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5:12 AM ET, May 9, 2006

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Nedra Pickler / ABCNEWS:
White House to Name Hayden for CIA Job  —  White House to Name Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden As Pick to Be Next Director of CIA  —  WASHINGTON May 8, 2006 (AP)— Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden will be named as the next chief of the CIA, President Bush's national security adviser said Monday …
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John Dickerson / Slate:
Nancy Pelosi, Super-Genius  —  The House minority leader answers the GOP's prayers.  —  Elizabeth Dole sounded desperate last week.  Trying to inspire dispirited Republicans, the head of the party's Senatorial Campaign Committee wrote a fund-raising letter urging the GOP faithful to rally …
Los Angeles Times:
Selection Ensures Welcome Revival of Wiretap Debate
Discussion: Billmon
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Washington Post:   CIA Official Quits; FBI Probes Role in Defense Contracts
Caroline Daniel / MSNBC:
Murdoch to host fundraiser for Hillary Clinton campaign  —  Rupert Murdoch, the conservative media mogul whose New York Post tabloid savaged Hillary Clinton's initial aspirations to become a US senator for New York, has agreed to host a political fundraiser for her re-election campaign.
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Drudge Report:
MURDOCH TO HOST FUNDRAISER FOR HILLARY CLINTON  —  Rupert Murdoch has agreed to host a political fundraiser for Hillary Clinton this summer!  —  Murdoch's surprise decision to raise money for Clinton in July, on behalf of NEWS CORP., parent company of FOXNEWS and the NEW YORK POST …
Will / Attytood:
Hillary Clinton: The ultimate Fox News Democrat
USA Today:
Bush approval rating hits new low  —  WASHINGTON — President Bush's approval rating has slumped to 31% in a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, the lowest of his presidency and a warning sign for Republicans in the November elections.  —  The survey of 1,013 adults, taken Friday through Sunday …
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Associated Press:
Iran Letter to Bush Criticizes U.S. Govt
Discussion: Sploid
Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta:
Atwar Bahjat Beheading Video a Hoax (Images / Video)  —  ****Jawa Report Exclusive****  —  A gruesome beheading video delivered to the Sunday Times purporting to be of slain journalist Atwar Bahjat is a hoax.  On Sunday, May 7th, the Times reported that they had received a low-quality video of Atwar Bahjat being slowly beheaded.
Agence France Presse:
Moussaoui asks for new trial  —  Less than a week after he was jailed for life over the September 11 attacks, Al-Qaeda plotter Zacarias Moussaoui submitted a motion asking to withdraw his guilty plea so he can have a new trial.  —  "Moussaoui wishes to withdraw his guilty plea because when he entered …
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Jerry Markon / Washington Post:
Moussaoui Fails in Bid to Withdraw 9/11 Guilty Plea
Discussion: the talking dog and The Sandbox
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Captured AQ Documents: "Every Year Is Worse Than The Previous Year"  —  CENTCOM announced today that they had captured al-Qaeda correspondence in Iraq that discusses the state of the insurgency, especially around Baghdad but also around the entire country.  Far from optimistic …
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Tarek El-Tablawy / Associated Press:   Disorganization Worries al-Qaida in Iraq
The Raw Story:
MSNBC reporter: 'I am convinced that Karl Rove will, in fact, be indicted'  —  Rush transcript from Countdown with Keith Olbermann / MSNBC.  —  MSNBC's Keith Olbermann: There are stories — possibly apocryphal — from the medieval courts of chancery in England, of lawsuits that took so long …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Firedoglake
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Digital Lynch Mob  —  Two weeks ago I wrote about Al Gore's new movie on global warming.  I liked the film.  In response, I instantly got more than 1,000 e-mails, most of them praising Gore, some calling him the usual names and some concluding there was no such thing as global warming, if only because Gore said there was.
The Australian:
Politics blamed for China's trillion-dollar bad debts  —  The real source of the banks' frailty is political patronage, writes Minxin Pei  —  ESTIMATES of the growing pile of non-performing loans (NPLs) in China appear to have caught many by surprise, especially because Beijing's efforts …
Seth Sutel / Associated Press:
Newspaper Circulation Declines 2.6 Percent  —  Newspaper circulation fell 2.6 percent in the six-month period ending in March, according to data released Monday, as more people turned to the Internet and other media outlets for news and information.  —  The decline in average paid weekday circulation …
George / SEIXON:
Kos Goes Fishing  —  I really did not think I was going to have to do another post about Bush's fish story, but here I am.  Why?  Well, the OCBDS liberal blogosphere is still karping on Bush over this, and you'd never think they would, but they're also calling him a liar!
Randolph E. Schmid / Associated Press:
Lesbians' brains respond differently from those of heterosexual women  —  WASHINGTON — Homosexuals' brains respond differently from those of straight men and women when exposed to sex hormones, but researchers now say the difference is less pronounced in lesbians than in gay men.
Discussion: CorrenteWire
 
 
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