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Brian Ross Reports / The Blotter:
Officials: Hastert "In the Mix" of Congressional Bribery Investigation — Brian Ross Reports: — The Speaker of the House Representatives, Dennis Hastert, is under investigtaion by the FBI, which is seeking to determine his role in an ongoing public corruption probe into members of Congress …
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Brian Ross Reports / The Blotter:
ABC News Update on Hastert Story — Brian Ross Reports: — Richard Esposito and Rhonda Schwartz contributed to this report. — Despite a flat denial from the Department of Justice, federal law enforcement sources tonight said ABC News accurately reported that Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert is …
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Feds Say House Speaker Not Under Probe — Justice Department Says House Speaker Dennis Hastert Not Under Investigation — WASHINGTON May 24, 2006 (AP)— The Justice Department denied a news report Wednesday that it was investigating House Speaker Dennis Hastert.
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CNN:
Hastert, ABC spar over investigation report — Feds deny network's claim that speaker is probe target — WASHINGTON (CNN) — House Speaker Dennis Hastert is demanding a "full retraction" of an ABC News report that he is being investigated in connection with the Jack Abramoff corruption probe.
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
House Leaders Demand Return of Seized Files — WASHINGTON, May 24 — The constitutional clash pitting Congress against the executive branch escalated Wednesday as the Republican and Democratic leaders of the House demanded the immediate return of materials seized by federal agents …
Dan / Riehl World View:
ABC Busted! — Quick Update: I won't make you wait, though it's buried at the end of the old story below. All of this alleged influence peddling? It didn't pay off. That's right, the deal Hastert supposedly was trying to stop went through. Is it a bribe if you don't get what you want?
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Toni Locy / Associated Press:
Cheney may be called in CIA leak case — WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney could be called to testify in the perjury case against his former chief of staff, a special prosecutor said in a court filing Wednesday. — Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald suggested Cheney …
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David Johnston / New York Times:
Counsel Says He May Use Cheney in Libby Trial — WASHINGTON, May 24 — A court filing on Wednesday by the special counsel in the C.I.A. leak case suggested that Vice President Dick Cheney would testify as a government witness in the trial of his former chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby Jr.
TPMmuckraker:
The Daily Muck — McCain Returns Donations from Former Foes — The Arizona senator refunded $20,000 to the Wyly brothers, who had previously bankrolled ads attacking the maverick's environmental record. The Washington Post recalls: … McCain had called the ads a "dirty trick." (Roll Call, WPost)
R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
Libby Told Grand Jury Cheney Spoke of Plame — Vice President May Be Called as Witness — Vice President Cheney was personally angered by a former U.S. ambassador's newspaper column attacking a key rationale for the war in Iraq and repeatedly directed I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby …
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Rachel L. Swarns / New York Times:
Senate Bill on Immigration to Set Up Clash — WASHINGTON, May 24 — A compromise Senate bill that would toughen border security and put most illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship emerged intact Wednesday from more than a week of impassioned debate. Its advance set up a showdown …
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David S. Broder / Washington Post:
The Shadow of a Marriage — The two sides of Hillary Rodham Clinton — the opposites that make her potential presidential candidacy such a gamble — came into sharp focus Tuesday morning at the National Press Club. — For the better part of an hour, the senator from New York held forth …
Gregg Easterbrook / Slate:
Ask Mr. Science — The moral flaws of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. — Relax: The Al Gore movie has no sex scene. Gore is the only presidential candidate who has made out on national television, so this was a legitimate worry. Otherwise, An Inconvenient Truth could use some action.
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Nico / Think Progress:
Desperate for Supporters, DeLay Turns to Stephen Colbert — A good sign that Tom DeLay doesn't have the facts on his side: the top source for his latest defense against his critics is Stephen Colbert. — This morning, DeLay's legal defense fund sent out a mass email criticizing the movie …
Charles Lane / Washington Post:
Breach Was More of the Spirit, Not the Letter, of the Constitution — The FBI raid on Rep. William Jefferson's congressional office was an aggressive tactic that broke a long-standing political custom. But while it might violate the spirit of the Constitution, it might not violate the letter …
Eric Boehlert / The Huffington Post:
The Media: Dems Are Phony, GOP Authentic. Here We Go Again — Who'd have thought a simple question posed to Sen. Hillary Clinton—What songs do you have on your iPod?—would be so revealing. Not about her, but about the Beltway pundit culture which still insists it can read the minds …
Griff Witte / Washington Post:
Expanded Worker Checks Would Use Faulty System — A federal database program with a checkered track record could dramatically expand to affect every U.S. employer and worker under provisions of the immigration legislation being considered by Congress. — The program is intended …
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Agence France Presse:
Dissident Fatah militants join Hamas force — GAZA CITY (AFP) - More than 1,000 Fatah dissidents marched through Gaza City declaring their allegiance to a rival Hamas security force, two days after deadly clashes between the Palestinian factions. — "We are with the Hamas government standing …
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