memeorandum: In Baghdad, a Flimsy Outpost (Ernesto Londono/Washington Post)

4:05 PM ET, March 22, 2007

Top Items:

Edwards to Suspend Campaign — John Edwards is suspending his campaign for President, and may drop out completely, because his wife has suffered a recurrence of the cancer that sickened her in 2004, when she was diagnosed with breast cancer, an Edwards friend told The Politico.

Ben Smith / The Politico:

Getting It Wrong — A single, confident source close to John Edwards told me this morning that Edwards was "suspending his campaign," and I posted it to the blog at 11:06 this morning. — My source, and I, were wrong. — The source, whose anonymity I agreed to respect …

Discussion: TAPPED, Public Eye, FishBowlDC, All Spin Zone, Gallup Guru, On Deadline and The Daily Dish

MSNBC:

Wife's illness won't idle Edwards '08 campaign — 'Campaign goes on,' Democratic hopeful says despite return of wife's cancer — WASHINGTON - His wife's cancer has returned, but former North Carolina senator John Edwards says he'll continue his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Associated Press, The Caucus, Senate 2008 Guru, The Democratic Daily, Donklephant, Balloon Juice, The Mahablog, Liberty Street and Michael P.F. van der Galiën

CNN:

Edwards: Wife's cancer returns, campaign goes on … CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina (CNN) — Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said Thursday his wife's cancer has returned but his bid for the White House will go on. — "The campaign goes on," John Edwards said at a news conference outside …

Discussion: protein wisdom, PoliBlog (TM) and QandO

Mike Baker / Associated Press:

Edwards will continue presidential run — CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - John Edwards said Thursday his wife's cancer has returned, but said he will continue his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. — "The campaign goes on. The campaign goes on strongly," Edwards told reporters, his wife by his side.

Discussion: Simply Left Behind, GINA COBB and Blue Crab Boulevard

New York Times:

Edwards to Continue '08 Bid Despite Wife's Cancer — John Edwards, the North Carolina Democrat, said today that his wife's cancer had returned, but that his bid for the presidency "goes on strongly." — "The campaign goes on, the campaign goes on strongly," he said, with his wife, Elizabeth, at his side.

Discussion: Prairie Weather and Taylor Marsh

Associated Press:

Edwards to continue campaign despite return of wife's cancer — CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said today that his wife's cancer has returned and is no longer curable, but is treatable. — But he said he will continue his campaign. — "We are very optimistic about this," he said.

New York Times:
Edwards Plans Announcement With His Wife

Discussion: Washington Post, Pam's House Blend, The Swamp, AMERICAblog and All Spin Zone

Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Best Wishes for Elizabeth Edwards

Discussion: Chicago Tribune and Crooked Timber

Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Edwards Forges On — So, despite earlier reports, Edwards will not suspend his campaign.

Discussion: Shakespeare's Sister

Julie Hirschfeld Davis / Associated Press:

Senate panel OKs subpoenas for key aides — WASHINGTON - A Senate panel, following the House's lead, authorized subpoenas Thursday for White House political adviser Karl Rove and other top aides involved in the firing of federal prosecutors. — The Senate Judiciary Committee decided …

Discussion: TIME: Swampland, All Spin Zone and CorrenteWire

Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
E-mails on attorneys' firings could impact privilege case

Discussion: Washington Post

Washington Post:
Political Spectacle — THE WHITE HOUSE and congressional Democrats …

Discussion: New York Times, The Carpetbagger Report, Boston Globe, CorrenteWire, Middle Earth Journal, Michael P.F. van der Galiën, TalkLeft, Matthew Yglesias and The Heretik

Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Senate Committee Votes to Authorize Subpoenas for WH Officials

Discussion: The Agonist

Sidney Blumenthal / Salon:

What Bush is hiding — In the U.S. attorney scandal, Alberto Gonzales gave orders, but he also took them — from Karl Rove, who plotted to turn the federal criminal justice system into the Republican Holy Office of the Inquisition. — Alberto Gonzales, right, and Karl Rove at the Jan. 31 …

Discussion: Firedoglake, Democratic Underground, The Moderate Voice and Norwegianity

Think Progress:
Gonzales: I'm Staying For The Kids

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, The Carpetbagger Report, Political Radar and Shakespeare's Sister

Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Prosecutor Says Bush Appointees Interfered With Tobacco Case

Discussion: Prairie Weather, The Carpetbagger Report, Shakespeare's Sister, The Mahablog, CorrenteWire, Macsmind, The Impolitic, TPMmuckraker, Crooks and Liars, Patterico's Pontifications, TalkLeft and Angry Bear

Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:

Was She Covert? — Republican Rep. Peter Hoekstra could hardly believe what he heard on television Friday as he watched a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing. Rep. Henry Waxman, the Democratic committee chairman, said his statement had been approved by the CIA director, Michael Hayden.

Discussion: Booman Tribune, Sweetness & Light, Cliff Schecter, The Lede, Firedoglake, Angry Bear, At-Largely, Brian Beutler, Macsmind and Think Progress

Emptywheel / Firedoglake: Toensing's Little Inaccuracies

Jerid / Buckeye State Blog:

Calling BS on De Vellis - It Wasn't Him — Phil claims he made it? I say don't buy everything you read. — Those who have been around the Buckeye 'sphere for a while know Mr. De Vellis well. One of the most unscrupulous Democratic staffers to come to Ohio in quite a while, creative and talented Phil is not.

Discussion: The Politico, Associated Press, The Huffington Post, NewsBusters.org, Blog P.I., Riehl World View, Blogometer, The Swamp, MSNBC, the david all group, Blue Crab Boulevard, Power Line and politburo diktat 2.0

Washington Post:
Man Behind the Clinton Clip Worked for Obama's Net Strategists

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report and Big Brass Blog

Ahmed Rashid / Washington Post:

Musharraf at the Exit — LAHORE, Pakistan — In the rapidly unfolding crisis in Pakistan, no matter what happens to President Pervez Musharraf — whether he survives politically or not — he is a lame duck. He is unable to rein in Talibanization in Pakistan or guide the country toward a more democratic future.

Discussion: Hot Air, Taylor Marsh, democracyarsenal.org and Michael P.F. van der Galiën

Ernesto Londono / Washington Post:

In Baghdad, a Flimsy Outpost — Members of U.S. Unit, Many Untried, Prepare to Test 'a Good Plan' — The soldiers crept into the abandoned gymnasium shortly before midnight. — Flashlights provided the only light. Commanders whispered their orders. — A few dozen of the additional …

Discussion: Hot Air and Mudville Gazette

Anthony Man / Sun-Sentinel:

Florida moves to wipe out clout of smaller states with Jan. 29 presidential primary — Tallahassee - Hoping to muscle Florida into a pre-eminent role in picking next year's Democratic and Republican presidential candidates, the state House voted Wednesday to leapfrog almost all the other states …

Discussion: shotinthedark.info/wp …

Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:

House Democrats Weigh Plan for Iraq Withdrawal — Representative Dan Boren is a Democrat, but after visiting Iraq last week he announced a decision that puts him at odds with his party's leaders: he intends to vote against their plan to set a deadline for troops to leave Iraq.

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, Gateway Pundit, Instapundit.com, Daily Kos, TalkLeft, Wake up America, Neptunus Lex and Blue Crab Boulevard

Hazel Muir / New Scientist:

Dazzling new images reveal the 'impossible' on the Sun — The restless bubbling and frothing of the Sun's chaotic surface is astonishing astronomers who have been treated to detailed new images from a Japanese space telescope called Hinode. — The observatory will have as dramatic an impact …

Discussion: Vox Popoli, The Strata-Sphere and Ace of Spades HQ