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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
WaPo quasi-retracts page-one story about Feith Iraq/AQ intel — Spruiell e-mails with the subject header, "Good Lord." Indeed. — They're calling it a "correction," but is it really a correction if you're quoting from an entirely different document than the one you thought you were?
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Facing South, Jules Crittenden, Ace of Spades HQ, Michelle Malkin, Balloon Juice, Dick Polman's American Debate, The Daily Dish, TPMmuckraker, TIME: Swampland, Booman Tribune, AMERICAblog, The Political Pit Bull, Gateway Pundit, Liberal Values, Firedoglake, Polimom Says and Sister Toldjah
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Robert Burns / Associated Press:
Report Says Pentagon Manipulated Intel — WASHINGTON — Pentagon officials undercut the intelligence community in the run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq by insisting in briefings to the White House that there was a clear relationship between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida, the Defense Department's inspector general said Friday.
Larisa Alexandrovna / The Raw Story:
Despite condemning itself, Pentagon report sees intelligence problem resolved; Makes no recommendations — Raw Story first to acquire report — The following is the declassified two page summary of the Office of Special Plans report, as acquired Friday morning by RAW STORY.
Scott Malensek / Flopping Aces:
DoD Inspector General Report Destroys Claims of Pentagon Intel Manipulation
DoD Inspector General Report Destroys Claims of Pentagon Intel Manipulation
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Power Line
Think Progress:
VIDEO COMPILATION: Anna Nicole Smith And Our National Media Embarassment — The death of Anna Nicole Smith yesterday was a feeding frenzy for the national media, and coverage of the war was drowned out: NBC's Nightly News devoted 14 seconds to Iraq compared to 3 minutes and 13 seconds to Anna Nicole.
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Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:
Young Woman Meets Tragic End — No, It's Not Anna Nicole — NEW YORK A young woman met a sudden and tragic end, it was reported on Thursday, leaving her family and people who knew her in great distress. — No, it's not Anna Nicole Smith. Her name is Jennifer Parcell, and she died in Iraq.
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Undoing Obama: Inside the Coming Effort to Dismantle a Candidate — Barack Obama's free ride is ending. — The charismatic Illinois senator has enjoyed a lifetime of hagiography, starting with an 800-word story in The New York Times the day after his election as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.
Discussion:
Grasping Reality …, The Poor Man Institute, Decision '08, Hot Air, The Daily Background, The Caucus, The Daily Dish, CBS News and Wonkette
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Chitra Ragavan / US News:
Cheney Tangles With Agency on Secrecy — An important legal ruling is pending over Vice President Cheney's refusal to disclose statistics on document classification and declassification activity. The Information Security Oversight Office, which is responsible for the policy and oversight …
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Ellen Goodman / Boston Globe:
No change in political climate — On the day that the latest report on global warming was released, I went out and bought a light bulb. OK, an environmentally friendly, compact fluorescent light bulb. — No, I do not think that if everyone lit just one little compact fluorescent light bulb, what a bright world this would be.
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The Raw Story:
Rove on immigration: 'I don't want my son to have to pick tomatoes' — The Corner at the National Review Online reports that at a Republican luncheon yesterday White House adviser Karl Rove was overheard explaining the Bush amnesty immigration plan by saying, "I don't want my 17-year-old son …
Nico / Think Progress:
Bill Donohue Defended Bush Catholic Outreach Staffer Who Was Outed As Sexual Predator — During the 2004 presidential campaign, George Bush's Catholic outreach coordinator, 54-year-old Deal Hudson, was outed as a sexual predator for taking advantage of a drunken 18-year old while he was a professor.
Eric Fair / Washington Post:
An Iraq Interrogator's Nightmare — Aman with no face stares at me from the corner of a room. He pleads for help, but I'm afraid to move. He begins to cry. It is a pitiful sound, and it sickens me. He screams, but as I awaken, I realize the screams are mine.
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Unqualified Offerings, Hullabaloo, American Footprints, Eschaton, The Huffington Post, Pajamas Media and Liberty Street
Zogby:
Zogby Road to New Hampshire Poll: Hillary Surges on Campaign Announcement, But Edwards, Obama Lurk in Key States Zogby telephone surveys find tight races in Iowa, New Hampshire, but everyone's support is soft as Jell-o — New York Sen. Hillary Clinton received a bounce in her presidential …
Adam Martin / Examiner:
Author attacked in S.F. hotel — SAN FRANCISCO - In a bizarre attack, a well-known author and Holocaust scholar was dragged out of a San Francisco hotel elevator by an apparent Holocaust denier who reportedly had been trailing him for weeks. — Police escorted Elie Wiesel …
Chris Bowers / MyDD:
First Democratic Campaign Disses Edwards — The only problem is, we don't know which one. An unamed Democratic staffer for a rival campaign just through Edwards under bus for keeping Amanda and Melissa on staff. From Slate: … Apparently, that person is so brave and unfraid of …
Matea Gold / Los Angeles Times:
Wake-up call to a.m. news: moms tuning out — Morning broadcast shows, once a staple for women, are seeing audiences shrink as news sources multiply. — NEW YORK — When her children were young, Jenny Lauck used to flip on "Today" or "Good Morning America" as she brewed her morning coffee and tended to her babies.
David Burge / iowahawk:
MY FAIR BLOGGER — Book by Iowahawk — Music by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner — Based on "Fascist Pigmalian" by the Reality-Based Community Dinner Theater — I tell you why there are two Americas, my dear Dr. Dean. Man is a product of his environment. — HOWARD DEAN — Balderdash!