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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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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 …
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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 …
David Johnston / New York Times:
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.
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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Washington Times:
Bloomberg mulls a $1 billion run — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is prepared to spend an unprecedented $1 billion of his own $5.8 billion personal fortune for a third-party presidential campaign, Ralph Z. Hallow will report Tuesday in The Washington Times.
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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 …
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.
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Top GOP Hopefuls Keep Distance on Immigration — Bipartisan Plan in Danger as McCain Pulls Away, Romney Shifts Stance and Giuliani Is Silent — Less than a year ago, Sen. John McCain of Arizona was the most visible Republican in the fight for immigration reform, having joined forces …
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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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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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Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
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.
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Patrick O'Connor / The Politico:
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.
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.)
Clarice Feldman / American Thinker:
The Attempted Putsch at the World Bank — Late yesterday afternoon, without prior notice to Paul Wolfowitz, the World Bank's Executive Committee released the Final Report of the Ad Hoc Group on his handling of personnel issues affecting his companion Shaha Riza.
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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