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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
White House Debate Rises on Iraq Pullback — White House officials fear that the last pillars of political support among Senate Republicans for President Bush's Iraq strategy are collapsing around them, according to several administration officials and outsiders they are consulting.
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Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:
'Scouting' the Hill on Iraq — National security adviser Stephen J. Hadley visited Capitol Hill just before Congress adjourned for the Fourth of July. Meetings with a half-dozen senior Republican senators were clearly intended to extinguish fires set by Sen. Richard Lugar's unexpected break from President Bush's Iraq policy.
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Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
Bush denies Congress access to aides — WASHINGTON - President Bush invoked executive privilege Monday to deny requests by Congress for testimony from two former aides about the firings of federal prosecutors. — The White House, however, did offer again to make former counsel Harriet Miers …
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Chris Good / The Hill:
Conyers demands answers on Libby commutation — House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) urged President Bush Sunday to waive executive privilege and let his lawyers testify in Congress on the commutation of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's prison sentence.
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Sean Wilentz / New York Times:
Mr. Cheney's Minority Report — Princeton, N.J. — TWENTY years ago this week, Lt. Col. Oliver North testified for six days before a special joint House and Senate investigating committee. Permitted by the Democratic majority to appear in his bemedaled Marine uniform …
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Job Vacancies At DHS Said To Hurt U.S. Preparedness — A Fourth of Top Positions Not Filled, Report Says — The Bush administration has failed to fill roughly a quarter of the top leadership posts at the Department of Homeland Security, creating a "gaping hole" in the nation's preparedness …
Michael J. Totten:
Syria Invades Lebanon — A few days ago Lebanese daily newspaper Al Mustaqbal quietly reported a limited Syrian invasion of Lebanon. (Via Naharnet.) … This happened immediately before I left town for two days. When I returned I was surprised to find no mention of this whatsoever anywhere else in the media.
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Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
Tunneling Near Iranian Nuclear Site Stirs Worry — The sudden flurry of digging seen in recent satellite photos of a mountainside in central Iran might have passed for ordinary road tunneling. But the site is the back yard of Iran's most ambitious and controversial nuclear facility …
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Mike Kaszuba / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Atheists applaud Ellison's views on Cheney, Libby, 9/11 — "You'll always find this Muslim standing up for your right to be atheists," he told the group. — Freshman Congressman Keith Ellison was among friends Sunday — in this case, a gathering of atheists — so his support for a fistful …
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West Virginia Metro News:
Hoppy's Commentary For Monday — Research shows West Virginia is tilting back toward blue for the 2008 presidential race. — A survey of 400 likely voters completed in May by the political consulting firm of Fabrizio, McLaughlin and Associates finds that if the election were held …
Russell Berman / New York Sun:
Fired McCain Aides May Be Hired by Thompson — WASHINGTON — The downsizing of Senator McCain's presidential campaign is coming at an opportune time for Fred Thompson, the former Tennessee senator who is likely to jump into the race officially any day now and seeking to build a campaign staff in the early primary states.
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
IMMIGRATION AND TERRORISM....Why do Islamic radicals mount so many terrorist attacks in Europe and so few in the United States? After all, we're the Great Satan, aren't we? McClatchy reports: … I wish this could be stapled on the foreheads of Tom Tancredo and every one of his immigration-hating dittoheads in Congress.
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
A Blog That Made It Big — The Huffington Post, Trending Up and Left — NEW YORK — In the high-ceilinged SoHo offices that once housed an art gallery, Rachel Sklar is juggling a slew of stories destined for the virtual pages of the Huffington Post. — There's her interview with author Gay Talese …
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Voters Excited Over '08 Campaign; Tired of It, Too — "I'm afraid we are going to get tired of all this hoop-de-la," said Kathy Shaffer, an elementary school teacher from Clear Lake, Iowa. "It is too much for too long.You get tired of it. You put mute on the commercials."
Bushra Juhi / Associated Press:
Iraqi FM: Turkey massing 140,000 troops — BAGHDAD - Turkey has massed 140,000 soldiers on its border with northern Iraq, Iraq's foreign minister said Monday, calling the neighboring country's fears of Kurdish rebels based there "legitimate" but better resolved through negotiation.
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