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Justice Weighed Firing 1 in 4 — 26 Prosecutors Were Listed As Candidates — The Justice Department considered dismissing many more U.S. attorneys than officials have previously acknowledged, with at least 26 prosecutors suggested for termination between February 2005 and December 2006 …
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New York Times:
Loyal to Bush but Big Thorn in G.O.P. Side — For a loyal George W. Bush Republican, James B. Comey has made a remarkable amount of trouble for the White House. — As deputy attorney general in 2003, he appointed his old friend Patrick J. Fitzgerald as independent counsel in the C.I.A. leak case …
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R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
No Dissent on Spying, Says Justice Dept. — The Justice Department said yesterday that it will not retract a sworn statement in 2006 by Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales that the Terrorist Surveillance Program had aroused no controversy inside the Bush administration …
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Al Gore / Time:
Book Excerpt: The Assault on Reason — Not long before our nation launched the invasion of Iraq, our longest-serving Senator, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, stood on the Senate floor and said: "This chamber is, for the most part, silent—ominously, dreadfully silent.
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Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
The search in the Triangle of Death continues — a U.S. Army Blackhawk drops reward leaflets over Owesat Village on May 14 [U.S. Army photo]. Click to view. — U.S. and Iraqi forces continue to scour the farming regions around Yusifiyah and Mahmudiyah in an effort to recover its 3 missing soldiers
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Crystal Patterson / HillaryClinton.com:
Cast Your Vote for Hillary's Campaign Song — Hillary Clinton is getting the 2008 voting started early, posting a YouTube video on her website this afternoon in which she urges supporters to cast their vote for her official campaign theme song. — Coming on the heels of her text messaging …
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Skippy / skippy the bush kangaroo:
don't...stop...thinking about her morals — hillary.com wants us to vote for hillary's theme song. they've provided a list of suggestions to choose from. — we think it's more appropriate to suggest our own nominations. — for example, sammy davis, jr: — or some elton john: — or ace of base:
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Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
For '08 Résumés, Don't Ask Them to Fill in Blanks — Stealing a page from the Soviet playbook, the current crop of presidential candidates has taken to eliminating whole chapters of their histories. — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's turbulent final years as first lady?
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
ABC News's Charlie Gibson Calls the Shots, Lands on Top — After word arrived Tuesday afternoon that Jerry Falwell had suffered a fatal heart attack, Charlie Gibson was determined not to lead his newscast with the preacher's death. — "It lends importance to a figure whose legacy contained …
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Jacques Steinberg / New York Times:
Charles Gibson Enjoys a Second Wind on ABC
Charles Gibson Enjoys a Second Wind on ABC
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Jerry Seper / Washington Times:
Clinton aide forfeits law license in Justice probe — Samuel R. Berger, the Clinton White House national security adviser who was caught taking highly classified documents from the National Archives, has agreed to forfeit his license to practice law. — In a written statement issued by Larry Breuer …
Steven R. Weisman / New York Times:
Wolfowitz Said to Push for Deal to Quit — After six weeks of combating efforts to oust him as president of the World Bank, Paul D. Wolfowitz began Wednesday to negotiate the terms under which he would resign, in return for the dropping or softening of the charge that he had engaged in misconduct, bank officials said.
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Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
Unity Fractures as Palestinians Battle in Gaza — Gaza City was shuttered on Wednesday as gunmen took over rooftops and top-floor apartments. Most everyone else huddled fearfully indoors on the fourth day of factional Palestinian fighting that is drawing in the Israeli military.
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Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:
Rove's Worrisome Witness — On the day presidential senior adviser Karl Rove administered a tongue-lashing to a Republican congressman, disturbing news about his former executive assistant was spread on Capitol Hill. GOP House members learned that Susan Ralston is requesting immunity …
Washington Post:
It's Our Cage, Too — Torture Betrays Us and Breeds New Enemies — Fear can be a strong motivator. It led Franklin Roosevelt to intern tens of thousands of innocent U.S. citizens during World War II; it led to Joseph McCarthy's witch hunt, which ruined the lives of hundreds of Americans.
Josh Gerstein / New York Sun:
Plame Seeks Showdown With Cheney — A lawsuit brought by a CIA agent whose cover was blown by Bush administration officials, Valerie Plame, is expected to face a withering attack this morning at a court hearing in Washington. — Through their attorneys, the defendants in the case …
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James Robbins / BBC:
War-torn Iraq 'facing collapse' — Iraq faces the distinct possibility of collapse and fragmentation, British foreign policy think-tank Chatham House has warned. — The report says the Iraqi government is now largely powerless and irrelevant in many parts of the country.
Eric Pooley / Time:
The Last Temptation of Al Gore — It has been five years since Tipper first urged her husband to dust off his slide show. The couple was still climbing from the wreckage of 2000, and she was convinced that his survival depended on reconnecting with his core beliefs.
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