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11:50 PM ET, June 21, 2007

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Committee on Oversight and Government Reform:
Vice President Exempts His Office from the Requirements for Protecting Classified Information  —  The Oversight Committee has learned that over the objections of the National Archives, Vice President Cheney exempted his office from the presidential order that establishes government-wide procedures …
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Justin Rood Reports / The Blotter:
Cheney Power Grab: Says White House Rules Don't Apply to Him  —  Justin Rood Reports:  —  Vice President Dick Cheney has asserted his office is not a part of the executive branch of the U.S. government, and therefore not bound by a presidential order governing the protection of classified information …
Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Rahm Emanuel To Cheney: Please Get The Heck Out Of The White House  —  Call it the Dick Branch of the American government.  —  Rahm Emanuel's office just sent out a nifty chart illustrating Veep Cheney's latest.  As you may have heard by now, Cheney reportedly exempted his own office …
Discussion: A Spork in the Drawer
Scott Shane / New York Times:
Cheney in Dispute on Oversight of His Office
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Associated Press:
White House near decision to close Guantanamo  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration is nearing a decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and move the terror suspects there to military prisons elsewhere, The Associated Press has learned.
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Mark Benjamin / Salon:
The CIA's torture teachers  —  Psychologists helped the CIA exploit a secret military program to develop brutal interrogation tactics — likely with the approval of the Bush White House.  —  A detainee is escorted by military police at Camp 4 of the maximum security prison Camp Delta …
Discussion: The Next Hurrah
Jackie Kucinich / The Hill:
House Republican wants to restrict Pelosi's travel  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will not be permitted to use State Department funds to travel to nations that are known to have sponsored terrorism if a Republican amendment to appropriations legislation passes the House on Thursday.
Discussion: Say Anything and Wizbang
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Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
Operation Phantom Thunder: The Battle of Iraq  —  Baghdad and the Belts.  Red bordered units identified as active in offensive operations.  Click map to view.  —  A status update on the operations in the Baghdad Belts and beyond  —  Operation Phantom Thunder, the name of the overarching operation …
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Alissa J. Rubin / New York Times:   14 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq in 2 Days
Dan Murphy / Christian Science Monitor:
Backlash grows against British award of knighthood to Salman Rushdie  —  Pakistani hard-line clerics respond with an award of their own to Osama bin Laden.  —  The award of a knighthood to Salman Rushdie, author of "The Satanic Verses," has prompted deep criticism from Egypt's parliament …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Reuters
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Faiz / Think Progress:
Breaking: Senate Judiciary Committee Authorizes Subpoenas For NSA Domestic Spying Documents  —  The Senate Judiciary Committee just voted 13-3 to authorize chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) to issue subpoenas for documents related to the NSA warrantless surveillance program.
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Ashcroft Tells of Surveillance Disputes
Discussion: Find Habeas and JURIST
Ulrike Putz / Spiegel Online:
A Visit to Fatah's Torture Chamber  —  A building formerly occupied by Fatah's intelligence service in Gaza was long notorious for torture and execution.  Now Hamas is in control — and is letting former inmates visit the chamber of horrors.  —  The cells are small, perhaps six feet by six feet …
Max Blumenthal:
The Film Take Back America Took Back  —  As a result of the attention surrounding my film about the 2007 Conservative Political Action Conference-it was a YouTube hit-the liberal Campaign for America's Future asked me to produce a similar video about their annual conference, Take Back America (TBA), held in Washington.
Roger Simon / The Politico:
Nader ponders run, calls Clinton 'coward'  —  Ralph Nader says he is seriously considering running for president in 2008 because he foresees another Tweedledum-Tweedledee election that offers little real choice to voters.  —  "You know the two parties are still converging …
Daniel Schulman / Mother Jones:
Meet the New Bosses  —  NEWS: After crashing the gate of the political establishment, bloggers are looking more like the next gatekeepers.  —  Last June, Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, former soldier, one-time Reagan Republican, and proprietor of the wildly successful liberal blog Daily Kos …
Discussion: TalkLeft
obama.senate.gov:
Obama Announces FY08 Federal Funding Requests  —  Discloses earmarks to improve government transparency  —  WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) today announced that he had requested federal funding for the following projects, in the amounts designated by his constituents …
Discussion: MSNBC and Bluey Blog
Atrios / Eschaton:
Torture  —  In a weird kind of way I actually sorta agree with Scalia.  It isn't that I think the Jack Bauer ticking time bomb scenario is a real one which would ever actually exist except in fiction, but it's reasoning like Scalia's which tells us precisely why we don't actually …
Discussion: Booman Tribune and The Talent Show
Scott Helman / Boston Globe:
Rival camps take aim at Romney's religion  —  Gathering for their April meeting at the county courthouse, Republican activists from Warren County, Iowa, planned for this summer's county fair and vented about illegal immigration.  —  And then the county chairman for Senator John McCain's …
Carl Levin / Washington Post:
Lincoln's Example for Iraq  —  In his only term in Congress, Abraham Lincoln was an ardent opponent of the Mexican War.  He introduced a series of resolutions that challenged President James Polk to show the "spot" of American soil on which Mexicans had spilled American blood …
 
 
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Imperial presidency declared null and void
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Edwards predicting big second-quarter drop-off
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Iraq Deaths Don't Mean Failure, Pace Says
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National Review:
Cornyn Says No  —  WASHINGTON— U.S. Sen. John Cornyn …
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
Edward P. Lazear / The Politico:
Let the market set gas prices
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