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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 …
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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 …
Talking Points Memo:
McNulty out at DOJ. More soon ... Late Update: According to the AP, McNulty announced his decision at a "closed-door meeting of US Attorneys in San Antonio." — Only for Alberto Update: AG Alberto Gonzales releases statement. — Even Later Update: If I were Gonzales and the White House …
Nico / Think Progress:
BREAKING: Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty To Resign — The AP reports: … UPDATE: Last week, the New York Times suggested that McNulty was considering resigning, possibly over a growing divide between his supporters and those of Gonzales: … UPDATE II: Gonzales releases a statement …
Associated Press:
Deputy attorney general to resign, officials say — Aides: Furor over fired attorneys hastened Paul McNulty's decision to leave — 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 …
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 …
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Hagel Continues Flirtation With Independent Bid — For The Fix, watching Sen. Chuck Hagel's (R-Neb.) political hand-wringing is like looking at the sun — you know it's bad for you but you just can't resist. — During a remarkably politics-free weekend in Alabama, this blogger happened to tune into …
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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.
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 …
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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.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Red, White and Voting Blue — Where Dems Made Gains in '06 — The Fix is a firm believer that only by understanding past elections can we hope to make accurate predictions about future contests. — Third Way, a centrist Democratic group, has produced a study of the 2006 electorate that goes …
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.
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.)
Justin McCarthy / NewsBusters.org:
Rosie Advances WTC 7 Conspiracy Theory Again — I guess Rosie missed the tanker accident near the Bay Bridge two weeks ago. The tanker was carrying 8600 gallons of unleaded gasoline. In that accident. … Impossible according to Rosie. Yet the roadway was gone. Go figure. Rosie went on to bluster:
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 …
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.
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
McCain blames Petraeus for his armed escort in Baghdad... After his photo-op went terrible wrong in Baghdad, McCain the straight talker is now blaming Gen. Petraeus for making him take a military escort into the marketplace where Lindsay Graham bought a few rugs. (The now infamous Baghdad Stroll.)
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 …
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 …
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.