memeorandum: Latest Intelligence Report Yet Another Smoking Gun On Bush (Bob Geiger)

11:00 PM ET, June 6, 2007

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Document: Iran Caught Red-Handed Shipping Arms to Taliban — Brian Ross and Christopher Isham Report: — NATO officials say they have caught Iran red-handed, shipping heavy arms, C4 explosives and advanced roadside bombs to the Taliban for use against NATO forces, in what the officials …

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, The Newshoggers, TigerHawk, Redstate, Comments From Left Field, Lamplighter, Riehl World View, The Agonist, Macsmind and Blue Crab Boulevard

Hindrocket / Power Line: BEDFELLOWS — We wrote here about the capture, in Afghanistan …

Selcan Hacaoglu / Associated Press:

Turkish officials say troops enter Iraq — ANKARA, Turkey - Hundreds of Turkish soldiers crossed into northern Iraq on Wednesday pursuing Kurdish guerrillas who stage attacks on Turkey from hideouts there, Turkish security officials and an Iraqi Kurd official said.

Discussion: Balloon Juice, Aljazeera, DEBKAfile, The Newshoggers, The Young Turks, The Carpetbagger Report, Lamplighter, Confederate Yankee and TPMmuckraker

MSNBC:
Turkey denies Iraq incursion

Discussion: Captain's Quarters and Michael P.F. van der Galiën

Pajamas Media:
Turkish Troops Reported In Iraq:

Discussion: The Belmont Club and Booman Tribune

Associated Press:
Sources: Thousands of Turkish troops enter Iraq

Discussion: TPMmuckraker, Talking Points Memo, AMERICAblog, Arms and influence, The Glittering Eye, Reuters, The American Mind, Outside The Beltway and American Pundit

Justin Rood Reports / The Blotter:

GOP Lawmakers Demand Probe of ABC News Story — Justin Rood Reports: — A group of House Republicans are calling for an investigation into "the release of sensitive information" in a recent ABC News report on CIA covert activities against Iran. — In a carefully worded request …

Discussion: Don Surber and Wizbang

Dan Eggen / Washington Post:

Official: Cheney Urged Wiretaps — Stand-In for Ashcroft Alleges Interference — Vice President Cheney told Justice Department officials that he disagreed with their objections to a secret surveillance program during a high-level White House meeting in March 2004, a former senior Justice official told senators yesterday.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
Cheney blocked official's promotion

Discussion: The Daily Background

Bob Geiger:

Latest Intelligence Report Yet Another Smoking Gun On Bush — When Army Chief of Staff, General Eric Shinseki appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee on February 25, 2003 to discuss preparations for a possible invasion of Iraq, he was asked by Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) …

Discussion: The Reaction, The Impolitic, Big Brass Blog and Democratic National Committee

Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Do they think we won't remember?

Discussion: Election Central, The Moderate Voice, TIME: Swampland, Liberal Values, Dick Polman's American Debate, Central Sanity, National Review and TalkLeft

Michael Calderone / New York Observer:

Murdoch, Ailes, Weymouth Pump Bloomberg At Breindel Awards — "I'm sworn to secrecy," Rupert Murdoch told The Observer as he was leaving the New-York Historical Society's auditorium last night. But: "We're making progress," the News Corp. chief added. — Mr. Murdoch hosted …

Discussion: Think Progress, Taylor Marsh, The Carpetbagger Report, Liberal Values, Crooks and Liars, Talking Points Memo, Donklephant, bustardblog and Daily Kos

Des Moines Register:

Giuliani will skip August straw poll — New Yorker plans "non-traditional" caucus run — Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani plans to skip the Ames straw poll in August, but compete to win the leadoff Iowa caucuses, a gamble by the former New York Mayor on a "non-traditional" caucus campaign and a first for Iowa.

Discussion: The Politico, TIME: Swampland, Iowa Voice, Roger L. Simon, eyeon08.com and MSNBC

Associated Press: Officials: Giuliani to skip Iowa straw poll

Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Giuliani, McCain Skipping Ames Straw Poll

Discussion: Decision '08

Joe Klein / Time:

Beware the Bloggers' Bile — A strange thing happened to me the day the House of Representatives voted to pass the Iraq-war-funding bill. Congresswoman Jane Harman of California called as the debate was taking place. "Look, I would love to have cast a vote against Bush on this," she told me.

Discussion: Shakesville

M.E. Sprengelmeyer / Rocky Mountain News:

Tancredo to change direction of his campaign — Rep. Tom Tancredo plans to change direction in his long-shot presidential campaign so he can pressure fellow Republicans into rejecting an immigration reform plan he considers "amnesty." — Before a debate tonight on CNN, Tancredo, R-Littleton …

Discussion: Examining Presidential …

Digby / Hullabaloo:

Crushes — I honestly don't know what to make of all these men in the political establishment who insist on using their mancrushes as some sort of guideline for who is and is not "presidential." Honestly, even Kathryn Jean Lopez's famous drooling over Mitt Romney isn't as embarrassing.

Discussion: MyDD, Obsidian Wings, Crooks and Liars, Media Matters for America and The Politico

Rasmussen Reports:

Support for Senate Immigration Bill Falls, 49% Prefer No Bill At All — Public support for the Senate immigration reform bill has slipped a bit over the past week. A Rasmussen Reports poll conducted Monday and Tuesday night found that just 23% of voters now support the bill while 50% are opposed.

Discussion: Hot Air, New York Times, QandO, Right Wing News, DownWithTyranny!, American Spectator, Power Line, Rasmussen Reports, The Politico, Pew Research Center and Washington Times

Opinion Journal:

An Independent Newspaper — The Bancrofts and a century of "free people and free markets." … So wrote William Peter Hamilton, one of the first men to hold the job of editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal, in the early decades of the last century.

Discussion: bustardblog, NewsBusters.org and Virtual Scratchpad

David Weigel / Reason Magazine:

Rudy: No on Medical Marijuana — Just finished my reporting trip with a Rudy Giuliani town hall in New Castle, New Hampshire, a tiny island luxuryville a few miles from Portsmouth. Don Murphy from Republicans for Compassionate Access, the pro-medical marijuana group, got to ask Rudy …

Discussion: Unqualified Offerings

Maureen Dowd / New York Times:

[TS] Op-Ed Columnist: Can He Unleash the Force? — Like all young superheroes, Barack Obama has to learn to harness his powers.

Discussion: TIME, National Review, Liberal Values, Connecting.the.Dots, AMERICAN DIGEST, The Atlantic Online and CorrenteWire

Bryan / Hot Air:

63 years ago today — June 6, 1944: … SecDef Robert Gates is in France to note the anniversary: … There isn't much I can add to the record of what's been said about D-Day in the past. It was the greatest amphibious operation in history. The fighting was indescribably intense …

Discussion: Townhall.com, Associated Press, Ed Driscoll.com and Stop The ACLU

Patrick Ruffini / Townhall.com:

Thompson Raises $220K Online in 18 Hours — Sources close to the Thompson campaign have passed along the following first-day results for ImWithFred.com: … We'll see what traffic measuring services like Alexa say in a day or so, but this has to be considered a powerful shot across the bow.

Discussion: Hot Air and IMAO