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White House Said to Prompt Firing of Prosecutors — The White House was deeply involved in the decision late last year to dismiss federal prosecutors, including some who had been criticized by Republican lawmakers, administration officials said Monday. — Last October, President Bush spoke …
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Washington Post:
Firings Had Genesis in White House — Ex-Counsel Miers First Suggested Dismissing Prosecutors 2 Years Ago, Documents Show — The White House suggested two years ago that the Justice Department fire all 93 U.S. attorneys, a proposal that eventually resulted in the dismissals of eight prosecutors last year …
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Fast-Riser's High Hopes and Sudden Fall — D. Kyle Sampson has never worked full time as a federal prosecutor. But for much of the Bush administration he played a considerable role in vetting who served in the Justice Department. And last year he used his post as chief of staff …
Associated Press:
White House mulled firing all prosecutors — WASHINGTON - The chief White House lawyer floated the idea of firing all 93 U.S. attorneys at the start of President Bush's second term, but the Justice Department objected and eventually recommended the eight dismissals that have generated a political firestorm two years later.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:Uh-oh ... Bush got Iglesias axed. — From the Times ...
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Gen. Pace calls homosexuality immoral — WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday he considers homosexuality to be immoral and the military should not condone it by allowing gay personnel to serve openly, the Chicago Tribune reported.
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Top U.S. General Calls Homosexuality Immoral: Report — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of the U.S. military Joint Chiefs of Staff said he backs the Pentagon's ``don't ask, don't tell'' limits on gays serving in the military because he believes homosexual acts are immoral, the Chicago Tribune reported in Tuesday's edition.
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Aamer Madhani / Chicago Tribune:
Top general calls homosexuality 'immoral' — Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Monday that he supports the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" ban on gays serving in the military because homosexuality is "immoral" and on par with having an extramarital affair.
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Washington Post:
The Pelosi Plan for Iraq — THE RESTRICTIONS on Iraq war funding drawn up by the House Democratic leadership are exquisitely tailored to bring together the party's leftist and centrist wings. For the Out of Iraq Caucus, which demands that Congress force a withdrawal of all U.S. troops …
William J. Broad / New York Times:
From a Rapt Audience, a Call to Cool the Hype — Hollywood has a thing for Al Gore and his three-alarm film on global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth," which won an Academy Award for best documentary. So do many environmentalists, who praise him as a visionary, and many scientists …
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Greg Sargent / The Coffee House:
Poll: Cheney's Approval Rating Sinks To 18 Percent; Bush At 34% — The big New York Times poll we posted below has a bunch of interesting numbers that we'll be checking out today. For now, here's a real doozy: Dick Cheney's approval rating is all of 18 percent.
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USA Today:
General: Al-Sadr's fighters feel heat — Coalition forces have detained about 700 members of the Mahdi Army, the largest Shiite militia in Baghdad, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said Monday. — The militia, which is loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and has clashed with U.S. troops in the past …
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Associated Press:
Dems abandon war authority provision — WASHINGTON - Top House Democrats retreated Monday from an attempt to limit President Bush's authority for taking military action against Iran as the leadership concentrated on a looming confrontation with the White House over the Iraq war.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
When No News Is Strange News — The 19th-century German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a giant in the field of logic. The 21st-century philosopher Chuck Hagel? Not so much. — The Republican senator from Nebraska, flirting with a 2008 presidential run, scheduled …
Kate Connolly / Guardian:
Letter proves Speer knew of Holocaust plan — A newly discovered letter by Adolf Hitler's architect and armaments minister Albert Speer offers proof that he knew about the plans to exterminate the Jews, despite his repeated claims to the contrary. — Writing in 1971 to Hélène Jeanty …
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Gail Shister / Philadelphia Inquirer:
FOB (and Hillary) sees no effect on 'CBS Evening News' — Can a friend of Bill's cover Hillary? — Absolutely, says new CBS Evening News chief Rick Kaplan, a pal of both Clintons' since 1974. He slept in the White House twice during Bill Clinton's administration.
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New York Times:
Republicans See Divided Party and Trouble in '08 — After years of political dominance, Republican voters now view their party as divided and say they are not satisfied with the choice of candidates seeking the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.
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