memeorandum @ 2:35 PM ET, May 7, 2006

2:35 PM ET, May 7, 2006

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House Intelligence Chairman Opposes Hayden as Next CIA Chief — May 7 (Bloomberg) — The chairman of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee urged the White House not to nominate Air Force Lieutenant General Michael Hayden to head the civilian Central Intelligence Agency.

Discussion: The Heretik, The Mahablog and Middle Earth Journal

Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:

BREAKING: Hayden to Be Named DCI Tomorrow — George Stephanopolous just announced on ABC's This Week that Gen. Michael Hayden will definitely be named President Bush's nominee to succeed Porter Goss as the DCI for the CIA. Interviewing Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Sen. Saxby Chambliss …

Discussion: Left in the West and War and Piece

Washington Post:

White House Set to Fight for Hayden — Nomination for CIA Chief Would Reopen Domestic Eavesdropping Controversy — The nomination of Gen. Michael V. Hayden to take over the CIA would trigger a fresh battle over the secret warrantless surveillance program he oversaw on behalf of President Bush …

Discussion: Riehl World View and Captain's Quarters

Washington Post:

Hayden Faces Senate and CIA Hurdles if Named — General Has Streak Of Independence And Nonconformity — When Gen. Michael V. Hayden took over as director of the National Security Agency in 1999, he faced a huge organization that was overwhelmingly staffed by aging white men who had spent …

Discussion: The Strata-Sphere and Think Progress

Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
The Hayden Flier Hits Serious Turbulence

Discussion: Riehl World View and Expose the Left

David Ignatius:
The CIA at Rock Bottom

Discussion: The Washington Monthly, Booman Tribune, Los Angeles Times and ZenPundit

Crooks and Liars:
GOP's Hoekstra: General Hayden is Wrong Choice for CIA

Discussion: Firedoglake

Times of London:

Part of me died when I saw this cruel killing — EVEN by the stupefying standards of Iraq's unspeakable violence, the murder of Atwar Bahjat, one of the country's top television journalists, was an act of exceptional cruelty. — Nobody but her killers knew just how much she had suffered until …

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, The Moderate Voice, Blue Crab Boulevard, Done With Mirrors, lgf and Sweetness & Light

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Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:

THE KILLING OF ATWAR BAHJAT — Warning: The following contains a graphic description of a brutal murder - probably exceeding what you imagine one human being could do to another. However, it is typical of the work of Islamic terrorists. Read on only if you want a bit of insight into the nature of the enemy in this global war.

Discussion: protein wisdom, The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta, Cold Fury, Elephants in Academia, Riehl World View and Atlas Shrugs

Robert / Jihad Watch: "Her cries — 'Ah, ah, ah' — can be heard above the 'Allahu akbar …

Washington Post:

Pollster Suggests Bush Moves Might Be Too Little, Too Late — The recent White House shake-up was an attempt to jump-start the administration and boost President Bush's rock-bottom approval ratings, but have those efforts come too late to salvage the presidency? A prominent GOP pollster thinks that may be the case.

Discussion: The American Street, The Next Hurrah, Eschaton, Sadly, No! and PoliBlog

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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:

Confident Democrats Lay Out Agenda — Party Plans Probes Of Administration If It Wins the House — Democratic leaders, increasingly confident they will seize control of the House in November, are laying plans for a legislative blitz during their first week in power that would raise the minimum wage …

Andrew Klavan / Los Angeles Times:

Draft Hollywood — The nation needs more gung-ho, patriotic war movies that celebrate our fight against Islamo-fascists. — THERE HAS NEVER been an age without war, not ever. Mass violence is a continual aspect of the human condition. Peace, like good weather, is always local and temporary …

Discussion: Patterico's Pontifications and TigerHawk

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Armed Liberal / Winds of Change.NET:
This Morning, The LA Times Email Servers Are Gonna Melt Down...

Discussion: The Washington Monthly

Sarah Lyall / New York Times:

In a Dentist Shortage, British (Ouch) Do It Themselves — George Glasper, 81, at the Dental Access Center in Rochdale. It gives emergency care but is always swamped. — ROCHDALE, England, May 2 — "I snapped it out myself," said William Kelly, 43, describing his most recent dental procedure …

Discussion: In From the Cold, Blue Crab Boulevard, Beat the Press and FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog

Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:

The Bush administration is radical, but not ideological — There have been several interesting responses to the post I wrote regarding the emerging (and largely unprincipled) effort by conservatives to disassociate their political movement from the wildly unpopular George Bush by now proclaiming …

Discussion: Swords Crossed, Rook's Rant, The Green Knight and Daily Kos

Reuters:

Bush's best moment in office? Reeling in big perch —Text+BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush told a German newspaper his best moment in more than five years in office was catching a big perch in his own lake. — "You know, I've experienced many great moments and it's hard …

Discussion: MyDD, AGITPROP, Shakespeare's Sister, AMERICAblog and The All Spin Zone

Louise Roug / Los Angeles Times:

Targeted Killings Surge in Baghdad — Nearly 4,000 civilian deaths, many of them Sunni Arabs slain execution-style, were recorded in the first three months of the year. — BAGHDAD — More Iraqi civilians were killed in Baghdad during the first three months of this year than at any time since …

Discussion: Today in Iraq

Newsweek:

Intelligence: Goss Goes Out-But the CIA's Struggles Go On — May 15, 2006 issue - If there was one government agency that needed to improve after 9/11, it was the CIA. Apparently, however, the spy agency has only weakened. Forced out last week as CIA director, Porter Goss leaves an outfit …

Discussion: TPM Muckraker and War and Piece