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Michael Roston / The Raw Story:
Key Rove aide fingered in US Attorney investigation to step down; Could face subpoena — Multiple sources reported today that a top aide to President George W. Bush's key adviser Karl Rove will soon step down from her job in the White House. The aide, Sara M. Taylor, was identified …
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Washington Wire:
White House Faces More Departures — John D. McKinnon reports on staff changes at the White House. — Several impending departures from the White House could further complicate life for the hard-pressed Bush administration. — Peter Wehner, the head of strategic initiatives …
Washington Post:
Panel Asks Rove for Information on '08 Election Presentation — The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee sought more information yesterday about a presentation by a White House aide given to political appointees at the General Services Administration that discussed targeting 20 …
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Policy Aide's Departure Continues Transformation of Bush's Staff — Over the past several years, Peter H. Wehner has sent a blizzard of e-mails around the White House and the rest of Washington, offering strategy and policy ideas to President Bush and making the case for those policies to outsiders.
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Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Rove Aide Resigns — Maybe it's a coincidence. — White House political director Sara Taylor is out the door at the White House, according to Washington Wire. Taylor came up a number of times yesterday during the Kyle Sampson hearing as having worked closely with Sampson …
Nico / Think Progress:
Rush Limbaugh: — Don't fire Gonzales even though he's incompetent because winning elections is much more important: … More Rush: "USA Today's got a poll: 'Do you think something's wrong about the firing of eight US attorneys?' 72% said yes. 72% of the American people …
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RushLimbaugh.com Home:
Warming: Do Not Give Democrats the Head of Alberto Gonzales — BEGIN TRANSCRIPT — RUSH: Let's move on to Kyle Sampson, who was testifying today before the Leaky Leahy Judiciary Committee in the United States Senate. There was a lot of hubbub about Kyle Sampson.
Washington Post:
Giuliani Sees Policy Role for Wife — Former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani told ABC News's Barbara Walters that he would welcome his wife, Judith, at White House Cabinet meetings and other policy discussions if he were elected president next year. — "If she wanted to," Giuliani said in the …
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William K. Rashbaum / New York Times:
Testimony by Giuliani Indicates He Was Briefed on Kerik in '00
Testimony by Giuliani Indicates He Was Briefed on Kerik in '00
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Simon Heffer / Telegraph:
Online comment: Heading for war with Iran? — I start to wonder whether it might not be time for us to get as nasty with other countries as they do with us. — As we wait anxiously to see what will happen to our 15 hostages - for that is what they are - in Teheran, we should feel undiluted rage …
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Report Faults Interior Appointee — Landowner Issues Trumped Animal Protections, IG Says — A senior Bush political appointee at the Interior Department has repeatedly altered scientific field reports to minimize protections for imperiled species and disclosed confidential information …
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Alan Cooperman / Washington Post:
Bush Loyalist Rose Quickly at Justice — When a college intern in the Justice Department whined that all he was doing was filing and answering phones, Monica M. Goodling took him aside. If he wanted to do "substantive work," she told him, he was going to have to prove himself first.
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ColorOfChange.org:
Rev. Jesse Jackson Denounces Congressional Black Caucus Institute's FOX Debate — ColorOfChange.org says CBC's decision is "shamefully out of touch" with Black voters; launches national campaign calling on CBC to reverse course and for presidential candidates to reject Fox debate
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Which Is 'The Real War'? — "Our bill calls for the redeployment of U.S. troops out of Iraq so that we can focus more fully on the real war on terror, which is in Afghanistan." — The Senate and the House have both passed bills for ending the Iraq war, or at least liquidating the American involvement in it.
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Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
Okay, we have a winner! Today's Peter Pan Press Award — which our panel of judges awards periodically to outstanding examples of childish, inane, we'll-never-grow-up political coverage or analysis — goes to... Margaret Carlson! And an honorable mention goes to Chris Matthews!
Fox News:
DISPLAY OF CONTROVERSIAL 'CHOCOLATE JESUS' SCULPTURE CANCELLED, FOX NEWS LEARNS — March 29: 'My Sweet Lord,' a chocolate statue by artist Cosimo Cavallaro of a naked Jesus hangs at Ranieris Sculpture Casting studio in New York. — NEW YORK — A controversial planned exhibit …
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
15 Britons In a Sea Of Intrigue — BERLIN — We are in a season of skulduggery in the Middle East, with a strange series of events that all involve the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. The murky saga is a reminder that the real power in Iran may lie with this secretive organization …
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Noam N. Levey / Los Angeles Times:
Iraq: It may be a rough road to a Senate-House compromise — WASHINGTON — Fresh from passing the first timelines to bring home U.S. troops from Iraq, congressional Democrats now face the daunting task of reconciling critical differences between a Senate withdrawal plan passed Thursday and one approved by the House last week.