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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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Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Judges on Secretive Panel Speak Out on Spy Program — WASHINGTON, March 28 — Five former judges on the nation's most secretive court, including one who resigned in apparent protest over President Bush's domestic eavesdropping, urged Congress on Tuesday to give the court a formal role in overseeing the surveillance program.
AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
FISA Judges Bless NSA Terrorist Surveillance Program
FISA Judges Bless NSA Terrorist Surveillance Program
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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.
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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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Illegals To Americans: We Hate America — It's hard to imagine that the schoolchildren who engaged in a pro-illegal immigration rally yesterday helped their cause much, except to harden the polarization already felt on both sides of the issue. While our politicians in Washington talked …
Val Prieto / Babalu Blog:
Why I abhor the terms "latino" and "hispanic"
Why I abhor the terms "latino" and "hispanic"
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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 …
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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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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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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
Kaloogian Blames Iraq Photo Error on Staffer
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Steven R. Weisman / New York Times:
Democrats Opening Assault on Bush Security Policies — WASHINGTON, March 28 — Seeking to capitalize on President Bush's troubles overseas, leading Democrats in Congress are unveiling a broad attack this week on the administration's security policies at home and overseas along with a set …
Scott Wilson / Washington Post:
Sharon's Party Is Winner In Israel — Support for Kadima Short of Projections — JERUSALEM, March 28 — The Kadima party led by acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert won the most seats in Israel's parliamentary elections Tuesday, in a vote that hinged on his plan to draw the country's final …
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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Barkley / MaxSpeak:
FBI AS GESTAPO: OPPRESSING THE KURDS OF HARRISONBURG, VIRGINIA — The following is something that has not hit the media at all, other than a story in the Harrisonburg Daily News-Record that simply repeated FBI propaganda about this awful case. Harrisonburg, Virginia happens …
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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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Amir Taheri / Opinion Journal:
'The Last Helicopter' — Mideast dictators try to "wait Bush out." They may be miscalculating. — Hassan Abbasi has a dream—a helicopter doing an arabesque in cloudy skies to avoid being shot at from the ground. On board are the last of the "fleeing Americans," forced out of the Dar al-Islam …
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:
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'" …
Agence France Presse:
Saudis, with Pakistani help, working on nuclear programme — BERLIN (AFP) - Saudi Arabia is working secretly on a nuclear programme, with help from Pakistani experts, a German magazine reports in its latest edition, citing Western security sources. — The German magazine Cicero says that during …
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