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11:25 AM ET, January 26, 2007

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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
In Ex-Aide's Testimony, A Spin Through VP's PR  —  Memo to Tim Russert: Dick Cheney thinks he controls you.  —  This delicious morsel about the "Meet the Press" host and the vice president was part of the extensive dish Cathie Martin served up yesterday when the former Cheney communications director took …
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Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
Ex-Cheney Aide Contradicts Libby  —  A former spokeswoman for Vice President Dick Cheney gave testimony in the trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr. on Thursday that directly contradicted Mr. Libby's version of events during a crucial period that is at the center of the perjury case against him.
Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Fitz Alleges New Motive for Libby to Lie
Discussion: Firedoglake
Washington Post:   Ex-Aide Says Cheney Led Rebuttal Effort
Dafna Linzer / Washington Post:
Troops Authorized to Kill Iranian Operatives in Iraq  —  Administration Strategy Stirs Concern Among Some Officials  —  The Bush administration has authorized the U.S. military to kill or capture Iranian operatives inside Iraq as part of an aggressive new strategy to weaken Tehran's influence across …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Getting Serious With Iran In Iraq  —  The Bush administration has decided to escalate the response to Iranian infiltration in Iraq by ending a "catch and release" program and operating more aggressively against Iranian agents, especially Revolutionary Guard elements.
Discussion: Sister Toldjah
Hugh Hewitt / Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:
Memo To The Hill: Take Off The Beltway Earmuffs  —  It's not "nearly 10,000" signatures.  It's 16,000+ signatures.  —  And while your reporter couldn't get a comment from the NRSC, the NRSC's Chairman John Ensign was interviewed at length, by me, on yesterday's program and the transcript posted on the web.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Secrecy Is at Issue in Suits Opposing Spy Program  —  The Bush administration has employed extraordinary secrecy in defending the National Security Agency's highly classified domestic surveillance program from civil lawsuits.  Plaintiffs and judges' clerks cannot see its secret filings.
Discussion: Booman Tribune and The Heretik
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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:   Dismissal of Lawsuit Against Warrantless Wiretaps Sought
Stella Dawson / Reuters:
DAVOS-U.S. invasion was "idiot decision"-Iraq vice president  —  Source: Reuters  —  The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 was an "idiot decision" and Iraqi troops now need to secure Baghdad to ensure the country's future, Vice-President Adel Abdul Mahdi said on Thursday.
Discussion: Jules Crittenden and BobGeiger.com
Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
Hagel Ponders White House Run As War Criticism Raises His Profile  —  His Republican colleagues regard him warily.  The White House barely speaks to him.  He is reviled by his party's conservative base.  —  Looks as though Sen. Chuck Hagel is on a roll.  —  Both parties have their Iraq war contrarians.
Gerard Baker / Times of London:
The vaulting ambition of America's Lady Macbeth  —  Hillary Clinton's shameless political reconstructive surgery  —  You can measure the scale of an American president's troubles by the number of skutniks he deploys during his State of the Union address.  —  Every year during …
Aaron Klein / WorldNetDaily:
Jimmy Carter: Too many Jews on Holocaust council  —  Former president also rejected Christian historian because name sounded 'too Jewish'  —  TEL AVIV - Former President Jimmy Carter once complained there were "too many Jews" on the government's Holocaust Memorial Council, Monroe Freedman …
Andrew Klavan / Los Angeles Times:
Is Hollywood too timid for the war on terror?  —  Thanks to political correctness, you don't see much about the greatest conflict of our time on the big screen.  —  I RECENTLY attended "FBI 101," a G-man seminar for Hollywood writers.  I do this kind of thing a lot: law enforcement seminars …
Discussion: The Glittering Eye and Hot Air
Marc Santora / New York Times:
Iraq Leader and Sunni Officials in Clash on Security  —  Iraq's Shiite prime minister and Sunni lawmakers hurled insults at one another during a raucous session of Parliament on Thursday, with the prime minister threatening a Sunni lawmaker with arrest and the Sunni speaker of Parliament threatening to quit.
Bill / INDCJournal:
Random Pictures, Two  —  Loud, Bumpy, Fun: the view from the belly of a C-130.  —  More past the jump:  —  A mural depicting the massacre at Halabja in Kuwait's "Not to Forget" museum.  —  Everybody on the Horn: Fallujah Police Transition Team (PiTT) Marines key mics after a mortar attack begins.
Discussion: Michelle Malkin
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
Right-Of-Center Bloggers Select The Most & Least Desired 2008 Republican Nominee (First Half Of 2007 Edition)  —  Right Wing News emailed more than 230 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to send us a ranked list 1-5 of the candidates that they would most like to take the Republican nomination …
Discussion: Riehl World View and Wizbang
David Segal / Washington Post:
The Right & the Wrong  —  Conservative Talker Glenn Beck Puts His Own Failings Up Front  —  The set of Glenn Beck's talk show on CNN Headline News looks like the rooftop patio of a posh apartment, complete with simulated bricks and a huge photo-realist mural of a SoHo block.
 
 
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Dave Wedge / Boston Herald:
GOP ready to pounce on vulnerable pol
Discussion: Daily Kos and Wizbang Politics
Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
WHAT NASRALLAH HATH WROUGHT
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
The Meaning of Marty Peretz
Ryan Sager / New York Post:
UN-SQUELCHING FREE SPEECH
Discussion: Power Line
BBC:
Running the rule over Stern's numbers
Jules Crittenden:
Dem Plan Is Here  —  Check out Michael Moore.
Joan Biskupic / USA Today:
Ginsburg 'lonely' without O'Connor
Discussion: Think Progress
Matea Gold / Los Angeles Times:
Fox to air controversial excerpts from 'Path to 9/11'
Discussion: The Agonist and Liberal Values
 Earlier Items: 
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
You Knew Darned Well I Was A Snake Before You Took Me In
Discussion: Times of London
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Feingold Pushes Plan to Cut Off War Funds
Discussion: The Caucus and Atlas Shrugs
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Sharpton Goes to Washington to Talk to Party's '08 Hopefuls
Discussion: Althouse
John / AMERICAblog:
It's even better than Kos reports
Discussion: CBS News and WTF Is It Now??
Justin M. Norton / Associated Press:
R.I. School Bans Talking at Lunch
New York Times:
Groups Head to Capital to Step Up Antiwar Drive
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Libby Trial: Oncoming Train
Ryan Grim / The Politico:
Federal Agency Cleans Up Its Own Wikipedia Entry
Discussion: Wonkette and Reason Magazine
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
BBC Chair Samir Shah calls for UK's “outdated” regulatory regime to be improved to let public service broadcasters compete with US streaming giants for viewers

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

 
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