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4:59 AM ET, May 23, 2006

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Bill Brubaker / Washington Post:
Bush Says Iraq War at 'Turning Point'  —  Blair Announces Plans to Visit Washington to Discuss Iraq Strategy  —  President Bush said today the war in Iraq has reached a "turning point" with the formation of a unity government Saturday in Baghdad, but he suggested the conflict may be far from over.
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Hope Yen / Associated Press:
Thieves Steal Personal Data of 26.5M Vets  —  WASHINGTON - Thieves took sensitive personal information on 26.5 million U.S. veterans, including Social Security numbers and birth dates, after a Veterans Affairs employee improperly brought the material home, the government said Monday.
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
For Democrats, a Scandal of Their Own  —  WASHINGTON, May 22 — Democrats' plans to make Republican corruption a theme of their election strategy this year have been complicated by accusations of wrongdoing in their own ranks, leading the party to try on Monday to blunt the political effects …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Washington Post:
FBI Raid on Lawmaker's Office Is Questioned  —  An unusual FBI raid of a Democratic congressman's office over the weekend prompted complaints yesterday from leaders in both parties, who said the tactic was unduly aggressive and may have breached the constitutional separation of powers between …
Chitra Ragavan / US News:
Cheney's Guy  —  He's barely known outside Washington's corridors of power, but David Addington is the most powerful man you've never heard of.  Here's why:  —  One week after the September 11 terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush briefly turned his gaze away from the unfolding crisis …
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Patrick Healy / New York Times:
For Clintons, Delicate Dance of Married and Public Lives  —  Bill and Hillary Clinton flew to Chicago together last month to deliver speeches a few hours and a few miles apart.  And like any couple, they thought about having dinner at day's end.  But life is not so simple when you are married to a Clinton.
Amir Taheri / Benador Associates:
PRESS RELEASE: AMIR TAHERI ADDRESSES QUERIES ABOUT DRESS CODE STORY  —  Regarding the dress code story it seems that my column was used as the basis for a number of reports that somehow jumped the gun.  —  As far as my article is concerned I stand by it.  —  The law has been passed …
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Is Left-Leaning Google Censoring Right-Leaning Websites?  —  Something frighteningly ominous has been happening on the Internet lately: Google, without any prior explanation or notice, has been terminating its News relationship with conservative e-zines and web journals.
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The Raw Story:
MSNBC: Rove's legal team expects decision 'at any time'  —  MSNBC's David Shuster declared Monday evening that Karl Rove's legal team expects Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to announce a decision "at any time" in the ongoing CIA leak investigation and that new documents put Cheney's former chief of staff in the hot seat.
Discussion: liberal catnip and TalkLeft
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:   A Question For Tim Russert
John Byrne / The Raw Story:
Drudge 'retracts' story on Howard Dean after receiving letter from DNC lawyer  —  Drudge story includes Raw Story quote  —  Conservative heavyweight Matt Drudge has all but retracted a story about Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean after receiving a letter from the DNC's lawyers, RAW STORY can report.
David Lightman / Hartford Courant:
Dodd Poised For Possible '08 Presidential Run  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Christopher J. Dodd said today he has "decided to do all the things that are necessary to prepare to seek the presidency in 2008."  —  The Connecticut Democrat will hire staff, raise money and travel around the country …
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Reuters:
Bush's faith worries Albright  —  LONDON, England (Reuters) — U.S. President George W. Bush has alienated Muslims around the world by using absolutist Christian rhetoric to discuss foreign policy issues, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright says.  —  "I worked for two presidents …
Henry Lanman / Slate:
Secret Guarding  —  The new secrecy doctrine so secret you don't even know about it.  —  Last Thursday, a federal court in Virginia threw out a lawsuit against the government that had been brought by a German citizen named Khalid el-Masri.  El-Masri alleged that the government had violated U.S. law when …
Chris Bowers / MyDD:
There Are Two Kinds Of People In the World  —  On the one hand, there are those who divide everyone in two groups of people, and on the other hand... well, you get the idea.  —  This seems to one of those strange days when the netroots are being blamed for everything.
Business Week:
Medical Guesswork  —  From heart surgery to prostate care, the health industry knows little about which common treatments really work  —  The signs at the meeting were not propitious.  Half the board members of Kaiser Permanente's Care Management Institute left before Dr. David Eddy finally got the 10 minutes he had pleaded for.
Washington Post:
Abuse Trial Revives Old Questions  —  Involvement of Superior Officers at Abu Ghraib to Be Raised  —  As the Iraq insurgency grew rapidly in the spring of 2003, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld complained to Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the commander of U.S. forces in the country …
Discussion: Andrew Sullivan and Rook's Rant
TCS Daily:
Managing to Look Busy  —  Employers are starting to crack down on employee web-surfing.  The Chicago Tribune reports: … Sell your stock in companies with policies like this one.  The management is obviously stupid, and the only employees likely to stay, long-term, in the face of this kind …
Discussion: Dean's World
 
 
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Bob Thompson / Washington Post:
Explosive Words  —  At BookExpo America, Publishing's Digital …
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Human Events:
When Will the Senate Learn From Its Immigration Mistakes?
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Is Hezbollah's Preemptive Surrender a Tip-Off?
Bruce Kesler / Democracy Project:
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New York Post:
DUBYA'S ROAD BACK  —  May 22, 2006 — ALL of Washington is asking …
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George S. McGovern / Los Angeles Times:
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”

 
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