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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Major troop reductions imminent — again — Wonderful — and highly credible — front page news today, from The New York Times: … For four straight years, the same set of war supporters have constantly and reptitiously given the same exact false assurances about Iraq — virtually verbatim …
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Increased Strife Is Foreseen in Iraq if U.S. Troops Leave — There is one matter on which American military commanders, many Iraqis and some of the Bush administration's staunchest Congressional critics agree: if the United States withdrew its forces from Baghdad's streets this fall, the murder and mayhem would increase.
Caren Bohan / Reuters:
White House plays down report of Iraq troop cut — Source: Reuters — The White House on Saturday played down a newspaper report that the Bush administration was weighing a scenario for possibly sharp cuts in U.S. troop levels in Iraq next year. — The New York Times …
New York Times:
U.S. Rebuffs Germany on Greenhouse Gas Cuts — The United States has rejected Germany's proposal for deep long-term cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, setting the stage for a battle that will pit President Bush against his European allies at next month's meeting of the world's richest countries.
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
U.S. Rejects G-8 Climate Proposal — Germany Urges Limiting Emissions, Temperature Increase — U.S. officials have raised a second round of unusually bluntly worded objections to a proposed global-warming declaration that Germany prepared for next month's Group of Eight summit, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.
Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
Pat Lang & Lawrence Wilkerson Share Nightmare Encounters with Feith, Wolfowitz, and Tenet — (Lawrence Wilkerson and his regular Thursday students. These are not the ones in the audience referred to below.) — Jeff Stein of Congressional Quarterly has a great recap of what former Pentagon …
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Jeff Stein / CQ.com:
Iraq Intelligence Horror Stories Shouldn't Be Old News — Hearing horror stories about the manipulation of Iraq intelligence is like watching "The Exorcist" again and again: Each time you see something new and laugh at the parts that used to make your hair go up straight.
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Richard B. Schmitt / Los Angeles Times:
Immigration judges lack apt backgrounds — A growing number of the jurists have little or no experience in that area of law. Some have strong Republican resumes. — WASHINGTON — Over the last two years, U.S. Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales has appointed more than two dozen individuals as federal immigration judges.
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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Officials Say Justice Dept. Based Hires on Politics Before Goodling Tenure — The Justice Department considered political affiliation in screening applicants for immigration court judgeships for several years until hiring was frozen in December after objections from department lawyers, current and former officials said yesterday.
Mike McIntire / New York Times:
SUIT SHEDS LIGHT ON CLINTONS' TIES TO A BENEFACTOR — When former President Bill Clinton and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton took a family vacation in January 2002 to Acapulco, Mexico, one of their longtime supporters, Vinod Gupta, provided his company's private jet to fly them there.
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Robert Stein / The Moderate Voice:
Everything a Reporter Should Be — When William Peters died this week, the world lost a good man, I lost a valued friend and journalists everywhere a role model for what a reporter should be. — His obituary tells much about his award-winning TV documentaries, books and magazine articles …
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Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
Iraq Supplemental: Is The Problem Cowardice? No, Poor Thinking — Jon Alter, writing about the Dems' Iraq Supplemental disaster, says: … I'm going to concentrate only on the politics of the situation here, let's leave the human lives at stake aside. Ahhhhhh.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Memo mystery: Is this document real or not? — Ace reports that former CIA intel officer Larry "No wonder Rove's mother killed herself" Johnson is peddling a memo about food shortages at the American embassy in Baghdad which he claims comes from a U.S. military source. — Here's the full-sized version.
Etgar Lefkovits / Jerusalem Post:
Border policeman, security guard hurt in e. J'lem shooting — Two Palestinian gunmen opened fired at an Israeli security patrol near a section of the separation barrier on the edge of Jerusalem on Saturday night, wounding two security guards - one seriously - police and rescue officials said.
Howie Klein / Firedoglake:
Blue America: Eric Massa — We Welcome Back A New York State Hero — New York's Southern Tier, the 29th congressional district, is the most conservative in the state. Our Blue America candidate last year was Eric Massa and he came within 6,000 votes (out of nearly 200,000 cast) …
Rusty / The Jawa Report:
Don't Panic! Four Terror Suspects Escape Probation; one a Zarqawi associate — British authorities have released the names of four terror suspects who have "escaped" the British equvalent of something like probation. Iraqi born Bestun Salim, Algerian born Lamine Adam, Ibrahim Adam …
James Gerstenzang / Los Angeles Times:
Bush was twice warned of Iraq challenges — Prewar reports alerted the president to the difficulty of establishing democracy, among other assessments that proved accurate. — WASHINGTON — Two months before the invasion of Iraq, U.S. intelligence agencies twice warned the Bush administration …
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