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10:20 AM ET, March 20, 2007

Top Items:

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 …

Discussion: CNN, Patterico's Pontifications, The Moderate Voice, Captain's Quarters, JustOneMinute, Taylor Marsh, AMERICAblog, TBogg, Connecting.the.Dots and State of the Day

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.

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.

Discussion: Political Animal, Macsmind, Mercury Rising, Multi Medium, My Left Wing, The Thinkery, CorrenteWire, Patterico's Pontifications, Matthew Yglesias, Daily Kos, MyDD, The BRAD BLOG, Talking Points Memo and State of the Day

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.

Discussion: Washington Post, ABCNEWS, The Carpetbagger Report, Bench Conference, The Daily Background, The Swamp and TPMmuckraker

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.

Discussion: News Desk, Mouth of the Potomac, MyDD, DownWithTyranny!, Political Animal, Donklephant and New York Sun

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?

Discussion: Law Blog

Associated Press:
Bush affirms support for Gonzales

Discussion: TPMmuckraker and On Deadline

Los Angeles Times:
Justice Dept. worked to contain U.S. attorney fallout

Discussion: TalkLeft

Max Blumenthal / The Nation:
The Porn Plot Against Prosecutors

Discussion: Hullabaloo and Reason Magazine

New York Times:
Changes Sought in Naming of Prosecutors

Discussion: TalkLeft

Pierre Thomas / ABCNEWS:
Justice Department E-Mails Give Insight into Controversial Firings

Discussion: Reuters, Shakespeare's Sister and Democrats.com

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 …

Discussion: The Strata-Sphere

New York Times: Material Shows Weakening of Climate Reports

Chris Mooney / The Huffington Post:
NASA, Political Interference, and the Vindication of James Hansen

Discussion: Gristmill and The Intersection

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.

Discussion: Slate, Betsy's Page, Law Blog, Central Sanity and Outside The Beltway

New York Times: Students' Right to Free Speech

Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Court Hears Whether a Drug Statement Is Protected Free Speech for Students

Discussion: All Spin Zone

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.

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, TAPPED, AMERICAN FUTURE, Roger L. Simon, Right Wing Champ and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS

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?

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, Sister Toldjah, Outside The Beltway, Hot Air, Ace of Spades HQ and Alarming News

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 …

Discussion: Captain's Quarters and Lonewacko

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 …

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, Blue Crab Boulevard and Barcepundit

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.

Discussion: Captain's Quarters

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 …

Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard, Cinnamon Stillwell, Atlas Shrugs and Right Thinking Girl

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."