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9:10 AM ET, August 18, 2006

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Washington Post:
A Judicial Misfire  —  THE NATION would benefit from a serious, scholarly and hard-hitting judicial examination of the National Security Agency's program of warrantless surveillance.  The program exists on ever-more uncertain legal ground; it is at least in considerable tension with federal law and the Bill of Rights.
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Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Lower Court Opinions Are Briefs to Higher Courts:  —  If you're a judge, your first responsibility is of course to reach the conclusion that you think is legally right, and to explain it using those arguments that you think are most sound.  But once you have that figured out …
Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:
Ideologue Leftist Judge Rules NSA Program Unconstitutional  —  As I predicted last month, the NSA's controversial surveillance program has been ruled unconstitutional by Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, an ideologue Carter-appointed judge who has a documented history of bending the rules to obtain the leftist result.
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Cafferty on the NSA Ruling: Bush is breaking the Law!  —  Jack Cafferty ripped into the Republican leadership today over the recent ruling that the NSA warrantless program is illegal.  For all the wingers that say the NSA helped in the UK terror plot, they should turn to their good pal O'Reilly …
New York Times:
U.S. Judge Finds Wiretapping Plan Violates the Law
Discussion: Legal Fiction
Deacon / Power Line:   WHERE'S THE BEEF?  —  John, who is on vacation, has delegated …
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
The French Surrender ... Again  —  After insisting on a cease-fire in Lebanon and demanding international action to separate the combatants, the French have performed one of their traditional about-faces and refused to substantially contribute to the effort.
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
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Jamey Keaten / Associated Press:   France Says It'll Double U.N. Contingent
Washington Post:   Where Did the French Go?  —  THROUGHOUT this summer's crisis …
Joe's Dartblog:
CLAIMS OF CENSORSHIP AND INTIMIDATION AT DARTMOUTH  —  This morning's edition of The Dartmouth carries a worrisome story by reporter Rebekah Rombom.  Here is a significant portion of it, but please click here to read the whole thing. … For reference, Nick's entire statement is posted on this website …
Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy
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Rebekah Rombom / The Dartmouth Online:
Alumni debate reaches students
Discussion: Power Line and Joe's Dartblog
Jim VandeHei / Washington Post:
Republicans Losing The 'Security Moms'  —  Married women with children, the "security moms" whose concerns about terrorism made them an essential part of Republican victories in 2002 and 2004, are taking flight from GOP politicians this year in ways that appear likely to provide a major boost …
Guardian:
Kurds flee homes as Iran shells Iraq's northern frontier  —  Michael Howard in Qandil Mountain  —  Turkey and Iran have dispatched tanks, artillery and thousands of troops to their frontiers with Iraq during the past few weeks in what appears to be a coordinated effort to disrupt the activities of Kurdish rebel bases.
Jack Shafer / Slate:
No JonBenet Apologies Necessary  —  THE PRESS NEEDN'T REGRET ITS COVERAGE OF THE CASE.  —  This morning finds at least four press-hounds baying their apologies to the Ramseys on behalf of their colleagues or society at large.  They beg the family's forgiveness for having ever suspected them of killing JonBenet.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
N. Korea Appears to Be Preparing for Nuclear Test  —  U.S. Officials Tell ABC News Evidence Show Signs an Underground Test is in the Works  —  There is new evidence that North Korea may be preparing for an underground test of a nuclear bomb, U.S. officials tell ABC News.
David S. Cloud / New York Times:
Inquiry Suggests Marines Excised Files on Killings  —  A high-level military investigation into the killings of 24 Iraqis in Haditha last November has uncovered instances in which American marines involved in the episode appear to have destroyed or withheld evidence, according to two Defense Department officials briefed on the case.
Discussion: The Agonist and Amygdala
Pew Research Center:
American Attitudes Hold Steady in Face of Foreign Crises  —  Strong Support for Israel - No Surge in Terror Concerns or Boost for Bush  —  Summary of Findings  —  The public is paying a great deal of attention to major overseas events - the reported terrorist plot against U.S. trans-Atlantic jet liners …
Gerard Baker / Times of London:
It sounded so good to start with.  But where did it all go wrong, George?  —  "HOW'M I DOIN'?" was the question the quixotic Ed Koch used to ask New York's voters during Hizzoner's eleven turbulent years as the city's mayor.  For a man who governed the globe's most neurotic metropolis …
Discussion: TPMCafe blogs
Washington Post:
The FBI's Upgrade That Wasn't  —  $170 Million Bought an Unusable Computer System  —  As far as Zalmai Azmi was concerned, the FBI's technological revolution was only weeks away.  —  It was late 2003, and a contractor, Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) …
Discussion: Rantingprofs
 
 
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