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1:00 PM ET, June 26, 2007

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Sally Quinn / Washington Post:
A GOP Plan To Oust Cheney  —  The big question right now among Republicans is how to remove Vice President Cheney from office.  Even before this week's blockbuster series in The Post, discontent in Republican ranks was rising.  —  As the reputed architect of the war in Iraq …
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blog.washingtonpost.com:
A Strong Push From Back Stage  —  Air Force Two touched down at the Greenbrier Valley Airport in West Virginia on Feb. 6, 2003, carrying Vice President Cheney to the annual retreat of Republican House and Senate leaders.  He had come to sell them on the economic centerpiece of President Bush's first term: a $674 billion tax cut.
Rick Klein / Political Radar:
Bush Calls Immigration Bill "Amnesty"  —  ABC News' Rick Klein reports: President Bush has spent a whole lot of time in recent months claiming that the immigration bill isn't "amnesty."  —  But in describing the measure Tuesday morning, an apparent slip of the tongue suggested otherwise …
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CNN:
Lugar urges Bush to change course on Iraq … WASHINGTON (CNN) — Republican support for President Bush's Iraq war policy suffered a significant crack Monday evening when Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana urged the president to change course in Iraq "very soon."
Washington Times:
Rough road ahead for immigration bill  —  Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times From left, Republican Sens. John Cornyn of Texas, Jeff Sessions of Alabama and Jim DeMint of South Carolina voiced their opposition to the immigration-reform bill yesterday on Capitol Hill.
David Rogers / Wall Street Journal:
Republicans Add Further Pressure On White House  —  WASHINGTON — President Bush faced a double barrel of dissent from Republicans who challenged the administration to change course on its two biggest initiatives at home and abroad: immigration policy and the Iraq war.
Michelle Malkin:
Shamnesty on the Senate Floor, Take 2 Plus: Is your senator …
The Hill:
Secrecy may cost Cheney, Dems warn  —  By By Elana Schor and Mike Soraghan  —  Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) yesterday warned Dick Cheney that his office would risk losing its budget unless the vice president agrees to follow a presidential directive ordering the protection of classified information.
Discussion: Think Progress and Secrecy News
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The Cheese Stands Alone
Faiz / Think Progress:   FLASHBACK: Cheney Argued Energy Task Force Probe 'Interfered With Executive Branch'
Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
MSNBC's David Shuster Grills A Cheney Apologist
Discussion: The Next Hurrah and The Sideshow
James Taranto / Opinion Journal:
The Truth About Guantanamo  —  Proposals to treat detainees as criminal defendants make a mockery of international humanitarian law.  —  Was it wishful thinking?  On Thursday the Associated Press reported that, according to sources it did not name, "the Bush administration is nearing …
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ACLU:
What You Should Know About Habeas Corpus
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Morris D. Davis / New York Times:
The Guantánamo I Know  —  LINDSEY GRAHAM, a Republican senator …
Discussion: ACLU and TalkLeft
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Standards of American justice under George W. Bush
Discussion: ABC News
Roxana Tiron / The Hill:
Out-of-Afghanistan rumblings on the Hill  —  When they won control of Congress in November, Democrats pressed their case to withdraw troops from Iraq and refocus on Afghanistan, but some are growing impatient with U.S. operations in Afghanistan as well.  —  A few congressional Democrats …
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New York Times:
Justices Loosen Ad Restrictions in Campaign Finance Law  —  The Supreme Court on Monday took a sharp turn away from campaign finance regulation, opening a wide exception to the advertising restrictions that it upheld when the McCain-Feingold law first came before it four years ago.
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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
How the GOP Could Win  —  There are two ways to predict the winner of the 2008 presidential race: Check the polls or read some history.  The polls tell you that with George Bush's approval ratings abysmally low; with the war in Iraq becoming increasingly unpopular; with the GOP lacking a dominant candidate …
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Cage Match: Did Griffin Try to Disenfranchise African-American Voters in 2004?  —  For years, Tim Griffin, the former aide to Karl Rove who's been at the center of the U.S. attorney controversy, has been dogged by allegations that he was a part of a 2004 scheme to block African-Americans in Florida from voting.
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Judge Discusses Details of Work On Secret Court  —  At 3 a.m. on Aug. 8, 1998, the day after the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the chief judge of a special court that supervises applications under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was awakened at home in order …
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Bending Congressional Ears  —  Back in September of 2006, around the time that the provisions gutting habeas were passed in the Senate, former Reagan Justice official Bruce Fein was interviewed on The Newshour on PBS in a discussion opposite David Rivkin, who served as the designated Bush Administration policy promoter.
Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
Iraqi Youth Face Lasting Scars of War  —  Conflict's Psychological Impact on Children Is Immense, Experts Say  —  BAGHDAD — Marwa Hussein watched as gunmen stormed into her home and executed her parents.  Afterward, her uncle brought her to the Alwiya Orphanage, a high-walled compound nestled …
 
 
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White House:
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National Review:
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Discussion: Ezra Klein
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