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Bush, McCain reach agreement on tribunal laws — Deal comes as House, Senate wrangle over how to treat enemy combatants — WASHINGTON - President Bush and Republican negotiators led by Sen. John McCain have reached an agreement on legislation covering tribunals for enemy combatant suspects, NBC News has learned.
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Brian Knowlton / New York Times:
Agreement Is Reached on Detainee Bill — Three Republican senators said this afternoon that they had reached an agreement with the Bush administration on legislation to clarify which interrogation techniques can be used against terror suspects and to establish trial procedures for those in military custody.
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Punked — The "compromise" will, as I predicted, allow the "tough interrogations" by amending the war crimes act. And they will reportedly create a new JAG office to review classified information and determine if terrorist suspects can see it if it's being used against them in a trial.
Marty Lederman / Balkinization:
Senators Snatch Defeat From Jaws of Victory: U.S. to be First Nation to Authorize Violations of Geneva — I hope that that headline is a gross exaggeration, but based on a few quick seconds purusing the "compromise," I'm afraid it's not. [The Administration appears to agree.
Anne Plummer Flaherty / Associated Press:
Bush, GOP Rebels Agree on Detainee Bill — WASHINGTON — The White House and rebellious Senate Republicans announced agreement Thursday on rules for the interrogation and trial of suspects in the war on terror. President Bush urged Congress to put it into law before adjourning for the midterm elections.
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Reuters:
Leading Bush critic at home calls Chavez a "thug" — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of President George W. Bush's fiercest political opponents at home took his side on Thursday, calling Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez a "thug" for his remark that Bush is like the devil.
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Emile Milne / house.gov:
CONG. RANGEL CONDEMNS CHAVEZ'S ATTACK ON BUSH — WASHINGTON - I want to express my extreme displeasure with statements by the President of Venezuela attacking U.S. President George Bush in such a personal and disparaging way during his remarks at the United Nations General Assembly.
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CNN:
Democrats warn Chavez: Don't bash Bush — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Two of President Bush's staunchest domestic critics leapt to his defense Thursday, a day after one of his fiercest foreign foes called him "the devil" in a scorching speech before the United Nations.
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Darwin Danielson / radioiowa.com:
Harkin defends Venezuelan President's U-N speech against Bush — Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, a democrat, today defended Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's United Nations speech in which Chavez called President George Bush the devil. Harkin said the comments were "incendiary", then went on to say …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Rangel warns Chavez not to attack "my president"; Update: Gratuitous DU thread added — This would have meant a lot more coming from a guy who hadn't referred to Bush in the past as "our Bull Connor." — His point is actually quite weak. Barack Obama, to his credit …
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Hindrocket / Power Line:BEDFELLOWS — We haven't commented on Hugo Chavez's bizarre speech …
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Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
PICTURE IDs....Stephen Bainbridge is unhappy over Democratic opposition to voter ID requirements: … But guess what? Outside of Westwood lots of people don't do these things! And they overwhelmingly tend to be poor, non-white, elderly, and disabled. It's funny that a Republican-backed bill …
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Little Green Footballs:
Fauxtography at the United Nations — Salam Daher, also known as "Green Helmet Guy," the corpse-posing ghoul from Qana photographed by discredited Reuters propagandist Adnan Hajj, makes it to the podium of the UN General Assembly via Hizballah's poodle, Emile Lahoud: … UPDATE at 9/21/06 11:05:53 am:
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Declan Butler / Nature:
Lawyers call for science to clear AIDS nurses in Libya — Lawyers defending six medical workers who risk execution by firing squad in Libya have called for the international scientific community to support a bid to prove the medics' innocence. The six are charged with deliberately infecting …
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Ronald Brownstein / Los Angeles Times:
Bush and GOP Making Gains Among Voters — The turnaround is a sign that the election battle in November could be fierce. But history shows Democrats remain poised to claim seats. — WASHINGTON — President Bush's approval rating has reached its highest level since January …
Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss / Reuters:
U.S. threatened to bomb Pakistan after 9/1: Musharraf — NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan said that after the September 11 attacks the United States threatened to bomb his country if it did not cooperate with America's campaign against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Times of London:
Iraq torture report by UN angers Washington — By Tim Reid of The Times in Washington — The Bush Administration angrily rejected a claim by a United Nations official today that more Iraqis are being tortured now than when Saddam Hussein was in power. — Manfred Nowak, the UN's chief …
Think Progress:
Matthews: 'I Have Been...Against This Bulls**t War From The Beginning' — This morning on Imus, MSNBC's Chris Matthews blasted the media for not covering the Iraq war. Matthews said that while people are still fighting and dying the Iraq, war "has been taken off television, and Bush must love it."
Matthew Yglesias:
Mahmoun's Style — I keep talking about this with people in real life, but it deserves a blog mention as well — Mahmoun Ahmadinejad has a pretty sweet hipster style. It all starts with a beard not unlike the one I and many of my twentysomething male friends sport. But it goes deeper.
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Opinion Journal:
Poor-Mouthing Prosperity — Does today's free market create too much insecurity? — BY BRINK LINDSEY — Out of the stagflation and malaise of the 1970s emerged a new and improved American economic system—less regulated and unionized, more globalized and entrepreneurial than the old triumvirate …
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