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1:45 AM ET, May 15, 2007

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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.
Discussion: Liberal Values
David Johnston / New York Times:   Gonzales's Deputy Quits Justice Dept.
Talking Points Memo:   McNulty out at DOJ. More soon ...
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.
Hindrocket / Power Line:
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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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 …
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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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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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Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:   Top GOP Hopefuls Keep Distance on Immigration
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.)
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.
Siun / Firedoglake:
Introducing ... Lew Koch!  —  A few months ago, FDL friend Rick Perlstein (now blogging at The Big Con ) asked me to join him and a friend for lunch.  The friend turned out to be Lew Koch, an award winning investigative reporter.  As we chatted, I learned that Lew has been following …
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: Hot Air, Kesher Talk and Gateway Pundit
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.
Discussion: First Draft and Redstate
 
 
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Bobby Kennedy: America's first assassination conspiracy theorist
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Patrick O'Connor / The Politico:
GOP torn: Clean house or shield members?
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The Auditor  —  In an abrupt about-face, President Bush …
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