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8:00 AM ET, March 14, 2007

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ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton Calls for Gonzales' Resignation  —  Senator Tells ABC News 'Buck Should Stop Somewhere' Over Issue of Fired Attorneys  —  In an exclusive interview to air Wednesday morning, March 14, on "Good Morning America," Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., the front-runner …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The Grand Elusion  —  Attorney General Alberto Gonzales faced the cameras for all of nine minutes yesterday, but he managed to contradict himself at least four times as he fought off calls to resign over the firing of U.S. attorneys.  —  "Mistakes were made," he said in fluent scandalese, but "I think it was the right decision."
New York Times:
'Loyalty' to Bush and Gonzales Was Factor in Prosecutors' Firings, E-Mail Shows  —  Late in the afternoon on Dec. 4, a deputy to Harriet E. Miers, then the White House counsel and one of President Bush's most trusted aides, sent a two-line e-mail message to a top Justice Department aide.
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New York Times:
Politics, Pure and Cynical  —  We wish we'd been surprised to learn that the White House was deeply involved in the politically motivated firing of eight United States attorneys, but the news had the unmistakable whiff of inevitability.  This disaster is just part of the Bush administration's sordid history …
New York Times:
'Mistakes' Made on Prosecutors, Gonzales Says  —  Under criticism from lawmakers of both parties for the dismissals of federal prosecutors, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales insisted Tuesday that he would not resign but said, "I acknowledge that mistakes were made here."
Real Cities:
Emails detail plans for firing U.S. attorneys  —  WASHINGTON - Deflecting calls to resign, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales acknowledged Tuesday that he mishandled the firings of eight U.S. attorneys as new details emerged about the Bush administration's efforts to oust prosecutors who had fallen out of favor.
Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press:
Gonzales rejects calls for resignation  —  WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales rejected growing calls for his resignation Tuesday as scores of newly released documents detailed a two-year campaign by the Justice Department and White House to purge federal prosecutors.
Andrew Cohen / Bench Conference:
Alberto Gonzales: A Willing Accessory at Justice  —  Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales is the 80th attorney general of the United States and if recent events in the law and at the Justice Department are any indication, he is rapidly staking a claim to being among the worst.
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Time to Go, Mr. Gonzales  —  "I believe in accountability," Attorney General Alberto Gonzales proclaimed yesterday at a news conference that was a self-serving masterpiece of passive voice and unpersuasive platitudes.  "Like every CEO of a major organization, I am responsible for what happens at the Department of Justice.
Washington Post:   White House Finds Trouble Harder to Shrug Off
Bill Brubaker / Washington Post:
Gonzales Accepts Responsibility for 'Mistakes'
The Hill:
House Dems will 'survey' but not whip Iraq bill votes  —  House Democratic leaders will not whip the Iraq supplemental spending bill, on grounds they don't want to apply political pressure on a matter of war and peace.  —  "It's a conscience vote," House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) …
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New York Times:
The Purse Isn't Congress's Only Weapon  —  THE debate that Congress needs to have about the Iraq war is being hijacked by sound-bite arguments.  Defenders of President Bush concede that Congress has "the power of the purse" and insist it could use it to completely "cut off the funds to the troops."
Washington Post:
Iraq Intensifies Efforts to Expel Iranian Group  —  Though Labeled Terrorist, MEK Has Updated U.S. on Tehran's Nuclear Program  —  BAGHDAD — For three years, thousands of members of a militant group dedicated to overthrowing Iran's theocracy have lived in a sprawling compound north …
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U.S. allies in Africa may have engaged in secret prisoner renditions  —  NAIROBI, Kenya - A network of U.S. allies in East Africa secretly have transferred to prisons in Somalia and Ethiopia as many as 150 people who were captured in Kenya while fleeing the recent war in Somalia, according to human rights advocates here.
Discussion: At-Largely
Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Group Advocating for Muslims in U.S. Gets More Scrutiny  —  With violence across the Middle East fixing Islam smack at the center of the American political debate, an organization partly financed by donors closely identified with wealthy Persian Gulf governments has emerged as the most vocal advocate …
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Obama's Jewish Problem  —  It's a hard thing to pin down, Barack Obama's Jewish problem.  But in the halls of the AIPAC Policy Conference yesterday, there was no denying that the members of the pro-Israel group — largely Democrats, though they tilt right — feel a real, if kind of inchoate, skepticism about the Illinois senator.
 
 
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