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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 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:
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Bush Set To Send Guard to Border — Assignment Would Be Temporary; Critics Cite Strain on Troops — President Bush tried to ease the worries of his Mexican counterpart yesterday as he prepared for a nationally televised address tonight unveiling a plan to send thousands of National Guard troops …
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Conservative Christians Warn Republicans Against Inaction — WASHINGTON, May 13 — Some of President Bush's most influential conservative Christian allies are becoming openly critical of the White House and Republicans in Congress, warning that they will withhold their support …
Rick Wilking / MSNBC:
Bush seeks 5,000 Guard troops on border — Some lawmakers wary of idea to help Border Patrol in southern states — U.S. Border Patrol agent Celso Ramos, right looks at surveillance camera video from cameras looking at the U.S.-Mexico border at the Laredo Sector offices of the Border Patrol in Laredo, Texas, on May 2.
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 …
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Plan to Deploy Guard at Border Worries Mexico — WASHINGTON, May 14 — President Bush's plan to send National Guard troops to patrol the southern border of the United States has raised the concern of his longtime ally President Vicente Fox of Mexico, who called Mr. Bush on Sunday to express his worries.
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 …
San Diego Union-Tribune:
Dutch lawmaker in asylum row to move to U.S. — AMSTERDAM - Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born Dutch politician known for her criticism of Islam, will leave parliament and move to the United States after admitting she lied to win asylum in the Netherlands, media reported on Monday.
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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 …
Sebastian Mallaby / Washington Post:
The Return Of Voodoo Economics — Republicans Ignore Their Experts on The Cost of Tax Cuts — Nobody serious believes that tax cuts pay for themselves, as I noted last week. But most senior Republicans flunk this test of seriousness. — In January, George W. Bush declared that …
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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Negroponte Had Denied Domestic Call Monitoring — Administration Won't Comment on NSA Logs — When he was asked about the National Security Agency's controversial domestic surveillance program last Monday, U.S. intelligence chief John D. Negroponte objected to the question and said the government was …
White House:
MR. McCLELLAN: Not necessarily. — Q — if a staffer is interviewed, is that staffer expected, have they been given guidance internally, to report that to the Counsel's Office, so the Counsel's Office knows? — MR. McCLELLAN: No. No. — Q On Cuba, the President mentioned trying to strengthen —
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 …
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Leopold Responds to Corallo's Denial of Fitzgerald - Luskin Meeting — Last night, I spoke to Jason Leopold on the phone for a half hour or so. Here's what he had to say about Byron York's article stating that Karl Rove's spokesman Mark Corallo told him that Jason's article Saturday reporting sources told …
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