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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 …
Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
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 …
CNN:
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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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
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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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.
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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.
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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.)
Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
Federal Loans for Coal Plants Clash With Carbon Cuts — A Depression-era program to bring electricity to rural areas is using taxpayer money to provide billions of dollars in low-interest loans to build coal plants even as Congress seeks ways to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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.)
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 …