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Deputy A.G. McNulty Announces Resignation — Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty announced his resignation today, saying he is leaving the Justice Department later this summer to enter the private sector, officials said. — McNulty announced his plans to leave in a letter …
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Bloody Monday — In a blow to the Bush administration, the deputy attorney general and the only Democrat on the White House's Privacy and Civil Liberties Board have resigned. — The White House was hit by two sudden resignations late Monday when Paul McNulty, a top Justice Department official …
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McNulty, Justice Dept. No. 2, resigning — WASHINGTON - Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty said Monday he will resign, the highest-ranking Bush administration casualty in the furor over the firing of U.S. attorneys. — McNulty, who has served 18 months as the Justice Department's second-in-command …


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Gonzales's Deputy Quits Justice Dept. — Paul J. McNulty, the deputy attorney general whose Congressional testimony in February provided a spark that turned a smoldering issue over the firings of federal prosecutors into a raging inferno, announced his resignation on Monday.

No. 2 official at Justice Department resigns … WASHINGTON (CNN) — The No. 2 official at the Justice Department, Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, has submitted his resignation to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the Justice Department announced Monday. — McNulty cited personal reasons for his resignation.
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WILL CHUCK HAGEL HURT THE REPUBLICANS? — There has been a lot of comment on Chuck Hagel's appearance yesterday on Face the Nation. Hagel said he is interested in making a third-party run for President, likely paired with Mayor Mike Bloomberg: … Hagel attributed his interest …
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Atomic Agency Concludes Iran Is Stepping Up Nuclear Work — Inspectors for the International Atomic Energy Agency have concluded that Iran appears to have solved most of its technological problems and is now beginning to enrich uranium on a far larger scale than before, according to the agency's top officials.
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Reid To Allow Vote On Feingold Measure To End Iraq War — Good news for war foes: Harry Reid just spoke on the Senate floor, revealing that he'll allow a vote this week on the Feingold-Reid amendment, which would cut off funding for the war by March 31, 2008.
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To InstaPundit: No, they won't — I get the warning and humor of this line, but frankly I'm tired of it. Prof. Reynolds needs to hit the books. … He's right that the credible threat of violence drives people all over the world to bow to unreasonable Muslim demands …
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Gingrich Says There Is a 'Great Possibility' He Will Run for President — The Former Speaker of the House Warns GOP Hillary Clinton Has a Good Chance of Becoming President — Newt Gingrich for president? It could happen. — In an interview with Diane Sawyer on "Good Morning America …
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Endgame at the World Bank — If the World Bank were a company, its share price would have fallen 25 percent amid the current leadership scandal. The board of directors wouldn't care about the scandal's details; it would have replaced the beleaguered CEO with someone who could lead effectively.
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What is Andrew Bacevich's Son's Life Worth? — Or any of our sons? or daughters? on any side of this incredibly reckless escapade in Iraq? — Boston University Professor Andrew J. Bacevich is a brave, thoughtful public intellectual who has tried — in reserved, serious terms — to challenge the legitimacy of the Iraq War.


GOP torn: Clean house or shield members? — House Minority Leader John A. Boehner took his job last year with a pledge to cleanse his party's scandal-stained reputation on Capitol Hill. In recent weeks, Boehner has been getting an unpleasant education in how hard that turns out to be.


Lieberman Helps Collect Cash for Collins — Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) is never going to win any popularity contests among his party's liberal base — a fact he seems decidedly unconcerned about despite his 2006 Democratic primary loss to Ned Lamont. — Not only has Lieberman endorsed Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine.)


The Matt Drudge primary — How professional political operatives secretly control the news you read about the 2008 campaign. Hint: It involves the Drudge Report. — Photo composite of Matt Drudge. — WASHINGTON — John McCain's "Bomb Iran" scandal almost never happened.

DOD blocking YouTube, others — To save bandwidth, officials say several sites to be off-limits at work — Starting Monday, the Defense Department will block access to MySpace, YouTube and a host of other sites on official department computers worldwide, in an effort to boost its network efficiency.