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Wall Street Journal:
Lawmaker Raid May Come Back to Bite Bush — Anger in Congress Could Cost — The President Some Allies — And Curb His Legislative Influence — WASHINGTON — The recent FBI raid of a congressman's office is fueling a power struggle between Congress and the administration …
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Brian Ross Reports / The Blotter:
Hastert: Letter Just a Coincidence — Brian Ross Reports: — ABC News' story about Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert set off a wave of reaction from Chicago talk radio to the wells of the Capitol. There it seems to have added fuel to the fire in the dispute between the executive branch and Congress.
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Border Fight Divides G.O.P. — WASHINGTON, May 25 — The negotiations between the White House and Congress that will follow the Senate's passage on Thursday of an immigration bill could decide not just how the nation confronts illegal immigration but also what strain of conservatism …
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Mark Kleiman / The Reality-Based Community:
Against the FBI power grab
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Washington Post:
Bush, Blair Concede Missteps on Iraq — President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair last night acknowledged a series of errors in managing the occupation of Iraq that have made the conflict more difficult and more damaging to the U.S. image abroad, even as they insisted that enough progress …
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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Bush, Blair Acknowledge Mistakes in Iraq — WASHINGTON (AP) - More than three years after sending their troops to invade Iraq, President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair cannot escape questions about their decision to go to war even as they acknowledge far-reaching mistakes.
Oliver Duff / Independent:
Galloway says murder of Blair would be 'justified' — The Respect MP George Galloway has said it would be morally justified for a suicide bomber to murder Tony Blair. — In an interview with GQ magazine, the reporter asked him: "Would the assassination of, say, Tony Blair by a suicide bomber …
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CNN:
Sounds of gunfire reported in Capitol complex — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Capitol Police said Friday they were investigating reports of sounds of gunfire in the garage of the Rayburn Office Building, where members of the House have their offices. — Law enforcement expert Mike Brooks …
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Representative Jack Kingston:
Shots Fired? Everyone In This Office Is Safe. — Just wanted to let everyone know that the US Capitol Police are investigating shots in the Rayburn House Office Building (where we are), specifically in the parking garage below the building. — First and foremost, Congressman Kingston …
David Espo / Associated Press:
Capitol Police Probing Reports of Gunfire — Police investigated reports of gunfire in a House office building on Friday and briefly sealed off the Capitol as a precaution. — Capitol police were investigating "the sound of gunfire in the garage level of the Rayburn House Office Building …
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Allahpundit / hotair.com:
Breaking: Gunshots(?) heard in garage of House office building (AP says ambulances arriving) — I'm sure this will turn out to be a car backfiring or something, but Drudge has the siren up so I guess I'm obliged to post. Police have sealed off offices in the Rayburn building and are going room-to-room to investigate.
Katherine Shrader / Associated Press:
Senate confirms Hayden as CIA director — WASHINGTON - After hearing assurances he will be independent of the Pentagon, the Senate on Friday easily confirmed Gen. Michael Hayden, a career Air Force man, to head the CIA. — Hayden, a four-star general, currently is the top deputy to National Intelligence Director John Negroponte.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Nobody home / Santorum tries to cover his tracks on residency — Before every election, the Post-Gazette routinely sends letters to the candidates seeking material for the Voters Guide. Back in March, as part of that process for the primary, the newspaper sent a letter to Rick Santorum at his home address …
New York Times:
Military Expected to Report Marines Killed Iraqi Civilians — WASHINGTON, May 25 — A military investigation into the deaths of two dozen Iraqis last November is expected to find that a small number of marines in western Iraq carried out extensive, unprovoked killings of civilians …
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Norm / normblog:
A beginning — [The following is the text of my talk at last night's Euston Manifesto launch.] — By one of those coincidences that don't mean anything, 70 years ago today - and I mean to the very day - the poet T.S. Eliot paid a visit to a small hamlet in Cambridgeshire.
Carol Rust / Washington Post:
Defendants Sunk by Their Testimony — HOUSTON, May 25 — Jurors in the Enron trial made it clear that it would have been better for former executives Kenneth L. Lay and Jeffrey K. Skilling if they'd kept their mouths shut and stayed off the witness stand. — Speaking shortly …
Jason DeParle / New York Times:
Faculty's Chilly Welcome for Ex-Pentagon Official — WASHINGTON, May 24 — Douglas J. Feith's table at the Georgetown University faculty club is shaping up as a lonely one. — The move to a teaching position at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown by Mr. Feith, a former Pentagon official …
Gareth Porter / American Prospect:
Burnt Offering — How a 2003 secret overture from Tehran might have led to a deal on Iran's nuclear capacity — if the Bush administration hadn't rebuffed it. — Iran's "mad mullahs" want nuclear weapons to destroy Israel and can only be stopped by the threat or use of military force.