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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.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Republicans and U.S. attorneys — then and now — The fundamental difference between (a) a new administration replacing all U.S. attorneys (as multiple Presidents have done — including Clinton, Reagan and even Bush 41) and (b) cherry-picking ones for firing in the middle of an administration, has been amply documented.
Adam Cohen / New York Times:It Wasn't Just a Bad Idea. It May Have Been Against the Law.
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Atrios / Eschaton:Massacre — I'd been meaning to take a look at real-time reaction …
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Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Voices From Iraq 2007: Ebbing Hope in a Landscape of Loss — National Survey of Iraq — A new national survey paints a devastating portrait of life in Iraq: widespread violence, torn lives, displaced families, emotional damage, collapsing services, an ever starker sectarian chasm …
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Iraq — Washington Post Continuing Coverage:
Poll Shows Iraqis Feel Quality of Life Has Plunged — More than six in 10 Iraqis now say that their lives are going badly — double the percentage who said so in late 2005 — and about half say that increasing U.S. forces in the country will make the security situation worse …
George Packer / New Yorker:
BETRAYED — The Iraqis who trusted America the most. — Text Size: … On a cold, wet night in January, I met two young Iraqi men in the lobby of the Palestine Hotel, in central Baghdad. A few Arabic television studios had rooms on the upper floors of the building, but the hotel was otherwise vacant.
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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Michael Barone / Real Clear Politics:
The Blame-America-First Crowd — "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. — In their assessment of what is going on in the world …
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Military Is Ill-Prepared For Other Conflicts — Four years after the invasion of Iraq, the high and growing demand for U.S. troops there and in Afghanistan has left ground forces in the United States short of the training, personnel and equipment that would be vital to fight …
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James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
News media and politics: an uneasy union — Some prominent journalists have mates who work for a presidential candidate. They approach this potential conflict in different ways. — Some of America's most prominent political journalists are, quite literally, wedded to the 2008 presidential race …
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
"I haven't opened up a law review in years. No one speaks of them. No one relies on them." — So says Second Circuit Judge Dennis G. Jacobs, quoted by Adam Liptak. (TimesSelect.) Liptak: … Many law professors seem to think they are under no obligation to say anything useful or to say anything well.
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Nico / Think Progress:
Tony Snow 'Defensive' On Iraq Anniversary, Tells CNN's Ed Henry To 'Zip It' — President Bush will address the fourth anniversary of the Iraq invasion in a speech today at the White House. — During this morning's press gaggle, Tony Snow told reporters that Bush will use the speech to attack …
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David Carr / New York Times:
All the World's a Story — Journalism has always been a product of networks. A reporter receives an assignment, begins calling "sources" — people he or she knows or can find. More calls follow and, with luck and a deadline looming, the reporter will gain enough mastery of the topic …
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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.
Amy Schatz / Wall Street Journal:
In '08 Race, Web Tactics Are Even More Integral — Handicapping Field — Is a Bigger Chore — As Goals Diverge — WASHINGTON — John Edwards topped the field of Democratic presidential contenders in the liberal blog DailyKos's latest straw poll. But Barack Obama has the most "friends" on MySpace.
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CBN.com:
John McCain Rips the Club For Growth — John McCain has taken some hits for not attending certain conservative events. With CPAC, he says it was a simple schedueling conflict. But he will not be speaking at the upcoming conservative Club For Growth meeting either. Why not?
James V. Grimaldi / Washington Post:
Smithsonian Documents Detail Chief's Expenses — Invoices Include Work on Home of Secretary Small — Internal Smithsonian documents offer a glimpse into what one senator called the "Dom Perignon" lifestyle of the taxpayer-supported institution's chief official, who turned in a $15,000 receipt …
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