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8:30 AM ET, June 13, 2007

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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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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 …
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:   Bush Aides Helped Respond to Firings, E-Mails Show
Khaled Abu Toameh / Jerusalem Post:
Analysis: Hamas's Gaza and Fatah's West Bank  —  Jamal Abu Jadian, a top Fatah commander, fled his home in the northern Gaza Strip Tuesday evening dressed as a woman to avoid dozens of Hamas militiamen who had attacked it.  He and several members of his family and bodyguards were lightly wounded.
Discussion: Power Line
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Charles Levinson / Telegraph:
Hamas bids for total control
Discussion: Yourish.com and Jay Currie
Avi Issacharoff / Reuters:
14 Palestinians killed as Hamas nears complete Gaza conquest
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Rivals try to deflate F. Thompson campaign  —  Fred Thompson has had a relatively easy ride as he has flirted with a bid for the Republican presidential nomination.  His strategists have found traction promoting him as the heir to Ronald Reagan — and a conservative alternative to the top tier of the GOP field.
Discussion: Carry on America
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CNN Political Ticker:
Poll: Romney surges ahead in New Hampshire
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Parsing the Polls: Who's a Fred Voter?
Discussion: Don Surber and ParaPundit
Dennis McLellan / Los Angeles Times:
Don Herbert, 89; TV's 'Mr. Wizard' taught science to young baby boomers  —  Don Herbert, who explained the wonderful world of science to millions of young baby boomers on television in the 1950s and '60s as "Mr. Wizard" and did the same for another generation of youngsters on the Nickelodeon cable TV channel in the 1980s, died Tuesday.
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Unfogged
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Lynn Elber / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
TV's 'Mr. Wizard' Don Herbert dies at 89  —  LOS ANGELES — Don Herbert, who as television's "Mr. Wizard" introduced generations of young viewers to the joys of science, died Tuesday.  He was 89.  Herbert, who had bone cancer, died at his suburban Bell Canyon home, said his son-in-law, Tom Nikosey.
CNN:
Golden Mosque's remaining minarets blown up … BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Insurgents blew up the remaining two minarets of the Askariya Mosque, a holy Shiite Muslim shrine in Samarra that was badly damaged in a similar attack in early 2006, a Samarra Police official told CNN.  There was no immediate word on casualties.
Discussion: On Deadline
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Camille Paglia / Salon:
Don't run, Al.  Don't!  —  The self-defeating Draft Al campaign is just the tip of the Democrats' woes.  Plus: Paris and Lindsay's mommy problems, and the heyday of Hollywood pizazz.  —  "Run, Al, run!"  —  This chant, according to media reports, is being heard from the crowd wherever former Vice President Al Gore speaks.
Discussion: Vox Popoli
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.
Andy McCarthy / National Review:
Law of the Sea: Do We Really Want to Create Another Mini-U.N.?  —  In this morning's Washington Times, Deputy Sec'y of State John Negroponte and his counterpart at the Pentagon, Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England, offer a thoroughly unpersuasive argument urging ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty …
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Vote-Fraud Demagogues  —  Americans overwhelmingly support voter ID.  Are they are all racists?  —  Appointments to the Federal Election Commission rarely draw attention.  But at a confirmation hearing today, there's likely to be some fireworks over Hans von Spakovsky.
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 …
Discussion: Don Surber
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 …
Discussion: Right Wing News and Betsy's Page
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.
Discussion: The Reaction
 
 
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The Independent:
Simon Kelner: Would you be saying this, Mr Blair, if we supported your war in Iraq?
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Bush no money magnet
Discussion: MyDD
Fox News:
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Discussion: Right Wing News
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Bryan / Hot Air:
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Telegraph:
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
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Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
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