memeorandum: White House ex-aides subpoenaed (CNN)

4:00 PM ET, June 13, 2007

Top Items:

BREAKING: Top White House Officials Subpoenaed Over Attorney Scandal

Discussion: The Newshoggers, New York Times, Happy Furry Puppy Story …, Daily Kos, The Next Hurrah, Firedoglake, ACSBlog, Real Cities, The Carpetbagger Report, Balloon Juice, The Mahablog, Democratic National Committee, WorkingForChange, Corrente, Shakesville, Left in the West, Comments From Left Field and Watching Those We Chose

CNN:

White House ex-aides subpoenaed … WASHINGTON (CNN) — Subpoenas are being issued to two former White House officials, the first to be subpoenaed in the fired U.S. attorneys investigation. — The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday issued a subpoena to Sara Taylor, former White House political director.

Discussion: TPMmuckraker

Elizabeth Williamson / Washington Post:

Earmark Dispute Bogs Down Homeland Security Bill — House Committee Chairman Wants Lawmakers' Pet Projects Excluded Until Later in Appropriations Process — The congressional spending season began with a blowup over earmarks in the House yesterday, as the first bill to reach a vote prompted …

Discussion: Tapscott's Copy Desk, Obsidian Wings and Instapundit.com

Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Committees Subpoena Former Rove Aide, Miers

Discussion: Watching Those We Chose

Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Naming Contest: What To Call Earmarks?

Discussion: Tapscott's Copy Desk

Washington Post:

Blasts Destroy Remnants of Samarra Shiite Shrine — Early morning blasts Wednesday destroyed two minarets at the same Shiite shrine in Samarra where an attack last year demolished the mosque's gilded dome and plunged the country into a wave of deadly sectarian violence.

Discussion: The Newshoggers, Newsweek, The Fourth Rail, The Carpetbagger Report, Reuters, Agence France Presse, AMERICAblog, TIME: Swampland, Shakesville and The Heretik

New York Times:
Minarets on Shiite Shrine in Iraq Destroyed in Attack

Discussion: TPMmuckraker, The Fourth Rail, ShrinkWrapped, Hot Air and Air America Radio

CNN:
U.S. official: Mosque attack may have been inside job

Discussion: The Strata-Sphere, BitsBlog, The Carpetbagger Report and Taylor Marsh

Abu Aardvark:
Samarra — Some very quick thoughts on the Samarra bombing, before a 10:00 meeting...

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Kiko's House and Outside The Beltway

Mark Silva / swamppolitics.com:
White House eyes renewed mosque bombings

Discussion: Watching Those We Chose and Think Progress

Robert F. Bauer / The Huffington Post:

The Progressive Case for a Libby Pardon — All the views expressed in this post are those of the author and not of any client of his firm. — Until a very short while ago, few had heard of Scooter Libby. Today, still not a celebrity with the larger public, he carries on his shoulders …

Discussion: Firedoglake, Hullabaloo, FRAMESHOP, TIME: Swampland, Taylor Marsh and The Atlantic Online

Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Obama Opposes Libby Pardon

Discussion: Firedoglake and TalkLeft

Nouri Al-Maliki / Opinion Journal:

Our Common Struggle — America had its civil war. Why expect freedom to come easy to Iraq? — BAGHDAD, Iraq—Americans keen to understand the ongoing struggle for a new Iraq can be guided by the example of their own history. In the 1860s, your country fought a great struggle of its own …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Macsmind, Silflay Hraka and PSoTD

Janet Hook / Los Angeles Times:

Large majority supports path to citizenship — A poll finds 63% of all respondents, and 65% of Republicans, back the controversial measure. — WASHINGTON — A strong majority of Americans — including nearly two-thirds of Republicans — favor allowing illegal immigrants to become citizens …

Discussion: Think Progress, MyDD, DownWithTyranny!, Lonewacko and The Strata-Sphere

Heidi Przybyla / Bloomberg:
Most Americans Back Stalled Senate Immigration Bill, Poll Shows

Discussion: First Draft

Scott Wyman / Sun-Sentinel:

Broward may cancel deal with radio station because it airs Rush Limbaugh — Rush Limbaugh has long been a thorn in the side of liberals, but now, because of him, some Democratic politicians don't even want to join with a local radio station to broadcast hurricane information.

Discussion: NewsBusters.org, Wizbang, Moonbattery, The American Mind, Iowa Voice and JammieWearingFool

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: Washington Times, Heading Right, The Caucus, Captain's Quarters, Central Sanity, No More Mister Nice Blog, NO QUARTER, Right Wing Nut House, Inside Long Island Politics, Comments From Left Field, QandO, The Moderate Voice and Carry on America

Bob Barr / Wall Street Journal:

Don't Ask, Who Cares — Last week's forum of 10 Republican presidential hopefuls offered the country some troubling insight into the thinking of leading GOP candidates. In particular, the five who responded to questions about the Clinton-era "don't ask, don't tell" policy governing military service …

Discussion: Think Progress and Daily. Gay. News.

Adam C. Smith / St. Petersburg Times:

Florida primary will not count, Dean warns — Sure, Florida is America's biggest political swing state. But don't expect the national Democratic Party to back off punishing Sunshine State Democrats for scheduling an early presidential primary. — "Their primary essentially won't count …

Discussion: MSNBC and PoliBlog (TM)

CNN:

Blast kills anti-Syrian lawmaker … BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) — A member of the Lebanese parliament was killed in an explosion Wednesday outside a Beirut military sports club in what hospital sources called an assassination. — Lawmaker Walid Eido, known as a foe of Syrian involvement in Lebanon …

Discussion: Across the Bay, protein wisdom, Gateway Pundit, Mere Rhetoric and Michael P.F. van der Galiën

Avi Issacharoff / Reuters:

14 Palestinians killed as Hamas nears complete Gaza conquest — At least 14 Palestinians were killed by Hamas fire Wednesday, including 13 members of Fatah, as Hamas was on the verge of completing its conquest of the Gaza Strip. — Hamas is now in control of southern, central …

Discussion: Jerusalem Post, American Footprints, Telegraph, Neptunus Lex, New York Times, Mere Rhetoric, Blue Crab Boulevard and The Belmont Club

Victor Davis Hanson / Victor Davis Hanson's …:

Honesty About Iraq — How are we doing? — National Review Online — The United States can usually win even postmodern wars abroad if it can play to its strengths — which are marshaling our enormous material, intelligence, and technological advantages to defeat the enemy …

Discussion: The Atlantic Online and The Impolitic

home.ourfuture.org:

The Progressive Majority: Why a Conservative America is a Myth — For anyone interested in where the American public really stands on the big issues that distinguish progressives from conservatives — including the issues at the forefront of today's political debates — "The Progressive Majority …

Discussion: TomPaine.com and Comments From Left Field

Aaron Blake / The Hill:

Coleman faces challenge from his former adviser — An Iraq war veteran and former adviser to Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) yesterday said he is considering a primary challenge against the lawmaker in 2008. — Retired Lt. Col. Joe Repya (R) lost a race for the state Republican Party chairmanship last week …

Discussion: DownWithTyranny!, Captain's Quarters, MyDD, TIME and Daily Kos

The Hill:

Clinton can boast wealth of earmarks — Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) has secured more earmarks in the fiscal 2008 defense authorization bill than any other Democrat except for panel Chairman Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.). — The bill contains about $5.4 billion in earmarks …

Discussion: Inside Long Island Politics and The Atlantic Online