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Rosa Brooks / Los Angeles Times:
Did Bush commit war crimes? — Supreme Court's decision in Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld could expose officials to prosecution. — THE SUPREME Court on Thursday dealt the Bush administration a stinging rebuke, declaring in Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld that military commissions for trying terrorist suspects violate …
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Editor and Publisher:
Sulzberger Responds to 'WSJ' Editorial Slamming the 'NYT' — NEW YORK After remaining mum for the past week, even as controversy swirled around newspapers' revealing the banking records surveillance program, the Wall Street Journal editoral page weighed in today.
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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.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Foreign Policy Tries a Little Shake, Rattle and Roll — MEMPHIS, June 30— In the annals of international diplomacy, it was not exactly Yalta. But today's visit to Graceland — the ticky-tacky Elvis Presley mansion here — by President Bush and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi of Japan brought …
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Associated Press:
Bush, Koizumi pay their respects to 'the king' — President, prime minister see Elvis' Graceland — MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) — President Bush's going-away present to Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi was some kind of "Good Luck Charm." Amid the ceramic monkeys …
CNN:
Israeli TV: Doctor treated kidnapped soldier — Palestinian leader: Israel aims to destroy Hamas government — JERUSALEM (CNN) — A doctor told Israeli TV on Friday that he has seen kidnapped 19-year-old army Cpl. Gilad Shalit and treated him for injuries.
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Guardian:
Guardian finds Afghan witnesses US couldn't — Declan Walsh in Gardez — The US government said it could not find the men that Guantánamo detainee Abdullah Mujahid believes could help set him free. The Guardian found them in three days. — Two years ago the US military invited Mr Mujahid …
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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?
Megan Twohey / JSOnline:
Sept. 11 claim stirs UW probe — Instructor says U.S. planned the attacks to provoke war — mtwohey@journalsentinel.com — The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Thursday that it would launch a review of an instructor who argues that the U.S. government orchestrated the Sept. 11 attacks for its own benefit.
New York Times:
Kerik Pleads Guilty for Gifts and a Loan — Bernard B. Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner, pleaded guilty today to two misdemeanor charges as the result of accepting tens of thousands of dollars of gifts and a loan while he was a city official in the late 1990's.
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 …
Jerusalem Post:
New UN rights body targets Israel — GENEVA — The new UN Human Rights Council voted Friday to make a review of alleged human rights abuses by Israel a permanent feature of every council session. — The resolution, which was sponsored by Islamic countries, was passed by a vote of 29-12, with five abstentions.
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Lee Siegel / The New Republic:
SIEGEL V. BASEBALL CAPS: — There are few places on earth, as far as I'm concerned, where the light, especially in late afternoon, in summer, is more beautiful than on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It's a river light, soft and gently diffused. It gets delicately soaked into the sides of buildings …
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Bull Moose:
What a Country! — The Moose responds to the Hamdan decision. — As we approach Independence Day, the Moose waxes rhapsodic about the wonder and glory that is America. He recalls the Russian-born comic Yakov Smirnoff who was hot back in the eighties. When he was confronted with another marvel …
H. Josef Hebert / Associated Press:
House lifts offshore drilling ban — WASHINGTON - Congress has taken a major step toward allowing oil and gas drilling in coastal waters that have been off limits for a quarter-century. — Still, a battle looms in the Senate over the issue. And the Bush administration's support for the legislation …