Top Items:
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 …
RELATED ITEMS:
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Treason by association — Almost every Bush follower screeching about the Mary McCarthy story thinks it is extremely significant that (a) she donated money to John Kerry's campaign; (b) Dana Priest's husband knows Joe Wilson, as does McCarthy herself; and (c) McCarthy has professional ties to Sandy Berger.
Discussion:
Decision '08, Firedoglake, Sweetness & Light, The Next Hurrah, Gateway Pundit, Babalu Blog, TBogg, The Mahablog and Democrats.com
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 …
CNN:
Purported bin Laden tape slams West for 'crusader-Zionist war' — (CNN) — Parts of an audiotape purportedly from Osama bin Laden aired Sunday on an Arabic-language TV network in which the al Qaeda leader attacks the West for cutting off funds to the Palestinian Hamas-led government and referred to a …
Discussion:
ShrinkWrapped, Blue Crab Boulevard, Real Teen, The Washington Note, In the Bullpen, PunditGuy, Peaktalk and The Strata-Sphere
RELATED ITEMS:
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 …
Discussion:
Atlas Shrugs
Mike Allen / Time:
Can Josh Bolten Rescue the Bush Presidency? — He started by shaking up the staff. Next comes a five-point White House "recovery plan" — At the George W. Bush campaign headquarters in Austin, Texas, in 1999, policy director Josh Bolten was a low-key Washingtonian in a building full of brash Texans.
RELATED ITEMS:
Los Angeles Times:
Bush's third term — IF PRESIDENT BUSH HOPES the "shake-up" of his administration initiated last week will re-energize his listless presidency, he's bound to be disappointed. A far more audacious makeover is needed — one that sends Vice President Dick Cheney into early retirement.
RELATED ITEMS:
New York Times:
How a Billionaire Friend of Bill Helps Him Do Good, and Well — After leaving the White House in 2001, former President Bill Clinton was inundated with business and job offers, from investment-bank partnerships to seats on corporate boards. He turned them all down, with one exception …
Discussion:
Captain's Quarters
RELATED ITEMS:
Mickey Kaus / Slate:
Burn, Burkle, Burn! — Did the NYT get scammed by a PR-worthy anecdote?
Burn, Burkle, Burn! — Did the NYT get scammed by a PR-worthy anecdote?
Discussion:
LA Observed
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.
RELATED ITEMS:
Times of London:
Iran's president recruits terror master — Sarah Baxter, Washington and Uzi Mahnaimi, Tel Aviv — Plot for revenge attacks on West — IRAN'S president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, attended a meeting in Syria earlier this year with one of the world's most wanted terrorists …
Newsweek:
What Happened at Duke? — Sex. Race. A raucous party. A rape charge. And a prosecutor up for re-election. Inside the mystery that has roiled a campus and riveted the country. — Photos: Gerry Broome / AP (2 left, center); Sara D. Davis / AP (upper right); Jeffrey A. Camarati / AP (lower right)
Discussion:
Betsy's Page
RELATED ITEMS:
Daniel / Venezuela News And ViewsVenezuela News …:
A commemoration for the 70 000 that died under Chavez — Acuestate por la Vida, — commemorating the 70 000 deaths by violence in Venezuela in the last 6 years. — Since Hugo Chavez has become president in 1998, the toll of violent death from crime has been multiplied by three.
RELATED ITEMS:
A.M. Mora y Leon / Publius Pundit:
TENS OF THOUSANDS PROTEST 70k MURDERS IN VENEZUELA
TENS OF THOUSANDS PROTEST 70k MURDERS IN VENEZUELA
Discussion:
Daily Pundit
Brian Bennett / Time:
The Missing Girls of Iraq — Sex trafficking, virtually nonexistent under Saddam Hussein, has resurfaced in Iraq. TIME reports on a seldom-discussed epidemic: girls being kidnapped and sold to brothels — The man on the phone with the 14-year-old Iraqi girl called himself Sa'ad.
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 …
Discussion:
Rantingprofs
Cathy Siepp / Los Angeles Times:
Battling cancer — and Blue Cross — Unlike THE TYPICAL Blue Cross "valued member," as the annual letter on rate and benefit changes always calls us, I wasn't upset to learn that my monthly premium would increase by $50, to $395 a month, for me and my daughter. — That's because I'm not really a Blue Cross valued member.
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.
Robert D. Kaplan / Washington Post:
Old States, New Threats — You know these bad guys. But there is a whole other world of tyrants, dictators and despots. — Crossing a border has always carried a special drama. Moments after my train crossed from Hungary to Romania in the 1980s — from a country run by a liberal communist regime …