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Democrats.senate.gov:
SENATE DEMOCRATS ANNOUNCE JOINT RESOLUTION TO TRANSITION THE MISSION IN IRAQ — Washington, DC — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today joined Assistant Democratic Leader Dick Durbin, Democratic Conference Vice Chairman Charles Schumer, Democratic Conference Secretary Patty Murray …
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Seth Stern / CQ.com:
Members Were Aware of Lapses at Walter Reed — Senior Republicans who knew about problems at Walter Reed Army Medical Center while their party controlled Congress insist they did all they could to prod the Pentagon to fix them. — But C.W. Bill Young, R-Fla., former chairman …
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Washington Post:
Democrats Want Iraq Pullout by Fall 2008 — House Democrats today unveiled a plan for pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq by the end of August 2008, introducing legislation that attaches a complex series of conditions to military spending requested by President Bush.
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Senate Republicans Deliver Sharp Criticism of Gonzales — Senators Say Attorney General Fired Prosecutors Without Explanation — Senior Senate Republicans today delivered scathing criticism of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales for his handling of the firing of eight U.S. attorneys …
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Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Rove: Prosecutor Purge Is "Normal and Ordinary" — The Arkansas Times' blog has video of Karl Rove speaking today on the topic of the prosecutor purge. I've typed up a transcript of the remarks, but I'll leave it to readers in comments to point out the many distortions (and some plain lies) in Rove's comments.
Steve Tetreault / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: Ensign voices ire at agency — Explanations for dismissal of U.S. attorney differ — WASHINGTON — Sen. John Ensign on Wednesday charged that the Justice Department botched the dismissals of U.S. attorneys and suggested he was misled as to why the Nevada chief federal prosecutor …
Michael Barone / US News:
Lawmaker's Intervention in Law Enforcement Crosses Line — The emerging scandal surrounding the dismissals of eight former U.S. attorneys should signify to American voters the depth, breadth, and permeation of corruption in the Bush administration. — When a U.S. senator (to wit …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Barone Post — A reader alerts me that it might have been a hacker's work. It's not listed on his blog's full posts. I'm checking into it. In the meantime, I've taken it down. I'll keep you posted, as it were. — [Update: it was a hoax inserted into his blog by a hacker.
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Frank Newport / Gallup Poll:
Mitt Romney Still Unknown to Many Republicans — Giuliani, Obama, and McCain have most favorable images — PRINCETON, NJ — One critical measure at this stage of the election campaign is the traditional trial heat that indicates who Democrats and Republicans want to be their party's nominee for president.
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David Corn / The Nation:
Cheney on Trial — It was fall 2003. The news had broken that the Justice Department, at the request of the CIA, was investigating the leak that outed Valerie Wilson as an undercover intelligence officer, and FBI investigators were targeting White House officials.
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Cenk Uygur / News Bloggers Blog:
Giuliani's Family Values — Oops — I don't care about Rudy Giuliani's family values, or lack thereof. And as I wrote recently for ABC News, neither do conservatives. They only pretend to care as a front to hate gay people. — The right-wing base is chock full of people who are divorced …
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David Lightman / Hartford Courant:
Fox Makes Friends And Foes — WASHINGTON — Joe Lieberman was beaming. "Sam Fox represents what America is all about," he said, "and that's why he will be, when confirmed, an extraordinary ambassador." — The scene was last week's Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Jeannine Aversa / Associated Press:
Net worth of U.S. households skyrockets — WASHINGTON - The net worth of U.S. households climbed to a record high in the final quarter of last year, boosted mostly by gains on stocks, the Federal Reserve reported Thursday. — Net worth — the difference between households' total assets …
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CBS News:
John Edwards To Skip Nevada Debate — Liberal Activists Protest Fox News' Role In Presidential Candidate Forum — (CBS/AP) Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards won't participate in a debate co-hosted by Fox News and the Nevada Democratic Party, his campaign said …
Debra Burlingame / Opinion Journal:
Gitmo's Guerrilla Lawyers — How an unscrupulous legal and PR campaign changed the way the world looks at Guantanamo. — He was the first American to die in what some have called "the real war." Johnny "Mike" Spann, the 32-year-old CIA paramilitary commando, was interrogating prisoners …
Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
FLASH: Here We Go Again — Pulitzer Finalists Leaked! — NEW YORK It didn't take long for the Pulitzer Prize finalist lists to begin leaking out. Within hours of the 14 Pulitzer juries packing up to go home on Wednesday after three days of judging at Columbia University, the names of this year's alleged finalists began to spread.