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Federal Source to ABC News: We Know Who You're Calling — Brian Ross and Richard Esposito Report: — A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we (Brian Ross and Richard Esposito) call in an effort to root out confidential sources.
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ABC News: Federal official says US tracking calls made by ABC News, New York Times, Washington Post — ABC News' press office just sent out this release to news organizations, RAW STORY has learned. The story has been posted at the ABC NEWS blog (Read here). — ABC's Brian Ross and Richard Esposito Report:
James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:
Feds Tracking Journalists' Phone Conversations? — ABC News has, on their blog of all places, a story alleging that federal investigators are tracking the phone calls of journalists. … The former would be scary indeed; the latter, reasonable if somewhat problematic.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo: Isn't this the other shoe dropping? — The piece is written in a roundabout sort of way.
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Negroponte Had Denied Domestic Call Monitoring
Negroponte Had Denied Domestic Call Monitoring
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Marshall Manson / On Tap:
Okay. Enough. — ABC News' Brian Ross and Richard Esposito report:
Okay. Enough. — ABC News' Brian Ross and Richard Esposito report:
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Same As It Ever Was — In light of today's predictable revelations …
Same As It Ever Was — In light of today's predictable revelations …
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Conservatives debate Bush impeachment over immigration — A very spirited and provocative debate took place among right-wing bloggers over the past week. The question under consideration: Should George W. Bush be impeached for his failure to stop the "Mexican invasion" and protect our nation's borders?
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Michelle Malkin:
TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE — Here we go again. — President Bush is continuing the homeland security dog-and-pony charade in his quest to deliver a massive "guest worker"/amnesty plan to the open-borders lobby. A few weeks ago, Bush's Department of Homeland Security put on a bogus performance …
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Bush Set To Send Guard to Border
Bush Set To Send Guard to Border
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George Gedda / Associated Press:
U.S. to Renew Diplomatic Ties With Libya — WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has decided to restore normal diplomatic relations with Libya for the first time in over a quarter century after taking Moammar Gadhafi's country off a U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, State Department officials said Monday.
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Elise Labott / CNN:
U.S. to restore relations with Libya — WASHINGTON (CNN) — The United States will restore full diplomatic relations with Libya and remove the North African country from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, the State Department announced Monday. — The removal from the terrorism list …
WorldNetDaily:
Against a fence — Dear Jorge plans to address the nation tonight, a speech wherein he will almost surely attempt to deceive citizens into believing that he does not wish the mass migration from Mexico to continue unabated. He will likely offer some negligible resources for law enforcement …
Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
Rove Said Unfazed by Chance of Charges — WASHINGTON - President Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove, arrives at the White House every day wearing a jovial smile that masks his boss' political troubles and his own legal woes. — Rove, the man Bush dubbed "the architect" of his re-election …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Rove Indicted? — The not-always reliable Jason Leopold …
Rove Indicted? — The not-always reliable Jason Leopold …
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Robert Rector / Heritage Foundation:
Senate Immigration Bill Would Allow 100 Million New Legal Immigrants over the Next Twenty Years — If enacted, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act (CIRA, S.2611) would be the most dramatic change in immigration law in 80 years, allowing an estimated 103 million persons to legally immigrate …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Breaking: Ayaan Hirsi Ali emigrating to U.S.? — Sugiero tips me to this Robert Spencer post quoting Bruce Bawer. Not five minutes before, I got an e-mail from a reader pointing me to this article in Dutch, which mentions AEI. I'm working on confirming it with them right now.
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Mike Baker / Associated Press:
3rd Member of Duke Lacrosse Team Indicted — A grand jury indicted a third member of Duke University's lacrosse team Monday on charges stemming from a woman's allegations she was raped and beaten at a team party earlier this year. — David Evans, a senior and team captain from Bethesda …
Kevin Kelly / New York Times:
Scan This Book! — Correction Appended — In several dozen nondescript office buildings around the world, thousands of hourly workers bend over table-top scanners and haul dusty books into high-tech scanning booths. They are assembling the universal library page by page.
Amit R. Paley / Washington Post:
Homework Help, From a World Away — Web Joins Students, Cheap Overseas Tutors — It was almost 3 a.m., Alex Del Monte recalled, and he was cramming like crazy. He gulped can after can of Red Bull to stay awake, but the George Washington University sophomore knew he would flunk …
Pete Yost / Associated Press:
Justices block Ohio taxpayers' lawsuit — MAY. 15 11:40 A.M. ET Taxpayers have no right to challenge nearly $300 million in tax breaks that Ohio's elected officials used to entice DaimlerChrysler AG to build a new plant in Toledo, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday.
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