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4:42 AM ET, April 7, 2006

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New York Times:
In Court Filings, Cheney Aide Says Bush Approved Leak  —  WASHINGTON, April 6 — President Bush authorized Vice President Dick Cheney in July 2003 to permit Mr. Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby Jr., to leak key portions of a classified prewar intelligence estimate on Iraq, according to Mr. Libby's grand jury testimony.
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Andy McCarthy / The Corner on National Review Online:
THE LATEST PLAME LEAK NEWS  —  We will have to wait to see how this all develops, and I'll be interested in particular in Byron's take, but on first impressions it seems to me that the story the press is going gleefully ga-ga about today is pretty disingenuous.
Discussion: TBogg and Think Progress
Deacon / Power Line:
THE PLAME GAME RESUMES — SORT OF  —  The Bush-hating side of the blogosphere is buzzing about the latest Plame-related news — that Scooter Libby is said to have told the grand jury that he was authorized by President Bush, via Vice President Cheney, to leak "certain information" …
Austin Bay Blog:
UPDATED: Declassifying classified data- and White House leaks  —  The sudden press flap over Scooter Libby's alleged "revelation" that President Bush declassified intelligence information related to Iraq is silly but all too predictable.  The entire flap relies on mixing terms and …
Murray Waas / National Journal:
Libby Says Bush Authorized Leaks  —  Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff has testified that President Bush authorized him to disclose the contents of a highly classified intelligence assessment to the media to defend the Bush administration's decision to go to war with Iraq …
Byron York / The Corner on National Review Online:
BUSH, FITZGERALD, PLAME, AND CLASSIFIED INFORMATION
Discussion: Economist's View and Angry Bear
Associated Press:   Papers: Cheney Aide Says Bush OK'd Leak
New York Times:
Senate Focuses on Immigration Compromise  —  WASHINGTON, April 6 — With a Republican compromise in hand, the Senate appeared headed today toward an agreement on the volatile subject of illegal immigration.  —  The action came after the Senate rejected by a decisive margin a plan to advance a bill approved by Judiciary Committee.
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Washington Post:
Immigration Legislation Compromise Announced  —  Compromise Struck Last Evening; Deal Has Bush Support  —  A bipartisan group of senators today announced a "breakthrough" on controversial immigration legislation, as the Senate cleared the way for a vote on a compromise bill that would create …
volpac.org:
Working Towards a Border Security Solution … We are one step closer to passing a landmark immigration bill in the Senate - one that includes all of the crucial border security, interior security and employer enforcement provisions that I called for at the outset of this debate last week.
Rachel L. Swarns / New York Times:
Senate Deal on Immigration Falters
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Warrantless Wiretaps Possible in U.S.  —  Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales left open the possibility yesterday that President Bush could order warrantless wiretaps on telephone calls occurring solely within the United States — a move that would dramatically expand the reach …
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Richard Cowan / Reuters:
Republicans fail to pass budget, tax bills
Discussion: Oliver Willis
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
04/06/06 FOX Poll: Views on Illegal Immigration, Bush Job Rating Down  —  NEW YORK — Although a clear majority of Americans believe illegal immigration is a very serious problem for the country, many think it is somebody else's problem — as fewer than one in four say it is a very serious problem …
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White House:
President Discusses Global War on Terror  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you.  Firoz, thanks a lot.  So I said, that's an interesting name.  He said, I've lived in seven countries.  But he also said he's proud to be an American.  And we're proud you're an American.  Thank you very much for inviting me.
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New York Times:
At Moussaoui Trial, Giuliani Recalls Horror of 9/11 Attacks  —  ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 6 — With the smiling Al Qaeda member Zacarias Moussaoui sitting only 10 feet from him, former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani of New York recalled today how the sight of people jumping from the burning World Trade Center will stay with him all his life.
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Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Decided or Not, Giuliani Charts a Path to 2008
Discussion: Decision '08
DavidNYC / Swing State Project:
PA-07: Curt Weldon a Moonie Cultist  —  When I got an e-mail yesterday from Admiral Joe Sestak's campaign about Curt Weldon's depraved attack on Sestak's four-year-old, cancer-stricken daughter, I wanted to throw things.  What kind of disturbed, twisted nutbag could stoop so low?
Mary Katharine Ham / Hugh Hewitt:
It's 'Take An American Flag to Work' Day  —  Read about it, here.  —  Michelle has an American flag photo gallery up.  —  I've always liked this painting.  —  Both of my grandfathers were career military— one Army and one Air Force.  My parents grew up on bases all over the world …
Radley Balko / Slate:
No SWAT  —  The most important Supreme Court case you've never heard about.  —  Sometime this spring, the Supreme Court will hand down its decision in the case of Hudson v. Michigan.  At issue is whether or not police who used an illegal "no-knock" raid to enter a defendant's home can use …
Discussion: QandO, ACSBlog and Instapundit.com
 
 
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