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8:25 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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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 …
Discussion: TalkLeft
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.
CNN:
No. 2 official at Justice Department resigns
Discussion: Liberal Values
Talking Points Memo:   McNulty out at DOJ. More soon ...
Instapundit.com:
« |  MAIN |  »  —  THE ANSWER TO THE EXAMINER'S QUESTION IS SIMPLE: It's because people are afraid they'll blow things up.  —  Sooner or later, you know, fundamentalist Christians are going to pick up on this lesson, engage in similar behavior, and make similar demands.
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Examiner:
Washington DC
Discussion: Wizbang
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 …
Associated Press:
Son of war critic is killed in Iraq  —  BOSTON - The son of a Boston University professor who has been a critic of the war was killed in Iraq, the Defense Department said Monday.  —  First Lt. Andrew J. Bacevich was the son of Andrew J. Bacevich, an international relations professor …
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
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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 …
Discussion: ParaPundit and AMERICAblog
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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.
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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Opinion Journal:
World Bank Jobbery  —  More evidence the Wolfowitz accusers chose to ignore.  —  The World Bank board meets today to consider the fate of President Paul Wolfowitz, and the truth is that the verdict may already be in.  The board will consider the report of an investigating committee dominated …
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Clarice Feldman / American Thinker:
The Attempted Putsch at the World Bank
Discussion: BBC, Riehl World View and Fausta's blog
Joseph Carroll / Gallup Poll:
Congress Approval Down to 29%; Bush Approval Steady at 33%  —  Both ratings are slightly lower than 2007 averages  —  PRINCETON, NJ — A new Gallup Poll finds continued low levels of public support for both Congress and President George W. Bush.  Twenty-nine percent of Americans approve of Congress …
Riaz Khan / Associated Press:
Suicide bomber kills 24 in Pakistan  —  PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A suicide attacker detonated a bomb that ripped through a crowded hotel restaurant in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Tuesday, killing at least 24 people and wounding 25, police said.  —  The blast deepened instability in Pakistan …
Politics / Washington Post:
No Love Lost In Philadelphia Mayor's Race  —  In the final days of the race to lead the City of Brotherly Love, the candidates were neither particularly brotherly nor showing one another much love.  —  Philadelphia will hold its mayoral primary today, with the winner of the Democratic primary …
 
 
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Alex Spillius / Telegraph:
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
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Brooks Barnes / Wall Street Journal:
Can CBS Put the Net Into Network?
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William Glaberson / New York Times:
Guantánamo Detainees' Suit Challenges Fairness of Military's Repeat Hearings
David Talbot / Chicago Sun Times:
Bobby Kennedy: America's first assassination conspiracy theorist
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New Jersey Online:
The Auditor  —  In an abrupt about-face, President Bush …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
PBS's "Frontline: Spying on the Home Front"
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
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Stars & Stripes:
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Discussion: Redstate and First Draft
Michael Scherer / Salon:
The Matt Drudge primary