memeorandum: Exodus Continues: More Staff To Leave Team Thompson (The Atlantic Online)

7:10 PM ET, July 26, 2007

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A STATEMENT FROM SCOTT THOMAS BEAUCHAMP: — As we've noted in this space, some have questioned details that appeared in the Diarist "Shock Troops," published under the pseudonym Scott Thomas. According to Major Kirk Luedeke, a public affairs officer at Forward Operating Base Falcon …

Ace of Spades HQ:

Source: TNR Is A Lot More Worried Than They're Letting On; Scott Thomas Got His Job For Plame-ish Reasons — There's actually more to this. Let's just say TNR are playing the hard guys. As a for instance, someone was searching for all of "Gracie's" posts at discarded lies last night.

Discussion: JunkYardBlog, Jeff Emanuel, The Jawa Report, Little Green Footballs, Redstate, Wizbang, Riehl World View and Townhall.com

Michelle Malkin:

"Scott Thomas" steps out of the shadows Update: The blog of "Sir Real Scott Thomas" Update: His MySpace page Update The soon-to-be wife of Scott Thomas Beauchamp? — Update 5:30pm Eastern. See-Dubya answers the "so what?" question about Beauchamp/Reeve. — Update 4:15pm Eastern.

Discussion: Townhall.com, JunkYardBlog, protein wisdom, The Corner, Riehl World View, Taylor Marsh, Op For, BLACKFIVE, Balloon Juice, INSTAPUTZ, Betsy's Page and Sister Toldjah

Pundit Review Radio / BLACKFIVE:
PRIVATE BEAUCHAMP- REQUIEM FOR A DUNG BEETLE

Discussion: Riehl World View and Balloon Juice

The Corner:
Everybody Chill Out — The issue with Scott Thomas Beauchamp …

Discussion: Riehl World View

Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
The Scott Thomas Fooferaw

Discussion: Washington Monthly

Bryan / Hot Air:
Scott Thomas revealed; Update: So is his blog

Discussion: protein wisdom, Townhall.com, baldilocks, Neptunus Lex, IMAO, The Jawa Report, Sadly, No!, Winds of Change.NET, Little Green Footballs and Solomonia

The Atlantic Online:
Scott Thomas Revealed

Discussion: The Corner, The Carpetbagger Report, Townhall.com, Obsidian Wings and TalkLeft

Klaus Marre / The Hill:

Leahy issues subpoena for Rove — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Thursday issued a subpoena for top White House adviser Karl Rove to compel him to testify about the firing of several U.S. attorneys. — "The evidence shows that senior White House political operatives …

Discussion: Comments From Left Field, The BRAD BLOG and AMERICAblog

CNN:

FBI director appears to contradict Gonzales — WASHINGTON (CNN) — FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress Thursday that the confrontation between then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales and then-Attorney General John Ashcroft in Ashcroft's hospital room in 2004 concerned …

Discussion: The Gavel, On Deadline, Middle Earth Journal, USA Today, The Heretik and Comments From Left Field

Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:

BREAKING: Senate Committee Issues Subpoenas to Rove and Deputy — Finally, the big one. — The Senate Judiciary Committee issued two more subpoenas as part of the U.S. attorney firings investigation today: one for Karl Rove and the other for his deputy, Scott Jennings.

Discussion: U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy, Think Progress, The Carpetbagger Report, Talking Points Memo, Campaign for America's Future and Shakespeare's Sister

Faiz / Think Progress:

Senators Call For Appointment Of Special Counsel To Investigate Gonzales For Perjury — At a news conference this afternoon, four members of the Senate Judiciary Committee called for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate Alberto Gonzales on perjury charges.

Discussion: CNN Political Ticker, feingold.senate.gov, At-Largely, The Carpetbagger Report, Outside The Beltway, Brilliant at Breakfast, Washington Post and Washington Monthly

Jesse Lee / The Gavel:
AG Gonzales Contradicted by FBI Director Mueller

Discussion: Think Progress, Firedoglake, The Carpetbagger Report and Needlenose

Bob Geiger:
Text Of Senate Letter Calling For Special Counsel On Gonzales

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, DownWithTyranny! and Discourse.net

Paul Kane / Associated Press:
Senate Democrats Call for Perjury Probe of Gonzales

Discussion: All Spin Zone

Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
BREAKING: A Call For Action On Gonzales

Discussion: The Next Hurrah and litbrit

Chris Cillizza / The Fix:

Matalin Sticking With Fred Thompson — Rumors are flying about more senior level departures from the unofficial presidential campaign of former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.). — But The Fix can knock down one of the major ones: Mary Matalin, a former adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney …

Discussion: Power Line, Captain's Quarters, race42008.com, Wonkette, Sister Toldjah, Los Angeles Times, Hot Air and Ian Schwartz

The Atlantic Online:
Exodus Continues: More Staff To Leave Team Thompson

Discussion: Washington Post, National Review and race42008.com

Glenn Greenwald / Salon:

Joe Klein and Beltway seriousness — Joe Klein today responds to my post from earlier this morning — regarding Joe Lieberman, John Hagee and Seriousness — without expressly acknowledging that he is doing so. He all but quotes my post at length and says he is responding to the use of the word …

Discussion: Eschaton, TalkLeft, Rising Hegemon and Unqualified Offerings

Joe Klein / TIME: Swampland:

Epithets I Have Known — Some epithets are really quite brilliant: wanker, for example, with its intimations of onanistic futility, is one of the best. (But then, the Brits, who invented the term, are so much more elegant than we are when it comes to the creative use of the mother tongue.)

Fred File:

Hazleton Immigraton Decision — Most Americans want something to be done about the illegal immigration problem we have in this country. They've been expecting the federal government to enforce the immigration laws already on the books. The federal government hasn't done that …

Discussion: Pawatercooler.com

Devlin Barrett / Associated Press:

Gates seeks to calm feud with Clinton — WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton that a top Pentagon official did not intend to impugn her patriotism by suggesting that questions about U.S. planning in Iraq boosts enemy propaganda.

Discussion: Main and Central, Watching Those We Chose and Dick Polman's American Debate

Jesse Lee / The Gavel:

Oversight Hearing on US Embassy in Iraq — The Oversight Committee is currently holding a hearing, "Allegations of Waste, Fraud, and Abuse at the New U.S. Embassy in Iraq." The hearing will examine the performance of the State Department and its contractors in the construction of the new $600 million U.S. embassy in Baghdad.

Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Big Brass Blog

Jean Edward Smith / New York Times:

Stacking the Court — WHEN a majority of Supreme Court justices adopt a manifestly ideological agenda, it plunges the court into the vortex of American politics. If the Roberts court has entered voluntarily what Justice Felix Frankfurter once called the "political thicket," it may require a political solution to set it straight.