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Lawmaker: Marines killed Iraqis 'in cold blood' — Navy conducting war crimes probe into November violence in Haditha — A video provided to Reuters in March by Hamourabi, a human rights group, shows covered bodies, which Hamourabi says are of 15 civilians shot to death by Marines in Haditha in November.
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Christian Lowe / Army Times:
Murtha: Marines may have killed Haditha civilians in cold blood — Rep. John Murtha, an influential Pennsylvania lawmaker and outspoken critic of the war in Iraq, said today Marines had "killed innocent civilians in cold blood" after allegedly responding to a roadside bomb ambush that killed …
David Espo / Associated Press:
Senate OKs Border Fence, Mulls Citizenship — The Senate voted to build 370 miles of triple-layered fencing along the Mexican border Wednesday and clashed over citizenship for millions of men and women who live in the United States illegally. — Amid increasingly emotional debate …
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Senate Votes to Extend Fence Along Border — WASHINGTON, May 17— The Senate voted overwhelmingly today to add hundreds of miles of fencing along the border between the United States and Mexico and to bar illegal immigrants convicted of a felony or three misdemeanors from remaining …
John Conyers Jr / Washington Post:
No Rush to Impeachment — As Republicans have become increasingly nervous about whether they will be able to maintain control of the House in the midterm elections, they have resorted to the straw-man strategy of identifying a parade of horrors to come if Democrats gain the majority.
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Zachary Roth / Washington Monthly:
Investi-Gate — What's really at stake in the November elections. — There are plenty of reasons why George W. Bush managed to eke out a 51 percent re-election victory in 2004: John Kerry was a lousy candidate; Iraq had not yet descended into civil war; and anti-gay-marriage ballot initiatives …
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
U.S. Said to Weigh a New Approach on North Korea — WASHINGTON, May 17 — President Bush's top advisers have recommended a broad new approach to dealing with North Korea that would include beginning negotiations on a peace treaty, even while efforts to dismantle the country's nuclear program …
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Update on the Rove Indictment Story — For the past few days, we have endured non-stop attacks on our credibility, and we have fought hard to defend our reputation. In addition, we have worked around the clock to provide additional information to our readership.
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Who Isn't A 'Values Voter'? — An aggressively annoying new phrase in America's political lexicon is "values voters." It is used proudly by social conservatives, and carelessly by the media to denote such conservatives. — This phrase diminishes our understanding of politics.
Henryk M. Broder / Spiegel Online:
"Voltaire and Erasmus Are Spinning in their Graves" — Holland's most famous immigrant — Ayaan Hirsi Ali — has been stripped of her citizenship overnight following television revelations about news that's long been public: she lied a little on her application for asylum years ago.
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Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
Al Gore Overcomes the Fear Factor, Hillary Succumbs — Last night, I attended the premiere of An Inconvenient Truth, the powerful new global warming documentary featuring an impassioned and surprisingly humorous Al Gore. — After the screening, as I watched him interact with well-wishers …
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Justin Rood / TPMmuckraker:
Dingbat Billing Dust-up Shuts Down Security Clearances — A minor billing dispute between the Pentagon and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is threatening operations throughout the U.S. national security community. — Last month, OPM — which currently handles background investigations …
Greg Sargent / The Horse's Mouth:
FBI Spokesman Won't Confirm or Deny Use of "National Security Letters" to Collect Reporters' Phone Records — OK, I just got off the phone with an FBI spokesman, William Carter, and it's true: The FBI won't confirm — or deny — whether the FBI is using so-called "National Security Letters" …
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Lowell P. Weicker Jr / Hartford Courant:
Enough Of The War - And Enough Of Lieberman — `Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside ... "And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied." — These words of the 19th-century American poet James Russell Lowell sum up my admiration for and my support …
Max Boot / Los Angeles Times:
Forget privacy, we need to spy more — Electronic surveillance is a key weapon in the war on terror. Don't handcuff the president and the NSA. — PRETTY MUCH everyone agrees that our human-spy capacity is missing in action. The chances that a CIA agent will be in the same cave …
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Seeking to Control Borders, Bush Turns to Big Military Contractors — WASHINGTON, May 17 — The quick fix may involve sending in the National Guard. But to really patch up the broken border, President Bush is preparing to turn to a familiar administration partner: the nation's giant military contractors.
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O'Reilly claimed NY Times, other "lefty zealots" believe "the white Christians who hold power must be swept out by a new multicultural tide" … During the May 16 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly claimed that The New York Times and "many far-left thinkers believe …
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