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New York Times:
Cheney Assails Press on Report on Bank Data — WASHINGTON, June 23 — Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday vigorously defended a secret program that examines banking records of Americans and others in a vast international database, and harshly criticized the news media for disclosing …
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New York Times:
Following the Money, and the Rules — After the attacks on 9/11, when the terrorist threat seemed equally dangerous and amorphous, one of the few clear strategies for counterattack was to follow the money. Almost everyone, including this page, urged the Bush administration to be aggressive …
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Radio Blogger, Blue Crab Boulevard, Don Surber, Media Blog on National …, Wizbang and Power Line
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Officials Defend Financial Searches — Critics Assert Secret Program Invades Privacy — A secret program that allowed U.S. officials to examine hundreds of thousands of private banking records from around the world in search of terrorist ties has been "absolutely essential" …
Victor Comras / Counterterrorism Blog:
Reports of US Monitoring of SWIFT Transactions Are Not New …
Reports of US Monitoring of SWIFT Transactions Are Not New …
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Roger L. Simon
Heather Mac Donald / Weekly Standard:
National Security Be Damned
National Security Be Damned
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Hot Air, Power Line, PoliBlog, Decision '08, Dinocrat, Angry Bear, Liberty and Justice, Hugh Hewitt and PrairiePundit
Tony Karon / Time:
The Miami Seven: How Serious Was the Threat? — The group indicted for terror plans appears to have had more in common with homegrown cults than al-Qaeda terrorists. Which doesn't mean they weren't dangerous — The Federal government has indicted seven men arrested in Miami on charges …
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Juan / Informed Comment:
CAIR: Miami Cult not Muslims — I just saw the spokesman for the Council on American Islamic Relations on CNN saying that the Miami cult members just arrested are not Muslims. I'd say that is a fair statement. — For one thing, they are vegetarians! — It seems pretty obvious …
New York Times:
F.B.I. Killed Plot in Talking Stage, a Top Aide Says — WASHINGTON, June 23 — A plot to topple the Sears Tower in Chicago and attack the F.B.I. headquarters in Miami was "more aspirational than operational," a top bureau official said Friday, a day after seven Florida men were arrested on terrorism charges.
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The Left Coaster, The All Spin Zone, Blue Crab Boulevard, The Heretik and State of the Day
wtnh.com:
Lieberman, Lamont differ on Iraq — (East Hartford-WTNH, June 23, 2006 6:00 PM) _ The man looking to force Sen. Joseph Lieberman out of his job is using the war in Iraq as the catalyst. But Lieberman says his Democratic primary opponent Ned Lamont is waffling over ending the war in Iraq.
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Thirdparty / LamontBlog:
Fantasy Land — Lies, and the lying senators who tell them:
Fantasy Land — Lies, and the lying senators who tell them:
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Lee Siegel / The New Republic:
THE ORIGINS OF BLOGOFASCISM: — At the end of my post yesterday, I wrote, "The blogosphere's fanaticism is, in many ways, the triumph of a lack of focus." It just so happens that on his blog today, none other than Andrew Sullivan, hardly an ideological soulmate of mine, quotes Santayana …
Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:
Patterico Cancels his Subscription to the L.A. Times — I cancelled my subscription to the Los Angeles Times this morning. — I explained to the person who answered the phone that I was cancelling because I am outraged that the newspaper revealed classified details of a successful anti-terror operation.
Charles Babington / Washington Post:
One Party's Lawmaking Is Another's Electioneering — The Republican-controlled Congress seems to be struggling lately to carry out its most basic mission: passing legislation. A proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage failed miserably. Long-debated immigration legislation has reached an impasse.
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Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
Erasure — Yesterday I linked to Dan Riehl's investigative work revealing that MyDD—before it was one of the lynchpin sites for progressive politics and one of its founders, Jerome Armstrong, the Kos-approved political consultant (and co-author of Moulitsas' Crashing the Gates) …
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Rod Nordland / Newsweek:
Maliki's Master Plan — A national reconciliation plan for Iraq calls for a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. troops and, controversially, amnesty for insurgents who attacked American and Iraqi soldiers. — Ali Haider / Reuters-pool — Maliki is scheduled to unveil a national reconciliation plan on June 25
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Glenn Greenwald's Career In Comedy — Glenn Greenwald, who never settles for "shrill" when "hysterical ranting" is within reach, tells the world that Jason Zengerle *might* have fabricated an email from Steven Gilliard when he wrote this post. — However - it is only in an UPDATE …
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Richard Perle / Washington Post:
Why Did Bush Blink on Iran? (Ask Condi) — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran knows what he wants: nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them; suppression of freedom at home and the spread of terrorism abroad; and the "shattering and fall of the ideology and thoughts of the liberal democratic systems."
StrategyPage:
Why Iraq WMD Finds Were Kept Secret — June 23, 2006: The revelation that Coalition forces have discovered about 500 shells containing chemical weapons (mostly sarin nerve gas and mustard gas) since 2003, most of which are pre-1991 Gulf War vintage, leads to the question as to why the U.S. waited so long to reveal this.
Michelle Malkin:
MORE BLABBERMOUTH POSTERS — An Army of Photoshoppers, to borrow Instapundit's phrase, is unleashing on the MSM blabbermouths and their leaky sources. Thanks for these fabulous entries, readers. Maybe someone in the MSM will get the message. Keep 'em coming... The Peoples Cube: — PTG: