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Washington Post:
Fitzgerald Ranked During Leak Case — U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald was ranked among prosecutors who had "not distinguished themselves" on a Justice Department chart sent to the White House in March 2005, when he was in the midst of leading the CIA leak investigation that resulted …
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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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Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
TPM Needs YOU to Comb Through Thousands of Pages — Josh and I were just discussing how in the world we are ever going to make our way through 3,000 pages when it hit us: we don't have to. Our readers can help. — So here's what we're going to do. This comment thread will be our HQ for sorting through tonight's document dump.
New York Times:
New E-Mail Gives Details on Attorney Dismissals — Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales was "extremely upset" that his deputy told Congress last month that a federal prosecutor had been fired for no reason, according to e-mail released Monday by the Justice Department.
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Real Cities:
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 released more internal documents related to the firings of eight U.S. attorneys last year.
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Sittin' Purty In The Catbird Seat — Well, well, well. Look who was on the list for potential firing as a US Attorney: (H/T to Peterr for sending me the link on this) … Do the words Saturday Night Massacre under cover of other firings have meaning for anyone else?
ABCNEWS:
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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Eric Pfeiffer / Washington Times:
Climate scientist sees cover-up — A NASA scientist who said the Bush administration muzzled him because of his belief in global warming yesterday acknowledged to Congress that he'd done more than 1,400 on-the-job interviews in recent years. — James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Up in Smoke at the High Court — So maybe this is why all those figures in the Supreme Court friezes are wearing togas. — As Ken Starr told the nine justices yesterday why a student's "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" banner didn't qualify as free speech, the whole bunch of them sounded one toke over the line.
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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:Court Hears Whether a Drug Statement Is Protected Free Speech for Students
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Elaine Sciolino / New York Times:
Russia Gives Iran Ultimatum on Enrichment — Russia has informed Iran that it will withhold nuclear fuel for Iran's nearly completed Bushehr power plant unless Iran suspends its uranium enrichment as demanded by the United Nations Security Council, European, American and Iranian officials said.
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Roger Boyes / Times of London:
The abandoned cub who faces death sentence — A fluffy polar bear cub called Knut, who has become a media celebrity, should be given a lethal injection according to German zoologists, who say he has become too dependent on humans. — Their controversial claims have provoked a public outcry …
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:Protect The Polar Bears By Killing Them
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Blue Crab Boulevard
Steven Thomma / Real Cities:
Obama more liberal than Kucinich, analysis reveals — WASHINGTON - The most liberal member of Congress running for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination isn't Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio. — It's Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. — And the Republican candidate who's grown less conservative over his years in Congress?
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
G.O.P. Candidates Confront Immigration Politics — Immigration, an issue that has divided Republicans in Washington, is reverberating across the party's presidential campaign field, causing particular complications for Senator John McCain of Arizona. — The topic came up repeatedly …
zombietime:
"U.S. Out of Iraq Now" Anti-War Rally — These photos were taken by zombie at the "U.S. Out of Iraq Now" anti-war rally sponsored by ANSWER in San Francisco on Sunday, March 18, 2007. — The rally — which started at the Embarcardero and continued down Market Street to Civic Center …
Examiner:
Yeas & Nays: Tuesday, Mar. 20 — WASHINGTON - Jeff Dufour and Patrick Gavin cover people, power and politics in the beltway each weekday. Email them at yan@dcexaminer.com . — DeLay: The view from outside — Tom DeLay has a new book out, "No Retreat, No Surrender."
Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Saddam's former deputy hanged in Iraq — BAGHDAD - Saddam Hussein's former deputy was hanged before dawn Tuesday, the fourth man to be executed in the killings of 148 Shiites following a 1982 assassination attempt against the former leader in the town of Dujail.
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