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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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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.
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