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Joel Seidman / MSNBC:
Plame was 'covert' agent at time of name leak — Newly released unclassified document details CIA employment — WASHINGTON - An unclassified summary of outed CIA officer Valerie Plame's employment history at the spy agency, disclosed for the first time today in a court filing …
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Dan Froomkin / Washington Post:
Fitzgerald Again Points to Cheney — Special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald has made it clearer than ever that he was hot on the trail of a coordinated campaign to out CIA agent Valerie Plame until that line of investigation was cut off by the repeated lies from Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
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Larry Johnson / NO QUARTER:
How About Them Apples Vicky Toensing? — Download libby_governments_sentencing_ memo.pdf — Victoria Toensing, Cliff May, Byron York and the other rightwing apologists who have long insisted that Valerie Plame Wilson was not undercover have some "splaining" to do.
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Plame was a Covert Agent — It's official. Valerie Plame was a covert agent at the time her name was leaked by Novak. Will Victoria Toensing issue an apology? And Fred Hiatt should follow her lead. … FDL: Ex. Order 12958 — Hayden's approval of Waxman's statement that Ms. Wilson's status …
New York Times:
Advisers Fault Harsh Methods in Interrogation — As the Bush administration completes secret new rules governing interrogations, a group of experts advising the intelligence agencies argue that the harsh techniques used since the 2001 terrorist attacks are outmoded, amateurish and unreliable.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
"Verschärfte Vernehmung" — The phrase "Verschärfte Vernehmung" is German for "enhanced interrogation". Other translations include "intensified interrogation" or "sharpened interrogation". It's a phrase that appears to have been concocted in 1937, to describe a form of torture …
Agence France Presse:
Venezuela to sue CNN — Venezuela says it will file charges against US cable network CNN for linking President Hugo Chavez to Al Qaeda. — It says it will also sue a Venezuelan TV network for encouraging Mr Chavez's assassination. — The move comes a day after popular Venezuelan TV network RCTV went off …
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Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns and Money:
Court Protects Gender Discrimintion — As Ruth Bader Ginsburg notes, the evidence of gender discrimination in the case of Ledbetter v. Goodyear, decided today by the Supreme Court, is unambiguous: … Despite this, and contrary to the judgment of the EEOC, the Court by a bare 5-4 majority threw …
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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:Justices Limit Discrimination Suits Over Pay
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Justin Rood Reports / The Blotter:
Send Wolfowitz to Iraq, Says GOP Lawmaker — Justin Rood Reports: — Paul Wolfowitz may have been ousted from his post at the World Bank, but a free-speaking GOP lawmaker has an idea to keep the so-called "architect" of the Iraq War from standing in the unemployment line.
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Richard Mauer / Anchorage Daily News:
Feds eye Stevens' home remodeling project — GIRDWOOD: Veco approved some invoices for 2000 upgrade at senator's house, says builder. — The FBI and a federal grand jury have been investigating an extensive remodeling project at U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens' home in Girdwood that involved …
Will Dunham / Reuters:
U.S. isolates traveler infected with super-TB — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has placed in isolation a man who may have exposed fellow passengers and crew on two May trans-Atlantic flights to a tuberculosis strain that is extremely hard to treat, officials said on Tuesday.
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JD Johannes / Outside the Wire:
Kharmah Awakens — "In fact, there is a civil war in progress in Iraq, one comparable in important respects to other civil wars that have occurred in postcolonial states with weak institutions. Those cases suggest that the Bush administration's political objective in Iraq—creating a stable …
SITE Institute:
"Legitimate Demands" - A Video Speech by Adam Yahiye Gadahn Produced by as-Sahab Media — Adam Yahiye Gadahn AKA Azzam the American, is featured in a 7:57 minute video produced by as-Sahab, the multimedia wing of al-Qaeda, and titled: "Legitimate Demands". The video was issued to jihadist forums today, Tuesday, May 29, 2007.
Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Bernstein Book Directly Contradicts A Key Charge In Gerth And Van Natta's Book — Okay, the duel of the Hillary books just heated up big time. — We've just received our copy of Carl Bernstein's new book on Hillary, and something leaps right out at us. — Specifically: Bernstein's …
Rusty / The Jawa Report:
Palestinian "Missile" Fauxtography? (Updated) — The Seattle Times ran this as their "photo of the day". What's wrong with this picture? (Click for bigger pic) — Here is the caption from the Seattle Times: … Er, pardon my skepticism here....but how fast does a "missile" travel anyway?
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