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9:45 AM ET, March 12, 2007

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White House says Rove relayed complaints about prosecutors  —  WASHINGTON - The White House acknowledged on Sunday that presidential adviser Karl Rove served as a conduit for complaints to the Justice Department about federal prosecutors who were later fired for what critics charge were partisan political reasons.
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Josh Gerstein / New York Sun:
Gonzales Said To Stonewall a GOP Query  —  Probe of Leaks Are at Center of Inquiries From the Right  —  The top Republican on the House's main investigative committee, Rep. Thomas Davis of Virginia, is charging the Justice Department with stonewalling his inquiries about the FBI's assertion …
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Justice Official 'Horrified' Phone Call Was Seen as Threat  —  Until last Tuesday, Michael J. Elston was the happily anonymous chief of staff to Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty.  —  But then a former U.S. attorney told Congress that Elston had warned him and other fired prosecutors …
Discussion: TalkLeft
Opinion Journal:   Meltdown at Justice  —  Incompetence is compromising presidential power.
Raymond Hernandez / New York Times:
Gonzales Should Quit, Senator Says
Michael Barone / Real Clear Politics:
Berger & Libby: A Tale of Two Crimes  —  "History will be kind to me," Winston Churchill once said, "for I intend to write it."  —  Indeed, he did.  His multiple-volume histories of the two world wars are still widely read, though discounted by professional historians as incomplete and in some ways misleading.
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere and Power Line
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MSNBC:
Halliburton to move its head office to Dubai  —  By David Wighton in New York and Simeon Kerr in Dubai  —  Halliburton, the oil services company once run by Dick Cheney, the US vice-president, on Sunday provided further evidence that the focus of many big US companies is shifting overseas …
Discussion: neoconned
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Karen Tumulty / TIME: Swampland:
Halliburtonomics
Los Angeles Times:
Do we really need a Gen. Pelosi?  —  Congress can cut funding for Iraq, but it shouldn't micromanage the war.  —  AFTER WEEKS OF internal strife, House Democrats have brought forth their proposal for forcing President Bush to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq by 2008.
David W. Jones / Washington Times:
Week in Review  —  Our reporters get their stories from a number of places, but much of the "meat and potatoes" coverage comes from the daily briefings at the White House, Pentagon and State Department.  —  These events, usually about an hour in length, permit the reporters to seek official comment …
Discussion: Redstate and Power Line
Telegraph:
Scientists threatened for 'climate denial'  —  Scientists who questioned mankind's impact on climate change have received death threats and claim to have been shunned by the scientific community.  —  They say the debate on global warming has been "hijacked" by a powerful alliance of politicians …
The Australian:
Native American trackers to hunt bin Laden  —  WASHINGTON: An elite group of Native American trackers is joining the hunt for terrorists crossing Afghanistan's borders.  —  The unit, the Shadow Wolves, was recruited from several tribes, including the Navajo, Sioux, Lakota and Apache.
Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
Who's to Blame for Russia?  —  Who lost Russia?  As the world's biggest country backslides ever more quickly into authoritarianism, the answer you hear increasingly is: the United States.  —  Curiously, you hear it both from Russians, who simultaneously deny that anything bad has happened …
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
John Leicester / Associated Press:
AP Photo PAR105, VM142  —  PARIS (AP) - Jacques Chirac, admired and scorned during 12 years as France's president, announced Sunday he will not seek a third term in elections this spring - a widely expected move given his low popularity, his age and a conservative rival who has siphoned off his political base.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and BBC
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Early Primary Rush Upends '08 Campaign Plans  —  The trickle of states moving their 2008 presidential primaries to Feb. 5 has turned into an avalanche, forcing all the presidential campaigns to reconsider every aspect of their nominating strategy — where to compete, how to spend money …
Discussion: PoliBlog (TM)
Cenk Uygur / The Huffington Post:
Fox Has Jumped the Shark  —  I once fell asleep early on a Monday night in Philly and missed an important Monday Night Football match-up between the Eagles and the Giants.  Next morning when I asked a construction worker on the street who had won, he said, "Whatcha been livin' in a box?!"
Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
Obama, Clinton Sparring Early  —  CLINTON, Iowa — Standing in front of a large banner that blared "Clinton," surrounded by students in Clinton Community College sweat shirts, Sen. Barack Obama offhandedly mentioned the obvious.  —  "Hillary, you know, she's interesting," Obama said …
Examiner:
Yeas & Nays: Monday, Mar. 12  —  WASHINGTON - Jeff Dufour and Patrick Gavin cover people, power and politics in the beltway each weekday.  Email them at yan@dcexaminer.com .  —  Get ready for the V.P.'s bio  —  It won't be long now before you can peek inside the life of that International Man of Mystery: Vice President Dick Cheney.
Los Angeles Times:
Conservatives balk over Giuliani's judges  —  His picks as New York mayor raise doubts over whether he'd put 'strict constructionists' on the high court.  —  WASHINGTON — Rudolph W. Giuliani, in an effort to temper his support for abortion rights and his other socially liberal stances …
Discussion: Althouse
Los Angeles Times:
Fallback strategy for Iraq: Train locals, draw down forces  —  If the current 'surge' fails, planners suggest relying on advisors as the U.S. did in El Salvador in the 1980s.  —  WASHINGTON — American military planners have begun plotting a fallback strategy for Iraq that includes …
Discussion: Think Progress and Prairie Weather
 
 
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Ben Fenton / Telegraph:
Greenstock finally delivers his barb on Iraq
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Mark Kleiman / The RBC:
The power to pardon and the "no-funds" rider
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CAIR OK'd to meet in Capitol
Associated Press:
Comic Richard Jeni dead of apparent suicide
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Carola Hoyos / Financial Times:
The new Seven Sisters: oil and gas giants dwarf western rivals
Discussion: The Belmont Club
Alan Cooperman / Washington Post:
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Washington Post:
Winning the White House? History's Against Them.
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