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2:05 PM ET, January 17, 2007

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Bryan / Hot Air:
Assessing Iraq  —  Michelle and I spent four days patrolling the environs around Forward Operating Base Justice in north and west Baghdad last week.  FOB Justice is near one functional neighborhood, Khadimiyah, one mostly recovered neighborhood, Al Salam, one dysfunctional neighborhood …
Bill / INDCJournal:
Random Pictures, One  —  Army PFC Ian Reeser of the Ferris …
Discussion: Hot Air
USA Today:
The big question about Barack Obama  —  CHICAGO — Two years in the U.S. Senate.  Seven years in the Illinois Senate.  One loss in a primary election for the U.S. House of Representatives.  One stirring keynote address at a Democratic National Convention.  Two best-selling books.
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Rasmussen Reports:
Clinton, Obama in Virtual Tie Among Democrats
Discussion: Reason Magazine and Daily Kos
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Senator Clinton Calls Bush Plan 'a Losing Strategy'
Discussion: Althouse and The Mahablog
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Race and Gender Make Democrats' Field Historic
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Obama Starts '08 Bid, Reshaping Democratic Field
Discussion: PoliBlog (TM) and Washington Post
Washington Post:
An Apology to Detainees' Attorneys  —  During a radio interview last week, I brought up the topic of pro bono work and habeas corpus representation of detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.  Regrettably, my comments left the impression that I question the integrity of those engaged in the zealous defense of detainees in Guantanamo.
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Josh White / Washington Post:
U.S. Official Apologizes for Guantanamo Remarks
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Washington Post:
Dodd Introduces Bill to Cap U.S. Troops in Iraq
Discussion: Political Animal
Michael Slackman / New York Times:
Hangings Fuel Sectarian Split Across Mideast  —  The botched hanging of Saddam Hussein and two lieutenants in Iraq by its Shiite-led government has helped to accelerate Sunni-Shiite sectarianism across an already fragile Middle East, according to experts across the region.
Discussion: CorrenteWire
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Juan / Informed Comment:
125 Killed, Hundreds Wounded by Bombings, Assassinations
Discussion: FP Passport
Mercury News:   Baghdad suffers its worst day of carnage in more than a month
David Johnston / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Names New Prosecutors, Forcing Some Out  —  The Justice Department is removing several United States attorneys from their jobs, among them Carol C. Lam, the top federal prosecutor in San Diego, who led the corruption prosecution of former Representative Randy Cunningham.
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Frist looking at governor run in 2010  —  Former Majority Leader Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) is seriously considering a gubernatorial run in Tennessee in 2010, possibly setting up a White House bid further down the road.  —  Sources in Washington and Tennessee say Frist, who will turn 55 next month …
Scott Shane / New York Times:
As Trial Begins, Cheney's Ex-Aide Is Still a Puzzle  —  Paradox seems to define I. Lewis Libby Jr., who remains a bit mysterious even to close colleagues.  He is the White House policy enforcer who also wrote a literary novel; a buttoned-down Washington lawyer who likes knocking back tequila shots …
Reuters:
Baghdad bombs kill 105  —  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bombers killed 70 people, many of them young women students, at a Baghdad university on Tuesday, one of the city's bloodiest days in weeks.  —  In all, at least 105 were killed in bombings and a shooting in the capital on a day when the United Nations …
John Solo / Washington Post:
Lawmakers' Lobbying Spouses Avoid Hill Reforms  —  When Sen. Byron L. Dorgan (D-N.D.) rose to the Senate floor last summer and passionately argued for keeping the federal estate tax, he left one person with an interest in retaining the tax unmentioned.  —  The multibillion-dollar life-insurance industry …
Associated Press:
Attorney general says federal jurists should defer to president's will  —  WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says federal judges are unqualified to make rulings affecting national security policy, ramping up his criticism of how they handle terrorism cases.
Discussion: Daily Kos and TBogg
Liang Youchang / Xinhua News Agency:
Iran shoots down U.S. spy drone amid growing military pressure  —  TEHRAN, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) — Iranian troops have shot down a U.S. pilotless spy plane recently, an Iranian lawmaker announced on Tuesday as the Islamic Republic was facing increasing military pressure from its arch rival — the United States.
Carolyn Lochhead / San Francisco Chronicle:
CONFLICT IN IRAQ  —  Iraq refugee crisis exploding  —  40% of middle class believed to have fled crumbling nation  —  (01-16) 04:00 PST Washington — Iraq is in the throes of the largest refugee crisis in the Middle East since the Palestinian exodus from Israel in 1948 …
Donald Stoker / Foreign Policy:
Insurgencies Rarely Win - And Iraq Won't Be Any Different (Maybe)  —  Vietnam taught many Americans the wrong lesson: that determined guerrilla fighters are invincible.  But history shows that insurgents rarely win, and Iraq should be no different.  Now that it finally has a winning strategy …
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
What $1.2 Trillion Can Buy  —  The human mind isn't very well equipped to make sense of a figure like $1.2 trillion.  We don't deal with a trillion of anything in our daily lives, and so when we come across such a big number, it is hard to distinguish it from any other big number.
 
 
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