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10:35 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 …
Jesse Lee / The Gavel:
Oversight Committee on the Vice President and Classified Information  —  From the Oversight and Government Reform Committee: … * Letter from National Archives to the Attorney General (pdf)  —  * Second Letter from National Archives to the Vice President's Office (pdf)
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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
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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David Stout / New York Times:
Senate Approves Stricter Fuel Standards for Autos  —  The Senate voted this evening to raise fuel-economy requirements for cars and sport utility vehicles, demanding that they get 35 miles per gallon by 2020.  —  The lawmakers first announced their agreement on raising the standards …
Discussion: Cliff Schecter and Flopping Aces
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Manu Raju / The Hill:
Senate Dems fight for energy bill amid intra-party, GOP concerns
Discussion: The Huffington Post
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
ABCNEWS:   Deputy AG Says He Was Kept Out of the Loop on U.S. Attorney Firings
Geoffrey Wheatcroft / Slate:
RUSHDIE'S KNIGHTHOOD REIGNITES "SALMANOPHOBIA" AT HOME AND ABROAD.  —  "I am delighted for him," Ian McEwan said, when told that his friend and fellow novelist Salman Rushdie had been knighted.  "He's a wonderful writer, and this sends a firm message to the book-burners and their appeasers."
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Dan Murphy / Christian Science Monitor:
Backlash grows against British award of knighthood to Salman Rushdie
Discussion: Reuters and The Moderate Voice
Scott McLemee / Jobs, News and Views …:
Mass Culture 2.0  —  This month, Encyclopedia Britannica's blog is serializing a commentary on the cultural effects of Web 2.0.  The author, Michael Gorman, is dean of library services at California State University at Fresno and a former president of the American Library Association.
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Henry / Crooked Timber:
Neo-Luddite Quasi-Mandarins
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 …
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.
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 …
Deacon / Power Line:
WHERE BIAS AND CLUELESSNESS INTERSECT  —  MSNBC features a report on the campaign contributions by MSM journalists.  The report is based on the public records of the Federal Election Commission.  I doubt anyone will be surprised to learn that of the 144 journalists who made political contributions …
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
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 …
Jonathan Singer / MyDD:
MyDD Interview with Nancy Pelosi  —  Yesterday morning, Wednesday June 20, I had the opportunity to sit down for a few minutes with the Speaker of the United States House, Nancy Pelosi.  —  During the interview, which immediately followed Speaker Pelosi's speech at the Take Back America conference …
 
 
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