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Washington Post:
CIA Officer's Job Made Any Leaks More Delicate — The rare firing last week of a CIA officer accused of leaking information to the news media stems both from the sensitivity of the subjects she allegedly discussed and the Bush administration's forceful efforts to block national security disclosures …
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New York Times:
C.I.A. Director Has Made Plugging Leaks a Top Priority — WASHINGTON, April 22 — The firing of a veteran Central Intelligence Agency officer who has been accused of leaking classified information is a rare and dramatic move, yet C.I.A. officials say it is only the beginning of a campaign …
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Andy McCarthy / The Corner on National Review Online:
BALANCE — WPOST STYLE — The WPost includes in this morning's predictably sympathetic portrait of Mary O. McCarthy, the CIA officer fired for leaking, the following: … OK. Let's leave aside that people with access to classified information take an oath not to disclose …
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Juan / Informed Comment:
All Right, Not All Right — Today at Informed Comment, we are going to play the game of "All Right, Not All Right," known in Washington, DC, as "business as usual," but otherwise castigated by the moral philosophers as hypocrisy. — It IS all right for Bush campaign strategist Karl Rove
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And Another Thing:
Who is Mary McCarthy?
Who is Mary McCarthy?
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Kim Priestap / Wizbang:
THE MEDIA CIRCLING THE WAGONS AROUND MCCARTHY
THE MEDIA CIRCLING THE WAGONS AROUND MCCARTHY
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New York Times:
Corrections — A front-page article on Thursday about strain on government services in Texas caused by hurricane evacuees misstated the number of evacuee children in Houston public schools and the amount of Federal aid the state has received. The most recent count, in late February, showed 5,475 students, not 30,000.
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
OOPS! NEVER MIND — The reporters and editors who produce the New York Times seem pretty clearly to be word people, not numbers people. Of course, they often get the words wrong too. But their problems with numbers are hard to understand or excuse. — On April 20, the Times ran …
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Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
New Plans Foresee Fighting Terrorism Beyond War Zones — Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has approved the military's most ambitious plan yet to fight terrorism around the world and retaliate more rapidly and decisively in the case of another major terrorist attack on the United States, according to defense officials.
New York Times:
Young Officers Join the Debate Over Rumsfeld — WASHINGTON, April 22 — The revolt by retired generals who publicly criticized Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has opened an extraordinary debate among younger officers, in military academies, in the armed services' staff colleges and even in command posts and mess halls in Iraq.
Washington Post:
Iraqi Lawmakers End Months of Deadlock — BAGHDAD, April 22 — Four months of political paralysis lifted on Saturday when a newly convened parliament chose seven top officials to run Iraq's first long-term government since the fall of Saddam Hussein. — In a largely ceremonial meeting …
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Sarah Baxter / Times of London:
Dump Cheney for Condi, Bush urged — REPUBLICANS are urging President George W Bush to dump Dick Cheney as vice-president and replace him with Condoleezza Rice if he is serious about presenting a new face to the jaded American public. — They believe that only the sacrifice …
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Steven R. Hurst / Associated Press:
In Tape, bin Laden Urges Fighters to Sudan — Osama bin Laden issued ominous new threats in an audiotape broadcast Sunday, purportedly saying the West was at war with Islam and calling on his followers to go to Sudan to fight a proposed U.N. force. — In his first new message in three months …
Will Hutton / Observer:
Why the Euston group offers a new direction for the left — A disparate set of left-wing thinkers meeting in a London pub has reopened an essential debate on the nature of democracy — To be on the left is to be both temperamentally inclined to dissent and to be passionate about your own utopia, which can never be achieved.
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White House:
President's Radio Address — THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This weekend I am traveling in California, where I'm focusing on important issues for our Nation's future, including our economy, energy prices, the war on terror, and immigration reform. — America's economy is strong …
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William Saletan / Slate:
Big or Me — What Big Love teaches about marriage and jealousy. — In the final scene of the latest episode of Big Love, high-schooler Ben Henrickson wonders whether to become a polygamist like his dad. His father, Bill Henrickson, tells the young man that it's a big responsibility, but that he's up to it.
Sydney Morning Herald:
White House knew there were no WMD: CIA — The CIA had evidence Iraq possessed no weapons of mass destruction six months before the 2003 US-led invasion but was ignored by a White House intent on ousting Saddam Hussein, a former senior CIA official said, according to CBS.
Robin Toner / New York Times:
Senate Campaign Tests Democrats' Abortion Tack — LANCASTER, Pa., April 20 — As the Democratic Party tries to inch its way toward a new, less polarized politics of abortion, seeking some common ground between supporters and opponents of abortion rights, there is no better case study than the Pennsylvania Senate race.
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