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President says NIE leak was political, denies Iraq has worsened terrorism — WASHINGTON - President Bush on Tuesday announced that he will declassify parts of the National Intelligence Estimate, which reportedly concluded that the war with Iraq has worsened terrorism.
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Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
More Leaks, Please — Questioning the Iraq Intelligence Report — It's too bad we won't get to see the full National Intelligence Estimate on "Trends in Global Terrorism" selectively leaked to The Post and the New York Times last week. The Times headline read "Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terrorism Threat."
Barry Schweid / Associated Press:
Bush to Release Part of Intel Assessment — President Bush on Tuesday said it is naive and a mistake to think that the war with Iraq has worsened terrorism, disputing a national intelligence assessment by his own administration. He said he was declassifying part of the report.
Reuters:
W.House considers declassifying intelligence report —Text+WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration said on Tuesday it may declassify an intelligence report in order to respond to Democrats who say the document shows the Iraq war has been a distraction from the war on terrorism.
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Ian Bishop / New York Post:
RICE BOILS OVER AT BUBBA — RIPS 'FLATLY FALSE' CLAIM ON BUSH'S BID — TO GET BIN LADEN — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday accused Bill Clinton of making "flatly false" claims that the Bush administration didn't lift a finger to stop terrorism before the 9/11 attacks.
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R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
Detainee Measure to Have Fewer Restrictions — White House Reaches Accord With Lawmakers — Republican lawmakers and the White House agreed over the weekend to alter new legislation on military commissions to allow the United States to detain and try a wider range of foreign nationals …
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Matthew Yglesias / American Prospect:Rogue State — Lawbreaker and torturer — that's America, loud and proud.
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:Wiretap Bill Moves Closer to Passage
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Warren Fiske / Virginian-Pilot:
Ex-classmates charge that Allen has used racial epithet — RICHMOND - Three people, including Virginia's best-known political scientist, have charged that Sen. George Allen has used a racial slur to refer to blacks. Allen denounced the allegations as "ludicrously false."
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Ryan Lizza / The New Republic:Pond Scum — In the wake of allegations that Virginia Senator …
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Bloggers will join Bush in bill-signing ceremony — President Bush has invited bloggers to join him today as he signs into law a bill creating a database of federal spending — a recognition of their role in forcing the bill through Congress over the objections of senior senators and an indication …
White House:
President Bush Signs Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act — Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building — Fact Sheet: Achieving Greater Transparency and Accountability in Government — THE PRESIDENT: Please be seated — except for you all. (Laughter.) Welcome.
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BBC:
US loses top competitiveness spot — The US has lost its status as the world's most competitive economy, according to the World Economic Forum. — The US now ranks only sixth in the body's league table of global competitiveness, behind Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Singapore.
Ilya Somin / The Volokh Conspiracy:
DID THE REPUBLICANS CLAIM THAT CLINTON WAS TOO AGGRESSIVE IN GOING AFTER BIN LADEN? Orin's post raises the question of whether the Republicans supported Bill Clinton's efforts to get Osama Bin Laden back in 1998, or whether they instead thought that he was "wagging the dog" and being too aggressive.
Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
BIG NEWS: John Bolton Confirmation Battle Really, Really Dead — The last pre-election loophole through which John Bolton's confirmation might have snuck through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was at 2:15 this afternoon at a previously called "business meeting" of the Committee.
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Laura Sessions Stepp / Washington Post:
Syndicate Says 'Boondocks' May Not Return — Cartoonist Hasn't Answered Pleas to Resume Comic Strip — It's over for "The Boondocks" comic strip, at least for now. After six years — a remarkably short run for a strip that found its way into 300-plus newspapers, including The Washington Post …
Kim Sengupta / Independent:
The woman who defied the Taliban, and paid with her life — Women's rights campaigner in Afghanistan shot dead — One in two Afghan women a victim of violence — Suicide on the rise as Taliban's power increases — Safia Amajan promoted women's education and work …
Little Green Footballs:
Hate Like an Egyptian — Egyptian Religion of Peace™ representative Safwat Higazi waxes eloquent about his "beautiful dream"—a dream of a world in which Muslims are free to kill Jews at will. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) — Within certain well-defined limits, of course.
Fred Kaplan / Slate:
How Bush Wrecked the Army — ANOTHER GENERAL REVOLTS. — The generals' revolt has spread inside the Pentagon, and the point of the spear is one of Donald Rumsfeld's most favored officers, Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, the Army chief of staff. — This new phase of rebellion isn't aimed …
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