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3:05 AM ET, January 13, 2007

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Duff Wilson / New York Times:
Prosecutor Asks State to Take Over Duke Case  —  The district attorney has asked the state attorney general to take over prosecution of the sexual offense and kidnapping case against three Duke University lacrosse players, an official involved in the case said today.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Duke prof resigns committee posts over defendants' return to campus; Update: Nifong asks to be recused (Bumped)  —  Innocent until proven guilty, unless you're a cog in the patriarchy's institutionalized frat-boy rape machine. … We must not judge by adjudging them presumptively not guilty.
Associated Press:
Duke prof. quits committees in protest
New York Times:
Bush Authorized Iranians' Arrest in Iraq, Rice Says  —  A recent series of American raids against Iranians in Iraq was authorized under an order that President Bush decided to issue several months ago to undertake a broad military offensive against Iranian operatives in the country, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday.
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Fox News:
WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN BLASTS SEN. BOXER'S EXCHANGE WITH SECRETARY RICE  —  Jan. 11: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice discusses U.S. policy in Iraq while testifying on Capitol Hill.  —  WASHINGTON — The White House fired back Friday at Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer's verbal slap …
Murray Waas / National Journal:
CIA Leak Probe: Inside The Grand Jury  —  Late in the morning of July 12, 2003, Vice President Dick Cheney stood atop a pier at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia awaiting the commissioning of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, a ship 20 stories high that took eight years to construct.
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Washington Post:
Unveiled Threats  —  A Bush appointee's crude gambit on detainees' legal rights  —  MOST AMERICANS understand that legal representation for the accused is one of the core principles of the American way.  Not, it seems, Cully Stimson, deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs.
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Boneless Wonders  —  Meet the spineless members of Congress. … Today, Boneless Wonders sit on the benches of both parties in Congress.  More are to be found on the Democratic side of the aisle than the Republican.  But the herd of Boneless Wonders these days is a bipartisan one.
Discussion: Angry Bear
Reuters:
Scientists prepare to move Doomsday Clock forward  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The keepers of the "Doomsday Clock" plan to move its hands forward next Wednesday to reflect what they call worsening nuclear and climate threats to the world.  —  The symbolic clock, maintained by the Bulletin …
Amir Taheri / New York Post:
HOW IRAQIS SEE W'S NEW PLAN  —  GREAT RELIEF - AND SOME CONCERNS  —  'A SIGH of relief!  So one resident of Haifa Street, in the heart of Baghdad's badlands, reacted to the new plan to secure the Iraqi capital with the help of thousands of additional American troops.
MSNBC:
Bush's Best Democratic Buddy  —  Joe Lieberman gives the president a pass on Katrina.  —  Newsweek  —  Sen. Joe Lieberman, the only Democrat to endorse President Bush's new plan for Iraq, has quietly backed away from his pre-election demands that the White House turn …
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Democrats in Senate Fail to Block Bill on Ethics  —  After campaigning for months on a promise to tighten ethics rules, Senate Democratic leaders tried unsuccessfully Thursday to block a measure that would shine a light on the shadowy practice of earmarking federal money for lawmakers' pet projects.
CBS News:
Read more about the CBS News poll '08 Contenders Weigh In  —  Bush, visiting with troops at Fort Benning, Ga., cautioned that the troop increase "is not going to yield immediate results.  It's going to take a while."  —  The president's plan, outlined in a prime-time address to the nation on Wednesday …
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Jim Abrams / Associated Press:
Convicted lawmakers to lose pensions  —  WASHINGTON - Members of Congress convicted of serious crimes would lose their taxpayer-paid pensions, sometimes totaling more than $100,000 a year, under a measure unanimously approved by the Senate Friday.  —  The 87- vote to deprive lawbreaking lawmakers …
Media Matters for America:
Media Matters implores ABC not to air violent hate speech and racist fearmongering  —  President and CEO, The Walt Disney Company  —  Dear Messrs.  Iger, McPherson, and Westin:  —  We are writing to urge ABC/Disney to stop airing the violent hate speech and racist fearmongering …
Discussion: Orcinus, Lonewacko and Crooks and Liars
 
 
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New York Times:
A 2-Month Debate on Iraq, Capped by 'the Big Push'
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