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1:15 PM ET, February 2, 2007

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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
A Failed Cover-Up  —  Why was the White House so nervous in the summer of 2003 about the CIA's reporting on alleged Iraqi attempts to buy uranium from Niger to build a nuclear bomb?  That's the big question that runs through the many little details that have emerged in the perjury trial …
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Michael J. Sniffen / Associated Press:
Agent: Libby may have talked of outing operative with Cheney
Discussion: Firedoglake
David Corn:
Libby Trial:Was Scooter Set Up? Did Cheney Conspire?
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Libby Trial: Where Everybody Knows...
Discussion: The Next Hurrah
Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Majority in Senate support 'stay the course' resolution  —  A bipartisan majority in the Senate yesterday united behind a firm "stay the course" resolution on the war in Iraq, despite searing public criticism from both sides in Congress over President Bush's handling of the war.
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Washington Post:
Senate Democrats Split on Measure Opposing Bush  —  Compromise Called Weak; Report Raises Estimate of Troops Needed for 'Surge'  —  Senate Democratic leaders who decided to back a Republican resolution against President Bush's Iraq war plan in hopes of winning broad bipartisan support ran …
CNN:
Cost balloons when 'surge' support troops are counted
Discussion: Washington Post and Demagogue
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Compromise Senate Measure Rebuffing Bush's Iraq Buildup Gathers Support
Discussion: Bradford Plumer
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Ian Sample / Guardian:
Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study
Craig Gordon / Newsday:
On paper, Rudy's unsure  —  Giuliani's government filings don't lend hints to his presidential run - he hasn't submitted a declaration form or checked the Republican box  —  WASHINGTON - Republicans looking at Rudolph Giuliani's campaign for president always ask two questions - is he really running, and is he a "real Republican?"
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New York Post:
MCCAIN TO CRASH RUDY'S MANHATTAN PARTY  —  By MAGGIE HABERMAN in N.Y. and FREDRIC U. DICKER in Albany  —  The New York GOP chairman has lined up Arizona Sen. John McCain to star at a major party fund-raiser alongside presidential-primary rival Rudy Giuliani, a move some see as a diss of the former mayor in his home state.
Discussion: race42008.com
Jerusalem Post:
Eleven Palestinians killed in ferocious Gaza fighting  —  Eleven Palestinians were killed, including two children - aged eight and five - in ferocious fighting Friday between Hamas and Fatah gunmen.  —  Also among the dead were a Palestinian Authority intelligence commander, his bodyguard …
Discussion: Classical Values
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Daily Mail:
Police praise Muslim soldiers who acted as 'bait' for beheading gang  —  Two British Muslim soldiers targeted by the alleged beheading gang were used in an extraordinary "sting" operation to snare their assassins, it has emerged.  —  The courageous pair agreed to act like "tethered goats" …
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Duncan Gardham / Telegraph:
Websites denounce British Muslim soldiers
Discussion: Counterterrorism Blog
Clifford Krauss / New York Times:
Exxon and Shell Report Record Profits for 2006  —  Oil prices have fallen, but Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell left their smaller competitors in the dust and reported record annual profits Thursday.  —  By making $180 million a day between them, the two largest publicly traded oil companies displayed …
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John Porretto / Associated Press:
Exxon Mobil Posts Record Annual Profit
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Who's to Blame for The Killing  —  This week the internecine warfare in Iraq, already bewildering — Sunni vs. Shiite, Kurd vs. Arab, jihadist vs. infidel, with various Iranians, Syrians and assorted freelancers thrown into the maelstrom — went bizarre.  In one of the biggest battles of the war …
coburn.senate.gov:
Dr. Coburn Votes to Protect Salaries of Low-Income Families from Flawed Wage Bill  —  (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) released the following statement today regarding his vote against, H.R. 2, the Minimum Wage Act:  —  "This bill is unfair to workers and …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
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Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Senate Adds Tax Breaks To Minimum Wage Bill
Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
NIE: The Surge Can't Work  —  Wow, this is grim.  According to the just-released Key Judgments of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, political reconciliation is likely a bridge too far over the next year and a half.  —  The Sunnis remain "unwilling to accept minority status" …
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and Reason Magazine
Maya Angelou / Washington Post:
Molly Ivins Shook the Walls With Her Clarion Call  —  The walls have not come down, but they have been given a serious shaking.  —  That Jericho voice is stilled now.  —  Molly Ivins has been quieted.  —  The writer and journalist, dearly loved and admired by many, hated and feared by many …
Discussion: DownWithTyranny! and Pottersville
Associated Press:
Punxsutawney Phil predicts early spring  —  PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. - A new pair of hands pulled Punxsutawney Phil from his stump this year, so it was only fitting that the groundhog offered a new prediction.  —  Phil did not see his shadow on Friday, which, according to German folklore …
Discussion: Suburban Guerrilla
Maggie Haberman / New York Post:
ISRAEL FANS GROAN OVER HILL SPEECH  —  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton drew grumbles at a pro-Israel dinner in Times Square last night when she encouraged "engaging" with Iran before taking stronger action to keep it nuke-free.  —  Clinton said she wasn't sure "anything positive would come out of it" …
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ and Power Line
Dan / Riehl World View:
Limbaugh Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize  —  While not being able to keep up with all of his many accomplishments over the years, I do speak from personal experience when I say Rush Limbaugh's 1992 Best Seller The Way Things Ought To Be may have done more to carry discussion of conservative ideas …
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
An Inarticulate Kickoff  —  What is it, exactly, that white people mean when they call a black person "articulate"?  —  I'll leave it to Joe Biden to explain (or figure out) why he used "clean" as one of a logorrheic string of adjectives describing his Senate colleague Barack Obama.
 
 
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Judges Pose Questions on Bush Detainee Policy
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McCain Launches His Own Resolution
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Anti-Blog Hysteria In The State Capitols
Richard Spencer / Telegraph:
Kim's son lives it up as people starve
Morning Call:
Gore ex-campaign chief wishes on her star
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Benedict Brogan / Daily Mail:
No 10 kept Blair's questioning by police secret for a week
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Denise Grady / New York Times:
U.S. Reconfigures the Way Casualty Totals Are Given
Discussion: The Impolitic
Brady Averill / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Pawlenty drawing more national interest
Washington Post:
Border Policy's Success Strains Resources
Michael Freund / Jerusalem Post:
Right On: The straightforward arithmetic of jihad
Discussion: Dr. Sanity
New York Times:
Florida Shifting to Voting System With Paper Trail