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11:20 PM ET, July 8, 2007

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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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ABCNEWS:
White House Subpoena Battle Escalates
Nico / Think Progress:
Conyers Raises Specter Of Impeachment, Highlights Support …
Discussion: QandO
Atrios / Eschaton:
Things I Don't Understand  —  What possible authority does …
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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Reuters:
Live Earth Internet streaming sets record: MSN  —  EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey (Reuters) - The Live Earth global pop concerts on Saturday broke a record for an online entertainment show by generating more than 9 million Internet streams, Microsoft Corp. Web portal MSN said.
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
Muqtada al Sadr back in Iran  —  Muqtada al-Sadr.  —  Mahdi Army leader leaves Iraq and goes to Iran for second time this year  —  Muqtada al Sadr, the leader of the Shia Mahdi Army and the Sadrist bloc in parliament, has left Iraq and is in Iran, military sources told Reuters.
Discussion: Agence France Presse
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Reuters:
Iraq's Sadr back in Iran - U.S. military sources  —  Source: Reuters  —  BAGHDAD, July 8 (Reuters) - Fiery Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has gone back to neighbouring Iran, U.S. military sources in Baghdad said on Sunday.  —  Earlier this year, U.S. officials said the anti-American cleric …
Chicago Sun Times:
CIA leak: Now it can be told  —  Sun-Times columnist and famous Washington insider Robert Novak is one of the most controversial political reporters in America.  In the sweeping memoir The Prince of Darkness, the private man opens up for the first time about his life and career.
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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Martha Deller / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
Three men in jail over bomb at church  —  Three Burleson men who belong to a "radical Christian activist group" were in the Johnson County Jail on Friday night after a church deacon caught two of them attempting to ignite an explosive device on Independence Day at a church under construction in north Burleson, authorities said Friday.
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Maha / The Mahablog:
The Wisdom of Doubt, Part V
Discussion: Guardian
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 …
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Edwards to announce poverty tour  —  Can JRE pull off a JFK, or an RFK (asks Politico chief political writer Mike Allen, who is sharing guestblogging duties while Ben is on vacation)?  John Edwards plans to announce Monday that he'll take a break from fund-raising and campaigning …
Discussion: protein wisdom and Sister Toldjah
Michael Daly / NY Daily News:
Son is Gore's Al-batross  —  With Al Gore in the news for battling global warming and Al Gore 3rd in the news for getting toasted, my favorite NYPD detective recalled a story that helps explain how father and son each became a particular kind of loser.  —  The story was told to the detective …
Thers / Firedoglake:
Face the Snark?  Face the Fred.  —  The past few few days have been chock full of fascinating info about Fred Thompson.  Thompson is of course the ungainly actor and undeclared GOP presidential aspirant who smells really nice, at least according to Chris Matthews.
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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.
Washington Post:
All Grown Up — and Going to War  —  July is a month I sincerely hoped would never come.  —  At the end of this month, my young son, my only child, deploys with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit.  His departure had been six months away, three months; now it is a matter of weeks.
Discussion: The Corner
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 …
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Why She Still Rocks  —  Madonna turns La Isla Bonita into a Roman Gypsy festival at Live Earth.  She's almost 50, for Pete's sake, and still experimenting.  As for Live Earth, I'm allergic to self-righteous pop-stars.  But it's still surely a great thing that two years …
 
 
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Jason Cowley, the editor-in-chief of UK magazine the New Statesman, is stepping down from the position at the end of December after 16 years

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