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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.
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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 …
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
McCarthy's Contributions - Still An Impenetrable Mystery At The Times — What might have been motivating the fired CIA officer? The Times noted her $2,000 campaign contribution to John Kerry in their Friday coverage, but overlooked another $5,000 contribution that she had made to the Ohio DNC …
Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
CIA VS. THE WHITE HOUSE: McCARTHY AND THE DC REVOLVING DOOR — It is very tempting when looking at Mary McCarthy's fascinating connections to heavy hitters in the Democratic party national security establishment to try and connect the dots to form what Varifrank has called "The Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory."
Michael Tanji / GroupIntel:
McCarthyism — Welcome Captain's Quarters readers:
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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 …
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Walid Phares / Counterterrorism Blog:
New Bin Laden Tape: Ten Main Points — Al Jazeera aired audiotape-fragments it said was from Bin Laden. In it, the leader of al Qaida made the following main ten points: — 1. Hamas: Despite the fact that we (including Ayman Zawahiri) warned (Muslim Palestinians) not to take part …
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.
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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.
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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.
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A.M. Mora y Leon / Publius Pundit:
TENS OF THOUSANDS PROTEST 70k MURDERS IN VENEZUELA
TENS OF THOUSANDS PROTEST 70k MURDERS IN VENEZUELA
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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 …
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.
Eliot A. Cohen / Opinion Journal:
Honor in Discretion — Conduct unbecoming from retired generals. — One could say much to defend Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld against the recent attacks of half a dozen retired generals—that the indictments are either old ("not enough troops," a trope from April 2003) or vague …
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 …
Lawrence Wilkerson / Baltimore Sun:
Is U.S. being transformed into a radical republic? — We Americans came not from a revolution but from an evolution. — That is in large part why our so-called revolution produced success while most throughout history did not. We came as much from the Magna Carta as from our own doings …
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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.