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Bush Taps New 'War Czar' — ABC News Learns Pentagon Official Selected to Oversee Iraq, Afghanistan Wars — After a frustrating search for a new "war czar" to oversee the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, ABC News has learned that President Bush has chosen the Pentagon's director of operations, Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, for the role.
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Nico / Think Progress:New 'War Czar' Advocated Troop Withdrawals To 'Undercut Perception Of Occupation'
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:Bush Picks Army General to Coordinate War Policy
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Pre-Spin Room Thoughts: McCain, Rudy, Romney — Invoking the Roger Simon rule: in my judgment, John McCain convincingly and incontrovertibly won tonight's debate. He was strong, confident, answered tough questions with ease and dispatch, and seemed the most presidential.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Palmetto Punditry — The debate took a while to gain any traction, but there were some clarifying moments for me. The questions were often excellent - especially the tough ones at the beginning about the war. The Republicans, we learned, have absolutely no idea what to do about Iraq.
Michelle Malkin:Liveblogging: The South Carolina debate is on - Video links adds, post-mortem reax
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Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:GOP Debate II: Fox Goes After Ron Paul
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David Stout / New York Times:
Gonzales Pressed Ailing Ashcroft on Spy Plan, Aide Says — On the night of March 10, 2004, a high-ranking Justice Department official rushed to a Washington hospital to prevent two White House aides from taking advantage of the critically ill Attorney General, John Ashcroft, the official testified today.
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Former Deputy Attorney General James Comey, 5/15/07, Senate Judiciary Committee — COMEY: In the early part of 2004, the Department of Justice was engaged — the Office of Legal Counsel, under my supervision — in a reevaluation both factually and legally of a particular classified program.
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David Johnston / New York Times:
President Intervened in Dispute Over Eavesdropping — President Bush intervened in March 2004 to avert a crisis over the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping program after Attorney General John Ashcroft, Director Robert S. Mueller III of the F.B.I. and other senior Justice Department aides …
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Comey Details White House Attempt to Force Approval of Secret Program — In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee this morning, former Deputy Attorney General James Comey detailed the desperate late night efforts by then-White House counsel Alberto Gonzales and White House chief …
Hindrocket / Power Line:
MAKING SENSE OF COMEY — One of today's news stories was the testimony of former Deputy Attorney General James Comey before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The committee purported to be calling Comey to testify on the matter of the fired U.S. Attorneys, but that wasn't what took up the bulk …
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Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Jerry Falwell dies at age 73 — One of the nation's most notorious TV preachers, Jerry Falwell, died today in Lynchburg, Va. … More soon. — Update: I have to admit, writing about Falwell's death poses an awkward challenge for me. When I worked at Americans United for Separation …
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Sue Lindsey / Associated Press:
Television evangelist Falwell dies at 73 — LYNCHBURG, Va. - The Rev. Jerry Falwell, the television evangelist who founded the Moral Majority and used it to mold the religious right into a political force, died Tuesday shortly after being found unconscious in his office at Liberty University.
CNN:Rev. Jerry Falwell dead at 73
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Lizstephans / Breitbart.tv:
Exclusive: Thompson Responds to Michael Moore Challenge — Breitbart.tv Exclusive: The confrontation over Cuba continues. Michael Moore has challenged Fred Thompson to a health care debate. At issue — Moore's trip to Cuba and Thompson's criticism of that trip.
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One Jerusalem:
VIDEO EXCLUSIVE:: Semi-protected Schools, Damaged Homes and Kassam Rockets: A Day in the Life of Sderot — Yesterday I had the privilege of visiting the city of Sderot. Sdert is a city of 20,000 people located directly east of Northern Gaza. In the last seven years …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: MSNBC quotes WhiteHouse.org on Falwell's political influence — Yeah, WhiteHouse.org. The most infamous, relentlessly anti-Bush parody site on the 'Net. — You can imagine how it played out. Producer to intern: "We need a fawning description of him from the White House website …
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Siun / Firedoglake:
Feingold-Reid - what do you think? — Yesterday, we discussed Sen. Chris Dodd's statement calling on the Senate leadership to have an up or down vote on Feingold-Reid instead of attaching it as an amendment to the Water Resources Development Act Reauthorization currently on the floor.
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Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
GOP Debate II: Romney - "Double Guantanamo" — During the second GOP debate, Fox News' Brit Hume sets up a hypothetical situation where three terrorist attacks occur at shopping malls in major cities. A fourth attack is thwarted and that would-be attacker, who we know has information about an impending …
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