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10:20 AM ET, March 27, 2007

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Jan Crawford Greenburg / ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: DOJ Official Ignored White House Guidance  —  Testimony Contradicted Gonzales in U.S. Attorney Matter, Sparked Controversy  —  The firestorm over the fired U.S. attorneys was sparked last month when a top Justice Department official ignored guidance from the White House …
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New York Times:
Aide to Gonzales Won't Testify About Dismissals
Discussion: The RBC
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
The Right To Remain Silent...Or Not
Discussion: The Daily Background
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Gonzales's Senior Counselor Refuses to Testify
William Glaberson / New York Times:
Plea of Guilty From Detainee in Guantánamo  —  In the first conviction of a Guantánamo detainee before a military commission, an Australian who was trained by Al Qaeda pleaded guilty here Monday to providing material support to a terrorist organization.
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Mark Coultan / Sydney Morning Herald:
Hicks pleads guilty  —  An artist's impression of David Hicks, left, who sits with his defence counsel in the US military courtroom in Guantanamo Bay.  —  David Hicks has pleaded guilty to one count of supporting a terrorist organisation.  —  The plea to a late night specially convened …
Alex Knapp / Outside The Beltway | OTB:   David Hicks Pleads Guilty to Supporting a Terrorist Organization
Reuters:
Hicks pleads guilty at Guantanamo
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Washington Post:
Republicans Soften Stance on Pullout Language  —  GOP Senators Willing To Let Bush Confront Iraq Timetable Issue  —  Unwilling to do the White House's heavy lifting on Iraq, Senate Republicans are prepared to step aside to allow language requiring troop withdrawals to reach President Bush …
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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Republicans to Rely on President Bush's Veto to Block Troop Withdrawal Plan  —  As the Senate opened debate Monday on a $122 billion Iraq spending bill, Republicans vowed not to allow Congress to impose a withdrawal date for American troops, but said they would rely on President Bush's veto pen rather …
Elizabeth Williamson / Washington Post:
Democrat Proposes Making Withdrawal Date Secret
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
An Antiwar Tide on The Rise
Ryan Sager / New York Sun Politics:
McCain-Feingold: Five Years of Failure  —  Five years ago today, President Bush signed into law the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002.  Today, American politics is so clean you could eat off it — except for the mud-slinging, back-scratching, favor-trading, influence-peddling, bald-faced lying, indictments, and convictions.
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Examiner:
Tapscott's Copy Desk  —  ‹‹ More From this Blog … Five years ago today President Bush signed into law the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, the main sponsors of which were Sen. John McCain, R-AZ, and Sen. Russ Feingold, D-WI.  Bush signed the bill despite having …
Caroline Glick / Jerusalem Post:
Our World: Condi's embrace of jihadist 'peace'  —  In an open act of war, Iran Friday kidnapped 15 British soldiers in the Persian Gulf.  Iran's act of aggression occurred just as the British voted in favor of a UN Security Council resolution imposing increased sanctions against Teheran for its illicit nuclear weapons program.
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Mary Ann Akers / The Sleuth:
Fred Thompson: More Than Flirting With Presidential Bid  —  Looks like Fred Thompson really isn't teasing about possibly running for president.  —  The actor and former Republican senator from Tennessee was spotted having lunch today at the see-and-be-seen Mayflower hotel restaurant …
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Ned Parker / Los Angeles Times:
Insurgents report a split with Al Qaeda in Iraq  —  The U.S. hopes to take advantage of the Sunni rebel schism, which has resulted in combat in some areas.  —  BAGHDAD — Insurgent leaders and Sunni Arab politicians say divisions between insurgent groups and Al Qaeda in Iraq have widened …
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Inside Higher Ed:
Fooling the College Board  —  In the 1930's, American businesses were locked in a fierce economic competition with Russian merchants for fear that their communist philosophies would dominate American markets.  As a result, American competition drove the country into an economic depression …
Discussion: Joanne Jacobs
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Betsy / Betsy's Page:
Gaming the SATs with truthiness
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Eye / eyeon08.com:
A view from the Straight Talk Express  —  John McCain's campaign invited two bloggers, me and Townhall's Matt Lewis, to join his campaign this weekend in New Hampshire.  We attended two town hall meetings, in Plymouth and Littleton.  On the bus, John McCain sat between the two of us for two hours …
Kathy Sierra / Creating Passionate Users:
Death threats against bloggers are NOT "protected speech" (why I cancelled my ETech presentations)  —  As I type this, I am supposed to be in San Diego, delivering a workshop at the ETech conference.  But I'm not.  I'm at home, with the doors locked, terrified.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Drudge and The Politico — poisonously joined at the hip  —  The new online political magazine, The Politico, is a pernicious new presence in our media landscape.  As I noted the other day, it really is nothing more than the Drudge Report dressed up with the trappings of mainstream media credibility.
Discussion: Washington Post and Think Progress
Glen Johnson / Associated Press:
Romney offers student fundraisers money  —  BOSTON - A millionaire thanks to his work as a venture capitalist, Mitt Romney is acutely aware of the motivating power of money.  His presidential campaign hopes it will have a similar effect on college students, which is why it's offering them a cut of their fundraising.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Adrian Blomfield / Telegraph:
In the front line of Putin's secret war  —  Crouching behind bushes left bare by the winter, the camouflaged fighters waited in tense expectation on the bleak Caucasian mountain side.  —  Casually flicking his cigarette into the mud, the Chechen loyalist commander raised his radio towards his mouth and barked an order.
 
 
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Walter Shapiro / Salon:
Run, Elizabeth, run
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Associated Press:
leaders of Iraq car-bombing ring nabbed
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Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
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