memeorandum: The Constitutional Crisis Within (Marty Lederman/Balkinization)

Bush's Monica problem: the Gonzales mess — Gonzales, the president's lawyer and Texas buddy, is twisting slowly in the wind, facing a vote of no confidence from the Senate. — The United States Department of Justice has not always been above politics. John F. Kennedy, after all …

Discussion: The Next Hurrah, The Mahablog, Angry Bear and The Volokh Conspiracy

Marty Lederman / Balkinization:

The Constitutional Crisis Within — After the White House Counsel and Chief of Staff had tried to shake down the sedated and ailing Attorney General in his hospital bed. — After those two officials did not so much as acknowledge the presence of the Acting Attorney General and the head of OLC, standing there in the hospital room.

Discussion: Unqualified Offerings

Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Tales From The Department Of Justice

Discussion: Norwegianity

Audrey Hudson / Washington Times:

More details on Flight 327 released — The inspector general for Homeland Security late Friday released new details of what federal air marshals say was a terrorist dry run aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 327 from Detroit to Los Angeles on June 29, 2004. — Several portions of the report remain redacted.

Discussion: Roger Ailes and Little Green Footballs

Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Flight 327: More To The Story

Discussion: Hot Air and Ed Driscoll.com

The Big Trunk / Power Line: NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT 327: A TERRORIST DRY RUN

Michael Kamber / New York Times:

Doubts Grow as G.I.'s in Iraq Find Allies in Enemy Ranks — BAGHDAD — Staff Sgt. David Safstrom does not regret his previous tours in Iraq, not even a difficult second stint when two comrades were killed while trying to capture insurgents. — "In Mosul, in 2003, it felt like we were making the city a better place," he said.

Discussion: Washington Monthly and Prairie Weather

Peter S. Canellos / Boston Globe:

GOP rivals embrace unproven Iraq-9/11 tie — WASHINGTON — In defending the Iraq war, leading Republican presidential contenders are increasingly echoing words and phrases used by President Bush in the run-up to the war that reinforce the misleading impression that Iraq was responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Discussion: The American Mind, Liberal Values, Talking Points Memo and Brilliant at Breakfast

Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:

Al Qaeda's Enabler — The president's press conference last week left me at a loss for words. Spluttering is not a real response. But how else to respond to man who has spawned a catastrophe in the Middle East and then behaves as if it's his critics who are out of touch with reality?

Discussion: Firedoglake and The Impolitic

New York Times:

Militants Widen Reach as Terror Seeps Out of Iraq — When Muhammad al-Darsi got out of prison in Libya last year after serving time for militant activities, he had one goal: killing Americans in Iraq. — A recruiter he found on the Internet arranged to meet him on a bridge in Damascus, Syria.

Discussion: AMERICAblog and Prairie Weather

Uzi Mahnaimi / Times of London:
Al-Qaeda chief urges Iraqis to export jihad

Discussion: Hot Air, QandO, Captain's Quarters, The Moderate Voice, The Strata-Sphere, Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers

Robert Burns / Associated Press:

U.S. rescues 42 Iraqis from Al Qaeda hideout — BAGHDAD — U.S. forces raided an Al Qaeda hide-out northeast of Baghdad on Sunday and freed 42 Iraqis imprisoned inside, including some who had been tortured and suffered broken bones, a senior U.S. military official said Sunday.

Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard

Don Surber:
That unmentioned al-Qaeda torture handbook is being used

Discussion: Unqualified Offerings and INSTAPUTZ

Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:

SO MY PANEL was on — hold your breath — blogging, and featured Anthony Duignan-Cabrera of Space.Com, Alan Boyle of MSNBC's Cosmic Log, Rob Pearlman of CollectSpace, and uber-spaceblogger Jeff Foust. (Another uber-spaceblogger, Clark Lindsey, wasn't here, and was missed.)

Discussion: SPACE.com and MSNBC

ABCNEWS:

'This Week' Immigration Showdown — Sen. Menendez and Secretary of Commerce Gutierrez Debate Family Reunification and the Proposed Immigration Reform — Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., spoke out against proposed immigration legislation in the Senate on ABC News' "This Week With George Stephanopoulos."

Discussion: The Caucus and LiberalOasis

Bob Johnson / Associated Press:

Ala. Terror Web Site Angers Activists — MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Department of Homeland Security has taken down a Web site it operated that included gay rights and anti-war organizations in a list of groups that could include terrorists. — The Web site identified different types of terrorists …

Discussion: Firedoglake

Tim Shipman / Telegraph:

Bush sanctions 'black ops' against Iran — President George W Bush has given the CIA approval to launch covert "black" operations to achieve regime change in Iran, intelligence sources have revealed. — Mr Bush has signed an official document endorsing CIA plans for a propaganda …

Discussion: Financial Times, Washington Post, Associated Press, Radio Free Europe/Radio … and The Newshoggers

Little Green Footballs:

Video: Death Cult Children's Theater — Uploaded to YouTube by a Hamas supporter last April, this is one of the most unbelievably evil videos I've ever seen. — It's a home movie from hell, featuring a group of young girls dressed as suicide bombers and terrorists, waving knives and guns …

Discussion: Hot Air and NewsBusters.org

New York Post:

SHEEN RETHINKS NUTTY 9/11 FILM — SUPPORT for the loopy 9/11 documentary "Loose Change" - which argues that the World Trade Center terror attack was part of a secret U.S. government conspiracy - is quickly losing steam. — A source tells us Charlie Sheen "is having second thoughts" …

Discussion: The Jawa Report and JammieWearingFool

The Atlantic Online:

Back to the Schools — Oh man. I don't think I've seen anyone make a serious effort to argue that ongoing school construction endeavors in Iraq outweigh the fact that we aren't achieving any of our mission objectives, but apparently Chris Muir didn't get the memo that these talking points are inoperative:

Discussion: Eunomia

Holly / The Moderate Voice:

An Interreligious Conversation with MvdG: Part One — TMV Co-Blogger Michael vdG will ask me questions on his own blog and I will answer them here as time permits. — Michael begins by asking me what Jews believe about an Afterlife. My best answer is, it depends!

Discussion: Michael P.F. van der Galiën and Forward.com