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Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press:
Gonzales aide who asserted Fifth resigns — WASHINGTON - A top aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales abruptly quit on Friday, almost two weeks after telling Congress she would not testify about her role in the firings of federal prosecutors. — There was no immediate reason given …
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Associated Press:
Goodling said she would invoke 5th Amendment if called before Congress — WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' top aide, who refusedto testify before Congress about her role in the politically charged firing of eight U.S. attorneys, abruptly quit her job Friday.
David Stout / New York Times:
Gonzales Aide Who Refused to Testify Resigns — Monica Goodling, the Justice Department official who helped coordinate the firings of eight United States attorneys, an episode that has jeopardized the position of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, resigned today.
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:Counselor To Gonzales Announces Resignation
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Robert F. Turner / Opinion Journal:
Illegal Diplomacy — Did Nancy Pelosi commit a felony when she went to Syria? — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may well have committed a felony in traveling to Damascus this week, against the wishes of the president, to communicate on foreign-policy issues with Syrian President Bashar Assad.
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Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
Oh, dear. Guess who's taking the Washington Post's editorial board to task for its editorial stance against Nancy Pelosi's trip to Syria? One of the Post's own Op ed columnists, Eugene Robinson. — Check out this appearance by Robinson on Hardball. Robinson defends Pelosi's trip to Syria …
Tom Lantos / USA Today:
Within the bounds — USA TODAY's views distort both the nature of Speaker Pelosi's trip and the constitutional role of Congress in foreign policy. As a member of the speaker's delegation who accompanied her to every meeting, I would like to set the record straight. — Let's be clear.
USA Today:
Pelosi steps out of bounds on ill-conceived trip to Syria — Bush's no-talk policy is flawed, but speaker's tactics are no solution. — Democrats in Congress have been busy flexing their foreign policy muscles almost from the moment they took power in January, for the most part responsibly.
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Tom Kelly / Daily Mail:
Blindfolded Britons tell of the moment the guards' guns clicked — * We were blindfolded and subjected to interrogation — * We were told we faced seven years in prison if we did not 'confess' — * Iranians entered Iraqi waters deliberately to detain us. Fighting back was not an option
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Michael Young / Lebanon Daily Star:
When a dilettante takes on Hizbullah — We can thank the US speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, for having informed Syrian President Bashar Assad, from Beirut, that "the road to solving Lebanon's problems passes through Damascus." Now, of course, all we need to do is remind Pelosi …
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Dan Froomkin / Washington Post:
Cheney Sticks to His Delusions — Faced with overwhelming evidence to the contrary, even President Bush has backed off his earlier inflammatory assertions about links between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. — But Vice President Cheney yesterday, in an interview with right-wing talk radio host Rush Limbaugh …
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Bruce Bartlett / New York Times:
How Supply-Side Economics Trickled Down — AS one who was present at the creation of "supply-side economics" back in the 1970s, I think it is long past time that the phrase be put to rest. It did its job, creating a new consensus among economists on how to look at the national economy.
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Associated Press:
Cheney reasserts al-Qaida-Saddam connection — Vice president's words come as latest Pentagon report again dismisses link — WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney repeated his assertions of al-Qaida links to Saddam Hussein's Iraq on Thursday as the Defense Department released a report citing …
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Joey Bunch / Denver Post:
Line drawn in park over statue — "No middle ground" in battle over look, location of memorial — Littleton - With its green lawn, jungle gym and picnic gazebo, Berry Park is an unlikely battlefield, but the local flap over the statue of a fallen war hero set to be placed here brewed into a national conflict Thursday.
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Aaron Gould Sheinin / The State:
Giuliani downplays abortion issue in S.C. — Republican for president Rudy Giuliani is betting S.C. primary voters are more interested in his national security credentials than his moderate views on abortion. — The former New York City mayor was in South Carolina Thursday …
Tim Sullivan / Associated Press:
India High-Tech Industry Out of Workers — MYSORE, India (AP) - At the heart of the sprawling corporate campus, in a hilltop building overlooking the immaculately shorn lawns, the sports fields and the hypermodern theater complex, young engineers crowd into a classroom.
Charlotte Martin / Yale Daily News:
Lawyer: Fire was a 'prank' — Attorney for three students says burning of flag was not politically motivated — Three Yale students arrested for burning an American flag attached to a house were not politically motivated, their lawyer said Thursday. — The attorney, William Dow …
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