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4:25 PM ET, June 27, 2007

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Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
White House, Cheney's office, subpoenaed  —  WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee subpoenaed the White House and Vice President Dick Cheney's office Wednesday for documents relating to President Bush's warrant-free eavesdropping program.  —  Also named in subpoenas signed …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Dems force Cheney to flip-flop on secret docs  —  Dick Cheney's office is abandoning a justification for keeping the Vice-President's secret papers out of the hands of the National Archives.  —  Officials working for Cheney had tried to claim he is separate from the executive branch …
leahy.senate.gov:
U.S. SENATOR PATRICK LEAHY  —  CONTACT: Office of Senator Leahy, 202-224-4242  —  VERMONT  —  Senate Judiciary Committee Issues Subpoenas  —  For Legal Basis Of Bush Administration's  —  Domestic Surveillance Program  —  Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) …
Discussion: On Deadline
Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
SJC Wants WH, DOJ's Own "Family Jewels"  —  The CIA's declassification of its "family jewels" — decades-old files on scandals past — may have attracted a ton of attention, but the Senate Judiciary Committee this afternoon subpoenaed the Bush administration's family jewels …
Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
Cheney Aide Explains Stance on Classified Material  —  Vice President Cheney's office offered its first public written explanation yesterday for its refusal to comply with an executive order regulating the handling of classified material, arguing that the order makes clear that the vice president …
Yahoo! News:
Feds talk to another ex-Doolittle aide  — Feds talk to another ex-Doolittle aide  —  WASHINGTON - California GOP Rep. John Doolittle's former legislative director said Wednesday he was recently contacted by federal investigators in their probe of Doolittle's ties to jailed lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Discussion: Wizbang
White House:
Press Briefing by Tony Snow
Discussion: First Draft
Think Progress:
Senate Conservatives Aggressively Obstructing Critical Legislation  —  Senate conservatives in the 110th Congress are obstructing and blocking legislation at a rate more than double that of the past two Congresses combined.  —  During the first six months of the current Congress …
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Gateway Pundit:
MASS RIOTING Against the Regime in Iran (Video!)  —  RIOTING IN IRAN!!  —  The latest gas crisis has the people rioting against the Regime!  —  ** Report: Upset crowds set fire to some 50 gas stations in Tehran!  —  ** Another Report: "The Situation is Out of Control!"  —  Video from a Leftist Iranian website.
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Boston Globe:
Journeys of a shared life  —  Raising sons, rising expectations bring unexpected turns  —  The five Romney boys each had their own profiles within the family.  As Tagg would later describe his brothers, Matt was "the jokester, always pushing people's buttons" and Josh was "the typical middle child …
Discussion: MSNBC
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Ana Marie Cox / TIME: Swampland:   Romney's Shaggy Dog Story
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP preps for talk radio confrontation  —  House Republican lawmakers are preparing to fight anticipated Democratic efforts to regulate talk radio by reviving rules requiring stations to balance conservative hosts such as Rush Limbaugh with liberals such as Al Franken.
Russell Berman / New York Sun:
Giuliani Gets a Standing Ovation At a Christian College  —  VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Mayor Giuliani's battle to win over social conservatives in the Republican Party may not be the impossible task that many political pundits have predicted.  —  That certainly appeared to be the case yesterday …
Discussion: race42008.com
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Wayne Barrett / Village Voice:   No Wafer for Rudy  —  Giuliani campaigns as a Catholic, but he's on the outs with God
Washington Times:
'Amnesty' fake papers pledged in wiretap  —  ONLINE EXCLUSIVE:  —  The head of a Mexican forgery ring was convinced he could make phony documents that illegal aliens could use to indicate fraudulently that they were eligible for a new amnesty, says a government affidavit recounting wiretapped phone calls the man made.
Discussion: Freedom Folks
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
PHARMA, PART 2....Andrew Sullivan returns to the Big Pharma debate today, stepping back a bit from yesterday's claim that European pharma companies have been "decimated" by Europe's widespread adoption of universal healthcare.  And a good thing too.  After all, the market for pharmaceuticals is global.
The Atlantic Online:
Too Little, Too Late  —  It's frustrating to see this level of attention given by the MSM and the Huffington Post alike to the theory that GOP Senators are taking on Bush over the war.  I was writing about this yesterday and have a Guardian column out about it but we're way past the point for this kind of B.S.
Tomoeh Murakami Tse / Washington Post:
Buffett Slams Tax System Disparities  —  Speech Raises at Least $1 Million for Clinton Campaign  —  Warren E. Buffett was his usual folksy self Tuesday night at a fundraiser for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as he slammed a system that allows the very rich to pay taxes at a lower rate than the middle class.
 
 
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Jeremy Redmon / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Judge: No bond for Genarlow Wilson
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National Review:
Stabbed In the Back  —  Ross Douthat keeps giving credence to this …
Jim Snyder / The Hill:
MoveOn depicts Dingell as a dinosaur
James Gerstenzang / Los Angeles Times:
Bush condemns radical Muslims in visit to mosque
Michelle Malkin:
Shamnesty on the Senate Floor Redux: Hutchison, Webb, Bond …
hrc.org:
BUSH ISSUES VETO THREAT FOR D.C. APPROPRIATIONS BILL OVER DOMESTIC PARTNER REGISTRY
David Weigel / Reason Magazine:
John Mackey: Libertarian Fascist?
David Barboza / New York Times:
In Food Safety Crackdown, China Closes 180 Plants
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CBS News:
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The Cheney Irony  —  I'm a longtime member of a pretty select group …
 

 
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