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12:05 AM ET, April 22, 2006

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Fox News:
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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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 …
AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
NSA Leak Investigation Nabs First Criminal  —  *** Welcome Michelle Malkin readers!  Make sure to check out the links coming in to the comments to see what other bloggers are saying on this matter.  Update: Keep an eye on the comments for links coming in from readers and other blogs.
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.
New York Times:
C.I.A. Employee Fired for Alleged Leak  —  WASHINGTON, April 21 — The Central Intelligence Agency has dismissed a senior career officer for disclosing classified information to reporters, including material for The Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning articles about the agency's secret prisons overseas …
Discussion: TalkLeft
Confederate Yankee:   CIA Officer Didn't CYA
David Morgan / Reuters:
CIA fires officer over alleged leak
Discussion: Big Lizards and The Belmont Club
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:   Plugging The Leak  —  The CIA has terminated an intelligence officer …
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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BBC:
Iraqi Shia bloc names PM choice
Discussion: Big Lizards
Omar / IRAQ THE MODEL:
Jawad who?  —  If you listened to what our top politicians …
Discussion: Informed Comment
Robert Mayer / Publius Pundit:
NEW PRIME MINISTER NOMINEE FOR IRAQ
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
Matthew Barakat / Associated Press:
Lawyer: Rice Allegedly Leaked Defense Info  —  ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice leaked national defense information to a pro-Israel lobbyist in the same manner that landed a lower-level Pentagon official a 12-year prison sentence, the lobbyist's lawyer said Friday.
Discussion: TalkLeft, NewsHog and Daily Kos
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.
Discussion: TAPPED and Ezra Klein
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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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
House: Mollohan Steps Down From Ethics Post
Discussion: Daily Kos and Don Surber
John W. Dean / FindLaw's Writ:
If Past Is Prologue, George Bush Is Becoming An Increasingly Dangerous President  —  President George W. Bush's presidency is a disaster - one that's still unfolding.  In a mid-2004 column, I argued that, at that point, Bush had already demonstrated that he possessed the least attractive …
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 Justin Richards of the University of Florida, Gainesville student newspaper.
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 …
Discussion: 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.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
 
 
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