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3:50 PM ET, April 12, 2007

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Dan Froomkin / Washington Post:
Countless White House E-Mails Deleted  —  Countless e-mails to and from many key White House staffers have been deleted — lost to history and placed out of reach of congressional subpoenas — due to a brazen violation of internal White House policy that was allowed to continue for more than six years …
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Laurie Kellman / 165.1.76.240:
Leahy Says Bush Aides Lied About E-Mails  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush's aides are lying about White House e-mails sent on a Republican account that might have been lost, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy said Thursday, vowing to subpoena those documents if the administration fails to cough them up.
Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:
Bush aides' use of GOP e-mail probed  —  WASHINGTON - The White House said Wednesday it had mishandled Republican Party-sponsored e-mail accounts used by nearly two dozen presidential aides, resulting in the loss of an undetermined number of e-mails concerning official White House business.
Michael Roston / The Raw Story:
Leahy: Missing RNC E-mails are like Nixon's 18-minute gap  —  The top Senate Democrat leading investigations into the dismissal of 8 U.S. Attorneys by the Justice Department is comparing e-mails lost by the Republican National Committee to President Richard Nixon's famous "18-minute" gap in White House tape recordings.
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Go To The Mattresses  —  (Photo of somewhat used prison mattresses via macwagen.)  —  The Senate Judiciary Committee voted this morning to issue subpoenas for the various missing documents, including the e-mails that have been identified as likely coming from RNC laptops and back and forth …
Discussion: TPMmuckraker
Justin Rood Reports / The Blotter:
White House E-mails: Gone, But Not Forgotten?
Washington Post:
Bombing Inside Green Zone Kills Iraqi Lawmakers  —  A bomb struck the Iraqi parliament building inside the well-protected Green Zone today, killing at least two Iraqi lawmakers and demonstrating the vulnerability of even heavily guarded targets despite increased American attempts to secure the capital.
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Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Bombing at Iraqi parliament kills 2  —  BAGHDAD - A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up Thursday in the Iraqi parliament's cafeteria in a stunning assault in the heart of the heavily fortified, U.S.-protected Green Zone, killing at least two lawmakers and wounding 10 other people.
Spencerackerman / toohotfortnr:
STREET BY STREET, BLOCK BY BLOCK, TAKING IT ALL BACK:  —  One of the pleasures of the Green Zone is to walk into the manicured courtyard of the Ocean Cliffs facility, where the press center is located, and linger awhile, free of body armor, on one of the benches next to the fountain.
Brian Bennett / Time:
The Iraq Parliament Attack: Al-Qaeda Sends a Message
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
Sky News:
Green Zone Bomb Blast
Discussion: Hot Air and Reuters
Pajamas Media:
BLAST IN THE GREEN ZONE: EXPLOSION AT IRAQI PARLIAMENT KILLS EIGHT
Lauren Frayer / Associated Press:   Suicide Bomb Collapses Baghdad Bridge
Ana Marie Cox / Time:
An Imus Guest Says No More  —  Every time I've been on Don Imus' show, he has reminded listeners that he "discovered" me.  It's not exactly hyperbole.  He first invited me on when I was just a foulmouthed blogger who ran the gossipy political site Wonkette.
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Patrick / mediabistro.com:
Imus Snipping Back At Sharpton?
Dinitia Smith / New York Times:
Kurt Vonnegut, Novelist Who Caught the Imagination of His Age, Is Dead at 84  —  Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Cat's Cradle" and "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died last night in Manhattan.
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Elaine Woo / Los Angeles Times:
His popular novels blended social criticism, dark humor
Jesse Walker / Reason Magazine:
Kurt Vonnegut, RIP
Discussion: The Agitator and Cato-at-liberty
New York Times:
In 5-Year Effort, Scant Evidence of Voter Fraud  —  Five years after the Bush administration began a crackdown on voter fraud, the Justice Department has turned up virtually no evidence of any organized effort to skew federal elections, according to court records and interviews.
Guardian:
Blair blames spate of murders on black culture  —  Patrick Wintour and Vikram Dodd  —  Tony Blair yesterday claimed the spate of knife and gun murders in London was not being caused by poverty, but a distinctive black culture.  His remarks angered community leaders, who accused him of ignorance …
Bill Hobbs:
Suing a Blogger  —  Big, powerful law firms like Nashville's King & Ballow really ought to hire someone with journalistic and new media experience to advise them on how to handle clients who complain about things published by bloggers.  Then they wouldn't do stupid things like issue threats …
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Michael Yon:
British Forces at War: As Witnessed by an American  —  Basra, Iraq  —  The explosions from enemy rockets and mortar fire have been constant companions for the small contingent of Coalition forces based at the former Basra Palace, on the banks of Shatt al Arab River.
David Stout / New York Times:
World Bank Chief Apologizes for Arranging Job  —  Paul D. Wolfowitz, the president of the World Bank, apologized today for his role in arranging a highly paid job at the State Department for a woman with whom he has a personal relationship.  —  "I made a mistake, for which I am sorry," …
Discussion: Cliff Schecter
 
 
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Guardian:
A convenient untruth  —  A suicide bomber had rammed a truck …
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