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New York Times:
Letter From Bill Keller on The Times's Banking Records Report — The following is a letter Bill Keller, the executive editor of The Times, has sent to readers who have written him about The Times's publication of information about the government's examination of international banking records:
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Hugh Hewitt:
Mr. Keller Believes You Are Easily Confused — The NYT's Executive Editor Bill Keller refuses interviews but does provide a wholly unpersuasive reponse that is, at best, defensive posturing. … First, unless Mr. Keller makes himself available for interviews on this subject, he is not taking the questions and concerns seriously.
Michael Barone / Real Clear Politics:
The New York Times at War With America — Why do they hate us? No, I'm not talking about Islamofascist terrorists. We know why they hate us: because we have freedom of speech and freedom of religion, because we refuse to treat women as second-class citizens, because we do not kill homosexuals, because we are a free society.
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Anne E. Kornblut / New York Times:
Court Review of Wiretaps May Be Near, Senator Says — WASHINGTON, June 25 — Senator Arlen Specter said Sunday that the White House and Congress were close to reaching a resolution on submitting a National Security Agency wiretap program to judicial review.
Devlin Barrett / Associated Press:
Lawmaker Wants Papers Probed Over Stories — The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee urged the Bush administration on Sunday to seek criminal charges against newspapers that reported on a secret financial-monitoring program used to trace terrorists.
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Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:
L.A. Times Washington Bureau Chief Doyle McManus Explains …
L.A. Times Washington Bureau Chief Doyle McManus Explains …
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Washington Post:
Democrats Cite Report On Troop Cuts in Iraq — Pentagon Plan Like Theirs, Senators Say — Senate Democrats reacted angrily yesterday to a report that the U.S. commander in Iraq had privately presented a plan for significant troop reductions in the same week they came under attack …
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Paul Reynolds / BBC:
Iraq plan part of grand strategy — World affairs correspondent, BBC News website — The "reconciliation" plan announced on Sunday by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki is part of a grand strategy by the Bush administration to stabilise Iraq - or to stabilise the perception of Iraq …
Inal Ersan / Reuters:
Iraqi Qaeda-led group says Russian hostages killed — Source: Reuters — DUBAI, June 25 (Reuters) - An al Qaeda-led group posted video footage on the Internet on Sunday showing the killing of three men it said were Russian hostages seized in Iraq earlier this month.
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Jihad Watch
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Nadia Abou El-Magd / ABCNEWS:
Al-Qaida-Linked Group Claims 4 Killings
Al-Qaida-Linked Group Claims 4 Killings
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Khaled Abu Toameh / Jerusalem Post:
Al-Aksa claims biological, chemical capabilities — The Aksa Martyrs' Brigades group announced on Sunday that it its members have succeeded in manufacturing chemical and biological weapons to be used against Israel. — In a leaflet distributed in the Gaza Strip, the group …
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Joanne Levine / Washington Post:
Al-Jazeera, as American as Apple Pie — In a country's hinterlands, a distant region seldom visited by outsiders, a television crew investigates why so many residents are fleeing the area. When local officials catch wind of the crew's presence, they begin interrogating people the journalists interviewed …
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Sarah Womack / Telegraph:
Family life faces State 'invasion' — Government surveillance of all children, including information on whether they eat five portions of fruit and vegetables a day, will be condemned tomorrow as a Big Brother system. — Experts say it is the biggest state intrusion in history into the role of parents.
Times of London:
Bizarre cult of Sears Tower 'plotter' — Paul Thompson, Miami, and Sarah Baxter, Washington — THE ringleader of the seven men accused of plotting to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago was a "Moses-like figure" who carried a crooked cane and wore a cape as he sought to recruit followers to a religious cult called the Seas of David.
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Carol J. Loomis / CNNMoney.com:
Warren Buffett gives away his fortune — FORTUNE EXCLUSIVE: The world's second richest man - who's now worth $44 billion - tells editor-at-large Carol Loomis he will start giving away 85% of his wealth in July - most of it to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Christopher Caldwell / New York Times:
After Londonistan — SAFER NEIGHBORHOODS? To Sir Ian Blair, top left, London's police commissioner, much of the answer to terrorism lies in developing a rapport between the police and residents of heavily Muslim communities like Brick Lane, Whitechapel and Forest Gate, bottom left …
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Opinion Journal:
Saddam's WMD — Why is our intelligence community holding back? — On Wednesday, at our request, the director of national intelligence declassified six "key points" from a National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) report on the recovery of chemical munitions in Iraq.
Samuel Walker / Los Angeles Times:
Scalia twisted my words — Criminologist says his work was used to reach its opposite conclusion in {lt}i{gt}Hudson{lt}/i{gt}. — A FRIEND OF mine e-mailed me last week with some exciting news — the Supreme Court had cited one of my criminal justice policy books in an important, late-term decision.
Jason Zengerle / The New Republic:
GILLIARD-GATE: — Steve Gilliard claims that he did not write the email I attributed to him in this post. After doing some further investigating, I'm afraid to say that he is correct. He did not write that email. I apologize to Gilliard for not checking with him before publishing my post, and I regret the error.
James Bone / Times of London:
Saddam's UN links to be aired in court — LINKS between Boutros Boutros Ghali, the former UN Secretary-General, and an alleged agent for Saddam Hussein will come under the spotlight when the first American trial of a major figure in the Oil-for-Food scandal gets under way today.