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9:10 AM ET, March 19, 2007

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U.S. attorney's firing may be connected to CIA corruption probe  —  WASHINGTON - Fired San Diego U.S. attorney Carol Lam notified the Justice Department that she intended to execute search warrants on a high-ranking CIA official as part of a corruption probe the day before a Justice Department official sent …
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Senator Insists Bush Aides Testify Publicly  —  The Democratic senator leading the inquiry into the dismissal of federal prosecutors insisted Sunday that Karl Rove and other top aides to President Bush must testify publicly and under oath, setting up a confrontation between Congress and the White House …
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Prosecutor's Firing Was Urged During Probe  —  The U.S. attorney in San Diego notified the Justice Department of search warrants in a Republican bribery scandal last May 10, one day before the attorney general's chief of staff warned the White House of "a real problem" with her, a Democratic senator said yesterday.
Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Justice Dept. Recognized Prosecutor's Work on Election Fraud Before His Firing
Discussion: Oliver Willis
Russell Berman / New York Sun:   Schumer Faulted on Probe
Adam Cohen / New York Times:   It Wasn't Just a Bad Idea. It May Have Been Against the Law.
Karen DeYoung / Iraq:
Iraq War's Statistics Prove Fleeting  —  The U.S. war in Iraq enters its fifth year today.  That, and 3,197 U.S. military deaths reported by the Pentagon as of 10 a.m. Friday, are among the few numerical certainties in a conflict characterized from the start by confusion and misuse of key data.
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Jules Crittenden:
Insurgents Resilient!  —  The AP's Stephen R. Hurst proclaims the resilience of Sunni insurgents! … I'm getting a warm and fuzzy Pravda kin dof feel off that, the "resilience."  Three more paragraphs follow, dealing mainly with deaths of Americans, spiced up with phrases like the one about Anbar being …
Townhall.com:
Bill Bennett  • Mike Gallagher  • Dennis Prager  • Michael Medved  • Hugh Hewitt  —  "They always blame America first."  That was Jeane Kirkpatrick, describing the "San Francisco Democrats" in 1984.  But it could be said about a lot of Americans, especially highly educated Americans, today.
Discussion: Maggie's Farm
Times of London:
We can do more than beg, says new finance chief for Palestinians  —  The new Palestinian Finance Minister gave warning yesterday that the incoming Government was inheriting a "crippling financial crisis" from Hamas.  Salam Fayyad, the internationally respected financier …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Audrey Gillan / Guardian:
The regrets of the man who brought down Saddam  —  His hands were bleeding and his eyes filled with tears as, four years ago, he slammed a sledgehammer into the tiled plinth that held a 20ft bronze statue of Saddam Hussein.  Then Kadhim al-Jubouri spoke of his joy at being the leader …
Discussion: PoliPundit.com and Cliff Schecter
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Whose Ox Is Gored?  —  The media discover the former vice president's environmental exaggerations and hypocrisy.  —  The media are finally catching up with Al Gore.  Criticism of his anti-global-warming franchise and his personal environmental record has gone beyond ankle-biting bloggers.
Discussion: Betsy's Page and ShopFloor.org
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Barbara Walters invites Hugo Chavez to propagandize  —  For those keeping score, this is the second time in less than five weeks that the Bush-hating leader of an enemy state has used ABC News to profess his "love" for humanity.  —  He knew just what to say, too.  —  Look at the look on her face.
Mark Ward / BBC:
Vehicle warning system trialled  —  Technology correspondent, BBC News website  —  Vehicles may soon be swapping information about road conditions to warn drivers about jams and dangers.  —  A German research project on show at hi-tech trade fair Cebit envisions a peer-to-peer network …
AMERICAN DIGEST:
Four Years In  —  Four years in.  An inch of time.  Four years in and the foolish and credulous among us yearn to get out.  Their feelings require it.  The power of their Holy Gospel of "Imagine" compels them.  Their overflowing pools of compassion for the enslavers of women …
Discussion: Dr. Sanity
Tim Lambon / New Statesman:
Observations on Iraq  —  It's hard to describe the noise when a whole cabinet of crockery is emptied on to the floor.  Even harder not to shout in indignation when the American soldier who intentionally tipped it forward, until the plates and dishes slid smashing to the floor, says without regret …
Discussion: Today in Iraq and Jules Crittenden
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Siun / Firedoglake:
"The desire for freedom resides in every human heart."
 
 
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Philip Sherwell / Telegraph:
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CNN:
Poll: Confidence in Iraq war down sharply
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