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6:35 PM ET, May 14, 2007

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Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press:
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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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
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 …
Associated Press:   Deputy attorney general to resign, officials say
Talking Points Memo:   McNulty out at DOJ. More soon ...
Nico / Think Progress:
BREAKING: Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty To Resign
Discussion: Norwegianity
Anthony DePalma / New York Times:
Ground Zero Illnesses Clouding Giuliani's Legacy  —  Anyone who watched Rudolph W. Giuliani preside over ground zero in the days after 9/11 glimpsed elements of his strength: decisiveness, determination, self-confidence.  —  Those qualities were also on display over the months he directed …
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Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Washington Post:
Defense Skirts State in Reviving Iraqi Industry  —  Paul Brinkley, a deputy undersecretary of defense, has been called a Stalinist by U.S. diplomats in Iraq.  One has accused him of helping insurgents build better bombs.  The State Department has even taken the unusual step of enlisting …
ABCNEWS:
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 …
Michael Scherer / Salon:
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.
Stars & Stripes:
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.
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Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
Pentagon limits troops' Web access
Tom Grubisich / Washington Post:
Sunshine for the Virtual Town Hall  —  These days we want "transparency" in all institutions, even private ones.  There's one massive exception — the Internet.  It is, we are told, a giant town hall.  Indeed, it has millions of people speaking out in millions of online forums.
David H. Petraeus / Michael Yon:
Values Message  —  One of the reasons I trust General Petraeus is he just comes right out and says what needs to be said.  The letter which he sent to our forces serving in Iraq (posted below) is a case in point.  The letter is more important than it might appear on first glance.
Salman Masood / New York Times:
Pakistani Official Killed as Strike Called in Karachi  —  A senior official of Pakistan's Supreme Court was shot dead by unidentified gunman early today, following political clashes in Karachi on Sunday that claimed 39 lives.  —  Syed Hammad Raza, a registrar of the Supreme Court …
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
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.)
Discussion: Power Line and Daily Kos
Charles Bremner / Times of London:
Shock as Sarkozy woos anti-US leftwinger  —  Nicolas Sarkozy, the right-wing reformer who becomes French President on Wednesday, upset both the United States and his opponents yesterday by offering the job of Foreign Minister to a Socialist veteran with anti-American credentials.
Timothy Garton Ash / New York Review of Books:
The Stasi on Our Minds  —  a film directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck  —  by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck  —  Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 216 pp., Ä8.50 (paper)  —  One of Germany's most singular achievements is to have associated itself so intimately in the world's imagination …
Discussion: Spectator and Washington Monthly
Bryan / Hot Air:
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 …
Greg Sargent / Election Central:
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.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and TalkLeft
Jason Straziuso / Associated Press:
Militants kill U.S. soldier in Pakistan  —  KABUL, Afghanistan - Militants killed a U.S. soldier and a Pakistani on Monday after a meeting held in a Pakistani frontier town seeking to calm the worst clashes in years between Afghan and Pakistani troops policing a border crossed daily by Taliban and al-Qaida insurgents.
Edward / Heading Right:
Norm Coleman Live Blog  —  Just preparing for the live blog of Norm Coleman's speech at the University of Minnesota.  Stay tuned!  —  10:05 CT - Larry Jacobs introduces the series of speakers, talking about the U's open-government projects.  This is one of a series of events, and I'm going to try to make a few of these.
The Blotter:
U.S. Air Marshals Flooding German, British Flights  —  Richard Esposito and Rhonda Schwartz Report:  —  As many as five or six U.S. air marshals are now assigned to each U.S.-bound flight from airports in Frankfurt, London and Manchester, England, because of fears terrorists might attempt …
Discussion: Kesher Talk and Hot Air
CNN:
CNN RELIABLE SOURCES  —  Media, Giuliani and Abortion; Sharpton's Standards  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.  —  HOWARD KURTZ, HOST (voice over): The abortion obsession.  The media target Rudy Giuliani as the only pro-choice Republican in the race.
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
 
 
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