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12:30 PM ET, April 25, 2006

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Washington Post:
Dismissed CIA Officer Denies Leak Role  —  Official Says Agency Is Not Asserting She Told of Secret Prisons  —  A lawyer representing fired CIA officer Mary O. McCarthy said yesterday that his client did not leak any classified information and did not disclose to Washington Post reporter Dana Priest …
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New York Times:
Fired C.I.A. Officer Denies Role in Leak  —  WASHINGTON, April 24 — The lawyer for a Central Intelligence Agency official dismissed last week after being accused of leaking classified information said on Monday that his client denied disclosing any classified information and was not the source …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
CIA Leak: A Blog Primer  —  This is one of those stories where, if you miss the first 48 hours, you end up feeling so far behind the curve that you tune it out and never bother with it again.  So here's a round-up of news and blog coverage which, while longish, will bring you up to speed.
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Bush Orders Probe Into Gas Price Cheating  —  ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — President Bush is trying to calm Americans' outrage over soaring gas prices by ordering an investigation into whether the price of gasoline has been illegally manipulated, his spokesman said Monday.
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Opinion Journal:
Denny Pelosi  —  Gas prices rise, and Republicans panic.  —  Few things are less becoming in a political party than desperation, as Republicans are now demonstrating as they panic over rising oil and gas prices.  If blaming private industry for Congress's own energy mistakes is the best the GOP can do …
Mac Johnson / Human Events:   The O'Reilly Fiction  —  I have a friend who is fond of the saying …
Suzanne Malveaux / CNN:
Sources: Tony Snow likely to take White House post  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sources close to the White House said Monday that Fox anchor Tony Snow is likely to accept the job as White House press secretary, succeeding Scott McClellan.  —  The sources said they expect him to announce his decision within the next few days.
Christopher Elliott / New York Times:
One Day, That Economy Ticket May Buy You a Place to Stand  —  The airlines have come up with a new answer to an old question: How many passengers can be squeezed into economy class?  —  A lot more, it turns out, especially if an idea still in the early stage should catch on: standing-room-only "seats."
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Sen. Roberts seeks delay of Intel probe  —  Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), who chairs the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said he wants to divide his panel's inquiry into the Bush administration's handling of Iraq-related intelligence into two parts, a move that would push off …
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Lone Lawmaker Blocks Flight 93 Monument in Pa.  —  For emotional wallop, there are few rivals to the windswept, grassy field outside of Shanksville, Pa., where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11, 2001.  —  But for three years, that field has made do with a makeshift monument …
Editor and Publisher:
Bush Says He Tried to Avoid War 'To The Max,' Explains How God Shapes His Foreign Policy  —  NEW YORK President Bush today said he had tried to avoid war with Iraq "diplomatically to the max."  —  Speaking to a business group in Irvine, Ca., he admitted mistakes were made in planning for the Iraq invasion …
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Brian T. Fitzpatrick / LAW.com:
Scalia's mistake  —  Special to The National Law Journal  —  Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is an opinionated guy.  I know.  I clerked for him four years ago.  Every once in a while, however, Scalia's love of intellectual engagement leads him to make a mistake.  He made one of these mistakes recently.
Discussion: OrinKerr.com
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court rules on habeas, county government immunity
Michael Forsythe / Bloomberg:
Democrats Beat Republicans in 2005 Fund-Raising on Wall Street  —  April 24 (Bloomberg) — Democrats outdid Republicans last year in attracting political donations from investment banks, brokerages and fund managers for the first time since 1994, helped by support from hedge funds and companies such as Merrill Lynch & Co.
Discussion: MyDD and Middle Earth Journal
Jonathan Finer / Washington Post:
Shiite Militias Move Into Oil-Rich Kirkuk, Even as Kurds Dig In  —  Control of Iraqi City Has Long Been in Dispute  —  KIRKUK, Iraq — Hundreds of Shiite Muslim militiamen have deployed in recent weeks to this restive city — widely considered the most likely flash point for an Iraqi civil war …
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Playing By The Rules  —  Republican style...  Is every Republican in Washington the emotional age of seven?  The rules require that some of the lesser teams get a chance to participate in the "playoffs" so the manly he-men who have shed their blood and sweat throughout the grueling season …
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Jesselee / The Stakeholder:   Put Me In, Coach  —  The way a man handles himself out on the field …
Richard Allen Greene / BBC:
Blogs link families with children at war  —  Carla Lois started an online diary - a weblog - just before the army sent her son Noah to Iraq in January 2005.  —  Eight months later, it paid off in a way she must always have prayed it would not, when she posted a terse item headlined: "My Son Has Been Injured."
New York Times:
Iran Is Described as Defiant on 2nd Nuclear Program  —  WASHINGTON, April 24 — Iran has told the International Atomic Energy Agency that it will refuse to answer questions about a second, secret uranium-enrichment program, according to European and American diplomats.
Baron Bodissey / Gates of Vienna:
A New Oslo Peace Process?  —  The noted blogger Fjordman is filing this report via Gates of Vienna.  —  Thorbjørn Jagland is a former Foreign Minister and Prime Minister of Norway from the Labor Party.  He is now President of the Storting, the Norwegian Parliament …
Mariam Fam / Associated Press:
10 Arrests Made in Egypt Resort Attack  —  DAHAB, Egypt - Police arrested 10 people Tuesday and divers retrieved body parts from the sea after three bombs ripped apart a Sinai beach resort at the height of Egypt's tourist season, killing 24 people and injuring more than 80, many of them foreigners.
 
 
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E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
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Carol J. Williams / Los Angeles Times:
U.S. to Free 141 Terror Suspects
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Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
"Cole Fire: Yale is set to ditch Taliban Man and may hire …
Elana Schor / The Hill:
Watchdog groups blast House lobby reform bill
Lynne Duke / Washington Post:
The Enigmatic Man  —  Claude Allen's Desire to Rise …
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Eric Boehlert / The Huffington Post:
Hugh Hewitt's Odd Logic
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USA Today:
Specter helped win OK for $200,000 grant for client of staffer's son
Discussion: MyDD and Instapundit.com
Neil Cavuto / Fox News:
Congress Blowing Hot Air at Energy Crunch
Discussion: Captain's Quarters and Wizbang
Dave Winer / Dave's Wordpress Blog:
Next steps for BitTorrent
Daniel Williams / Washington Post:
In Egypt, Revival of Political Farce
MSNBC:
Transcript for April 23  —  MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday …
Discussion: News Blog and OxBlog
James Glanz / New York Times:
Rebuilding of Iraqi Pipeline as Disaster Waiting to Happen
Discussion: Billmon
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Congress readies broad new digital copyright bill
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White House:
President Discusses Comprehensive Immigration Reform
 

 
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