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5:30 PM ET, July 8, 2007

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David Leppard / Times of London:
Car bombs are linked with Iraq's Al-Qaeda  —  AT least one of the suspects being quizzed over the alleged plot to set off car bombs in Britain was in recent contact with Al-Qaeda in Iraq, senior security officials said yesterday.  —  Scotland Yard's Counter Terrorism Command SO15 is understood …
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Clark Hoyt / New York Times:
Seeing Al Qaeda Around Every Corner  —  AS domestic support for the war in Iraq continues to melt away, President Bush and the United States military in Baghdad are increasingly pointing to a single villain on the battlefield: Al Qaeda.  —  Bush mentioned the terrorist group 27 times …
Scarecrow / Firedoglake:
NYT Misses Essential Step In Ending the Iraq Occupation
Discussion: Corrente and The Next Hurrah
Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
Why Bush Gave Scooter Libby a Pass  —  As is often the case in the Bush White House, it was a decision made swiftly, and with stealth.  For weeks, allies of I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby had aggressively lobbied the president to pardon Dick Cheney's former chief of staff.
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Atrios / Eschaton:
Things I Don't Understand  —  What possible authority does the White House have to try to prevent a former employee from testifying about something?  How can the White House "not let her" testify?  —  Obviously if she doesn't want to testify they can play legal games to try to prevent …
Nico / Think Progress:
Conyers Raises Specter Of Impeachment, Highlights Support For Removing Bush And Cheney  —  This morning on ABC's This Week, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) highlighted the new American Research Group poll showing that nearly half of Americans want the House of Representatives …
Discussion: QandO
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
White House Will Deny New Request In Attorneys Probe
ABCNEWS:
White House Subpoena Battle Escalates
Sarah Baxter / Times of London:
Powell tried to talk Bush out of war  —  THE former American secretary of state Colin Powell has revealed that he spent 2½ hours vainly trying to persuade President George W Bush not to invade Iraq and believes today's conflict cannot be resolved by US forces.
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Faiz / Think Progress:
'I tried to avoid this war.'  —  Former Secretary of State Colin Powell revealed that he spent 2.5 hours "vainly trying to persuade President George W. Bush not to invade Iraq and believes today's conflict cannot be resolved by U.S. forces.  'I tried to avoid this war,' Powell said at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado.
Joel Gibson / Sydney Morning Herald:
Fifty bucks for a beer?  It was Livid Earth in Sydney  —  Cool start ... scientists from the British research station in Antarctica were the first to kick off the Live Earth concerts with their indie band, Nunatak.  —  Out front, Crowded House were getting reacquainted …
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Robert Sandall / Times of London:
Live Earth fails to pack large-scale punch  —  It did what it said on the poster - but no more.  The British leg of Live Earth started at 1.30 pm sharp with a thunderous five-minute drum fanfare by a 20-odd troupe of flailing percussionists, battering a miscellany of ethnic skinned instruments.
Glenda Cooper / Washington Post:
Live Earth London's Glacial Pacing
Discussion: Tim Blair
Angela K. Brown / Associated Press:
Sheehan considers challenge to Pelosi  —  CRAWFORD, Texas - Six weeks after announcing her departure from the peace movement, Cindy Sheehan said Sunday that she plans to run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unless she introduces articles of impeachment against President Bush in the next two weeks.
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Smelly Journalism Dept: Fred Thompson's Wife  —  To those of you who roll your eyes and groan when you hear people go on and on about the biased news media that injects its personal opinions into news stories and peppers them with assumptions that the writer more than "critics say" seems to hold, roll your eyes no longer.
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Florida Times Union:
Files show talks on 'vote caging'  —  Discussions with elections chief were prior to '04 election  —  TALLAHASSEE - Internal city memos show the issue of Republican "vote caging" efforts in Jacksonville's African-American neighborhoods was discussed in the weeks before the 2004 election …
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Sen. Schumer says they are thinking of calling Patrick Fitzgerald in for questioning  —  While talking about the Scooter Libby commutation on Face the Nation, Sen. Schumer said he talked to Pat Leahy about calling Patrick Fitzgerald in for questioning about Bush and Cheney because they didn't talk …
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Getting Closer To Omar  —  Pakistan announced the capture of senior Taliban figures, including two close aides to Mullah Omar, just a few hours ago.  Security forces captured four high-value targets in two raids in the city of Quetta: … Pervez Musharraf survived another assassination attempt …
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Charles Haviland / BBC:
Pakistan arrests 'Taleban aides'
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere
Chuck Plunkett / Denver Post:
Back-to-back Colo. fundraisers for Sen. Clinton  —  Aspen - Sen. Hillary Clinton drew powerful, deep-pocketed crowds at a pair of fundraisers here Saturday, speaking at length on issues from health care to the environment to removing American troops from Iraq.
 
 
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MSNBC:
'Meet the Press' transcript for July 8, 2007
Discussion: CBS News
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
Her Jewish State  —  Soon after our first meeting in her Spartan office …
Discussion: Power Line
Martha Deller / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
Three men in jail over bomb at church
Albert R. Hunt Bloomberg / Bloomberg:
Letter from Washington: Why Bloomberg can't win
David Levinsky / MSNBC:
Suicidal gunman 'angry at the government'
Bruce Lambert / New York Times:
So Far, Both Sides in Suffolk Tax and Immigration Impasse Are Ahead
BBC:
Farewell to a changed, subtle Iran
Discussion: USS Neverdock
Ynetnews:
US closer to cracking Iran's nuclear secrets
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere
 Earlier Items: 
David R. Dow / Houston Chronicle:
But what about my client, Mr. Bush?  —  Reformed killer denied …
Discussion: TalkLeft
Liberty / Corrente:
Come Home America
James Love / The Huffington Post:
Nuclear Profileration as a campaign issue
Washington Post:
Administration Shaving Yardstick for Iraq Gains
Byron York / Washington Post:
Base to Bush: It's Over
Alasdair Palmer / Telegraph:
Not in their name?
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Declaration of Dependence  —  Some mornings during the autumn of 1933 …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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Bloomberg:
A look at the challenges facing Crunchyroll, as current and ex-staffers say its management is out of touch, amid Disney and Netflix's expansion into anime

Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
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