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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Senator May Seek Gonzales Perjury Probe — Leahy Sets Deadline For Revised Testimony — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy threatened yesterday to request a perjury investigation of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, as Democrats said an intelligence official's statement …
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New York Times:
Defying the Imperial Presidency — The House Judiciary Committee did its duty yesterday, voting to cite Harriet Miers, the former White House counsel, and Joshua Bolten, the White House chief of staff, for contempt. The Bush administration has been acting lawlessly in refusing to hand …
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Waxman seeks RNC e-mails from White House Counsel Fielding
Waxman seeks RNC e-mails from White House Counsel Fielding
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Did Gonzo Lie? — Alberto Gonzales performed poorly as a witness …
Did Gonzo Lie? — Alberto Gonzales performed poorly as a witness …
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Omerta — YouTube of Bill Moyers and Jon Stewart discussing …
Omerta — YouTube of Bill Moyers and Jon Stewart discussing …
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
LEAKING AGAINST GONZALES — Paul writes below about Alberto …
LEAKING AGAINST GONZALES — Paul writes below about Alberto …
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The New Republic:
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 …
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
SCOTT THOMAS SPEAKS — "The editors" of the New Republic have posted a statement from the soldier formerly known as Scott Thomas — he now identifies himself as Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp — with this preface: … Scott Thomas Beauchamp writes:
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John Solomon / Washington Post:
No Easy Verdict on Thompson The Lawyer — Cases Indicate Willingness to Defy GOP Orthodoxy — Before he was elected as a tough-on-crime U.S. senator from Tennessee or played a New York prosecutor on TV's "Law and Order," Fred Dalton Thompson worked as a lawyer who argued …
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Mark Murray / MSNBC:
Fred, interrupted — From NBC's Carrie Dann
Fred, interrupted — From NBC's Carrie Dann
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Jackie Calmes / Wall Street Journal:
McCain's Media Team Resigns, Futher Shaking Up Campaign — WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain's well-known media team has resigned, an indication that his campaign shake-up is continuing to backfire and imperiling the Arizona Republican's presidential candidacy.
Karl / Press Esc:
US Senators call for universal Internet filtering — Submitted by Adam Thomas on Wed, 2007-07-25 20:47. - Americas - Tech - United States - News — US senators today made a bipartisan call for the universal implementation of filtering and monitoring technologies on the Internet in order …
Washington Post:
War Crimes and the White House — The Dishonor in a Tortured New 'Interpretation' of the Geneva Conventions — One of us was appointed commandant of the Marine Corps by President Ronald Reagan; the other served as a lawyer in the Reagan White House and has vigorously defended the constitutionality …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
As regular readers... IMPEACHMENT? — As regular readers of this site know, I've always been against the movement to impeach President Bush. I take this position not because he hasn't done plenty to merit it. My reasons are practical. Minor reasons are that it's late in the president's term …
Harry Reid / Washington Post:
The Senate on Iraq: No 'Phony Debate' — On reading the July 21 editorial "The Phony Debate," it became clear why The Post's editorial writers have been such eager cheerleaders for the Bush administration's flawed Iraq policies — the two share the same disregard for the facts en route to drawing dubious conclusions.
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Michael Cieply / New York Times:
While Real Bullets Fly, Movies Bring War Home — LOS ANGELES, July 25 — On a night four years ago, five soldiers back from three months in Iraq went drinking at a Hooters restaurant and a topless bar near Fort Benning, Ga. — Before the night was over, one of them, Specialist Richard R. Davis …
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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.
James Taranto / Opinion Journal:
'It Didn't Happen' — Democrats go soft on crimes against humanity. — Barack Obama's latest pronouncement on Iraq should have shocked the conscience. In an interview with the Associated Press last week, the freshman Illinois senator and Democratic presidential candidate opined …
Jamie McIntyre / CNN:
General's rank could be reduced in Tillman probe — WASHINGTON (CNN) — A retired three-star general criticized for misleading investigators probing the controversial death of Cpl. Pat Tillman could be stripped of a star and face a decrease in retirement pension, Pentagon officials told CNN.
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