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Brian DeBose / Washington Times:
FISA judges say Bush within law — A panel of former Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judges yesterday told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that President Bush did not act illegally when he created by executive order a wiretapping program conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA).
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
VERDICT: THE NEW YORK TIMES BLEW THE STORY — Yesterday, five former judges of the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Court testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the subject of the amendments to FISA that have been proposed by Senator Arlen Specter.
Hindrocket / Power Line:
SOMEONE'S MISREPORTING THIS STORY — Yesterday, five former judges of the FISA court testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the National Security Agency's international terrorist surveillance program. Some observers have alleged that the NSA program is illegal to the extent …
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AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:FISA Judges Bless NSA Terrorist Surveillance Program
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Michelle Malkin:
THE AMERICAN FLAG COMES SECOND — ***scroll for updates...new photo added below of a student in Dallas screamed at by an angry mob for carrying an American flag...plus fence-hopping at Montebello H.S...unreality-based Ted Kennedy gets the Clueless Blowhard of the Day Award...chanting in Las Vegas …
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Arnold Schwarzenegger / Los Angeles Times:
Next step for immigration — THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS ago, I first arrived in America owning nothing but a dream. — I had few friends, little money and knew even less English. But of this I was certain: Here was a land where I could go as far and as fast as my dreams and my desire would take me.
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Rachel L. Swarns / New York Times:
Republican Split on Immigration Reflects Nation's Struggle — WASHINGTON, March 28 — It is almost as if they are looking at two different Americas. — The Senate Republicans who voted on Monday to legalize the nation's illegal immigrants look at the waves of immigration reshaping …
Val Prieto / Babalu Blog:Why I abhor the terms "latino" and "hispanic"
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Washington Post:
Abramoff Gets Minimum Sentence — Former Lobbyist to Spend 5 Years, 10 Months in Prison — MIAMI, March 29 — Jack A. Abramoff, the once-powerful Republican lobbyist at the center of a major corruption scandal, was sentenced Wednesday to five years and 10 months in prison for his role …
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Jim Loney / Reuters:
Abramoff gets 6 years for fraud — MIAMI (Reuters) - Jack Abramoff, a disgraced lobbyist at the heart of a Washington influence-peddling scandal that has rattled top Republicans, was sentenced to nearly six years in prison on Wednesday for fraud in the purchase of a Florida casino cruise line.
Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
Democrats Offer National Security Strategy — WASHINGTON — Democrats on Wednesday proposed a wide-ranging strategy for protecting Americans at home and abroad, an election-year effort aimed at changing public perception that Republicans are stronger on national security.
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Bill Nienhuis / PunditGuy:
Making Promises You Can't Keep — Why is it that politicians who are desperate to regain power, who don't have a focused message, and whose party has no unified platform, retreat to the promiseland to invest in commitments they can't keep? — Politicians of all stripes make this mistake.
Associated Press:
Bush blames Iraq's instability on Hussein — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush said Wednesday that Saddam Hussein, not continued U.S. involvement in Iraq, is responsible for ongoing sectarian violence that is threatening the formation of a democratic government.
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Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
Bush to Iraqis: Time to Get a Government — WASHINGTON - President Bush expressed frustration Wednesday that Iraqis have so far failed to form a unity government, but he said withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq too early would damage U.S. security. — "I want the Iraqi people …
Justin Rood / TPM Muckraker:
Kaloogian: I'm Sorry, Photo Was a Mistake — "I just returned from a 10-day trip to Iraq," begins GOP candidate Howard Kaloogian's Web essay on his experiences visiting troops in the country. The page, part of his campaign Web site, includes photographs and captions which illustrate his point …
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Justin Rood / TPM Muckraker:
Kaloogian Blames Iraq Photo Error on Staffer — Oops. — Howard Kaloogian, a leading GOP candidate for Randy "Duke" Cunningham's seat in Congress, posted a photo on his Web site of a quiet Turkish suburb. No problem there — but his site said it was of Baghdad, taken during his trip there.
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Teddy Davis / ABCNEWS:
McCain Woos the Right, Makes Peace With Falwell — Possible 2008 Presidential Contender Makes Inroads With GOP Base — March 28, 2006 — Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., still breaks from GOP orthodoxy on such issues as torture and immigration. But operating below the radar …
radioblogger.com:
Time Magazine's Michael Ware from Baghdad. — HH: Joining me now live from Baghdad is Michael Ware, bureau chief for Time Magazine. Michael, welcome to the Hugh Hewitt Show. — MW: Thanks, Hugh. — HH: Michael, we met each other courtesy of CNN on a couple of editions of Anderson Cooper's program last week.
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Associated Press:
Scalia: Reporter misread hand gesture — Justice blames 'too many episodes of 'The Sopranos'' — BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, in a scathing letter to the editor of the Boston Herald, accused the newspaper's staff of watching "too many episodes of 'The Sopranos'" …
Steven Emerson / The Counterterrorism Blog:
There Is No Evidence to Support Moussaoui's Claims — This morning I appeared on NBC's "Today" program to discuss the claims by Zacarias Moussaoui yesterday that he was supposed to hijack a fifth jetliner with Richard Reid and fly it into the White House as part of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
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