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10:10 PM ET, June 15, 2007

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Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
DoJ Purge Figure Resigns  —  Nothing like a Friday afternoon resignation to end the week.  —  From the AP: … Update: Some highlights from Elston's tenure at DoJ:  — He allegedly called three of the fired U.S. attorneys and made an implicit threat that the Justice Department …
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Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Complaint: Schlozman Aimed to Replace Lawyers with "Good Americans"  —  During a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, Bradley Schlozman, the controversial former senior political appointee in the Civil Rights Division, was battered with questions about his efforts to politicize the division.
Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press:
Official close to attorney firings quits  —  WASHINGTON — A senior Justice Department official who helped carry out the dismissals of federal prosecutors said Friday he is resigning.  —  Mike Elston, chief of staff to Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, is the fifth Justice official …
Discussion: Think Progress
Jason Horowitz / New York Observer:
Clinton Spokesman: Drudge Version Misses a Detail About Pay Day  —  Drudge is taking Bill Clinton to task for giving a $100,000 speech via satellite to a group of investors in Hong Kong on the 5th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.  —  But Clinton's press office now says that although …
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Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Obama Campaign Circulating Negative (And Ultimately False) Story About Bill Clinton  —  We've just obtained an email that shows that the Obama campaign yesterday circulated a negative, and ultimately false, story about Bill Clinton — that he allegedly made money giving a speech on September 11, 2006.
Adam Nagourney / The Caucus:
The Backstory on Obama-Clinton Attack Memos
Discussion: Prairie Weather, MSNBC and Taylor Marsh
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
We Win  —  That was quick, wasn't it?  Mike Kinsley writes about the quiet gay revolution here.  Money quote: … My only dissent is with the concept of "left."  I know, I know.  The GOP has clearly been on the other side of this issue, for the most part, for years now.
Discussion: Pandagon, Ezra Klein and Kevin Sullivan
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Michael Kinsley / Time:
The Quiet Gay Revolution  —  When William F. Buckley Jr. revived American conservatism by founding National Review in 1955, he said the magazine's job was to stand "athwart history, yelling stop."  At that time, history did seem to be moving in the wrong direction if you were a conservative, and Buckley was gutsy to admit as much.
Economist:
Vote for me, dimwit  —  How the electorate is irrational  —  ANYONE who follows an election campaign too closely will sometimes get the feeling that politicians think voters are idiots.  A new book says they are.  Or rather, Bryan Caplan, an economics professor at George Mason University …
Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
Watergate's 35th Anniversary: Would That Story Have Been Broken Today?  —  Who knows, someone with a cell phone camera working in the parking garage might have snapped a photo of Woodward chatting with this unknown source.  Or a blogger would have blown the whistle.  —  Sunday will be a memorable day for me, for two reasons.
Discussion: CBS News, First Draft and Attytood
New York Times:
Duke Case Prosecutor Says He Will Resign  —  Durham County district attorney Michael B. Nifong said today he plans to resign his job, after admitting that he had "crossed the line" of ethical standards in some of the public statements he made about the Duke University lacrosse players he charged with rape.
Discussion: The World Wide Rant and QandO
Chris Bowers / MyDD:
The Best Days Of My Life  —  After spending all week trying to think of a poignant way of making this announcement, and drawing nothing but blanks, I have decided to just say it as plainly as I can.  Today, after more than three years, I am stepping down as the lead writer and managing editor of MyDD.
James Risen / New York Times:
Senator Blocks Vote on Subpoenas Over Eavesdropping  —  A Republican senator blocked a vote in the Judiciary Committee on whether to authorize subpoenas to the Justice Department to obtain secret legal opinions and other documents related to the National Security Agency's program of domestic eavesdropping.
Michelle Malkin:
www.trentlott.com  —  ***update: Rush on Lott—"You've got Republicans talking about talk radio like liberals talk about talk radio.  That tells you something."  Yes, it does.  It tells you that the Republican Party is in deep, deep doo-doo.  Speaking of doo-doo, the literal kind apparently turned up in the Capitol today.
New York Times:
The Laptop Is Mightier Than the Sword  —  WHILE waiting to see if the Iraq surge strategy pays off, President Bush and Defense Secretary Robert Gates have shown Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the door and brought in Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute as the new White House "war czar."
ABCNEWS:
Romney's Pro-Life Conversion: Myth or Reality?  —  After 'Epiphany' on Abortion, He Named a Pro-Choice Judge and Supported Stem Cell Research  —  Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has long cited a November 2004 meeting with a Harvard stem cell researcher as the moment that changed …
 
 
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