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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 …

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, TalkLeft, National Review, Brian Beutler, Gateway Pundit, Weekly Standard, CBS News, FP Passport, Argghhh!, QandO, Sister Toldjah and mediabistro.com

Michelle Malkin:

"Scott Thomas" steps out of the shadows Update: The blog of "Sir Real Scott Thomas" Update: His MySpace page — Here he is... Update: A bit of the revealing poetry of Scott Thomas Beauchamp... Cassandra at Villanous Company has a must-read on the consequences of Beauchamp's words in TNR and TNR's expediency:

Discussion: The Corner, protein wisdom, Townhall.com, Riehl World View and Taylor Marsh

Bryan / Hot Air:

Scott Thomas revealed; Update: So is his blog — He's Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp, a member of Alpha Company, 1/18 Infantry, Second Brigade Combat Team, First Infantry Division. He's also calling most of his critics chickenhawks, even though most of his critics a) served in the military and/or b) have been to Iraq or c) both.

Discussion: The Jawa Report, The Atlantic Online, IMAO, Little Green Footballs, Sadly, No!, Winds of Change.NET and Solomonia

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

Discussion: Riehl World View

Jonah Goldberg / The Corner: What's that Now? — "Scott Thomas" now known as Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp writes:

Dean Barnett / Townhall.com:
This War's John Kerry?

Discussion: INSTAPUTZ and Sister Toldjah

The Big Trunk / Power Line:
SCOTT THOMAS SPEAKS

Discussion: BLACKFIVE, Op For, Townhall.com and Outside the Wire

Hugh Hewitt / Townhall.com:
Reacting To Scott Thomas Beauchamp

Discussion: The Atlantic Online and INSTAPUTZ

CNN:

Senators ask for special counsel on Gonzales — A group of Senate Democrats, including Sen. Chuck Schumer, on Thursday will call for a special counsel to investigate whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales perjured himself during Capitol Hill testimony.

Discussion: The Heretik, USA Today and Comments From Left Field

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: Washington Post, DownWithTyranny!, The Carpetbagger Report, Brilliant at Breakfast, Washington Monthly and Sadly, No!

Bob Geiger:

Text Of Senate Letter Calling For Special Counsel On Gonzales — Today, Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) called for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate possible wrongdoing by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

Discussion: feingold.senate.gov, Crooks and Liars and Discourse.net

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

Paul Kane / Associated Press:

Senate Democrats Call for Perjury Probe of Gonzales — Four Senate Democrats today formally asked the Justice Department to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate whether Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales lied to Congress in his testimony about a domestic surveillance program for terrorists.

Discussion: Watching Those We Chose

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

Discussion: The Next Hurrah, Think Progress and litbrit

CNN: Rove to face subpoena

Bryan Bender / Boston Globe:

Analyst counters Bush on Al Qaeda — Says biggest threat is in S. Asia, not Iraq — From left, Michael Leiter, James Clapper, and Pete Verga, officials in the homeland security and defense departments, waited for an intelligence hearing to begin. (Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)

Discussion: The Mahablog

Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:
A Senate Immigration Update: John Cornyn Leads the Majority Leader

Discussion: Day In, Day Out, michellemalkin.com and Hot Air

Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
Senate breakthrough adds $3 billion for border security

Discussion: Captain's Quarters and Day In, Day Out

Max Blumenthal / The Huffington Post:

Rapture Ready: The Unauthorized Christians United for Israel Tour — On July 16, I attended Christians United for Israel's annual Washington-Israel Summit. Founded by San Antonio-based megachurch pastor John Hagee, CUFI has added the grassroots muscle of the Christian right to the already potent Israel lobby.

Discussion: DefCon Blog

Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The mainstream, sane, serious Joe Lieberman

Discussion: TalkLeft and Norwegianity

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.

Discussion: Boston Globe, Comments From Left Field, CNN, Shakespeare's Sister, MSNBC, TIME, Wonkette and The Democratic Daily

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 …

Discussion: The Jawa Report, Firedoglake, The Atlantic Online, DownWithTyranny!, Daily Kos, INTEL DUMP, New Pairodimes, Balkinization and The Sideshow

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.

Discussion: Althouse, NewsBusters.org, Chronicle of the Conspiracy, Brendan Nyhan, The Volokh Conspiracy and rubber hose

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 …

Discussion: Time, JustOneMinute, Captain's Quarters, michellemalkin.com, New York Times, Hot Air, race42008.com, Ian Schwartz, The Politico and Carry on America

Taylor Dinerman / Opinion Journal:

Robert A. Heinlein's Legacy — As they say on the moon, "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch!" — Science fiction at one time was despised as vulgar and "populist" by university English departments. Today, it is just another cultural artifact to be deconstructed, along with cartoons and People magazine articles.