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7:40 PM ET, August 12, 2006

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Adam Entous / Reuters:
Olmert faces backlash over Lebanon war
Discussion: Dinocrat
Hugh Hewitt / Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:
FAQ - Special "Peace In Our Time" Edition!
Discussion: Kesher Talk
John Solo / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Bureaucracy impedes bomb-detection work  —  WASHINGTON — As the British terror plot was unfolding, the Bush administration quietly tried to take away $6 million that was supposed to be spent this year developing new explosives detection technology.  Congressional leaders rejected the idea …
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New York Times:
Focused on 9/11, U.S. Is Seen to Lag on New Threats
Recent Posts at Lightstalkers:
Staged Shots from Lebanon?  Please comment...  This link was provided in another post but I thought it deserved a thread of its own.  It shows an unidentified man apparently staging for the cameras a photo which essentially uses dead children as props......first of all I am appauled …
Discussion: EU Referendum
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Hezbollywood: Photog accuses stringers of digging up bodies?  (Update: Photos added)  —  I'm adding the question mark because we don't know yet if the guy who said it is who he says he is.  But if it's true — if — then Ace is right: it's "a serious, meltdown level scandal for the media."
Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:   BANG: Photographer Admits To Seeing Lebanese Pose Bodies And Even …
MSNBC:
Source: U.S., U.K. at odds over timing of arrests  —  British wanted to continue surveillance on terror suspects, official says … MSNBC TV  —  LONDON - NBC News has learned that U.S. and British authorities had a significant disagreement over when to move in on the suspects in the alleged plot …
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Dan / Riehl World View:
AP Source Salam Daher Rescues Bodies That Aren't There  —  An AP article white washes a Lebanese Civil Defense worker bloggers suspect of disseminating Hezbollah propaganda.  And they quote a colleague who apparently doesn't have any concerns about sharing information with Hezbollah to back him up.
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
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Tim Rutten / Los Angeles Times:
Lebanon photos: Take a closer look  —  THE controversy this week over Reuters' distribution of digitally manipulated, falsely labeled and — probably — staged photos of the fighting in Lebanon hasn't been nearly as large as it should have been.  —  Credit for bringing the sordid business …
Marcus Mabry / MSNBC:
The Ripple Effect  —  The foiled airline plot boosts President Bush's terror ratings, but the new NEWSWEEK Poll finds a lot for Democrats to cheer as the midterm elections approach.  —  Charles Rex Arbogast / AP  —  Americans awakened to a new day of air travel on Aug. 10.
Kate Connolly / Telegraph:
I was in Hitler's SS, admits Günter Grass  —  Germany was rocked by the revelations last night that Günter Grass, its greatest living author and doyen of the Left, was a member of Hitler's elite Waffen-SS.  —  The Nobel laureate, who has been the country's moral guide for decades …
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Joe Lieberman And The Jews  —  Rabbi Marc Gellman, writing in Newsweek, expresses puzzlement about why Joe Lieberman did so poorly among Connecticut's Jews.  Here's part of it: … There's a lot more in his impassioned essay but the answer may be a bit simple:  —  Few groups are totally monolithic anymore.
Discussion: The Empire Zone
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Marc Gellman / MSNBC:
Joe and the Jews
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
Edward Wong / New York Times:
U.S. Ambassador Says Iran Is Inciting Attacks  —  Iran is pressing Shiite militias here to step up attacks against the American-led forces in retaliation for the Israeli assault on Lebanon, the American ambassador to Iraq said Friday.  Iran may foment even more violence as it faces off …
Jim VandeHei / Washington Post:
Whose Issue Is Terrorism?  —  The Parties Maneuver for Advantage on National Security  —  The aggressive Democratic response to this week's foiled terrorist plot reflects a widely shared view among party strategists that intensified attacks against President Bush represent the best chance …
Associated Press:
Conservative group sets sights on Chafee  —  PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Fresh off their first victory over a Republican incumbent, GOP conservatives seeking party purity on taxes and spending are focused on ousting moderate Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island.
Howie Klein / Firedoglake:
Blue America: Dave Mejias, NY-03  —  (Dave Mejias joins us live in the comments to chat with you about his candidacy.  Please stop by the comments and give Dave a great FDL welcome.  Thanks!  — CHS)  —  When I spoke with Dave Mejias on the phone a couple days ago I mentioned that I grew …
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Ron Todt / Associated Press:
Santorum: Intelligence leakers "traitors;" urges strong pursuit  —  PHILADELPHIA - The disruption of an alleged terrorist plot to blow up airliners shows the importance of intelligence-gathering and the need to pursue the "traitors" who recently leaked information about classified government programs …
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Strata-Sphere
Greenskeeper / Media Matters for America:
"Media Matters"; by Jamison Foser  —  Coverage of Lamont-Lieberman race: a case study in how anti-Dem narratives dominate political media — even as political threat level for Republicans rises to "severe"  —  In the wake of Connecticut Democratic Senate candidate Ned Lamont's primary victory …
Discussion: Firedoglake and The Horse's Mouth
 
 
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Hey, Maybe WE Could Make Them Wear Special Insignia!
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Nothing to Fear, But Fear Itself...
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Temper Tantrums at Big Money's Democratic Party Embassy
Dave Eberhart / NewsMax.com:
Expert: Iran Poised To Be 'Mother of All World Threats'
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Hugh Hewitt: A Jolt of Joementum
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Reuters:
Castro walking and being briefed: official daily
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James Boyce / The Huffington Post:
Can I Ask A Dumb Question? What's An Islamic Fascist?
Donald Sensing / Winds of Change.NET:
SHALOM, EHUD, AND GOODBYE
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Increasingly, Bush Escapes the Media Pack
Julie Burchill / Haaretz:
Bleeding-heart ignoramuses  —  A few weeks back it was my birthday …