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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
George Tenet's Imaginary Encounter... With Richard Perle. — SCOTT SHANE REPORTED in Saturday's New York Times that former CIA chief George Tenet's dramatic description in his book, At the Center of the Storm, of an August 2002 presentation at the CIA by defense undersecretary Douglas Feith and his staff …
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SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:
Condi: We were supposed to do something about bin Laden before 9/11?! — With George Tenet's new book coming out tomorrow, Condoleezza Rice was in full damage-control mode today, appearing on three Sunday talk shows to explain away the former DCI's claim that Rice didn't take seriously …
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:So Much For That "Imminent Threat" Talking Point...
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WTF Is It Now??
Kirk Semple / New York Times:
Uneasy Alliance Is Taming One Insurgent Bastion — RAMADI, Iraq — Anbar Province, long the lawless heartland of the tenacious Sunni Arab resistance, is undergoing a surprising transformation. Violence is ebbing in many areas, shops and schools are reopening, police forces are growing and the insurgency appears to be in retreat.
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Cernig / The Newshoggers:
Moran, Sully And The Exit, Stage Right — The big news over on the rightwing blogs today is Rick Moran, of Right Wing Nut House, recanting his support for Bush's occupation of Iraq. Rick blames the incompetence of Bush's policy and its execution saying that waning US support for that incompetence …
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Right Wing Nut House, Riehl World View, Winds of Change.NET, The Impolitic and The Moderate Voice
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:The Exit and Anbar — Republicans are beginning to realize …
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Taylor Marsh
Goldy / HorsesAss.Org:
Melamine-spiking "widespread" in China; human food broadly contaminated — The Shandong Mingshui Great Chemical factory in Zhangqiu, Shandong Province, which manufactures urea, melamine and melamine scrap. (Ariana Lindquist for The New York Times) — Who knows what kind of s**t …
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Brilliant at Breakfast
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Jim Henley / Unqualified Offerings:
The Story Behind the Story, the Continuing Series — Atrios writes about media inconsistency regarding who is and isn't fair game when it comes to reporting on the private lives of public figures. — Years ago, Christopher Hitchens wrote that he went into journalism because he didn't want to have to rely …
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Atrios / Eschaton:
More Thread — Go read some other blog for a change. You will if you want to discover THE TRUTH! — ...oh, what the hell, a couple thoughts following up the post below. It's true that the media has never been very consistent with standards about when private lives should be allowed to remain private.
Alisa Tang / Scotsman:
Afghan infant deaths fall by 40,000 a year since ousting of Taleban — INFANT mortality in Afghanistan has fallen dramatically since the demise of the Taleban, according to a new study, with 40,000 fewer babies dying every year. — Improvements in women's access to medical care since …
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Wizbang
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
TODAY'S FRED THOMPSON RALLY IN COOKEVILLE: I thought about going, but we've been a bit under the weather. But reader Jim Brown emails this YouTube video: "It was filmed and edited by my fifteen year old Grandson, Matthew Matheson. I was late in picking him up so he missed the first part of the rally.
SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:
Fired US Attorney David Iglesias on "Real Time" — Fired USA David Iglesias joins the "Real Time" panel to talk about the purge scandal and swiftly dispels all the right-wing rumors. If the Bush administration thought they could fire people of such integrity and expect them not to be irate and speak out, they were sadly mistaken.
Gethin Chamberlain / Telegraph:
US aircrews show Taliban no mercy — Caught in the middle of the Helmand river, the fleeing Taliban were paddling their boat back to shore for dear life. — Smoke from the ambush they had just sprung on American special forces still hung in the air, but their attention was fixed …
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Blue Crab Boulevard, EU Referendum, Captain's Quarters, Wake up America, Riehl World View and WILLisms.com
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Newsweek:
Excerpt: Condi's Rescue Mission — In his forthcoming biography of Condoleezza Rice, NEWSWEEK's Marcus Mabry explains the roots—and the consequences—of her loyalty to the president. … Story continues below ↓ — advertisement — "No way, I don't want that job!"
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WSJ.com
Charles S. Johnson / Billings Gazette:
Special session will set off new round of costs — No word from Schweitzer on when he will summon lawmakers to Helena — HELENA - When 150 lawmakers return for a special session sometime over the next two months, it will be the 31st such gathering in Montana history.
CNN:
CNN LATE EDITION WITH WOLF BLITZER — Interview With Condoleezza Rice; Interview With Hoshyar Zebari — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. — WOLF BLITZER, HOST: This is "Late Edition," the last word in Sunday talk. — The next steps in Iraq.
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The Heretik
Little Green Footballs:
Huge Crowd Protests Against Islamic Rule in Turkey — Here's some good news to start off a Sunday morning, as more than a million people took to the streets of Istanbul to protest against Islamic rule of Turkey. … Exactly right. The protesters are saying the same things we've been saying …
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Tanker fire destroys part of MacArthur Maze — 2 freeways closed near Bay Bridge — (04-29) 15:50 PDT OAKLAND — Huge leaping flames from an exploding gasoline tanker melted the steel underbelly of a highway overpass in the East Bay's MacArthur Maze early this morning …
Chris Bowers / MyDD:
Blogosphere Avant-Gardism — In one of my very first major posts on MyDD—a post which I paid $25 to write at a Kinkos in Modesto, California as there was no other way for me to get online—I posited the political blogosphere as the avant-garde of political and opinion journalism.
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Winds of Change.NET
Washington Post:
Is the Iraq War Lost? — Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) triggered a political firestorm recently when he said that "this war is lost," and a Washington-ABC News poll released two weeks ago reported that 53 percent of those asked said the United States is losing .
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