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David C. Iglesias / New York Times:
Why I Was Fired — WITH this week's release of more than 3,000 Justice Department e-mail messages about the dismissal of eight federal prosecutors, it seems clear that politics played a role in the ousters. — Of course, as one of the eight, I've felt this way for some time.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
The White House and Congress Seem Headed Toward a Familiar Collision — "Once executive privilege is asserted," Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the majority in a 2004 Supreme Court decision, "coequal branches of the government are set on a collision course."
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
House panel OKs Rove, Miers subpoenas — WASHINGTON - A House panel on Wednesday approved subpoenas for President Bush's political adviser, Karl Rove and other top White House aides, setting up a constitutional showdown over the firings of eight federal prosecutors.
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New York Times:
What People Really Need — In nasty and bumbling comments made at the White House yesterday, President Bush declared that "people just need to hear the truth" about the firing of eight United States attorneys. That's right. Unfortunately, the deal Mr. Bush offered Congress …
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MSNBC:
House panel subpoenas White House aides — Move sets up a constitutional showdown over firings of U.S. attorneys — WASHINGTON - A House panel on Wednesday defied the White House and authorized subpoenas for President Bush's political adviser, Karl Rove and other top aides …
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:Bush Aides Facing Subpoenas Over Firings
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New York Times:Ousted California Prosecutor Previously Had Disputes on Strategy
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Washington Post:E-Mails Reveal Tumult In Firings and Aftermath
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Marc Morano / epw.senate.gov:
Blogs - Blogs — Filter by: — Al Gore Continues to Demand Special Treatment — From behind the scenes on Capitol Hill: Former Vice President Al Gore, despite being given major preferential treatment, has violated the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee's (EPW) hearing rules.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Bush Clashes With Congress on Prosecutors — President Bush and Congress clashed Tuesday over an inquiry into the firing of federal prosecutors and appeared headed toward a constitutional showdown over demands from Capitol Hill for internal White House documents and testimony from top advisers to the president.
New York Times:
Star in New Role, Gore Revisits Old Stage — The last time Al Gore appeared publicly inside the United States Capitol, he was certifying the Electoral College victory of George W. Bush. He returns on Wednesday, a heartbreak loser turned Oscar boasting Nobel hopeful globe trotting multimillionaire pop culture eminence.
CNN:
Schwarzenegger: Rush Limbaugh is 'irrelevant' … SACRAMENTO, California (CNN) — Rush Limbaugh likes to call himself "The Most Dangerous Man in America" because critics have long worried about how his powerful radio show shapes the political landscape. — And then came California …
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R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
FBI Violations May Number 3,000, Official Says — The Justice Department's inspector general told a committee of angry House members yesterday that the FBI may have violated the law or government policies as many as 3,000 times since 2003 as agents secretly collected the telephone …
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Scott Shane / New York Times:F.B.I. Is Warned Over Its Misuse of Data Collection
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Mark Mellman / The Hill:
Hounding Fox News coverage — Journalists strive to report the news, not to be the news. So Fox News should have been a bit embarrassed to headline a story that ended with the Nevada Democratic Party canceling Fox's sponsorship of a pre-caucus debate. — Then again, Fox is not a typical news organization.
New York Times:
Doctors' Ties to Drug Makers Are Put on Close View — Dr. Allan Collins may be the most influential kidney specialist in the country. He is president of the National Kidney Foundation and director of a government-financed research center on kidney disease.
Eli Lake / New York Sun:
Obama Rebuffs Soros — Billionaire's Comments on Aipac Are Scored — WASHINGTON — Leading Democrats, including Senator Obama of Illinois, are distancing themselves from an essay published this week by one of their party's leading financiers that called for the Democratic Party to …
Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
Hollywood's Climate Follies — "My fellow Americans, people all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis. It's not a political issue. It's a moral issue. We have everything we need to get started, with the possible exception of the will to act. That's a renewable resource.
NY1:
Clinton Says She's Not Worried About "1984" Ad Impact — In an interview with NY1 Tuesday, Senator Hillary Clinton addressed the controversial new video that's attacking her credibility and promoting the presidential campaign of chief rival, Barack Obama. — After talking about Senate …
Audrey Hudson / Washington Times:
Muslims offer to help 'John Does' sued by imams — Lawyers and a Muslim group say they will defend at no cost airline passengers caught up in a lawsuit between a group of imams and U.S. Airways if the passengers are named as "John Does" and sued for reporting suspicious behavior that got …
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