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Nico / Think Progress:
New Justice Dept. Emails Reveal Top Rove Aides' Involvement In Attorney Scandal — Justice Department documents released tonight include new emails linking Karl Rove's top aides — former White House political director Sara Taylor, who resigned last month, and her deputy Scott Jennings — to the U.S. attorney scandal.
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Officials rebuked for disclosing Rove's connection to firing of U.S. attorney — WASHINGTON - The White House's former political director was furious at Justice Department officials for disclosing to Congress that the administration had forced out the U.S. attorney in Little Rock, Ark. …
Emptywheel / The Next Hurrah:
New Emails: Taylor, Griffin Gone, and McNulty Testifying Again — Just a super quick comment about the new emails released today. These are all, AFAIK from a quick scan, emails listed on the list of documents not turned over. This trend has actually been true for a while …
Pachacutec / Firedoglake:
Late Nite FDL: "I Normally Don't Like Attacking Our Friends. . ." — Don't look now, but we have a new document dump tonight from the RNC email files. Former White House Political Director Sara Taylor, who has since resigned from her post where she reported to Rove, writes in one email:
Joshua Chaffin / Financial Times:
CBS blames sexism for bad ratings — Leslie Moonves, CBS chief executive, on Tuesday suggested that sexist attitudes were partly to blame for the faltering performance of Katie Couric, the news anchor he recruited to the network with a $15m annual pay package. — "I'm sort of surprised by the vitriol against her.
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
James Carville, call your agent! — So the Washington Post and New York Times both dutifully printed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's smack-talking assessment of the Republican field yesterday: — "I've learned one thing in listening to all the debates and reading about all these people running …
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Telegraph:
Full text of Blair's speech on politics and media — Full text of Tony Blair's speech on the changing relationship between politics and the media, delivered on June 12 — The purpose of the series of speeches I have given over the past year has been deliberately reflective …
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Reuters:
Gaza: Armed Palestinian Groups Commit Grave Crimes — Source: Human Rights Watch … During recent fighting in the Gaza Strip, armed Palestinian groups have committed serious violations of international humanitarian law, in some cases amounting to war crimes, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Christopher J. Fettweis / Los Angeles Times:
Post-traumatic Iraq syndrome — The war is lost. Americans should begin to deal with what that means. — LOSING HURTS MORE than winning feels good. This simple maxim applies with equal power to virtually all areas of human interaction: sports, finance, love. And war.
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CR McClain / Deep Sea News:
Munitions Dumping at Sea — It is no secret that the U.S. military has used the ocean as trashcan for munitions in the past. Peter discussed at the Old DSN how federal lawmakers were pressing the US Army to reveal everything it knows about a massive international program to dump chemical weapons off homeland and foreign shores.
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Katharine Q. Seelye / The Caucus:
Thompson Wants to Be President — How much deeper can Fred Thompson wade into the presidential waters without actually announcing that he is a candidate? — He was up to his eyeballs tonight on "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno. — Asked directly if he would like the job of president …
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CNN Political Ticker:
Poll: Romney surges ahead in New Hampshire — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has jumped to the head of the pack of 2008 Republican presidential contenders in New Hampshire, according to a CNN/WMUR poll out Tuesday. — Romney shot past former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani …
Bryan / Hot Air:
AlGore Video: Bush (41) Lied, People Died — 1992 edition — If the MSM actually cared about past statements by possible presidential candidates, this clip would be among the juiciest on earth. The MSM would get Al Gore on camera to explain his transformation from reasonable hawk to hard left anti-war screecher.
Aaron Beard / Associated Press:
Investigator: Nifong privately acknowledged doubts in Duke lacrosse case — RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — As Mike Nifong was calling the Duke lacrosse team a "bunch of hooligans" in public, he was privately acknowledging that the rape case would be hard to prove and that the accuser's story was filled …
Michael Luo / New York Times:
Romney Steps Up Advertising Push — Mitt Romney has stepped up what is already the costliest early advertising push in a presidential campaign, an effort that his advisers and several media experts credit with helping vault him to the lead in the Republican field in some recent polls in Iowa and New Hampshire.