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Mike Allen / The Politico:
White House Seeking Gonzales Replacements — Republican officials operating at the behest of the White House have begun seeking a possible successor to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, whose support among GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill has collapsed, according to party sources familiar with the discussions.
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More E-Mails in Fired U.S. Attorneys Controversy — Justice Department E-Mails Detail Conversations About Targeted Attorneys — New e-mails released this evening by the Justice Department reveal the depth of White House involvement in the discussions to fire eight U.S. attorneys last year.
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Support for Gonzales appears to collapse — WASHINGTON - The White House began floating the names of possible replacements for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Monday as the Justice Department prepared to release more internal documents related the firings of eight U.S. attorneys last year.
The Prowler / American Spectator:
Watch Your Back — LEAKING AND PLOTTING — As another Department of Justice paper dump related to the botched firings of eight U.S. Attorneys takes place on Capitol Hill today, it is becoming increasingly clear that Department of Justice insiders have been using the controversy to perpetrate …
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Faiz / Think Progress:
Was Carol Lam Targeting The White House Prior To Her Firing? — Referring to the Bush administration's purge of former San Diego-based U.S. attorney Carol Lam, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) questioned recently on the Senate floor whether she was let go because she was "about to investigate other people who were politically powerful."
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Jill Zuckman / Chicago Tribune:
Pelosi calls for new attorney general — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) added her voice to the growing chorus of discontent over the Justice Department's firing of eight federal prosecutors, saying today, "I believe we need a new attorney general.'' — In a meeting with The Chicago …
US News:
Exclusive: E-mail Shows Internal Rift At Justice Over Firings — U.S. News's Chitra Ragavan has learned that one day after Justice Department Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty testified on Capitol Hill about the reasons eight U.S. attorneys were summarily fired, a Justice Department spokesman …
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White House:
President Bush Discusses Fourth Anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom — THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Four years ago today, coalition forces launched Operation Iraqi Freedom to remove Saddam Hussein from power. They did so to eliminate the threat his regime posed to the Middle East and to the world.
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William Branigin / Washington Post:
Bush Warns U.S. Security Will Suffer if Troops Withdraw From Iraq — Asserting that the war in Iraq "can be won" with U.S. resolve, President Bush appealed to the American people today for patience as he pursues a plan to tamp down violence in Baghdad, and he warned that national security would suffer a …
Beth Reinhard / MiamiHerald.com:
Presidential candidate bungles speech in Miami — People chuckled when presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a Mormon raised in Michigan and elected in Massachusetts, bungled the names of Cuban-American politicians during a recent speech in Miami. — But when he mistakenly associated Fidel …
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Cathy's World:
In hospital — As earlier mentioned in the comments section, my mother is in the hospital. The doctor says that right now they're just making her comfortable. She's sedated, with painkillers among other things. Lungs collapsed so right now we just want to make sure she has dignity and is not in pain.
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Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
So, Mr. Hitchens, Weren't You Wrong About Iraq? — HARD QUESTIONS, FOUR YEARS LATER. — Four years after the first coalition soldiers crossed the Iraqi border, one can attract pitying looks (at best) if one does not take the view that the whole engagement could have been and should have been avoided.
Michael J. Totten:
A New Power Rises in Iraq — ERBIL, IRAQ - What a difference a year makes. — Fourteen months ago I flew to Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, from Beirut, Lebanon, on the dubiously named Flying Carpet Airlines. Flying Carpet's entire fleet is one small noisy plane with propellers, cramped seats, and thin cabin pressure.
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Pauline Jelinek / Associated Press:
Detainee confesses to USS Cole bombing — WASHINGTON - Waleed bin Attash, a suspected key al-Qaida operative, confessed to plotting the bombings of the USS Cole and two U.S. embassies in Africa, according to a Pentagon transcript of a hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Howard Kurtz, Michael Barone & Argument by Anecdote — Following up on this post from the other day, The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz this morning wrote about the regular commenters at Little Green Footballs who expressed support for Al Qaeda's plot to assassinate former President Jimmy Carter.
Fred Thompson / Pajamas Media:
EXCLUSIVE TO PJM: FRED THOMPSON ON "300" — The comic book movie "300" about the Spartans and the Persians in 480 AD is still breaking box-office records. Now it seems the rulers of modern-day Persia, Iran, are not amused. — "300," shows a small band of Spartans saving the lives …
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