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3:30 PM ET, May 23, 2007

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Think Progress:
Goodling Hints Attorney Firings Came From 'White House Judicial Selection Committee'  —  In her opening statement before the House Judiciary Committee today, Monica Goodling — the Department of Justice's White House liaison — said she had no idea where the idea to fire several U.S. attorneys may have originated.
Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report and Salon
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Monica Goodling Testimony, Part I  —  (Shot of spilled beans via Dougalug.)  —  The House Judiciary Committee will be taking testimony from Monica Goodling this morning, beginning at 10:15 am ET in 2141 Rayburn.  C-Span3 and C-Span radio will be broadcasting the testimony live.
Discussion: The Next Hurrah, The Gavel and JURIST
Brad Friedman / The BRAD BLOG:
Goodling Says Dep. Attorney General 'Incomplete or Inaccurate' in Regard to 'Vote Caging' Allegations About Karl Rove Aide  —  Says DAG Paul McNulty Withheld Knowledge of Tim Griffin's Involvement in Challenging Minority Voter Registration in 2004  —  Former Rove Aide Griffin Posted to U.S. Attorney Position in Arkansas...
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and On Deadline
David Stout / New York Times:
Ex-Gonzales Aide Testifies, 'I Crossed the Line'  —  The Justice Department's former liaison to the White House testified before Congress today that she improperly weighed political factors in considering applicants for career positions in the department, and she said she was sorry.
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Fire Bogden? Why Not?
Discussion: Obsidian Wings and Balkinization
Richard B. Schmitt / Los Angeles Times:
Goodling: a Power player behind Justice's scenes
Discussion: Firedoglake and TPMmuckraker
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:   Goodling: "I Don't Know"  —  Here's Goodling under the first line …
CNN:
Bush uses bin Laden info to defend Iraq war … NEW LONDON, Connecticut (CNN) — President Bush used declassified intelligence about Osama bin Laden Wednesday to defend his Iraq war policy.  —  During a commencement address at the Coast Guard Academy, the president mentioned declassified intelligence …
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Alan Cooperman / Washington Post:
Survey: U.S. Muslims Assimilated, Opposed to Extremism  —  Unlike Muslim minorities in many European countries, U.S. Muslims are highly assimilated, close to parity with other Americans in income and overwhelmingly opposed to Islamic extremism, according to the first major, nationwide random survey of Muslims.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Large number of Americans favor violent attacks against civilians  —  (updated below)  —  The hysteria over the Pew poll about American Muslims continues unabated, with the focus now on the finding that while 80% of American Muslims oppose attacks on civilians in all cases, 13% said they could be justified in some circumstances.
Elana Schor / The Hill:
Guest-worker program dodges its first bullet  —  The guest-worker program in the new immigration bill survived its first test late yesterday but remains under siege.  —  The debate pits resurgent Democratic populists against negotiators determined to hold together the tenuous immigration reform deal.
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New York Times:
Senate Votes to Keep Temporary Worker Program  —  A comprehensive immigration bill survived a significant test on Tuesday as the Senate voted to keep a provision that would let hundreds of thousands of temporary foreign workers enter the country each year.  —  If the guest worker program …
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Washington Post:
McCain Turns Focus To His Fundraising
Discussion: The Politico and The Caucus
Rasmussen Reports:
Just 26% Favor Senate Immigration Plan  —  Initial public reaction to the immigration proposal being debated in the Senate is decidedly negative.  —  A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey conducted Monday and Tuesday night shows that just 26% of American voters favor passage of the legislation.
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Kris W. Kobach / Heritage Foundation:
Rewarding Illegal Aliens: Senate Bill Undermines The Rule of Law
Discussion: Captain's Quarters and Bluey Blog
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
DEMOCRATS FIND ETHICS OVERHAUL ELUSIVE IN HOUSE  —  House Democratic leaders pushing a promised lobbying overhaul are facing resistance from balky lawmakers and fending off accusations that a prominent member is flouting new ethics rules.  —  The Democratic leaders were forced to scrap …
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CNN:
CNN LARRY KING LIVE  —  Interview with Al Gore  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.  —  LARRY KING, HOST: Tonight, Al Gore.  Some say he's helping save the planet.  Now they want him to save the nation and run for president.
New York Post:
WOLFOWITZ AND GAL PAL SPLIT UP  —  PAUL Wolfowitz has really had a bad couple of weeks.  He not only lost his job, he lost his girlfriend, too.  —  Wolfowitz, one of the architects of the Iraq war, was pushed out as president of the World Bank over a controversial pay and promotion package …
Discussion: TBogg and Carry on America
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Democrats Pull Troop Deadline From Iraq Bill  —  Congressional Democrats relented Tuesday on their insistence that a war spending measure set a date for withdrawing American combat troops from Iraq.  Instead, they moved toward a deal with President Bush that would impose new conditions on the Iraqi government.
Mary Milliken / Reuters:
Call me Lopez, presidential hopeful says  —  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In the heartland of America he is just Gov. Bill Richardson.  But in big Hispanic states like California the Democratic U.S. presidential hopeful tells voters he is also a Lopez.  —  "California has a lot of Hispanic voters …
Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
McClatchy's D.C. Bureau Claims It's Barred From Defense Secretary Plane  —  NEW YORK Staffers at McClatchy's Washington, D.C., Bureau — one of the few major news outlets skeptical of intelligence reports during the run-up to the war in Iraq — claims it is now being punished for that coverage.
Discussion: mediabistro.com
Hotline On Call:
Boehner: Immigration Bill Is "Piece Of S**t"  —  House Minority Leader John Boehner, speaking to a private gathering of Republican activists last night, called the Senate's immigration compromise bill a "piece of s**t" but said that he had promised President Bush earlier in the day that he would let his teeth …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Nuclear war erupts on "The View"  —  With Rosie on her way out I guess there's no reason for them to pretend they're friends anymore.  Here she is at her disingenuous worst, playing the "big, fat, lesbian" victim while deliberately twisting Hasselbeck's point about the enemy in Iraq …
Jeff Emanuel / Opinion Journal:
'I Love Those Guys'  —  Embedded journalists in Iraq are having their minds changed left and right by U.S. soldiers.  —  Operation Iraqi Freedom saw the advent of a practice that revolutionized modern war reporting: the embedding of journalists with frontline combat units in war.
Discussion: Barcepundit
 
 
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Beth Fouhy / Associated Press:
Edwards: Move Past 'War on Terror'
Dick Morris / The Hill:
Republicans should back immigration compromise
Discussion: Bring it On!
Beirutspring / The Beirut Spring:
Why Many Lebanese Are Shunning Aljazeera
Steven Musil / CNET News.com:
Michigan man dodges prison in theft of Wi-Fi
Sean-Paul Kelley / The Agonist:
IAEA Report Contradicts Major Media Narrative On Iran
State Sen. Mario Gallegos / Houston Chronicle:
Why right to vote, without an ID, is worth fighting for
Discussion: GregsOpinion.com
Rebecca Sinderbrand / New York Observer:
Anti-Rudy Catholics Plan Their Assault
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Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Defections now likely on Iraq bill
Looseheadprop / Firedoglake:
Older and Wiser Heads
Damien Cave / New York Times:
As Comrades Search, Fatal Bomb Wreaks Havoc
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
New Strategy for War Stresses Iraqi Politics
Simon Tisdall / Guardian:
Bush may turn to UN in search for Iraq solution