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9:50 PM ET, April 14, 2007

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Richard Behar / Fox News:
Documents May Give Wolfowitz New Lifeline in World Bank Scandal  —  World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz's career was hanging by a thread today, but new revelations in internal bank documents released by the bank seemed as if they would provide him a stronger lifeline.
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Washington Post:
Wolfowitz Dictated Girlfriend's Pay Deal  —  World Bank President Paul D. Wolfowitz personally dictated the terms under which the bank gave what it called his "domestic partner" substantial pay raises and promotions in exchange for temporarily leaving her job there during his tenure …
Discussion: Balloon Juice and DownWithTyranny!
Richard Cohen / The Huffington Post:
Wolfowitz: Mission Accomplished?  —  As Paul Wolfowitz is proving, it turns out all is not fair in love and war.  Only war.  Take a nation to war for spurious reasons and no one much complains.  But arrange a raise for your girlfriend, and you get booed in the atrium of the World Bank and have to visibly sweat in public.
Discussion: A Tiny Revolution
New York Times:
McCain Sees 'No Plan B' for Iraq War  —  Senator John McCain said that the buildup of American forces in Iraq represented the only viable option to avoid failure in Iraq and that he had yet to identify an effective fallback if the current strategy failed.  —  "I have no Plan B," Mr. McCain said in an interview.
Tony Mauro / LAW.com:
Justice Department's Independence 'Shattered,' Says Former DOJ Attorney  —  Since the day he arrived at the Department of Justice in February 2005, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has "shattered" the department's tradition of independence and politicized its operation more than any other attorney general in more than 30 years.
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Charlottesvillain / TigerHawk:
The Department of Peace  —  I haven't seen this widely reported but the Democrats are working to establish a Department of Peace and Nonviolence.  If I recall correctly, this was a plank in the platform of the ill fated Kucinich Presidential campaign of 2004.
Discussion: Argghhh! and Gateway Pundit
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
Political Résumé, Not Court, Stood Out for a Contender  —  Rachel L. Brand, by her own admission, has never prosecuted so much as a traffic case.  But in January 2006, when Justice Department officials began to discuss removing some United States attorneys …
Robin Wright / Washington Post:
U.S. Decides Against Freeing 5 Iranian Agents
Discussion: Democrats.com, The Blotter and Hot Air
Tom Hamburger / Los Angeles Times:
Rove, others were warned to save e-mails  —  WASHINGTON — Karl Rove and other White House employees were cautioned in employee manuals, memos and briefings to carefully save any e-mails that might discuss official matters even if those messages came from private e-mail accounts, the White House disclosed Friday.
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Washington Post:
White House E-Mail Mystery
Discussion: TPMCafe blogs and Loaded Orygun
Brian Braiker / Newsweek:
A data-recovery specialist discusses whether missing White House …
Discussion: Brian Beutler
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
From the Courthouse to the White House  —  Fred Thompson auditions for the leading role.  —  A strange thing happened a few weeks back when I went to the Café Promenade at the Mayflower Hotel for an off-the-record interview with an unpaid adviser to the non-campaign of unannounced presidential candidate Fred Thompson.
Bob Geiger:
The Saturday Cartoons  —  I'm very happy to announce that editorial cartoonist Ben Sargent, of the Austin American-Statesman, has given me permission to run his work and we lead our cartoon round-up today with some of his work.  —  Ben won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1982 …
Paul Elias / Associated Press:
Prosecutors will retry Ed Rosenthal, known as the `guru of ganja'  —  SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prosecutors said today they would retry marijuana grower Ed Rosenthal on cultivation charges, even after a federal judge urged them to drop the case and chastised the government for lodging charges solely …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and TalkLeft
Matthew Yglesias:
The Judgment Factor  —  Unlike Matt Stoller, I don't have a big problem with the plans for Iraq put forward by either Barack Obama or John Edwards.  I think the notion of keeping troops in the region (also Jack Murtha's idea, for the record) for various purposes makes sense.
Discussion: MyDD and TalkLeft
Ilya Somin / The Volokh Conspiracy:
GARY KASPAROV ARRESTED: Russian opposition leader and former chess world champion Gary Kasparov has been arrested in Moscow while leading a demonstration protesting the government's policies.  Here is the New York Times account, and a shorter one by CNN.  Kasparov is arguably …
Discussion: Wizbang
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Shamelessness of Cheney  —  Now he tells us: … I'm not defending Democratic pork - any more than Republican pork.  But, again, what's staggering about these Republicans is their total shamelessness.  No administration in recent history has presided over anything like the explosion …
Discussion: The Newshoggers and Brian Beutler
New York Times:
In the Spotlight, the Politics of Buckling Up  —  As constituents and public officials wished Gov. Jon S. Corzine of New Jersey a full recovery from his injuries in a car accident, many were shaking their heads that someone who is so smart, and has so much to lose, would put himself at risk by apparently not wearing a seat belt.
Discussion: The RBC, TigerHawk and Making Light
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Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Abstinence-only still doesn't work
Thers / Eschaton:
Conspiracy theories  —  Matt Yglesias notes that Jonah Goldberg …
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
BEND OVER....From the annals of American labor relations, circa 2007:
Discussion: Angry Bear
WCBS-TV:
Sharpton Gets More Security After Death Threats
Matthew Yglesias:
When There Is Nothing Instead of Something
SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:
The Daily Show: Will Nancy Grace Apologize to Duke Lacrosse Players?
Faiz / Think Progress:
Evidence Emerging Of Cheney-Led Smear Campaign Against Pelosi Over Syria Trip
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Various items  —  (1) According to this latest New York Times …
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Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
In a Filmdom Premiere, a Foe for Gore
Discussion: Power Line
International Herald Tribune:
Pakistan says it's reining in tribal areas
Sinan Salaheddin / Associated Press:
37 die as car bomb hits near Iraq shrine
Ken Kolker / MLive.com:
Snow won't dampen global-warming rallies
Cernig / The Newshoggers:
Huh?  —  What happened to Newshog?  —  Well, there's been some ch-ch-ch-changes.
Washington Post:
Excessive Force By Marines Alleged
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Thomas Joscelyn / Weekly Standard:
Who's Spinning Intel?
David Carr / New York Times:
Flying Solo Past the Point of No Return
 

 
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
DirecTV terminates its Dish acquisition after a group of Dish creditors rejected a modified bond exchange offer

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

 
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