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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Gonzales's Senior Counselor Refuses to Testify — The senior counselor to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales will refuse to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the unfolding U.S. attorneys scandal, invoking her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, her attorneys said today.
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Pete Williams / MSNBC:
Gonzales: Firings were not improper — The attorney general talks to NBC's Pete Williams in an exclusive interview … Pete Williams: Mr. Attorney General, what is it that you would like people to know about this controversy? — Attorney General Alberto Gonzales: Let me begin with the attacks …
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 …
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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.
Reuters:
Hicks pleads guilty at Guantanamo — GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) — Australian David Hicks, the first prisoner to face a new U.S. war crimes tribunal, unexpectedly pleaded guilty on Monday to a charge of helping al Qaeda fight American troops during the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan.
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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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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 …
Associated Press:
Webb Aide Arrested for Gun Possession — WASHINGTON (AP) - An aide to Sen. Jim Webb was arrested Monday when he entered a Senate office building with a loaded pistol, Capitol Police said. — Spokeswoman Sgt. Kimberly Schneider said the aide was charged with carrying a pistol without …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Senator's Aide Held on Gun Charge — A close aide to Senator Jim Webb, Democrat of Virginia, was arrested on Monday and jailed after trying to take a loaded handgun into a Senate office building, officials said. — The aide, identified by Mr. Webb's office as Phillip Thompson, 45 …
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Mindful of Past, Clinton Cultivates the Military — Of all the early problems Bill Clinton faced as president, few stand out to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton as more frustrating and avoidable than his rocky relationship with the military, her advisers say.
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E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
An Antiwar Tide on The Rise — Within three weeks, the United States could face a constitutional crisis over President Bush's war policy in Iraq. The president and his allies seem to want this fight. Yet insisting upon a confrontation will be another mistake in a long line of bad judgments …
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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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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.
Timothy Egan / New York Times:
Heat Invades Cool Heights Over Arizona Desert — SUMMERHAVEN, Ariz. — High above the desert floor, this little alpine town has long served as a natural air-conditioned retreat for people in Tucson, one of the so-called sky islands of southern Arizona. When it is 105 degrees in the city …
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 …
Opinion Journal:
Tehran's Hostages — Iran's act of war against our British allies. — Advocates of engagement with Tehran often claim that the Islamic Republic long ago shed its revolutionary pretensions in favor of becoming a "status quo" power. They might want to share that soothing wisdom with the families …