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Murray Waas / National Journal:
Administration Withheld E-Mails About Rove — The Bush administration has withheld a series of e-mails from Congress showing that senior White House and Justice Department officials worked together to conceal the role of Karl Rove in installing Timothy Griffin, a protégé of Rove's …
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New York Times:
Gonzales Seems Confident He Will Stay, Officials Say — Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales appears increasingly confident that he will survive the crisis over the dismissal of federal prosecutors, as White House aides who view him as a liability see little point in trying to persuade President Bush …
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:NJ: Withheld Emails Show White House Signed Off on False Statements
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Washington Post:
Bush Told War Is Harming The GOP — House Republican moderates, in a remarkably blunt White House meeting, warned President Bush this week that his pursuit of the war in Iraq is risking the future of the Republican Party and that he cannot count on GOP support for many more months.
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Anne Flaherty / Associated Press:
House likely to pass Iraq bill Thursday — WASHINGTON - The White House acknowledged public frustration with the Iraq war but tried to play down Republican anxieties Thursday as the House prepared to pass legislation that could cut off funding for U.S. troops as early as July.
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Bush gives on Iraq benchmarks — From USA TODAY staff and wire reports — WASHINGTON — President Bush, in a political shift, said Thursday that setting benchmarks to measure progress in Iraq "makes sense" in working out an agreement with Congress on a military spending bill.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:War Support Starting To Crumble
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Guardian:
Blair quits as prime minister — Matthew Tempest and agencies — Tony Blair today announced he was stepping down after 10 years as prime minister and 13 as Labour leader. — The prime minister told a crowd of supporters in Trimdon Labour club he would stand down as PM on June 27.
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Daniel Finkelstein / Comment Central:
Five Americans who changed Tony Blair — 1. Will Marshall. In 1992, the President of the Progressive Policy Institute was visited by two young British Labour politicians. One of them was Gordon Brown, he forgot the name of the other. — But the impact on Blair of Marshall and his colleagues …
Alan Cowell / NYT > International:Blair Says He Will Leave Office in June
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Middle East Times:
Hamas TV refuses to axe contested kids cartoon — RAMALLAH, West Bank — A Hamas-run television channel has defied a Palestinian government request to axe a controversial children's cartoon in which a Mickey Mouse look-alike urges resistance against Israel.
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Amanda / Think Progress:
Pentagon Breaks Pledge To Troops, Sends Them Back To Iraq After Just Nine Months At Home — On April 11, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced that tours of duty for the Army would be extended from 12 months to 15 months, effective immediately. In exchange for the extensions …
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David Germain / Associated Press:
Michael Moore faces U.S. Treasury probe — LOS ANGELES - Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore is under investigation by the U.S. Treasury Department for taking ailing Sept. 11 rescue workers to Cuba for a segment in his upcoming health-care documentary "Sicko," The Associated Press has learned.
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Mohammed Fadhil / NY Daily News:
A Baghdad plea: U.S. should stay and fight — Be Our Guest — I wasn't surprised when I saw Al Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, appear on Al Jazeera to announce America's defeat last week, not long after U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid did.
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Redstate:
Straw, Meet Camel — THUS WE SEE JOHN MCCAIN RISE FURTHER IN THE POLLS — "Though the care and management of five bright and typical boys was the primary focus of Ann Romney's life, she was always deeply involved in her husband's business and political career and in the public life …
The Blotter:
OxyContin: The Giuliani Connection — Brian Ross, Richard Esposito & R. Schwartz Report: — Rudolph Giuliani and his consulting company, Giuliani Partners, have served as key advisors for the last five years to the pharmaceutical company that pled guilty today to charges it misled doctors …
Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
Did Rudy Giuliani's campaign snub an Iowa farmer couple because they weren't millionaires and hence wouldn't be a suitable prop for Rudy's anti-"death tax" campaigning? And will the haircut-obsessed political media cover it? — Check out this unbelievable story from the Anamosa Journal-Eureka …
Hindrocket / Power Line:
WHAT'S NEWS? — Yesterday, Scott wrote about the Appeal for Courage which was presented to Congress yesterday afternoon. You can read about the Appeal here. The Appeal was signed by more than 2,700 active duty servicemen and women. It says: … The Appeal was received yesterday …
ABCNEWS:
The Sheer Stupidity of Newspapers These Days — The Silicon Insider Looks at Mainstream Media's Follies — The most heated topic in the blogosphere this week was the announcement by James Lileks, one of the world's most popular bloggers, that his longtime employer, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune …
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