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Official's Key Report On Iraq Is Faulted — 'Dubious' Intelligence Fueled Push for War — Intelligence provided by former undersecretary of defense Douglas J. Feith to buttress the White House case for invading Iraq included "reporting of dubious quality or reliability" …
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New York Times:
Pentagon Group Criticized for Prewar Intelligence Analysis — A Pentagon investigation into the handling of prewar intelligence has criticized civilian Pentagon officials for conducting their own intelligence analysis to find links between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda, but said the officials …
Mike Allen / The Politico:
All 435 House Members Can See Iraq Intelligence — and Talk on Iraq Next Week — To the surprise of the Bush administration, the House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously Wednesday night to allow all 435 House members to see the classified version of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq sent to the White House last week.
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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. News of the war was drowned out: NBC's Nightly News devoted 14 seconds to Iraq compared to 3 minutes and 13 seconds Anna Nicole.
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Damien Cave / New York Times:
Iraq's No. 2 Health Official Is Held and Accused of Financing Shiite Militants — Iraqi and American troops arrested the second highest official in the Iraqi Health Ministry on Thursday, charging that he funneled millions of dollars to rogue Shiite militants who kidnapped and killed Iraqi civilians.
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
"A Victory Of Sorts" — I love the smell of dropped felony counts in the morning. It smells like victory... of a sort. — Neil Lewis of the Times reports, sort of, on the latest in the Libby trial: … Which count? Not clear from this, but our panel of experts is betting on 33 (c), related to Judy Miller.
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Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
NBC's Russert Wraps Up Prosecution Case in Libby Trial — The prosecution finished presenting its case in the perjury trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr. on Thursday, leaving his defense lawyers to try to undo the government's contention that Mr. Libby lied under oath during an investigation into the leak of a C.I.A. officer's identity.
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.
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.
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Faye Fiore / Los Angeles Times:
In capital, Pelosi plane dispute stays at high altitude — War and the deficit are the official business, but lawmakers' heads are in the clouds. — WASHINGTON — The plane commotion continued Thursday, with the nation's capital in a partisan fizz. — On a day when the federal deficit …
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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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Media Matters for America:
CNN, MSNBC aired Donohue's criticism of Edwards bloggers without noting his bigotry — In a February 7 segment on the controversy surrounding two bloggers hired by John Edwards' presidential campaign, CNN aired a clip of Catholic League president Bill Donohue criticizing the bloggers for their …
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CBS News:
McCain Courts Wary Bloggers — Online Conservative Activists Remain Skeptical Of GOP Hopeful — (CBS) By CBSNews.com's David Miller. — Presidential campaigns, even in their infancy, are already working on building rapport with political blogs — the constantly updated …
Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
'08 slate without standout for GOP — Many conservatives say they pick "none of the above" when faced with a choice of Arizona Sen. John McCain, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani as the 2008 Republican presidential nominee.
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Journalism's Relentless Centrist — Last month, a group gathered in New York City to celebrate the 80th birthday of Charles Peters, one of the true revolutionaries in modern journalism. For more than 30 years, Peters edited the Washington Monthly— a liberal magazine with a small circulation …
Robert R. Reilly / Washington Post:
Britney vs. The Terrorists — In the spring of 2003, across a field of rubble in Baghdad, a young Iraqi journalist accosted me and demanded: "Why did you stop broadcasting substance and substitute music?" The year before the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the government entity in charge …
Associated Press:
Gates describes Iraq evidence against Iran — Info on explosives shows Tehran 'very much involved,' Pentagon chief says — German Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung, right, and U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates listen to questions from journalists at a NATO gathering Friday in Seville, Spain.
Ian Sample / Guardian:
The brain scan that can read people's intentions — Call for ethical debate over possible use of new technology in interrogation — A team of world-leading neuroscientists has developed a powerful technique that allows them to look deep inside a person's brain and read their intentions before they act.
Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
New York, New York — Rudy vs. Hillary in 2008? — According to polls, Hillary Clinton holds an early and significant lead among Democratic voters (43%, compared with 22% for Barack Obama, according to a Fox News poll 10 days ago). She is of course the killer fund-raiser of the race …
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