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Bill Gertz / Washington Times:
Intelligence failure cited in Korean crisis — Recent U.S. intelligence analyses of North Korea's nuclear and missile programs were flawed and the lack of clarity on the issue hampered U.S. diplomatic efforts to avert the underground blast detected Sunday, according to Bush administration officials.
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The Age of Impunity — Sudan's leaders sent out a letter last week warning governments against volunteering their troops for a United Nations peacekeeping force for Darfur. Khartoum was obviously feeling cocky. But why shouldn't it? The Security Council — or more to the point …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:Bush Faults Clinton Policy, But the Debate is Complex
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Warner's Statement: "I Have Decided Not To Run For President" — Nine months ago, I left the office of Governor in Virginia. I was immensely proud of what we had accomplished. We faced historic challenges and got real results. — Upon leaving office, I committed all my time and energy …
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Bob Lewis / Associated Press:
No '08 White House run for ex-Va. leader — RICHMOND, Va. - Democrat Mark R. Warner, the former governor of Virginia, has decided not to run for president in 2008, fearing the impact of a drawn-out campaign on his family. "I want to have a real life," he said.
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Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Warner Won't Run for Presidency in '08 — Former Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner (D) announced this morning that he will not seek the presidency in 2008, saying he wants to spend more time with his family. — In a statement released shortly before his 11 a.m. press conference here, Warner said …
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Breaking: Warner May Not Run In '08 — Ex-VA Gov. Mark Warner plans to make a major announcement today about his 2008 presidential bid, three Virginia Democratic sources said. According to two Virginia Democrats who have been formally briefed, Warner is expected to say that he has decided not to run for president in 2008.
New York Times:
Political Climate Warms to Lieberman's Favor — Two months after a tumultuous Senate primary that was hailed as a watershed moment in American politics, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut appears to be comfortably ahead of his challenger Ned Lamont in their general election rematch.
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Jonathan Larsen / MSNBC:
Exclusive: Book says Bush just using Christians — 'Tempting Faith' author David Kuo worked for Bush from 2001 to 2003 — More than five years after President Bush created the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, the former second-in-command of that office is going public with an insider's tell …
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The New Republic:
HOW ROVE TWISTED FOLEY'S ARM: — It seems increasingly clear that the GOP congressional leadership, eager for every safe incumbent in the House to run for re-election, looked the other way as evidence accumulated that Mark Foley had a thing for pages. Holding onto his seat became more important …
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Hastert Aides Interest Ethics Panel — Staff Members' Knowledge of Foley's Actions With Former Pages in Question — With House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert denying personal knowledge of former representative Mark Foley's activities, investigators for the House ethics committee are bearing …
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David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Will Voters Pull the Trigger? — The old theater adage demands that if you show a pistol in Act 1, you'd better fire the gun in Act 3. That same wisdom applies to politics. — The voters have been pointing a symbolic gun at the Republican regime in Washington for many months now.
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Tony Snow Knows How to Work More Than One Room — It's Gloves Off (and Pass the Hat) for Bush Spokesman — On the morning of Oct. 2, Tony Snow did six back-to-back television interviews from the White House lawn, and one phrase came back to haunt him. — While criticizing Mark Foley …
Robert Burns / Associated Press:
Army: Troops to stay in Iraq until 2010 — WASHINGTON - For planning purposes, the Army is gearing up to keep current troop levels in Iraq for another four years, a new indication that conditions there are too unstable to foresee an end to the war. — Gen. Peter Schoomaker …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Reid Offers To Disclose His Land Deal ... Five Years Late — Harry Reid, stung by the AP's exposure of his complicated land deals with a lobbyist he helped make rich through his personal interventions in Congress, has told the Senate Ethics Committee that he will file amended disclosure statements …
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Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:AP's Reid Story Doesn't Add Up
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Ezra Klein:
Christopher Hitchens Has Gone Mad — The latest New Yorker has a (sadly offline) profile of Christopher Hitchens by Ian parker. It's not clear to me why Hitchens, whose day of influence has decidedly passed, merits a profile, but it's hard to argue when the material is this good.
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