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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 …
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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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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 …
Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Justice Dept. Recognized Prosecutor's Work on Election Fraud Before His Firing — One of the U.S. attorneys fired by the Bush administration after Republican complaints that he neglected to prosecute voter fraud had been heralded for his expertise in that area by the Justice Department …
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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The Heretik
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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 …
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 …
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Maggie's Farm
Jay Rosen / PressThink:
Assignment Zero, Day Six: Help Wanted Section — I'm looking for amateur-friendly pros who can work with the people who have joined up with us. Five days ago we launched AZ. We now have 450 contributors—each with a profile and a blog—slowly filtering into the site. What do we do now? they're asking.
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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.
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 …
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The Moderate Voice
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.
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Matthew Yglesias
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 …
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 …
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