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12:15 PM ET, December 22, 2006

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New York Times:
Redacted Version of Original Op-Ed  —  The Iraq Study Group has added its voice to a burgeoning chorus of commentators, politicians, and former officials calling for a limited, tactical dialogue with Iran regarding Iraq.  The Bush administration has indicated a conditional willingness to pursue …
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New York Times:
What We Wanted to Tell You About Iran  —  HERE is the redacted version of a draft Op-Ed article we wrote for The Times, as blacked out by the Central Intelligence Agency's Publication Review Board after the White House intervened in the normal prepublication review process and demanded substantial deletions.
Wall Street Journal:
Media-Sourcing Debate on Deck at Capitol  —  Congress Is Likely to Revisit  —  Calls for Federal Shield Law  —  As Baseball Case Culminates  —  WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is increasingly at odds with some Republicans over its efforts to make journalists reveal confidential sources.
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Richard B. Schmitt / Los Angeles Times:
Lawmaker's files sought by grand jury
Discussion: TPMmuckraker
New York Times:
Marines Charge 4 With Murder of Iraq Civilians  —  By PAUL von ZIELBAUER and CAROLYN MARSHALL  —  Four marines were charged yesterday with murder in the killings of two dozen Iraqi civilians, including at least 10 women and children, in the village of Haditha last year, military officials said at Camp Pendleton, Calif.
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Herschel Smith / The Captain's Journal:
Haditha Events Coming to a Head
Discussion: The Heretik and Macsmind
Murray Waas / The Huffington Post:
The Wag Time Pet Spa Conspiracy... And a Cancer Survivor's Right to Respect  —  As an investigative reporter and independent journalist, I have pursued a career course of independence so as to not be beholden to anyone.  A grandiose notion, perhaps, and I will perhaps leave it to others to judge my work against the ideal.
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
The (attempted) Swift boating of Murray Waas
Discussion: circumlocutor
Washington Post:
A Bigot in Congress  —  BIGOTRY COMES in various guises — some coded, some closeted, some colossally stupid.  The bigotry displayed recently by Rep. Virgil H. Goode Jr., a Republican who represents a patch of south-central Virginia, falls squarely in the third category.
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Sue Lindsey / Associated Press:
Lawmaker stands firm on Quran criticism
New York Times:
PATH Tunnels Seen as Fragile in Bomb Attack  —  An analysis done for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says that the PATH train tunnels under the Hudson River are more vulnerable to a bomb attack than previously thought, and that a relatively small amount of high explosives …
Edmund L. Andrews / New York Times:
Study Suggests Incentives on Oil Barely Help U.S.  —  The United States offers some of the most lucrative incentives in the world to companies that drill for oil in publicly owned coastal waters, but a newly released study suggests that the government is getting very little for its money.
Discussion: AMERICAblog and Political Animal
Spiegel Online:
Hamsters Return to Nature in Eastern Germany  —  Germany, warned five years ago by the European Union to revive its field hamster population, has brought a French pair of the rodents to get busy in a hamster-decmiated eastern state.  —  This week, officials cleared the final bureaucratic hurdles …
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Issue Advocacy Ads May Run During an Election, Three-Judge Court Rules  —  A divided three-judge court ruled yesterday that ads advocating for an issue and mentioning candidates can run during an election, creating a loophole in the law that sought to control the power of big money in elections.
Discussion: Election Law, SCOTUSblog and Bill Hobbs
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Washington Post:
Report Says TSA Violated Privacy Law  —  Passengers Weren't Told That Brokers Provided Data to Screening Program in '04  —  Secure Flight, the U.S. government's stalled program to screen domestic air passengers against terrorism watch lists, violated federal law during a crucial test phase …
LiberalNC / BlueNC - blog entry:
Robin Hayes says we will win in Iraq by "spreading the message of Jesus Christ" there.  —  Robin Hayes has the solution to the Iraq war: have our soldiers convert all Muslims to Christianity.  —  Having won the election by only a hair's width and almost getting himself kicked out of Congress seems …
snowe.senate.gov:
SNOWE, LANDRIEU CREATE BIPARTISAN, CONSENSUS-BUILDING GROUP IN SENATE  —  Senators Want to Build on Success of "Gang of 14"  —  Washington D.C. - U.S. Senators Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine) and Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana) announced today that they want to build on the success of the "Gang of 14 …
Discussion: BobGeiger.com and Eschaton
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Eyeing '08, Democrats Nurse Freshmen at Risk  —  When newly elected Democratic members of Congress showed up here last month, they were taken on the traditional round of orientation, civic-minded lessons on how Congress works, tours of the Capitol and receptions with their new colleagues and leaders.
Michael Barone / US News:
Polls for the Republican Nomination  —  Pollster.com has an interesting summary of the poll standings for the Republican nomination in 2008.  It makes the point, largely overlooked by political writers of all stripes, that Rudy Giuliani has been leading John McCain in the large majority of polls, albeit usually by narrow margins.
NY Daily News:
VA boss likes draft - till White House blows it off  —  BY LISA COLANGELO in New York and RICHARD SISK in Washington  —  Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson gave qualified support yesterday to renewing the draft - a suggestion that rattled the White House.
Discussion: TAPPED and The Carpetbagger Report
 
 
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Washington Wire:
Administration Leans on Persian Gulf Allies to Help Iraq
Associated Press:
Bush Issues Pardons, but to a Relative Few
Discussion: TalkLeft and Prairie Weather
Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:
CIA exercise reveals consequences of defeat
Discussion: Hot Air and JunkYardBlog
CBS News:
(CBS) By CBS News Correspondent Kimberly Dozier
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
SHOCK TALK: AWFUL & OUT
Colum Lynch / Washington Post:
Indian Businessman Pleads Guilty to U.N. Bribery
James W. Pindell / Boston Globe:
Romney defends shift on issues
Matea Gold / Los Angeles Times:
A feud over Bush's pick
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Michael A. Ledeen / American Enterprise Institute:
Iran "Votes"  —  The first step toward understanding the Iranian …
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Brian Beutler / The Raw Story:
Conservative group names most corrupt politicians
Washington Post:
Iraqi Prime Minister Tells Gates He'll Let U.S. Decide on Troop 'Surge'
Washington Post:
Powerful Interests Ally to Restructure Agriculture Subsidies
David Cay Johnston / New York Times:
I.R.S. Is Spending Less Time Scrutinizing Big Businesses
ConservativeHome's YourPlatform:
John O'Sullivan: Frank Johnson - A Tory Individualist
Discussion: The Corner and Andrew Sullivan
NY Daily News:
Slurs? Rat's not true, says Regan
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