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Bill Brubaker / Washington Post:
Senate Committee Approves Wiretap Legislation — A Senate committee today approved a bill supported by President Bush that would enable the administration to continue a warrantless wiretapping program that the White House launched after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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David Stout / New York Times:
Democratic Effort to Limit Surveillance Bill Is Blocked — The Senate Judiciary Committee today endorsed a bill backed by the White House to have a secret court review the constitutionality of the Bush administration's eavesdropping program. — By a party-line vote of 10 to 8 …
New York Times:
Panel in Senate Backs Bush Plan for Eavesdropping — Senators John McCain, John W. Warner and Lindsey Graham, all Republicans, Wednesday at the Capitol. They have voiced opposition to a White House plan to reinterpret a provision of the Geneva Conventions.
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
The Specter bill much closer to being enacted today — (updated below) — The Senate Judiciary Committee voted today on various proposals relating to the Specter FISA bill, as well as the other competing FISA bills pending before the Committee. This report from the AP's Laurie Kellman …
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Nico / Think Progress:
Air America To Declare Bankruptcy, But Progressive Radio Remains Strong — Air America Radio will announce a major restructuring on Friday, which is expected to include a bankruptcy filing, three independent sources have told ThinkProgress. — Air America could remain on the air under the deal …
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Air America Denies Bankruptcy Report — Air America Radio, the network that features such liberal mouthpieces as Al Franken and Randi Rhodes, is denying reports that it will declare bankruptcy. — The Web site ThinkProgress.org, citing "three independent sources," started a buzz on the Internet …
Robert Novak / Chicago Sun Times:
Real story behind Armitage story — When Richard Armitage finally acknowledged last week he was my source three years ago in revealing Valerie Plame Wilson as a CIA employee, the former deputy secretary of state's interviews obscured what he really did. I want to set the record straight based on firsthand knowledge.
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Washington Post:
Cardin Wins Md. Senate Primary — U.S. Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin beat out former NAACP president Kweisi Mfume to win the Democratic nomination to replace retiring Democratic Sen. Paul Sarbanes of Maryland, even as chaos at polling sites Tuesday delayed final results and left some other races too close to call.
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Christopher Buckley / Washington Monthly:
Let's quit while we're behind — "The trouble with our times," Paul Valéry said, "is that the future is not what it used to be." — This glum aperçu has been much with me as we move into the home stretch of the 2006 mid-term elections and shimmy into the starting gates of the 2008 presidential campaign.
Travis Reed / Associated Press:
Mother of Missing Boy Commits Suicide — Two weeks after telling police that her son had been snatched from his crib, Melinda Duckett found herself reeling in an interview with TV's famously prosecutorial Nancy Grace. Before it was over, Grace was pounding her desk and loudly demanding to know: "Where were you?
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Stephen Hudak / Orlando Sentinel:
Show didn't cause suicide, host says
Show didn't cause suicide, host says
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Kelley Shannon / Associated Press:
Ex-Texas Gov. Ann Richards dies — AUSTIN, Texas - Former Gov. Ann Richards, the witty and flamboyant Democrat who went from homemaker to national political celebrity, died Wednesday night after a battle with cancer, a family spokeswoman said. She was 73. — She died at home surrounded by her family, the spokeswoman said.
Rep. John Murtha / The Huffington Post:
My Resolution Calling for Rumsfeld's Immediate Resignation — Today I introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives calling for the immediate resignation of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. — The President must show the American people and the world that there is accountability …
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Brian Beutler / The Raw Story:
High-level Verizon exec. is ex-official who long-argued for more surveillance — One of the highest-level executives at Verizon Communications—one of three major telecommunications firms originally alleged to be providing the National Security Agency with customer phone records under contract …
Washington Post:
In R.I., a Model for Voter Turnout — Employing Senate Primary Strategy May Give GOP an Edge — The turnout campaign that Republican operatives used to help pull Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee to victory in the Rhode Island primary was a potent demonstration of how money and manpower can transform …
Front Page Magazine:
The ISM-Terror Connection — As a front group for Palestinian terrorists, the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) sends young people from all over the world to the training fields of the West Bank and Gaza to learn from terrorists and to aid them logistically.
Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:
With No Ideas, The GOP Seeks to Scare — Wasn't it just a couple of years ago that Republicans were boasting that they were the party of ideas? They would privatize the commonwealth and globalize democracy, while Democrats clung to the tattered banner of common security in both economics and national defense.
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
Grim Report Out of Anbar Is Disputed by General — The senior Marine commander in Iraq said Tuesday that he had sufficient forces to carry out his mission but that the mission did not include defeating the insurgency. — "For what we are trying to achieve out here I think our force levels are about right …