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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
NSA Spying Part of Broader Effort — Intelligence Chief Says Bush Authorized Secret Activities Under One Order — The Bush administration's chief intelligence official said yesterday that President Bush authorized a series of secret surveillance activities under a single executive order in late 2001.
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John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Stevens threatens to block ethics bill — Republican Sen. Ted Stevens, whose home back in Alaska was raided by federal investigators Monday in a wide-ranging corruption investigation, has threatened to place a hold on the Democratic-drafted ethics legislation just passed by the House and expected on the Senate floor by week's end.
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New York Times:
Ethics Questions Plague Other Alaska Senator — Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, has been drawn into a swirl of ethics accusations that have already brought F.B.I. scrutiny to the two other members of the state's Congressional delegation and resulted in a raid this week on the home of Senator Ted Stevens.
Salon:
Rather than deny funding for Bush's initiatives, Congress should provide it now . . . * Congress should also give the president the money and support that he requests. — In February, O'Hanlon went to the Wall St. Journal Editorial Page to argue that Congressional Democrats were wrong to oppose …
White House:
Interview of the Vice President by Larry King, CNN — Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building — Q We're located in the Vice Presidential Ceremonial Office; it's in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, adjacent to the White House, with the Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney.
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Matt / Think Progress:
Cheney On Whether He Ordered Hospital Visit To Ashcroft: I Have 'No Recollection' — On Sunday, Josh Marshall pointed out that the New York Times editorial on the potential need to impeach Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said that "Vice President Dick Cheney sent Mr. Gonzales and another official …
TRex / Firedoglake:
Late Nite FDL: Why the Republicans are Running From YouTube — Let's get something straight here. The reason the Republicans are running from a YouTube debate has nothing to do with embarrassing themselves and everything to do with the horror that is the Republican base (see video above).
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Reid Wilson / Real Clear Politics:
Republicans Should Skip the YouTube Debate
Republicans Should Skip the YouTube Debate
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The Raw Story:
'Conflict' keeps Rumsfeld from Tillman hearing — Update: This story has been updated to reflect comment from the Oversight Committee's Republican staff. Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld will not testify at a hearing scheduled for Wednesday on the friendly fire death …
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David Lat / Abovethelaw.com:
Biglaw and Big Politics: Which Way Does Your Firm Lean? — With the 2008 presidential campaign dominating the airwaves, despite being over a year away, everyone is talking about politics (and watching awesome, politically-themed music videos). Here's a question that a law student posed to us:
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The Volokh Conspiracy
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Lindsay Fortado / Bloomberg:
Kenneth Starr's Law Firm Gives More Money to Clinton
Kenneth Starr's Law Firm Gives More Money to Clinton
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Washington Post:
U.S. Attorney Became Target After Rebuffing Justice Dept. — The night before the government secured a guilty plea from the manufacturer of the addictive painkiller OxyContin, a senior Justice Department official called the U.S. attorney handling the case and, at the behest of an executive for the drugmaker …
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Washington Monthly
Mike Stark / Daily Kos:
I just returned from Falafel Bill's house — After O'Reilly provided an "accountability moment" to the JetBlue CEO at his home, I decided to provide O'Reilly with his own accountability moment at his home. — I've just returned to home base. — I've got video of O'Reilly in his sleepwear (red shorts and a white t-shirt).
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Matthew Sanchez / Matt Sanchez:
BEAUCHAMP — After a helicopter ride around Baghdad, this afternoon I arrived at Forward Operating Base Falcon, where the mood was somber. The Army has begun an official investigation into The New Republic articles of the "Baghdad Diarist", Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp.
Amiram Cohen / Haaretz:
U.S. checking possibility of pumping oil from northern Iraq to Haifa, via Jordan — The United States has asked Israel to check the possibility of pumping oil from Iraq to the oil refineries in Haifa. The request came in a telegram last week from a senior Pentagon official to a top Foreign Ministry official in Jerusalem.
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Matt Spetalnick / Reuters:
Cheney admits was wrong about "last throes" in Iraq — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney acknowledged on Tuesday he was wrong in 2005 when he insisted the insurgency in Iraq was in its "last throes." — It was Cheney's most direct public admission of how badly …
Jonah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
Too uninformed to vote? — We test immigrants before they can go to the polls; why not everyone else? — Can you name all three branches of government? Can you name even one? Do you know who your congressman is? Your senators? Do you even know how many senators each state gets?
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Editor and Publisher:
Group to Deliver Bibles With Newspapers — NEW YORK Everything from detergent to computer discs is packaged with the Sunday newspaper. So why not Bibles? — A Christian ministry wants to deliver custom-designed New Testaments to newspaper subscribers around the country as part of an effort …
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Cliff Schecter