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1:05 PM ET, June 30, 2006

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Washington Post:
A Governing Philosophy Rebuffed  —  Ruling Emphasizes Constitutional Boundaries  —  For five years, President Bush waged war as he saw fit.  If intelligence officers needed to eavesdrop on overseas telephone calls without warrants, he authorized it.  If the military wanted to hold terrorism suspects without trial, he let it.
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Ronald A. Cass / Real Clear Politics:
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: Common Sense at War  —  Liberty may have been the traditional casualty of war, but common sense is its new colleague.  The Supreme Court, trying hard on the anniversary of last term's Kelo decision to find a suitable sequel, performed a rare triple loop in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.
Rosa Brooks / Los Angeles Times:
Did Bush commit war crimes?
John Yoo / USA Today:
5 wrong justices  —  By putting on hold military commissions …
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Checking the Decider
Discussion: PrawfsBlawg
James Taranto / Opinion Journal:
Best of the Web  —  Justice Delayed  —  The Supreme Court's …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Opinion Journal:
Fit and Unfit to Print  —  What are the obligations of the press in wartime? … So wrote the great legal scholar, Alexander Bickel, about the duties of the press in his 1975 collection of essays "The Morality of Consent."  We like to re-read Bickel to get our Constitutional bearings …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
House Assails Media Report on Tracking of Finances  —  WASHINGTON, June 29 — The House of Representatives on Thursday condemned the recent disclosure of a classified program to track financial transactions and called on the media to cooperate in keeping such efforts secret.
Charles Babington / Washington Post:
House GOP Chastises Media
Discussion: TimChapmanBlog.com
Melissa Ludwig / MySanAntonio.com:
Incarnate Word cancels NY Times subscription over story
Discussion: The Agonist and Mia Culpa
USA Today:
Lawmakers: NSA database incomplete  —  WASHINGTON — Members of the House and Senate intelligence committees confirm that the National Security Agency has compiled a massive database of domestic phone call records.  But some lawmakers also say that cooperation by the nation's telecommunication companies …
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USA Today:
A note to our readers  —  On May 11, USA TODAY reported that the National Security Agency, with the cooperation of several of America's leading telecommunications companies, had compiled a database of domestic phone call records in an effort to monitor terrorist activity.
Lee Keath / Associated Press:
Bin Laden hails slain al-Zarqawi as 'lion'  —  CAIRO, Egypt - Osama bin Laden defended attacks by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi against civilians in Iraq, purportedly saying in a taped Web message Friday that the slain al-Qaida in Iraq leader was acting under orders to kill anyone who backs American forces.
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David Lightman / Hartford Courant:
Sensitive Subject In The Senate  —  Lieberman's Colleagues In Awkward Position  —  WASHINGTON — Want to see a Democratic senator squirm?  Don't ask about Iraq or gasoline prices.  Ask about Joe Lieberman.  —  They edge toward the door, duck into the elevator, scoot down the hall to avoid the question …
Hilzoy / Obsidian Wings:
Lee Siegel As Robespierre  —  I didn't comment on Lee Siegel's claim that the blogosphere is "hard fascism with a Microsoft face", along with the follow-up post that made it clear that he really did mean to call us all fascists, on the grounds that calling people 'moron' or 'wanker' constitutes …
Discussion: TAPPED
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Lee Siegel / The New Republic:
SIEGEL V. BASEBALL CAPS:
Discussion: TAPPED
New York Times:
A Secret the Terrorists Already Knew  —  COUNTERTERRORISM has become a source of continuing domestic and international political controversy.  Much of it, like the role of the Iraq war in inspiring new terrorists, deserves analysis and debate.  Increasingly, however, many of the political …
Discussion: AMERICAblog and WTF Is It Now??
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
A Spat Over Iraq Revealed On Tape  —  Rice and Russian Caught Bickering At Private Lunch  —  MOSCOW, June 29 — The official State Department version is that "there was absolutely no friction whatsoever" between Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during …
Discussion: Rantingprofs, Wonkette and Needlenose
Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:
Superman eschews longtime patriot act  —  Nevermind Superman's sexual orientation.  Here's another identity-related question that is likely to spark controversy as the Man of Steel soars into theaters nationwide this Fourth of July weekend in Warner Bros.  Pictures' "Superman Returns": Is Superman still American?
Globe and Mail:
Hateful chatter behind the veil  —  Key suspects' wives held radical views, Web postings reveal  —  MISSISSAUGA — When it came time to write up the premarital agreement between Zakaria Amara and Nada Farooq, Ms. Farooq briefly considered adding a clause that would allow her to ask for a divorce.
Dan Lungren / Los Angeles Times:
A 100-mpg car?  Let's start the race  —  How about a $1-billion prize for the first American automaker to take fuel efficiency to the next level?  —  WHAT WOULD happen if the United States were to offer a $1-billion prize for the first American automaker to sell 60,000 midsized sedans …
Discussion: The Washington Monthly and TAPPED
Ryan Lenz / Associated Press:
U.S. troops accused of killing Iraq family  —  BEIJI, Iraq - Five U.S. Army soldiers are being investigated for allegedly raping a young woman, then killing her and three members of her family in Iraq, a U.S. military official said Friday.  —  The soldiers also allegedly burned the body …
Discussion: Hot Air and Argghhh!
Rick Weiss / Washington Post:
Senate to Consider Stem Cell Proposals  —  Fertility Patients Could Donate Embryos  —  Senate leaders from both parties agreed yesterday to schedule a vote on a package of bills that would loosen President Bush's five-year-old restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research.
 
 
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US, Iraqi forces clash with Shi'ite militia
Jim Dwyer / New York Times:
Kean Is Preparing a Campaign Film Against Menendez in the Style of a Swift Boat Ad
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Dennis C. Vacco / American Spectator:
Labor's Desperate Measures
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When A Net Neutrality Tie Is A Win
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SANTA CRUZ FREEDOM RALLY
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Comeback talk creates Lott buzz