgers from a street-corner van and planned to contaminate beer at a football stadium, the Old Bailey was told yesterday.  —  The alleged extremist, one of seven on trial for plotting to blow …
Discussion: Gina Cobb
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Administration tells Congress (again) - We won't abide by your "laws"  —  The Republicans and Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee submitted detailed questions to the Bush Administration regarding the NSA program, and the DoJ's responses to both the Democrats' questions and its responses to the Republicans' are now available.
Fredric U. Dicker / New York Post:
KOOKY KT'S SPY TALE  —  ALBANY - A Republican challenger to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is bizarrely claiming that the former first lady has been spying in her bedroom window and flying helicopters over her house in the Hamptons, witnesses told The Post yesterday.
Discussion: Swing State Project
Dexter Filkins / New York Times:
Iraq Qaeda Chief Seems to Pursue a Lower Profile  —  Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian terrorist and the head of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, has sharply lowered his profile in recent months, and his group claims to have submitted itself to the leadership of an Iraqi.
Discussion: USS Neverdock and Penraker
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Communication Breakdown  —  Now it gets painful for George W. Bush.  Iraq is wrapped around his presidency as tightly as Vietnam was around Lyndon Johnson's.  Bush keeps telling the country he has a plan for victory, but the polls suggest the public doesn't believe it.
 
 
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