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12:40 PM 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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New York Times:
U.S. Judge Finds Wiretapping Plan Violates the Law  —  A federal judge ruled yesterday that the National Security Agency's program to wiretap the international communications of some Americans without a court warrant violated the Constitution, and she ordered it shut down.
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
The Post Editorial Board tell us how serious, high-minded people …
Discussion: Lance Mannion and Eschaton
New York Times:
Ruling for the Law  —  Ever since President Bush was forced …
Discussion: SCOTUSblog
Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:
Ideologue Leftist Judge Rules NSA Program Unconstitutional
USA Today:
Officials: U.S. blocked missiles to Hezbollah  —  WASHINGTON — The United States blocked an Iranian cargo plane's flight to Syria last month after intelligence analysts concluded it was carrying sophisticated missiles and launchers to resupply Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, two U.S. intelligence officials say.
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
U.N. Official Warns of Major New Sudanese Offensive in Darfur
Discussion: Daimnation!
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
A Moment to Be Seized in Lebanon
New York Times:
Wal-Mart Image-Builder Resigns  —  The civil rights leader Andrew Young, who was hired by Wal-Mart to improve its public image, resigned from that post last night after telling an African-American newspaper that Jewish, Arab and Korean shop owners had "ripped off" urban communities for years …
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Bernard McGhee / Associated Press:
Andrew Young Steps Down From Wal-Mart
Discussion: The Corner and Facing South
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 …
CNN:
Video provokes questions of Lebanese army  —  Lebanese forces move southward; Beirut airport reopens  —  BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) — A video showing Lebanese soldiers cordially offering Israeli troops glasses of tea during the military offensive earlier this month has hit Israeli and Hezbollah airwaves.
Discussion: Confederate Yankee
Julian Sanchez / American Prospect:
My Summer Reading Journal  —  George W. Bush reads Camus (as told to Julian Sanchez).  —  August 4: For my summer vacation, I decided to read The Stranger by Albert Camus (in American).  I decided this for a couple reasons.  For one, there was this other book Terror and Liberalism …
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 …
BBC:
Israel alarm at UN force members  —  Israel says it would be "difficult if not inconceivable" to accept nations which do not recognise its right to exist as part of a UN force in Lebanon.  —  Israeli UN envoy Dan Gillerman was speaking after Indonesia and Malaysia, which do not recognise Israel, pledged troops for the UN deployment.
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Breaking the law has consequences  —  My overall analysis of today's extraordinary federal court decision on the NSA warrantless eavesdropping program is in the post below, here.  I also have an article up at Salon summarizing the importance of this ruling, here.
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, Truthdig and Amygdala
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) …
Tbogg / ...a somewhat popular blogger:
Fill the cup  —  One more hour of Headline News and I'll be done  —  Apparently Ace is whining that there are Americans who don't act like seven year-old girls at their first Kiwanis Halloween Haunted House who screech and go,"Omigawdomigawdomigawd" and do the pee-pee dance every time that CNN …
CBS News:
Qaeda No. 2 Behind U.K. Terror Plot?  —  Pakistan: Al-Zawahri 'Probably' Sanctioned Plot Against U.S.-Bound Flights  —  (CBS/AP) A Briton identified by Pakistan as a key suspect in the London airliner terror plot has links with an outlawed Pakistani militant group, and interrogations …
Discussion: The BRAD BLOG, The Blotter and Hot Air
AlterNet.org:
AlterNet Original: Hakuna 'Macaca' (video/audio)  —  During a speech to supporters this week, Senator George Allen called an Indian-American man "macaca"... twice.  Macaca is a derogatory term for dark-skinned people in the part of the world that Allen's mother happens to have emigrated from.
Discussion: BobGeiger.com
 
 
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Associated Press:
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Arab Nationalism Run Rampant at Middlebury
Discussion: Democracy Project
Michael J. Totten:
Terror War  —  KIRYAT SHMONA, ISRAEL - The Israel/Lebanon war …
Washington Post:
Big Tobacco Lied to Public, Judge Says
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Jack Shafer / Slate:
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DefenseLINK:
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BBC:
Terror detectives 'find bomb kit'
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
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