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12:40 PM ET, August 30, 2006

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Did Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald Lie?  —  Plamegate: Patrick Fitzgerald's three-year manhunt to track down who blew Valerie Plame's CIA "cover" has been exposed as a costly sham.  He apparently knew all along that his man was not Scooter Libby.  —  When Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney …
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Opinion Journal:
Fess Up, Mr. Armitage  —  Time to put the Plame conspiracy to its final rest.  —  From its very start, the ballyhooed case of who leaked the name of CIA analyst Valerie Plame to columnist Robert Novak has been drenched in partisan politics and media hypocrisy.
CNN:
Sources: State Department official source of Plame leak
Discussion: Angry Bear
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Ahmadinejad's High-Stakes Game  —  TEHRAN — Drivers here play a high-risk game of chicken at every intersection.  They barge into the frantic stream of traffic and you think there's going to be a crash for sure.  But at the last moment someone usually gives way, and a collision is avoided.
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Dafna Linzer / Washington Post:
Iran Enriching More Uranium
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
Broadcast Chief Misused Office, Inquiry Reports  —  State Department investigators have found that the head of the agency overseeing most government broadcasts to foreign countries has used his office to run a "horse racing operation" and that he improperly put a friend on the payroll …
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Associated Press:
Broadcast chief accused of misusing government funds  —  Adjust font size:  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are pushing for the ouster of the chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors who is accused of misusing government money, overbilling for his time and hiring a friend as a consultant.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Opinion Journal:
The Tragedy of New Orleans  —  Katrina spending is five times larger than past disasters.  —  "New Orleans has suffered from the trauma of three crises," says Louisiana Congressman Bobby Jindal.  "First was the hurricane, second was the levees breaking and third has been the widespread incompetence …
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
First the Flood, Now the Fight  —  Critics Say FEMA Is Impeding Gulf Coast Rebuilding As Disputes Hold Up Nearly $1 Billion in Relief Funds  —  Someone had to pay to remove 3,000 dead trees in New Orleans.  The trees, insisted the Federal Emergency Management Agency, couldn't have been killed …
Stuart Taylor Jr / Slate:
Witness for the Prosecution?  —  THE NEW YORK TIMES IS STILL VICTIMIZING INNOCENT DUKIES.  —  Imagine you are the world's most powerful newspaper and you have invested your credibility in yet another story line that is falling apart, crumbling as inexorably as Jayson Blair's fabrications …
Robin Wright / Washington Post:
Carter Agrees to Hold Talks With Khatami  —  Ex-President of Iran to Visit U.S. Amid Tensions Over Tehran's Nuclear Program  —  For an event that would turn a page in American history, former president Jimmy Carter has agreed in principle to host former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami …
San Francisco Chronicle:
HIT AND RUN: Within half an hour, 14 pedestrians picked off one by one on streets of San Francisco  —  A day of hit-and-run horror that started with the death of a Fremont pedestrian and erupted into half an hour of chaos on the streets of San Francisco ended in the arrest of a 29-year-old driver described …
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Mercury News:
Relatives: Rampage suspect may have been stressed over wedding
Justin Rood / TPMmuckraker:
Coburn: Stevens Blocked My Bill  —  Twelve days ago, at a town meeting in Sallisaw, Oklahoma, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) accused Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) of obstructing his porkbuster-database bill with an anonymous hold.  —  That's according to an Aug. 18 article in the Fort Smith (Ark.) Times Record:
Brian / TVNewser:
Katie's Extreme Makeover?  —  "Talk about a waistline touch-up," an e-mailer says:  —  The left photo is the official first-pic-of-Katie released by CBS at this year's upfront.  (TVNewser posted it in May.)  The right photo is an edited version of the same photo, from the September issue of Watch magazine, which is owned by CBS.
Washington Post:
For Congress in Maryland  —  Our choices: two worthy incumbents and one fresh face  —  REP. ALBERT R. WYNN has represented Maryland's 4th Congressional District since 1993, and in that time he has never faced a serious challenger.  This year, in Donna Edwards , he does.
BBC:
Venezuela to seize golf courses  —  The mayor of Venezuela's capital Caracas says he plans to expropriate two exclusive golf courses and use the land for homes for the city's poor.  —  Mayor Juan Barreto has said playing golf on lavish courses within sight of the city's slums is "shameful".
Paul J. Gough / Reuters:
CNN sorry for Bush speech gaffe  —  NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - CNN apologized Tuesday after an open mike transmitted an anchor's bathroom conversation with another woman live over the network as it was carrying President Bush's speech in New Orleans.  —  "Live From" anchor Kyra Phillips …
Fox News:
Kidnapped Journalists Recall Chilling Abduction  —  Two kidnapped FOX News journalists freed by gunmen last Sunday described in chilling detail how their abductors calmly discussed killing one of them.  —  "Unfortunately for you, you were with an American," camerman Olaf Wiig said his captors told him.
Mahan Abedin / Asia Times:
Al-Qaeda (and US) eclipsed by rise of Iran  —  One of the more interesting results of the Israel-Hezbollah War has been the sidelining of the global jihadi movement and the broader Salafi currents that sustain it.  Despite all its rhetoric of a global jihad against the enemies of Islam …
Mark Tapscott / Tapscott's Copy Desk:
FEC Officially Votes to Silence Political Speech for Last Two Months of 06 Campaign  —  With a 3-3 vote featuring Democrat commissioners supporting the silencing of political speech against congressional incumbents and Republican commissioners in favoring of allowing it …
Donald Rumsfeld / Real Clear Politics:
Facing the Central Questions of Our Time  —  (Note: Remarks as prepared for delivery by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld before the American Legion National Convention yesterday in Salt Lake City, Utah.)  —  Tom [American Legion Commander Tom Bock], I understand that your son is flying …
Elena Becatoros / Associated Press:
Bodies with torture marks found in Iraq  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - At least two dozen bodies, many bearing signs of torture, were found dumped in Shiite areas of Baghdad on Tuesday, and the government almost doubled the death toll from clashes this week between militiamen and Iraqi forces, saying 73 people had died.
Rainer Buergin / Bloomberg:
Germans Leave in Record Numbers, Fleeing Unemployment (Update2)  —  Aug. 29 (Bloomberg) — Thomas Koerber, an engineering technician from Viernheim, Germany, was looking for a new job.  He found it — 4,700 miles away, in Canada.  —  ``I looked around, found a job I liked in Canada …
Discussion: EU Referendum
 
 
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