memeorandum: Leahy Says He May Seek Charge Of Contempt Against President (Lyndsey Layton/Washington Post)

12:55 PM ET, July 2, 2007

Top Items:

Obama Takes Lead In Money Raised — Pressure on Clinton Is Expected to Grow — Sen. Barack Obama raised $31 million for his presidential primary campaign over the past three months, surging past Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's fundraising machine by nearly $10 million for the quarter …

Discussion: Washington Times, Los Angeles Times, Captain's Quarters, Washington Monthly, CNN, The Carpetbagger Report, The Atlantic Online, National Review, JammieWearingFool and Liberal Values

Kristin Jensen / Bloomberg:

Obama Taps Internet, Small Donors to Top Clinton's Fundraising — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is dominating presidential fundraising, raising the most money and bringing in far more contributors than rivals such as Hillary Clinton, who leads in national polls.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, The Politico and MSNBC

Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun Times:
Obama leads — in cash

Discussion: TIME, Taegan Goddard's … and The Politico

Ben Smith / The Politico: Primary money — The money that counts in a Democratic primary …

New York Times:

In Hunt for Bomb Plotters, Britain Sees a Qaeda Link — With their investigation moving at breakneck speed, the police expanded their hunt on Sunday for the plotters of attempted car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow that the British government called the work of terrorists linked to Al Qaeda.

Discussion: The Reaction, neo-neocon, Gateway Pundit and JammieWearingFool

David Smith / Times of London:

Two more arrests in hunt for terror cell — Seven suspects are now in custody over the attempted terror attacks in Glasgow and London after it emerged that two men, aged 28 and 25, were arrested last night in the Paisley area, near Glasgow. — Today, the first suspect to be identified …

Discussion: Secular Blasphemy

New York Times:
Britain Arrests Two More in Car Bomb Plot

Discussion: Telegraph, Hot Air, Guardian and The Atlantic Online

Daily Mail:
Two doctors held over bomb attacks

Discussion: QandO, Stubborn Facts, Babalu Blog, StrategyPage, Captain's Quarters and PoliPundit.com

Peter Baker / Washington Post:

A President Besieged and Isolated, Yet at Ease — Bush, Grasping for Answers and Fixated on Iraq, Remains Resolute — At the nadir of his presidency, George W. Bush is looking for answers. One at a time or in small groups, he summons leading authors, historians, philosophers and theologians …

Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Presidential Pity Party

Discussion: Eschaton and Prometheus 6

ABCNEWS:

Secret Document: U.S. Fears Terror 'Spectacular' Planned — Official Cites Resemblance to Warnings and Intelligence Before 9/11 — A secret U.S. law enforcement report, prepared for the Department of Homeland Security, warns that al Qaeda is planning a terror "spectacular" this summer …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, The Jawa Report, Jules Crittenden, The Radio Equalizer, Booman Tribune, AMERICAblog, Blogs for Bush, Alternate Brain, Brilliant at Breakfast, The American Street and Macsmind

James Joyner / Outside The Beltway: Al Qaeda Terror 'Spectacular' This Summer

John O'Callaghan / Reuters:
U.S. plays down report of imminent al Qaeda attack

Discussion: michellemalkin.com and Jules Crittenden

Washington Post:
Impunity for al-Qaeda — The Implications of a Bad Ruling on 'Unlawful Enemy Combatants'

Discussion: Firedoglake

Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:

U.S. Ties Iranians to Iraq Attack That Killed G.I.'s — Iranian operatives helped plan a January raid in Karbala in which five American soldiers were killed, an American military spokesman in Iraq said today. — Brig. Gen. Kevin J. Bergner, the military spokesman, also said that Iran's …

Discussion: Hot Air, Gateway Pundit, The Strata-Sphere, The American Street and Prairie Weather

Glenn Greenwald / Salon:

Michael Gordon trains his stenographer weapons on Iran — The Bush administration's most reliable pro-surge "reporter," Michael Gordon of The New York Times, this morning filed an article — headlined: "U.S. Ties Iranians to Iraq Attack That Killed G.I.'s" — that might be the most war-fueling article yet with regard to Iran.

Discussion: TalkLeft

Michael Ware / CNN:
Officials: Hezbollah agent helped plan Iraq raid

Discussion: Defense Tech

isna.ir:

ISNA - Tehran — TEHRAN, July 02 (ISNA)-Writer, producer and director, Michael Moore is to come to Iran for the screening of his new production SICKO in the first international documentary film festival held here. — This festival will be held from the 15th to the 19th of October in Tehran.

Discussion: Hot Air and theneweditor.com

Austan Goolsbee / Slate:

Michael Moore and the Beige Bomber — HE'S GOT THE INDICTMENT OF HEALTH CARE RIGHT, BUT NOT THE FIX. — Michael Moore's shtick cracks me up. As entertainment, most of his movies are great fun. In Sicko, though, he goes beyond his usual ranting. After spending the first half …

Discussion: Ezra Klein and EconLog

Jeralyn / TalkLeft:

Praise for "The Second Chance Act" — The New York Times today endorses "The Second Chance Act." — America has become a prison nation. More than 2 million people are behind bars. There is a better solution. Some states have already found it.

Discussion: QandO

New York Times:
A Much-Needed Second Chance

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns and Money

Sharon Waxman / New York Times:

Al Gore's Top-Secret Access for the Final 'Sopranos' Episode — Who knew that tree-hugging ex-politicians loved "The Sopranos"? It turns out that Al Gore is a die-hard fan, but when the series finale loomed in early June, he and his wife, Tipper, had to be on a plane for an appearance in Istanbul.

Discussion: Think Progress and PrawfsBlawg

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:

Just Getting Warmed Up — MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' Scarborough, Undiluted in the A.M. — SECAUCUS, N.J. — At a horseshoe-shaped desk in an aircraft hangar of a studio, Joe Scarborough jokes with his sidekicks during the commercial breaks, and when the red light comes on, keeps chatting without so much as a "welcome back."

CNN Political Ticker:

Appeals court rejects Libby's bid for bail — WASHINGTON (CNN) — A federal appeals court Monday rejected former White House aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby's request to remain free on bond while appealing his March conviction on perjury and obstruction of justice charges.

David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:

As Senator Rose, Lobbying Became Family Affair — On Christmas Eve 1994, Fred D. Thompson Jr. was out of a job. A 34-year-old self-described late bloomer, Mr. Thompson had graduated from law school just two years before and practiced law only for his father, Fred D. Thompson Sr. …