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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 …
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Meltdown at Justice — Incompetence is compromising presidential power. — Just when President Bush seemed to have beaten back the Congressional defeatists on Iraq, along comes his own Justice Department to undermine some hard-won antiterror policy gains.
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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.
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Justice Official 'Horrified' Phone Call Was Seen as Threat
Justice Official 'Horrified' Phone Call Was Seen as Threat
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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.
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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 …
Carrie Johnson / Washington Post:
Businesses Prepare to Mount a Concerted Attack on Regulation — Call it the end of the post-Enron era. — A major anti-regulatory offensive culminates this week with a one-two punch thrown by Washington and Wall Street's most moneyed institutions, as the Treasury Department convenes …
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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 …
AndyJ / Kucinich for President 2008:
Cancelled Presidential debates smack of manipulation by 'run and hide' candidates — AUSTIN (TX) — The cancellation in the past two days of two planned nationally televised debates because of candidates' "scheduling conflicts" and unwillingness to participate smacks of …
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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.
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 …
Doug Elfman / Chicago Sun Times:
Self-proclaimed hustler Eddie Izzard wants to serve dinner, not dessert — Eddie Izzard was in his 30s before he became famous as a comedian, but he wanted to be a dramatic actor way back when he was a 12-year-old schoolboy in the U.K. — "They did Shakespeare's 'Caesar,' " Izzard, 45, says.
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Omaha World-Herald:
Hagel hasn't tipped his '08 hand — A tight-lipped Sen. Chuck Hagel arrived in Omaha from Washington on Sunday afternoon and prepared to make what could be the biggest political announcement of his life. — Some Nebraska Republicans speculated that Hagel appeared ready to jump …
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 …
Sebastian Rotella / Los Angeles Times:
France's Chirac bows out, and the race is on — Long a fixture in French politics, he confirms he won't seek a third term as president. A close contest to succeed him is anticipated. — PARIS — Setting the stage for a suspenseful presidential race, French President Jacques Chirac announced Sunday …
S.A. Miller / Washington Times:
CAIR OK'd to meet in Capitol — A House Democrat has arranged for a conference room in the Capitol building to be used tomorrow by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim advocacy group criticized for its persistent refusal to disavow terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah.
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 …
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John Fund / Opinion Journal:
March Madness — Public-sector lobbyists lavish gifts on congressmen and their staffers. The scandal is it's perfectly legal. — Capitol Hill is in the grips of "March Madness"—and I don't mean the NCAA basketball playoffs. "This is also the month that hundreds of lobbyists annually …
Michael Cieply / New York Times:
On Screens Soon, Abused Earth Gets Its Revenge — Tired of abuse by mankind, the earth is angry. Worse, the planet is out to even the score. — Audiences can expect a story along those lines when M. Night Shyamalan's film "The Happening" reaches screens in the next year.