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CIA Officer Fired for Leaking Classified Info to Media — WASHINGTON — A CIA officer has been relieved of his duty after being caught leaking classified information to the media. — CIA officials will not reveal the officer's name, assignment, or the information that was leaked.
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William Branigin / Washington Post:
CIA Fires Employee for Alleged Leak — The CIA announced today that it has fired an employee for leaking classified information to the news media. — The termination of the unidentified officer was announced to CIA employees yesterday after an internal investigation of the leaks.
MSNBC:
NBC: CIA officer fired after admitting leak — Officer allegedly failed polygraph, admitted giving reporter information … MSNBC TV — WASHINGTON - In a rare occurrence, the CIA fired an officer who acknowledged giving classified information to a reporter, NBC News reported on Thursday.
New York Post:
'RESPECTFUL' W. HEARS A HU — April 21, 2006 — WASHINGTON - President Bush said yesterday that he and Chinese President Hu Jintao are now able to openly discuss their disputes "with respect" - but there was no sign that any of those disputes got resolved at their White House meeting.
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CBS News:
A Spy Speaks Out — (CBS) A CIA official who had a top role during the run-up to the Iraqi war charges the White House with ignoring intelligence that said there were no weapons of mass destruction or an active nuclear program in Iraq. — The former highest ranking CIA officer in Europe …
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Amygdala, Right Wing Nut House, AMERICAblog, Shakespeare's Sister and The Democratic Daily Blog
Thomas B. Edsall / Washington Post:
Senate Democrats Ahead in Cash Race — The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee continued to outpace the National Republican Senatorial Committee in fundraising, bringing in more contributions and finishing the quarter with twice as much money in the bank, according to Federal Election Commission reports released yesterday.
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Richard A. Oppel Jr / New York Times:
Shiites Agree on Pick for Prime Minister — BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 21 — Shiite leaders selected Jawad al-Maliki, a hard-line and outspoken Shiite leader, to replace the outgoing prime minister, Ibrahim al-Jaafari. The move could resolve a two-month-long political deadlock …
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Michael J. Totten:
Back to Iraq Part VI - Smuggling My Way Out of Iraq — This is the sixth and final installment in a Back to Iraq series which is basically a single long essay. Don't miss Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, and Part Five. — ZAKHO, IRAQ - Getting into Iraq was easy.
Digby / Hullabaloo:
True Romance — Via Tristram Shandy I see that TIME's in-house faux liberal is at it again, this time giving Hugh Hewitt a private lap dance instead of dancing around the pole for everyone to see: … . And people wonder why liberals are popularly perceived as being cowards.
Daniel Henninger / Opinion Journal:
Disinhibition Nation — When blogs rule, we'll all talk like — Kevin Ray Underwood, the repressed Oklahoma cannibal, kept an Internet "blog" of his compulsions for years before kidnapping and killing a 10-year-old neighbor last week. On his blog, Kevin wrote a lot about Kevin …
The Majority Report:
KATHERINE HARRIS GIVES EVERYTHING SHE HAS TO YOUNG REPORTER — Scribe and friend-of-show Stephen Elliott snapped these photos while traveling with Katherine Harris this week. Harris is fawning over Jason Roberts of the University of Florida, Gainesville student newspaper.
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
The Generals' Dangerous Whispers — Last time around, the antiwar left did not have a very high opinion of generals. A popular slogan in the 1960s was "war is too important to be left to the generals." It was the generals who had advocated attacking Cuba during the missile crisis of October 1962 …
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Robin Lloyd / Yahoo! News:
Emotional Wiring Different in Men and Women — Men and women are actually from the same planet, but scientists now have the first strong evidence that the emotional wiring of the sexes is fundamentally different. — An almond-shaped cluster of neurons that processes experiences such as fear …
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Blue Crab Boulevard
Paul Kiel / TPM Muckraker:
Conrad Burns - Another Earmark to Remember — Another Conrad Burns earmark - maybe the best one yet. — Burns tried to push $20 million in federal funds to a company in which Ed Buckham, Tom DeLay's former chief of staff and a close associate of Jack Abramoff's, had a financial stake.
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Gay Patriot:
Report: Iran Executes Gays Following False Charges — The UK gay rights group, OutRage!, has just issued a sweeping report of the gay exterminations going on in Iran. (They are one of the Axis of Evil, remember?) … I hope no one is surprised by this. I must say it is still shocking …