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Washington Post:
Frequent Errors In FBI's Secret Records Requests — A Justice Department investigation has found pervasive errors in the FBI's use of its power to secretly demand telephone, e-mail and financial records in national security cases, officials with access to the report said yesterday.
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New York Times:
U.S. Report to Fault F.B.I. on Subpoenas — The Justice Department's inspector general has prepared a scathing report criticizing how the F.B.I. uses a form of administrative subpoena to obtain thousands of telephone, business and financial records without prior judicial approval.
The Blotter:
Exclusive: Report Says FBI Violated Patriot Act Guidelines — Brian Ross and Vic Walter Report: — The FBI repeatedly failed to follow the strict guidelines of the Patriot Act when its agents took advantage of a new provision allowing the FBI to obtain phone and financial records without a court order …
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Ben Evans / Associated Press:
Gingrich had affair during Clinton probe — WASHINGTON - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich acknowledged he was having an extramarital affair even as he led the charge against President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair, he acknowledged in an interview with a conservative Christian group.
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Michelle Malkin:
Gingrich's baggage: "Gotten on my knees"
Gingrich's baggage: "Gotten on my knees"
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All Spin Zone, Ace of Spades HQ, Riehl World View, On Deadline and Focus on the Family's …
Michael Duffy / Time:
Dick Cheney in Twilight — George Bush's sense of humor has always run more to frat-house gag than art-house irony, so he may not have appreciated the poetic justice any more than the legal justice on display in the Libby verdict. — Or, to be more precise, the Cheney verdict.
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Telegraph:
US sends spies into Pakistan to kill bin Laden — By Toby Harnden in Washington and Thomas Coghlan in Helmand — America is stepping up its hunt for Osama bin Laden by dispatching additional CIA operatives and paramilitary officers to Pakistan to kill or capture the al-Qa'eda leader.
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Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
Hagel expected to declare '08 bid — Nebraska's Chuck Hagel, the Senate Republican most outspoken in opposition to President Bush's March 2003 decision to invade Iraq, is expected to announce Monday that he will make a bid for the Republican Party's presidential nomination.
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Jules Crittenden:
Good News Bad News — Hope lost, hope maintained, dreams and longing on International Women's Day in Iraq. — It's time for the news: — Bad news, Dem Cong war plan still calls for surrender. Good news, they probably won't be able to agree on this either. "Son of Slow-Bleed" if you will.
Dana Stevens / Slate:
THE BATTLE EPIC 300. — If 300, the new battle epic based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley, had been made in Germany in the mid-1930s, it would be studied today alongside The Eternal Jew as a textbook example of how race-baiting fantasy and nationalist myth can serve as an incitement to total war.
New York Times:
Democrats Rally Behind a Pullout From Iraq in '08 — Democratic leaders in the House and Senate began a new legislative push on Thursday for the withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq in 2008, coalescing behind a fixed timetable to end the war. — The plan to establish a specific date …
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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 …
Bill Carter / New York Times:
CBS Producer Goes Around, Comes Around — Rick Kaplan described his new position as the executive producer of the "CBS Evening News" yesterday as "coming home." He worked on the broadcast in the 1970s when Walter Cronkite was the anchor. But then, he could have said the same thing at almost …
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Steve / The News Blog:
Update on Gilly—Not out of the Woods Yet — Still here — Jen here. I just got off the phone with Gilly's Mom. Last night, her message was that "they brought him down from surgery, but he's still under sedation." I called her this morning to get more details, and here they are:
Times of London:
Elite Iranian general defects with Hezbollah's arms secrets — An Iranian general who went missing on a visit to Turkey last month appears to have defected to America, taking with him a treasure trove of his country's most closely guarded secrets. — Ali Resa Asgari, 63 …
David Horowitz / Front Page Magazine:
[Editors' note: the article below is David Horowitz's defense of Matt Sanchez, a Marine corporal and Columbia student, who is now the target of the Left's campaign of personal destruction.] — I am generally a forgiving soul. If treated half-decently by my opponents I am prepared to overlook …
Jason Shepard / ISTHMUS:
Prof pays price for causing offense — Sensitivities take precedence over truth and academic freedom — When UW Law School professor Leonard Kaplan ended his legal-process class on Feb. 15, there was no sign that he had offended anyone. There were no questions or complaints, and no one approached him afterward.
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.
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