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9:40 AM ET, March 9, 2007

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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
Discussion: Macsmind
Washington Post:
Senate Republicans Deliver Sharp Criticism of Gonzales
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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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Checking His Baggage At The Door
Discussion: On Deadline
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Fitzgerald's Folly  —  There are lies and there are memory lapses.  Bill Clinton denied under oath having sex with Monica Lewinsky.  Unless you're Wilt Chamberlain, sex is not the kind of thing you forget easily.  Sandy Berger denied stuffing classified documents in his pants …
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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.
Jim Hoagland / Washington Post:
'What Has Happened to Dick Cheney?'
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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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
US Enters Pakistan On Bin Laden Hunt  —  The US has sent CIA special operations units into Pakistan to hunt down fresh leads on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders, the London Telegraph reports.  The action comes just a few weeks after American officials presented Pervez Musharraf …
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.
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.
Discussion: Power Line
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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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Agence France Presse:
Bush would veto withdrawal plan: White House
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Another Hollywood star steps forward for GOP  —  Former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker (R-Tenn.) is contacting powerbrokers in the Republican Party to build support for a 2008 presidential campaign by his one-time protégé, former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.).
Discussion: TIME, MyDD, First Read and Redstate
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 …
Discussion: Romenesko
New York Times:
New U.S. Commander in Iraq Won't Rule Out Need for Added Troops  —  The new American commander in Iraq, Gen. David H. Petraeus, warned Thursday that American troops here faced a long road ahead and left open the possibility of calling in even more soldiers as he described the difficult task of calming the country.
Discussion: Firedoglake and Matthew Yglesias
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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Tony Snow / White House:
Press Gaggle by Steve Hadley, Dan Bartlett and Tony Snow
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
Michael Yon sends this photo from Baghdad, and emails …
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Frank Ahrens / Washington Post:
Big Profits in Small Packages
Discussion: Techdirt and Don Surber
Victor Davis Hanson / Real Clear Politics:
Bipartisan Hypocrisy  —  Recently, several conservative politicians …
Times of London:
Elite Iranian general defects with Hezbollah's arms secrets
David Horowitz / Front Page Magazine:
[Editors' note: the article below is David Horowitz's defense …
ACLU:
Nadler-Harman Bills Would Restore Rule of Law and Due Process …
Discussion: DownWithTyranny! and TalkLeft
James Pethokoukis / US News:
How Democrats Plan to 'Rearrange' Your Taxes
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Economist:
China's next revolution
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Cubans sneak ashore during U.S. security drill
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James Taranto / Opinion Journal:
Best of the Web  —  Today's Video on WSJ.com: Inside …
Frederick Clarkson / Talk To Action:
Ann Coulter Says She Can "Understand" Domestic Terrorism
Steve / The News Blog:
Update on Gilly—Not out of the Woods Yet
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CBS News:
John Edwards To Skip Nevada Debate
 

 
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