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7:05 AM ET, March 27, 2007

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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 …
Jan Crawford Greenburg / ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: DOJ Official Ignored White House Guidance
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
Chitra Ragavan / US News:   Former Top Justice Official to Contradict Gonzales Statements
CBS News:   Gonzales Aide Won't Answer Senate Queries
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 belonging to the senator.  —  Capitol Police spokeswoman Sgt. Kimberly Schneider said the aide was charged with carrying …
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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 …
Taylor Marsh:
Webb's Gun  —  If you didn't see Fox "News" earlier this afternoon with Bush's boy Brit you missed a doozy.  Brit was tripping all over himself trying to discuss Webb's aide being taken into custody after being found with what was first described as an unregistered firearm, with unregistered ammunition in a bag.
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.
Discussion: The RBC and TalkLeft
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Ann Althouse loses it...
TRex / Firedoglake:
Late Nite FDL: Lethal Levels of Peroxide and Petulance
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.
Discussion: Sister Toldjah and Michelle Malkin
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Mike Glover / Associated Press:
Clinton Opens Up About Attorney Firings
Discussion: Flopping Aces
Frank Newport / Gallup Guru:
The Thompson factor  —  Our latest weekend USA Today/Gallup poll is full of interesting insights into American public opinion.  Tops among them may be the changing landscape of the Republican primary field.  —  Of course it's early and much can change.  But, as I noted here, that's the point.
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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 …
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irna.ir:
Iran's arrest of sailors was legitimate, says former UK envoy
Discussion: Opinio Juris and Moonbattery
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.
Pew Research Center:
Solid Majority Favors Congressional Troop Deadline  —  36% Think Surge Will Work  —  Summary of Findings  —  A solid majority of Americans say they want their congressional representative to support a bill calling for a withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq by August 2008.
The Neal Boortz Show:
WHY PEOPLE THINK CONSERVATIVES ARE IDIOTS  —  Sorry .. it's true.  Liberals love to paint conservatives as being ignorant, stupid, obtuse, mindless, irrational and, on occasion, retarded.  For the most part leftists use this "stupid" tactic in order to avoid actually having to intellectually engage …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Political Animal and Daily Kos
New York Times:
U.S. Long Worried Iran Supplied Weapons in Iraq  —  More than 20 months ago, the United States secretly sent Iran a diplomatic protest charging that Tehran was supplying lethal roadside explosive devices to Shiite extremists in Iraq, according to American officials familiar with the message.
Discussion: Roger L. Simon and The Agonist
 
 
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Romney offers student fundraisers money
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Associated Press:
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Kathy Sierra / Creating Passionate Users:
Death threats against bloggers are NOT "protected speech" …
Washington Post:
Smithsonian's Small Quits in Wake of Inquiry
Discussion: Nitpicker, NewsHog and Wonkette
Howard Witt / Chicago Tribune:
Texas reviews scandal-plagued juvenile prison system
Discussion: Donklephant
Deacon / Power Line:
HOW MEANINGFUL IS THE OBAMA-TRIBE CONNECTION?
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Follow-up to this morning's post re: Chris Matthews Show
Hindrocket / Power Line:
WHITHER THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA?
Discussion: Oliver Willis
Little Green Footballs:
Banned UN Speech: "Human Rights Nightmare"