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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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Philip Shenon / New York Times:
F.B.I. Contends Lawmaker Hid Bribe in Freezer — WASHINGTON, May 21 — The F.B.I. accused Representative William J. Jefferson, Democrat of Louisiana, on Sunday of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from a Kentucky businessman and stashing $90,000 from the scheme in his home freezer in Washington.
Jackson Diehl / Washington Post:
Reclaiming the Democratic Agenda — Though you'd never know it from surfing the Internet, there exists in the Democratic Party a substantial body of politicians and policymakers who believe the U.S. mission in Iraq must be sustained until it succeeds; who want to intensify American attempts …
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Opinion Journal:
Days of Rage — John McCain and Joe Lieberman feel the wrath of the antiwar left. — Two events last Friday speak volumes about the direction of modern liberal politics, and it's not an encouraging trend, especially if you're a Democrat who wants to take back the White House.
John McCain / Opinion Journal:
'Let Us Argue' — The speech the Angry Left tried to suppress. … Thank you, Bob [Kerrey, president of the New School]. Thank you, faculty, families and friends, and thank you New School Class of 2006 for your welcome and for your kind invitation to give this year's commencement address.
Michael Smith / The Raw Story:
Bush, Blair to announce 'phased withdrawal' from Iraq — Michael Smith, a reporter for the London Sunday Times, broke the Downing Street Minutes in 2004. — LONDON — Tony Blair and George Bush will announce that they are to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq at a summit in Washington as early as this week, RAW STORY has learned.
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Associated Press:
7 Police Officers Among 17 Killed in Iraq — BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Car bombs and drive-by shootings killed 17 people Monday, including seven police officers, hours before Iraq's parliament met for its first session after swearing in a new government. — The violence also came …
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Wired News:
Whistle-Blower's Evidence, Uncut — Former AT&T technician Mark Klein is the key witness in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's class-action lawsuit against the telecommunications company, which alleges that AT&T cooperated in an illegal National Security Agency domestic surveillance program.
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Evan Hansen / Wired News:
Why We Published the AT&T Docs — A file detailing aspects of AT&T's alleged participation in the National Security Agency's warrantless domestic wiretap operation is sitting in a San Francisco courthouse. But the public cannot see it because, at AT&T's insistence, it remains under seal in court records.
New Yorker:
LISTENING IN — A few days before the start of the confirmation hearings for General Michael Hayden, who has been nominated by President Bush to be the head of the C.I.A., I spoke to an official of the National Security Agency who recently retired. The official joined the N.S …
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Rove Lawyer Has a Pet Peeve — Robert Luskin, Karl Rove's lawyer, says he spent most of the day on May 12 taking his cat to the veterinarian and having a technician fix his computer at home. — He was stunned, therefore, when journalists started calling to ask about an online report …
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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Paul Kirby / dailyfreeman.com:
Graduates get an apology — NEW PALTZ - New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. told about 900 SUNY New Paltz graduates Sunday that he was sorry. — It wasn't an apology for anything Sulzberger, who first joined the Times in 1978 as a Washington correspondent, specifically did.
NY Daily News:
Justice prays for a Prez in 'real trouble' — Just how bad are things for President Bush? — Pretty bad, I'd say, if even Clarence Thomas is worried about him. — The other night at a Washington book party for the President's sister, Doro Bush Koch, the Supreme Court justice arrived with his wife …
Noor Khan / Associated Press:
Coalition: Attacks Kill Up to 80 Taliban — KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A U.S.-led nighttime airstrike against a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan killed up to 80 suspected rebels, military officials said Monday. The local governor and a doctor said 17 civilians also were killed.
Robert Novak / Real Clear Politics:
A Hard Bill to Love — WASHINGTON — A less permissive tone on immigration was signaled in the Senate last Tuesday when a proposal to cut guest worker visas down to 200,000 from 350,000 was supported by a surprisingly one-sided vote of 80 to 17. The mood change was not influenced by a leader …
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