memeorandum: BREAKING: Rep. Conyers Issues Subpoena Duces Tecum For DOJ Docs (Christy Hardin Smith/Firedoglake)

8:00 PM ET, April 10, 2007

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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:

BREAKING: Rep. Conyers Issues Subpoena Duces Tecum For DOJ Docs — That stalling tactic on document production from the DoJ to Congress finally got old. A Subpoena duces tecum has been issued for any and all documentary evidence pertaining to the USAtty firings, with a return date of April 16th at 2:00 pm ET at the Rayburn Building.

Discussion: The Next Hurrah, The Impolitic, TPMmuckraker, ACSBlog, Booman Tribune and Jack and Jill Politics

Dan Eggen / Washington Post:

House Panel Subpoenas Gonzales for Documents — The House Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales today seeking hundreds of pages of new or uncensored records related to the firings of eight U.S. attorneys last year, officials said.

Discussion: AMERICAblog and Little Thom's Blog

Nolo / indict dick cheney:

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Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:

House judiciary panel subpoenas Gonzales — WASHINGTON - The House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed new documents Tuesday from Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as part of its investigation into the firings of federal prosecutors, with panel chairman saying he had run out of patience.

Discussion: Don Surber, Macsmind and Shakesville

David Johnston / New York Times:
Senators Press for More Files on Removing Prosecutors

Discussion: TPMmuckraker, The Carpetbagger Report and politburo diktat 2.0

Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Six U.S. Attorneys Given 2nd Posting in Washington

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, TPMmuckraker, The Carpetbagger Report, PoliBlog (TM), DownWithTyranny!, WSJ.com and The Sideshow

Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup Poll:

Giuliani Leads GOP Field; McCain Support Down in Latest Trial Heat — Thompson maintains third-place showing — PRINCETON, NJ — The latest Gallup Poll of rank-and-file Republicans' preferences for their party's 2008 presidential nomination shows Rudy Giuliani continues to lead the large field of candidates.

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, Outside The Beltway, Hot Air, Hotline On Call, The Corner, DownWithTyranny!, The Heretik, The Moderate Voice and Pollster

Frank Newport / Gallup Poll:

Hillary Clinton Remains Dominant Front-Runner Among Democrats — Obama and Edwards close in second place — PRINCETON, NJ — Sen. Hillary Clinton remains the dominant presidential front-runner among Democrats nationally, with twice the support as her nearest challenger.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, The Swamp and Cliff Schecter

Jonah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
Conservatives, don't ignore McCain

Discussion: Power Line, Captain's Quarters, Redstate, Ace of Spades HQ and First Read

Bill Theobald / Tennessean.com:
Nearly half of state's GOP voters polled favor Thompson

Discussion: The Politico, Bob Krumm, Instapundit.com, TIME and Political Insider

E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
The McCain Tragedy — John McCain's 2000 campaign …

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, Power Line, The Sideshow, Middle Earth Journal, Michael P.F. van der Galiën and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog

Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Audio: McCain says someone was laughing during his Baghdad press conference

Discussion: protein wisdom and First Read

Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:

Bush inviting Dems to meet about Iraq — WASHINGTON - President Bush on Tuesday invited Democrats to discuss their standoff over a war-spending bill, but he made clear he would not change his position opposing troop withdrawals. The White House bluntly said the meeting would not be a negotiation.

Discussion: AMERICAblog, First Read, Obsidian Wings, The Carpetbagger Report, Democrats.com, Daily Kos, Middle Earth Journal, State of the Day and Political Animal

David S. Broder / Washington Post:

Time for A Bargain On the War — In the continuing battle between the Democratic Congress and the Bush administration over policy in Iraq, logic is on the Democrats' side, but the crucial political leverage belongs to the president. It behooves the realists in both camps to recognize …

Discussion: NewsHog, Matthew Yglesias, Horses Mouth, Gateway Pundit, Booman Tribune, The Carpetbagger Report, DownWithTyranny!, Wake up America, Eschaton, The Impolitic, Daily Kos and TalkLeft

Bob Geiger:

The Iraq-War Debate - Don't Follow The Money — The debate over whether the United States should begin withdrawing combat troops from Iraq or remain indefinitely in the middle of a bloody civil war will be center stage in the 110th Congress over the next few weeks.

Discussion: Telegraph, Daily Kos and AMERICAblog

MSNBC:
Public approval of Congress is rising, poll finds

Discussion: Redstate, Whiskey Fire and Think Progress

Gateway Pundit:

Busted!... Multi-National Force Iraq Scores on Mainstream Media — It's refreshing to see the world's finest military win a battle on the media front! — Of all of the 1,800 plus articles published yesterday on the Al Sadr Anti-US-occupation protest in Najaf, Iraq, not one mentioned …

Discussion: Multi-National Force, QandO, News Bloggers Blog, Redstate, Wake up America, Wizbang and New York Times

Edward Wong / New York Times:
Huge Protest in Iraq Demands U.S. Withdraw

Discussion: Editor and Publisher, The Impolitic, Brilliant at Breakfast, The Carpetbagger Report, Cox & Forkum, Thoughts of an Average Woman, Macsmind, TIME: Swampland, The Moderate Voice and TPMmuckraker

Guardian:
Comment is free — guardian.co.uk/commentisfree > Marc Lynch

Discussion: NewsHog and American Footprints

Toby Harnden / Telegraph Blogs:

British disgrace becomes fiasco — It took just two blubbering sailors spilling their guts before the Government realised its nifty PR strategy to hide the ignominy of what happened to the Tehran 15 had backfired badly. Now the original ban on getting paid for newspaper stories has been restored.

Discussion: The Corner, Mirror.co.uk, BAGnewsNotes, EU Referendum and The Moderate Voice

CNN:
Iran plans book, CD on Britons' detention

Discussion: Wonkette

White House:

President Bush Makes Remarks on the Iraq War Supplemental — THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Good morning; please be seated. Thank you for your warm hospitality. It's a pleasure to be here at Legion Post 177, Fairfax, Virginia. I appreciate you inviting me.

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report, The Rachel Maddow Show, Salon: War Room, David Corn and Seeing the Forest

Vikas Bajaj / New York Times:

Defaults Rise in Next Level of Mortgages — Some of the problems afflicting mortgages sold to borrowers with weak, or subprime, credit increasingly appear to be cropping up in loans made to homeowners who were thought to be less risky. — The latest sign of possible further deterioration …

Discussion: Daniel Gross and Outside The Beltway

Fester / NewsHog:
Heads up on Housing — I have been following the housing bubble …

Discussion: Stock Market Overview

Dennis Wagner / Arizona Republic:

Producer: PBS dropped 'Islam vs. Islamists' on political grounds — The producer of a tax-financed documentary on Islamic extremism claims his film has been dropped for political reasons from a television series that airs next week on more than 300 PBS stations nationwide.

Discussion: Hot Air, The Right Angle, Little Green Footballs, Dean's World and Neocon Express

Consumerist:

CEO Pay Up 298%, Average Worker's? 4.3% (1995-2005) — There's been a lot of ballyhoo lately about ballooning executive pay, so here's a look at how CEO incomes rose over the years in relation to Joe Blow's paycheck. — It looks like while CEO pay rose 298.2% by 2005 …

Discussion: American Footprints, TAPPED and Left in the West

Gwen Ifill / New York Times:

Trash Talk Radio — LET'S say a word about the girls. The young women with the musical names. Kia and Epiphanny and Matee and Essence. Katie and Dee Dee and Rashidat and Myia and Brittany and Heather. — The Scarlet Knights of Rutgers University had an improbable season …