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Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Democrats Suggest Double Standard on Leaks — Key Democratic legislators yesterday joined Republicans in saying they do not condone the alleged leaking of classified information that led to last week's firing of a veteran CIA officer. But they questioned whether a double standard exists …
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National Review:
Why Isn't She in Cuffs? — There are countless questions that arise out of the CIA's dismissal of a prominent intelligence officer, Mary O. McCarthy (no relation), for leaking classified information to the media. But one in particular springs to mind right now: Why isn't she in handcuffs?
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
John Kerry Was Against Leaking Before He Was For It
John Kerry Was Against Leaking Before He Was For It
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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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TigerHawk / tigerhawk.blogspot.com:
Bin Laden changes the subject
Bin Laden changes the subject
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Zbigniew Brzezinski / Los Angeles Times:
Been there, done that — Talk of a U.S. strike on Iran is eerily reminiscent of the run-up to the Iraq war. — IRAN'S ANNOUNCEMENT that it has enriched a minute amount of uranium has unleashed urgent calls for a preventive U.S. airstrike from the same sources that earlier urged war on Iraq.
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Laurie Fox / Dallas Morning News:
As schools struggle, ends don't always meet — Rich districts do fundraisers, poor districts do without — Parents resort to fundraisers to boost teacher salaries, buy library books and even replace classroom doors. — Bond elections once reserved for new schools or fancy stadiums …
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New York Times:
Moves Signal Tighter Secrecy Within C.I.A. — WASHINGTON, April 23 — The crackdown on leaks at the Central Intelligence Agency that led to the dismissal of a veteran intelligence officer last week included a highly unusual polygraph examination for the agency's independent watchdog …
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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 …
Ibrahim Barzak / Associated Press:
Fatah, Hamas Gunmen Clash in Gaza — GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Violent clashes and mass protests erupted Saturday across the West Bank and Gaza Strip between followers of the militant group Hamas and Fatah rivals, after a Hamas leader accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of treachery.
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Con Coughlin / Telegraph:
'We would have been close even if 9/11 hadn't happened' — Tony Blair had just finished a video conference with George W. Bush when I arrived to meet him at Downing Street. Their conversation, inevitably, had been mainly about Iraq. "Every week, we have a video conference to catch up on things," he explained.
Nico / Think Progress:
60 Minutes: CIA Official Reveals Bush, Cheney, Rice Were Personally Told Iraq Had No WMD in Fall 2002 — Tonight on 60 Minutes, CIA analyst Tyler Drumheller revealed that in the fall of 2002, President Bush, Vice President Cheney, then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and others …
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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Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Nothing to fear but the climate change alarmists — Do you worry? You look like you do. Worrying is the way the responsible citizen of an advanced society demonstrates his virtue: He feels good by feeling bad. — But what to worry about? Iranian nukes?
AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
The Raging RINO's Are HERE! — *** last minute submissions coming in at the end (OK, I posted early, not their fault!) Yep, my turn to host those rampaging RINOs (and man, do they leave a mess on the carpet). So, without further delay, here are your RINOs with this weeks Raging topics (in the order I received them).
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NY Daily News:
Border battler — Hillary wants to build a U.S.-Mexico fence first — and she's right — Apart from a well-chosen warning about criminalizing Jesus, Sen. Hillary Clinton hasn't waded too deeply into the details of the immigration mess. Until now. — In an interview Friday …
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Douglass K. Daniel / Associated Press:
Kerry Dismisses Idea Whites Run Nomination — WASHINGTON - Sen. John Kerry dismisses as "absolutely ridiculous" the notion that his support for Iowa and New Hampshire's prominent roles in the presidential nomination process means he thinks only the votes of white people count.