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Senior Official Linked to Escort Service Resigns — Brian Ross and Justin Rood Report: — Deputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias submitted his resignation Friday, one day after confirming to ABC News that he had been a customer of a Washington, D.C. escort service whose owner …
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7/7 'mastermind' is seized in Iraq — The al-Qaeda leader who is thought to have devised the plan for the July 7 suicide bombings in London and an array of terrorist plots against Britain has been captured by the Americans. — Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, a former major in Saddam Hussein's army …
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Dafna Linzer / Washington Post:
CIA Held Al-Qaeda Suspect Secretly — Officials Disclose That Use of Overseas Prisons Resumed — An Iraqi man accused of being a key aide to Osama bin Laden and a top leader of al-Qaeda was arrested late last year on his way to Iraq and handed over to the CIA, the Pentagon announced yesterday …
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Real Cities:
Justice Dept official resigns over investigation connected with Abramoff — WASHINGTON - A senior Justice Department official has resigned after coming under scrutiny in the Department's expanding investigation of convicted super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, according to a Justice Department official with knowledge of the case.
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Annual terrorism report will show 29% rise in attacks — WASHINGTON - A State Department report on terrorism due out next week will show a nearly 30 percent increase in terrorist attacks worldwide in 2006 to more than 14,000, almost all of the boost due to growing violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. officials said Friday.
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Kevin Drum / Political Animal:TERRORISM UPDATE....This year's report on global terrorism …
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
BREAKING: Limbaugh's "Barack the Magic Negro," on-air song has workers up in arms — UPDATED: Rush Limbaugh has angered many black employees over this parody song called "Barack the Magic Negro" This isn't the first or the last time that Limbaugh will go after Obama's race: — Download (5908) |
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Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
Oh, man. You just have to listen to these caricatures of black pols that Rush Limbaugh is pushing right now. They're quite — how should we put this — "racially charged." — You may already have heard the "Barack the Magic Negro" shtick that Rush sang on his show the other day (more on that in a bit).
Alan M. Dershowitz / Front Page Magazine:
The Real Jimmy Carter — I have known Jimmy Carter for years. I first met him in the spring of 1976 when, as a relatively unknown candidate for president, he sent me a handwritten letter asking for my help in his campaign on issues of crime and justice. I had just published an article …
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
The White House Scales Back Talk of Iraq Progress — The Bush administration will not try to assess whether the troop increase in Iraq is producing signs of political progress or greater security until September, and many of Mr. Bush's top advisers now anticipate that any gains by then will be limited …
al.com:
Militia raid targets weapons — Explosives, ammo found; 6 men arrested — Simultaneous raids carried out in four Alabama counties Thursday turned up truckloads of explosives and weapons, including 130 grenades, an improvised rocket launcher and 2,500 rounds of ammunition belonging to the small …
Josh Marshall / TPMmuckraker:
DOJ Document Dump Muckraking Thread — A big new bundle of documents just got dumped by the Department of Justice. Here's a link to the documents in PDF form at the House Judiciary Committee website. As per our routine in recent document dumps, if you'd like to help us cull through the mails and reports …
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Truth's Consequences — Since the Moyers show, I have been thinking of many things that happened during that intense period in 2002 and 2003 when the political and media establishment seemed to lose its collective mind (again) and took this country into an inexplicable and unnecessary war.
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Todd Hollingshead / Salt Lake Tribune:
Satan behind illegal immigration, Utah County Republican claims — PROVO - A Utah County Republican delegate may not be catching hell for calling illegal immigration a satanic plot, but he isn't gaining any converts, either. — Utah County GOP Chairwoman Marian Monnahan …
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