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1:45 AM ET, April 9, 2006

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Seymour M. Hersh / New Yorker:
THE IRAN PLANS  —  Would President Bush go to war to stop Tehran from getting the bomb?  —  The Bush Administration, while publicly advocating diplomacy in order to stop Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon, has increased clandestine activities inside Iran and intensified planning for a possible major air attack.
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Philip Sherwell / Telegraph:
Bush 'is planning nuclear strikes on Iran's secret sites'  —  The Bush administration is planning to use nuclear weapons against Iran, to prevent it acquiring its own atomic warheads, claims an investigative writer with high-level Pentagon and intelligence contacts.
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
Agence France Presse:
US considers use of nuclear weapons against Iran  —  WASHINGTON (AFP) - The administration of President George W. Bush is planning a massive bombing campaign against Iran, including use of bunker-buster nuclear bombs to destroy a key Iranian suspected nuclear weapons facility, The New Yorker magazine has reported in its April 17 issue.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Norwegianity
Washington Post:
U.S. Is Studying Military Strike Options on Iran  —  Any Mix of Tact, Threats Alarms Critics  —  The Bush administration is studying options for military strikes against Iran as part of a broader strategy of coercive diplomacy to pressure Tehran to abandon its alleged nuclear development program …
Discussion: AMERICAblog
Dan / Riehl World View:
Going Nuclear - So Much For Progress
Dr. Sanity:   THE IRANIAN CIRCLE GAME
Washington Post:
A 'Concerted Effort' to Discredit Bush Critic  —  Prosecutor Describes Cheney, Libby as Key Voices Pitching Iraq-Niger Story  —  As he drew back the curtain this week on the evidence against Vice President Cheney's former top aide, Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald for the first time described a …
Discussion: JustOneMinute and War and Piece
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New York Times:
Intelligence Leaked by Aide to Cheney Was in Dispute  —  WASHINGTON, April 8 — When President Bush authorized Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff to reveal previously classified intelligence to a reporter about Saddam Hussein's efforts to obtain uranium, that information was already …
Mark Pazniokas / courant.com:
Perplexing No-Show By Joe
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
"I will tell you, nowhere in there, nowhere, not in one page, not in one phrase uttered and reported by the Lord Jesus Christ..."  —  "... can you find anything that suggests that there is a virtue in cutting children from Medicaid and taking money from the poor and giving it to the rich," …
Discussion: Dr. Sanity
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Investor's Business Daily:
More Damning Documents On Saddam  —  Origins Of War: The latest in a stream of eye-opening Iraqi documents shows Saddam Hussein's regime was planning suicide attacks on U.S. interests six months before 9-11.  Why won't Washington get the word out?  —  Last month the Pentagon began releasing …
Agence France Presse:
Bigs bunny: monster rabbit devours English veggie plots  —  LONDON (AFP) - In a tale reminiscent of the last Wallace and Gromit movie, furious villagers in northeast England have hired armed guards to protect their beloved communal vegetable gardens from a suspected monster rabbit.
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
Jack Hitt / New York Times:
Pro-Life Nation  —  It was a sunny midafternoon in a shiny new global-economy mall in San Salvador, the capital city of El Salvador, and a young woman I was hoping to meet appeared to be getting cold feet.  She had agreed to rendezvous with a go-between not far from the Payless shoe store and then come to a nearby hotel to talk to me.
Philip Shenon / New York Times:
Lobbying Cases Shine Spotlight on Family Ties  —  WASHINGTON, April 8 — On Dec. 3, 2003, Aeneas Enterprises opened for business in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, and judging by its bank records, the small consulting company with no listed telephone number was an instant success.
New York Times:
U.S. Study Paints Somber Portrait of Iraqi Discord  —  WASHINGTON, April 8 — An internal staff report by the United States Embassy and the military command in Baghdad provides a sobering province-by-province snapshot of Iraq's political, economic and security situation …
Larry Ribstein / Ideoblog:
Is Disney about to be reversed?  —  The Delaware supreme court is taking a long time following oral arguments to decide Disney.  I believe this means it's about to reverse.  Assuming I'm right so far, the question is why.  Here I'm going to take a stab at predicting the general outlines …
White House:
President's Radio Address  —  THE PRESIDENT: Good morning.  This week, Members of the United States Senate reached a promising bipartisan compromise on comprehensive immigration reform.  Unfortunately, this compromise is being blocked by the Senate Democratic leader who has refused …
Discussion: MyDD, Blogs for Bush, Dohiyi Mir and JURIST
Ryan Singel / Wired News:
Whistle-Blower Outs NSA Spy Room  —  AT&T provided National Security Agency eavesdroppers with full access to its customers' phone calls, and shunted its customers' internet traffic to data-mining equipment installed in a secret room in its San Francisco switching center …
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
washingtonpost.com > Live Discussions  —  Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and Washington Post columnist David S. Broder will be online Friday, April 7, at 1:30 p.m. ET to answer your questions about the world of politics, from the latest maneuverings on Capitol Hill to developments in the White House.
Discussion: Riehl World View and The Sideshow
 
 
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Brent Baker / NewsBusters.org:
Ben Affleck: Bush 'Can Be Hung' for 'Probably' Leaking Plame's Name
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An Epidemic Syndrome - Lying Bastard Fatigue
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Stop the Presses! Eleanor Clift is Stumping for Democrats
Empty Wheel / The Next Hurrah:
The January 24 Document … I read Fitzgerald's latest response …
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The Joe Jamail Video
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A Leak by any Other Name...  Political dialog is so frequently …
Michelle Malkin:
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Tax Cuts May Result in More Job Losses... for Democrats
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Bill McKibben / New York Review of Books:
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Al Kamen / Washington Post:
Frist's Southern Hospitality
Ronald Bailey / Times of London:
Anyone for tennis, at the age of 150?
See Dubya / Patterico's Pontifications:
More Lattetudinarianism Needed  —  Coffee makes people uptight.
Massimo Calabresi / Time:
Why the Immigration Deal Flopped
Gonzalez / volpac.org:
Democrat Obstruction Weakens Our Borders
Discussion: VDARE.com
Daniel Gross / Slate:
Snow's Job  —  Why no Wall Street CEO wants to be the new Treasury secretary.
 

 
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Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
The DOJ's proposal would require Google to divest from AI partnerships, like with Anthropic, and ban Google from offering exclusive deals to content providers

Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Analyzing Comcast's spinoff of cable networks, purposefully structured with low debt: the move might be a signal to the industry that it's time to consolidate

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
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