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5:45 PM ET, April 23, 2006

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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 …
Michael Tanji / GroupIntel:
McCarthyism  —  Welcome Captain's Quarters readers:  —  Another kind of CIA-related "outing" took place late yesterday: Mary McCarthy was identified as at least one of Dana Priest's sources in the CIA "secret prisons" article.  That would be the story that earned Ms. Priest a Pulitzer Prize.
Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
CIA VS. THE WHITE HOUSE: McCARTHY AND THE DC REVOLVING DOOR
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 …
TigerHawk / tigerhawk.blogspot.com:
Bin Laden changes the subject
Discussion: Dr. Sanity and PrairiePundit
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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Newsweek:
Bush Pops His Bubble
Discussion: The Huffington Post
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 …
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.
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
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.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Suburban Guerrilla
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
Jonathan Alter / Newsweek:
What FDR Teaches Us  —  Long Shadow: A new book relives his first 100 days.  Have a look, Mr. President.  —  May 1, 2006 issue - On one level, it's unfair to compare a sitting president to his predecessors, especially when he has more than two and a half years to go.
 
 
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Philly.com:
Paperless news is doing just fine
Discussion: Suburban Guerrilla
Mark Glaser / pbs.org:
Wales Discusses Political Bias on Wikipedia
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Lawrence Wilkerson / Baltimore Sun:
Is U.S. being transformed into a radical republic?
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Nothing to fear but the climate change alarmists
Alexandra von Maltzan / All Things Beautiful:
"Big Love"  —  "Family of Marsupial Centaurs" by Salvator Dali 1940
Discussion: Slate and Ezra Klein
John Byrne / rawstory.com:
On Earth Day website, House Republican Committee seeks to 'dispel …
Discussion: MyDD and Seeing the Forest
Hook / Sgt Hook:
After Action Review
Newsweek:
What Happened at Duke?  —  Sex.  Race.  A raucous party.  A rape charge.
Discussion: Betsy's Page
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Democrats Contour November Strategy
Robert D. Kaplan / Washington Post:
Old States, New Threats
Robin Toner / New York Times:
Senate Campaign Tests Democrats' Abortion Tack
New York Times:
Corrections  —  A front-page article on Thursday about strain …
Discussion: Power Line and TigerHawk
Washington Post:
Iraqi Lawmakers End Months of Deadlock
Discussion: Rantingprofs
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
New Plans Foresee Fighting Terrorism Beyond War Zones
White House:
President's Radio Address