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Matthew Barakat / Associated Press:
Filing: Tape Shows Lawmaker Taking Money — A congressman under investigation for bribery was caught on videotape accepting $100,000 in $100 bills from an FBI informant whose conversations with the lawmaker also were recorded, according to a court document released Sunday.
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Allan Lengel / Washington Post:
FBI Says Jefferson Was Filmed Taking Cash — Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.), the target of a 14-month public corruption probe, was videotaped accepting $100,000 in $100 bills from a Northern Virginia investor who was wearing an FBI wire, according to a search warrant affidavit released yesterday.
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Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Prosecution of Journalists Is Possible in NSA Leaks — Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales raised the possibility yesterday that New York Times journalists could be prosecuted for publishing classified information based on the outcome of the criminal investigation underway into leaks …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Gonzales Says Prosecutions of Journalists Are Possible — The government has the legal authority to prosecute journalists for publishing classified information, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales said yesterday. — "There are some statutes on the book which, if you read the language carefully …
Associated Press:
Iraqi Vows 'Maximum Force' to End Attacks — BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Iraq's new prime minister promised Sunday to use ''maximum force'' if necessary to end the brutal insurgent and sectarian violence wracking the country, while a suicide bomber killed more than a dozen people at a restaurant in downtown Baghdad.
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CNN:
Israel: Iran 'months' from making nukes — Prime minister says unilateral action not being considered — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Iran is only months away from joining the club of nations that can make a nuclear weapon, Israel's prime minister said in a recent interview.
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Ramit Plushnick-Masti / Associated Press:
Olmert: Iran Close to Atomic Bomb Know-How
Olmert: Iran Close to Atomic Bomb Know-How
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Mel Evans / huffingtonpost.com:
TOP MCCAIN AIDE INSULTS ENTIRE COLLEGE GRADUATING CLASS... "VERY UNLIKELY ANY OF YOU WILL EVER POSSESS...ONE SMALL FRACTION OF THE CHARACTER OF JOHN MCCAIN"... Mark Salter, a longtime aide and chief of staff to Senator John McCain, posted a response to Jean Rohe's blog entry on the Huffington Post …
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Information Sharing on the Rove Indictment Story — By Marc Ash, — I'd like to break this posting into two categories: What we know, and what we believe. They will be clearly marked. — We know that we have now three independent sources confirming that attorneys for Karl Rove …
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John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
10 Percent Of Mexico's Population Is In The US? — This does not strike me as healthy for the United States. … From our perspective, we want immigrants to this country who want to assimilate and become Americans. When you have that many people coming from any one country …
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Washington Post:
Elections Are Crux Of GOP's Strategy — Bush Aides Look to Midterm Vote as Way to Reverse Slide — Confronting the worst poll numbers seen in the West Wing since his father went down to defeat, President Bush and his team are focusing on the fall midterm elections as the best chance …
Drudge Report:
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE WORKED TO DEFEAT NAGIN — The Democratic National Committee (DNC) secretly placed political operatives in the city of New Orleans to work against the reelection efforts of incumbent Democrat Mayor Ray Nagin, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
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Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Libby Prosecutor Focuses on CIA Officer's Status — Filings Say Ex-Cheney Aide Knew That Plame Was Classified, Giving Him Reason to Lie to Grand Jury — The classified status of the identity of former CIA officer Valerie Plame will be a key element in any trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" …
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Salena Zito / PittsburghLIVE.com:
Loose lips sink ships — TRIBUNE-REVIEW — When is it OK to sacrifice national security for personal gain or political one-upmanship? — For the common-sense-challenged, the answer is: "Never." — In the years since Sept. 11, an odd assembly of Capitol Hill-types …
Jessamy Brown / Dallas Star-Telegram:
Coin image omits 'In God We Trust' — A Keller school district parent said political correctness has run amok at her daughter's elementary school, where the principal chose to omit the words "In God We Trust" from an oversize coin depicted on the yearbook cover.
David Leppard / Times of London:
More than 230 terror suspects free to stay in Britain — MORE than 230 foreigners identified by MI5 and Scotland Yard as suspected terrorists have been allowed to stay in Britain as asylum seekers. — Home Office records show that nearly a quarter of the 963 people arrested …
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Robert Mayer / Publius Pundit:
THE END OF YUGOSLAVIA — Montenegro is no longer the suffix of Serbia. With an overwhelming turnout, just over the required 55% needed votes were cast in favor of independence, making it the last country to break away from the core of what once was Yugoslavia. There are a lot of issues here.
Jonathan Chait / Los Angeles Times:
The right discovers Bush's 'honesty' — Conservatives are finally getting a taste of his misleading rhetoric. — IT APPEARS that the scales have fallen from David Frum's eyes. The former Bush speechwriter, and current National Review writer, once had faith in the basic decency and honesty of George W. Bush.
Mike Wells / TBO.com:
Judge Revokes Bail For Saudi Bus Riders — TAMPA - A judge revoked bail for two Saudi men arrested Friday for boarding a school bus and riding to Wharton High. — Initially, Mana Saleh Almanajam, 23, and Shaker Mohsen Alsidran, 20, were held in Orient Road Jail on bails of $250 each on misdemeanor trespassing charges.
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Fox, What Fox? New Press Secretary Changes Channels — WASHINGTON — Reporters en route to Arizona on Air Force One last week opted to watch the movie "King Kong" in the press cabin. Not so Tony Snow, the new White House press secretary and former Fox News commentator …