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5:40 PM ET, April 7, 2006

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Josh Marshall / TPM Muckraker:
McClellan Bobs and Weaves, But Certainly Doesn't Leak  —  This morning's White House gaggle, started at 10 AM ...  QUESTION: Did the President authorize the leak of intelligence information?  —  Scott McClellan: Terry, there is an ongoing legal proceeding, and our policy has been that we're …
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New York Post:
DUBYA CAN'T LEAK  —  IT'S amazing how the common topics and subjects of discussion three years ago should vanish so quickly from memory.  —  Yesterday, breathless news reports suggested that President Bush had directed the "leak" of classified information in July 2003.
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Hopelessly Compromised (II)  —  The NY Times editors tackle the latest Fitzgerald filings, and are more disingenuous than their reporters. … Emphasis added throughout.  Regarding the "unmasking of... a covert C.I.A. agent", it is clear that Ms. Plame's status was classified …
Daniela Deane / Washington Post:
McClellan: President Can Declassify Information at Any Time  —  President Bush's chief spokesman said today the president has the right to declassify sensitive information whenever he chooses and that when he does, it is effective immediately.  —  In an often testy exchange with the White House media …
Michael A. Fletcher / Washington Post:
Experts: Tactic Would Be Legal but Unusual
Los Angeles Times:
Any Bush OK of Leak Is Probably Legal
Rachel L. Swarns / New York Times:
Senate Deal on Immigration Falters  —  WASHINGTON, April 6 — Senate leaders reached agreement Thursday on a broad, bipartisan compromise that would put the vast majority of the nation's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship, but its prospects for passage grew …
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New York Times:
Immigration Deal Falls Short in Senate  —  WASHINGTON, April 7 — A carefully constructed compromise on immigration reform apparently fell apart in the Senate today after Democrats fended off conservative Republican efforts to amend the agreement and an effort to cut off debate failed by a lopsided vote.
David Espo / Associated Press:
Immigration Overhaul Obstacle May Be Fatal  —  WASHINGTON - Landmark legislation offering eventual citizenship to millions of illegal immigrants suffered a potentially fatal blow Friday in the Senate, the latest in a series of election-year setbacks for President Bush and the Republicans who control Congress.
Discussion: Freedom Folks and RedState
CNN:
More than 70 killed in Baghdad mosque attack  —  Shrine has ties to Shiite political party; imam is in parliament  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Three suicide bombers on Friday struck a Baghdad mosque affiliated with a major Shiite political party, killing at least 74 people, according to the Iraqi Health Ministry.
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Omar / IRAQ THE MODEL:
The reason why they chose 'Buratha'.  —  A new massacre has struck Baghdad when three suicide bombers attacked the Buratha mosque in Baghdad this afternoon.  "More than 70 people were killed and more than 150 were injured" a doctor from Baghdad's medical city told me in a phone call.
Washington Post:
Blasts at Baghdad Shiite Mosque Kill Scores
Discussion: Billmon and Needlenose
Edward Wong / New York Times:   At Least 71 Die as Bombers Hit Mosque in Baghdad
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
al-Qaeda Attacks Shiite Mosques
Discussion: In the Bullpen
Jeannine Aversa / Associated Press:
Employers Boost March Payrolls by 211,000  —  Employers, in a springtime hiring burst, boosted payrolls by a sizable 211,000 in March and pushed the nation's unemployment rate down to 4.7 percent.  —  The latest snapshot, released by the Labor Department on Friday, suggested …
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Jeannine Aversa / Associated Press:
Consumer Confidence in Economy Improves  —  Consumer confidence in the economy's prospects improved in early April even as gasoline prices and borrowing costs marched higher.  —  The RBC CASH (Consumer Attitudes and Spending by Household) Index, based on results from the international polling firm Ipsos …
Christopher Swann / Financial Times:
US economy generates 211,000 new jobs
Discussion: Dr. Sanity and Wizbang
William Sherman / NY Daily News:
The billionaire, the Post and the $220G shakedown  —  Page Six writer wanted $$$ to stop inaccurate coverage  —  A New York Post Page Six staffer solicited $220,000 from a high-profile billionaire in return for a year's "protection" against inaccurate and unflattering items about him in the gossip page, the Daily News has learned.
Charles Krauthammer / Real Clear Politics:
First a Wall — Then Amnesty  —  WASHINGTON — Every sensible immigration policy has two objectives: (1) to regain control of our borders so that it is we who decide who enters, and (2) to find a way to normalize and legalize the situation of the 11 million illegals among us.  —  Start with the second.
Amy Sullivan / Washington Monthly:
Not as Lame as You Think  —  Democrats learn the art of opposition.  —  The first week of March should have been a bright spot for Democrats in an otherwise bleak five years.  With the president's approval numbers reaching Nixon-esque lows, and Democrats outpolling Republicans by 15 points …
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Bush Faces Rare Audience Challenge in N.C.  —  President Defends Warrantless Spying Program After Criticism at Open-Forum Event  —  CHARLOTTE, April 6 — Harry Taylor got the chance Thursday to do what frustrated liberals across the country have wanted to do for a long time: He stood up and told off the president.
Kris W. Kobach / New York Post:
HIDDEN BOMBS  —  HOW do you slip legislative poison past a U.S. senator?  Bury it on page 302 of a bill.  —  The Senate's Democratic and Republican leaders yesterday announced a compromise on an immigration bill - with some details still to be worked out.
 
 
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The Essence  —  Scotty is having a fit trying to make a …
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THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION: MARCH 2006
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Kudos, NASCAR Nation, for not taking NBC's bait
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 Earlier Items: 
Mediacrity:
The Times Softpedals a Lie
Ellen Goodman / Boston Globe:
Bloggers owe Carroll an apology
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Run-Down Republicans  —  Imagine that: Tom DeLay speaking truth to power.
Juan A. Lozano / Associated Press:
DeLay Supporters Crash Democrat's Event
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Decided or Not, Giuliani Charts a Path to 2008