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1:15 PM ET, April 19, 2006

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Fox News:
FOX News' Tony Snow Among Possible White House Spokesman Candidates  —  WASHINGTON — With a few personnel shifts going on in the White House, there's speculation that presidential spokesman Scott McClellan may be looking to step down.  —  One of the people the White House has approached …
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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
McClellan Leaves White House Press Office  —  WASHINGTON - White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Wednesday he is resigning, continuing a shakeup in President Bush's administration that has already yielded a new chief of staff and could lead to a change in the Cabinet.
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Moving to the Right  —  Brit Hume's Path Took Him From Liberal Outsider to The Low-Key Voice of Conservatism on Fox News  —  It was a different era, a different administration and a very different Brit Hume.  —  Thirty-six years ago, as a long-haired reporter for columnist Jack Anderson …
John O'Neil / New York Times:
Staff Overhaul Continues at White House  —  The overhaul of the White House staff continued today as Scott McClellan stepped down as the president's chief spokesman and Karl Rove gave up his portfolio as senior policy coordinator to concentrate more on politics and November's midterm Congressional elections.
CNN:
White House shakeup touches McClellan, Rove
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Demagogue
White House:
Press Secretary Scott McClellan Announces His Resignation
Discussion: ConnecticutBLOG
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Washington Post:
Why Are They Speaking Up Now?  —  The retired general officers who have recently called for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld want to convince the public that civilian control has silenced military wisdom regarding the war in Iraq.  They have chafed at Rumsfeld's authoritarian style …
John Batiste / Washington Post:
A Case for Accountability  —  We have the best military in the world, hands down.
Discussion: PrairiePundit
Mohammed / IRAQ THE MODEL:
Kill us, but you won't enslave us.  —  Last week we stopped writing for a while and we apologized to our readers saying that we lost a close friend but we didn't want to give more details as we were overwhelmed by an exceptional situation and a huge shock.  We also were afraid from writing …
Scott Shane / New York Times:
F.B.I. Is Seeking to Search Papers of Dead Reporter  —  WASHINGTON, April 18 — The F.B.I. is seeking to go through the files of the late newspaper columnist Jack Anderson to remove classified material he may have accumulated in four decades of muckraking Washington journalism.
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
FBI Rebuffed on Reporter's Files
Discussion: Secrecy News
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
China's Rising Need for Oil Is High on U.S. Agenda  —  WASHINGTON, April 18 — The competition for access to oil is emerging high on the agenda for President Hu Jintao's visit to the White House this week.  President Bush has called China's growing demand for oil one reason for rising prices …
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Bill Gertz / Washington Times:
CIA mines 'rich' content from blogs  —  President Bush and U.S. policy-makers are receiving more intelligence from open sources such as Internet blogs and foreign newspapers than they previously did, senior intelligence officials said.  —  The new Open Source Center (OSC) …
Wall Street Journal:
Bush's Approval Remains Low, Pessimism Grows, Poll Shows  —  President Bush's job-approval rating slipped for the third consecutive month and remains near the lowest mark of his presidency, according to a new Harris Interactive poll.  —  Thirty-five percent of 1,008 U.S. adults surveyed …
Wall Street Journal:
Can Bloggers Make Money?  —  Blogs have a lot of buzz, but there's still considerable debate about whether that can translate into profits.  —  While many blogs remain little more than amateur diaries, several bloggers have tried to parlay their online ramblings into branded businesses.
Jill McGivering / BBC:
China 'selling prisoners' organs'  —  Top British transplant surgeons have accused China of harvesting the organs of thousands of executed prisoners a year to sell for transplants.  —  The British Transplantation Society condemned the practice as unacceptable and a breach of human rights, in a statement released on Wednesday.
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
GAO Faults Agencies' Sharing of Terror Data  —  Despite more than four years of legislation, executive orders and presidential directives, the Bush administration has yet to comprehensively improve sharing of counterterrorism information among dozens of federal agencies …
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
 
 
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Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:
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