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11:15 AM ET, May 18, 2006

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MSNBC:
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 …
Billmon:   In Cold Blood  —  When the Abu Ghraib horror show first aired …
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:   Murtha Leaping To Conclusions
Siobhan Gorman / Baltimore Sun:
NSA killed system that sifted phone data legally … WASHINGTON // The National Security Agency developed a pilot program in the late 1990s that would have enabled it to gather and analyze massive amounts of communications data without running afoul of privacy laws.
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Washington Post:
Lawmakers Reexamine Hayden  —  CIA Pick's Involvement in Wiretap Program Raises Questions  —  In hearings today on President Bush's choice to head the CIA, senators will face an array of questions, loose ends and seeming contradictions about the administration's domestic surveillance techniques.
Scott Shane / New York Times:
C.I.A. Pick Dazzles Many, but Critics See Mixed Résumé
Discussion: JustOneMinute
New York Times:
Wider Briefing for Lawmakers on Spy Efforts
Discussion: Firedoglake and On Deadline
Max Boot / Los Angeles Times:
Forget privacy, we need to spy more
Discussion: world-o-crap.com and TAPPED
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.
William Triplett / Variety:
Tony Snow at the White House  —  Possibly through Inauguration Day 2009, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. Running time: 40 MIN.  —  In the often surreal world of the televised press briefing, the media don't stand a chance against a nice guy, and judging by his first performance …
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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.
New York Times:
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 …
Discussion: ParaPundit, dartblog.com and VDARE.com
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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.
wsbtv.com:
McKinney Sponsors Bill Honoring Capitol Police  —  WASHINGTON — Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, who could face criminal charges for allegedly punching a Capitol police officer in Washington, D.C., has signed on as a co-sponsor of a House bill formally honoring Capitol Police officers.
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 …
Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
Out of Touch  —  What the president's immigration speech and "The DaVinci Code" have in common.  —  What was missing in the president's approach the other night was the expression, or suggestion, of context.  The context was a crisis that had gone unanswered as it has built …
Discussion: Riehl World View
TigerHawk:
The canaries flee the coal mine  —  Today's Wall Street Journal leads with a front-page article($) about Ayaan Hirsi Ali's decision to resign from the Dutch parliament and emigrate to the United States.  The proximate cause was a court order evicting her from her apartment because her presence put …
Washington Post:
Anti-Incumbent Voters Sent Messages Tuesday  —  Pennsylvania voters dumped two Republican leaders in the state Senate and scared a GOP member of Congress, while Oregon voters sent a warning they are unhappy with the Democratic governor.  —  Cumulatively, the results Tuesday were the latest signals …
New York Times:
U.S. Focused on Obtaining Long-Distance Phone Data, Company Officials Indicate  —  Government efforts to obtain data from the nation's largest phone companies for a national security database appear to have focused on long-distance carriers, not local ones, statements by company officials indicate.
Vox Popoli:
Relax, folks  —  The WB emails: … No, not at all.  WND regularly edits my column, albeit usually before it appears.  I actually turned this one in early, so this was clearly on Mr. Farah's orders.  I happen to know that he really, really, really didn't like it.
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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