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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:
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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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Marshall Manson / On Tap:
Okay. Enough. — ABC News' Brian Ross and Richard Esposito report: … I am — and continue to be — a strong supporter of the President and his administration, but the crusade against reporters who publish stories based on leaks has got to stop. If they want to find the leakers and punish them, so be it.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo: Isn't this the other shoe dropping? — The piece is written in a roundabout sort of way.
Digby / Hullabaloo: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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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.
TalkLeft:
My Conversation With Mark Corallo Re: Leopold on Rove — Karl Rove's spokesman, Mark Corallo, called me at 8:20 a.m. Mountain Time today. He said someone had read him my post over the phone about my conversation with Jason Leopold (and he had picked up my voice-mail from Saturday night) and he wanted to respond.
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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 …
Kevin Aylward / Wizbang:KARL ROVE INDICTED FOR PERJURY?
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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 …
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George Gedda / Associated Press:U.S. to Renew Diplomatic Ties With Libya
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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 …
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Third Indicted Lacrosse Player: 'I Am Absolutely Innocent' — Durham DA Doesn't Anticipate Any Further Indictments, He Says — DURHAM, N.C. — A Duke University lacrosse team captain indicted Monday by a grand jury said he and his two teammates are innocent of all charges stemming …
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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 …
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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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
More Americans Disapprove Than Approve of Government Collecting Phone Records — PRINCETON, NJ — A USA Today/Gallup poll conducted Friday and Saturday shows that by a 51% to 43% margin, Americans disapprove of the federal government's program to compile billions of telephone records it obtained …
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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 …
Darryl Fears / Washington Post:
Immigrant Supporters To Counter Bush Speech — New Alliance Ready To Make Itself Heard — As President Bush prepares to address the nation tonight about immigration, a newly formed network of groups that organized demonstrations for illegal immigrants is conference calling …
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.
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