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New York Times:
F.B.I. Chief Gives Account at Odds With Gonzales's — The director of the F.B.I. offered testimony Thursday that sharply conflicted with Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales's sworn statements about a 2004 confrontation in which top Justice Department officials threatened to resign over a secret intelligence operation.
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Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Bedtime for Gonzo — It's way past bedtime for Gonzo. At this point, every day Alberto Gonzales continues as attorney general means more dishonor for the office and the nation — and higher blood pressure for Senate Judiciary Committee members trying desperately to get a straight answer out of the man.
U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy:To White House Officials Rove And Jennings In U.S. Attorney Probe …
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Jose Antonio Vargas / Washington Post:
But Don't Ask Him on YouTube... Four days after the Democratic debate in Charleston, S.C,. more than 400 questions directed to the GOP presidential field have been uploaded on YouTube — targeted at Republicans scheduled to get their turn at videopopulism on Sept. 17.
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John Distaso / New Hampshire Union Leader:Granite Status: Romney no fan of CNN/YouTube debate antics
Martha Mendoza / Associated Press:
AP: New Details on Tillman's Death — SAN FRANCISCO - — Army medical examiners were suspicious about the close proximity of the three bullet holes in Pat Tillman's forehead and tried without success to get authorities to investigate whether the former NFL player's death amounted to a crime …
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Army Private Discloses He Is New Republic's Baghdad Diarist — The New Republic's anonymous "Baghdad Diarist" identified himself yesterday as Scott Thomas Beauchamp, an Army private in Iraq, and disputed as "maddening" accusations that he had invented his accounts of cruelty by American soldiers.
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Washington Post:
For Clinton and Obama, A Debate Point Won't Die — A debate moment that might have quickly come and gone has erupted into the sharpest battle of the Democratic nominating contest, with Sen. Barack Obama yesterday comparing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's position on meeting with the leaders …
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Strike Two — For Barack Obama, it was strike two. And this one was a right-down-the-middle question from a YouTuber in Monday night's South Carolina debate: "Would you be willing to meet separately, without precondition, during the first year of your administration, in Washington or anywhere else …
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
U.S. Officials Voice Frustrations With Saudis' Role in Iraq — During a high-level meeting in Riyadh in January, Saudi officials confronted a top American envoy with documents that seemed to suggest that Iraq's prime minister could not be trusted. — One purported to be an early alert …
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Los Angeles Times:
U.S. drops Baghdad electricity reports — The daily length of time that residents have power has dropped. The figure is considered a key indicator of quality of life. — WASHINGTON — washington — As the Bush administration struggles to convince lawmakers that its Iraq war strategy is working …
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Private Peter Pan — The other day I posted about a pseudonymously written story published in the New Republic by a soldier in the field describing some rather despicable behavior by himself and some of his buddies. It seemed to me that it was plausible, although of course, I have no way of really knowing.
Guardian:
Violence won't work: how author of 'jihadists' bible' stirred up a storm — Revisionist message from prison cell shakes al-Qaida colleagues — Ian Black Cairo — The assassination of the Egyptian president Anwar Sadat in 1981 by Islamic militants, a key moment in the development of jihadist groups.
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
O'Reilly cuts Hall's mic to get the last word about BilloReilly.com's HATE comments — As O'Reilly smeared Kos and YKos yet again, Jane Hall told Bill that his own website had hate comments on it. BillO called her a liar and then they cut her mic off so he was sure to get the last word in …
Matthew Rothschild / The New Press:
You Have No Rights — Stories of America in an Age of Repression — Paperback — PAPERBACK ORIGINAL CHILLING STORIES OF ORDINARY AMERICANS WHOSE EVERYDAY LIBERTIES HAVE BEEN VIOLATED SINCE SEPTEMBER 11 — I'm very liberal and sometimes my friends say I'm giving them some kind of paranoid …
Keith Ervin / Seattle Times:
Felony charges filed against 7 in state's biggest case of voter-registration fraud — King and Pierce County prosecutors filed felony charges today against seven people who allegedly committed the biggest voter-registration fraud in state history. — The defendants, who were paid employees …
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