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8:05 AM ET, August 1, 2007

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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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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 …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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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 …
Discussion: AMERICAblog and Truthdig
CNN:
Cheney: Attorneys firing flap 'a witch hunt'
Discussion: Salon and Blogs for Bush
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).
Discussion: TigerHawk and Alternate Brain
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Reid Wilson / Real Clear Politics:
Republicans Should Skip the YouTube Debate  —  Republican hesitancy to a YouTube debate does not stem from the party's unwillingness to engage the internet community, nor does it come from any perceived ignorance of the community's power and import.  —  In fact, Republicans are taking the internet quite seriously.
Discussion: Patrick Ruffini
Reuters:   Republicans' YouTube debate date in limbo
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.
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The Politico:   Senators handle Stevens with kid gloves
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 …
Discussion: Feministe
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.
Peter S. Goodman / Washington Post:
This Time, Bill to Raise Yuan Might Pass  —  It has become a Capitol Hill ritual: A few senators, always including the New York Democrat Charles E. Schumer, introduce a bill to punish China if its leaders do not raise the value of the nation's currency.  Photos are taken, news releases are issued, but nothing really happens.
Discussion: EconLog and Marginal Revolution
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'
John Bolton / Financial Times:
Britain can't have two best friends  —  Gordon Brown's first Washington visit as Britain's prime minister has prompted tea-leaf reading about the strengths and weaknesses of the US-UK relationship.  Momentarily diverting - and probably unavoidable - as the frenzy of speculation is, the real tests lie ahead.
Discussion: TPMCafe blogs and European Tribune
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 …
Discussion: Cliff Schecter
Washington Times:
Novak likes the idea of President Paul  —  Bob Novak stopped by the Heritage Foundation today for a lunchtime discussion with conservative bloggers about his new professional autobiography, The Prince of Darkness.  —  While he lamented the practice of reporters acting as opinion drivers and news analysts …
Erica Naone / Technology Review:
Building onto Facebook's Platform  —  Developers search for killer apps for the social operating system. … Facebook Platform, an application program interface (API) that developers can use to build applications within the social-networking site Facebook, has created a Silicon Valley gold rush.
Brendan Farrington / Associated Press:
Study: Fla. Voting Machines Still Flawed  —  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida's optical scan voting machines are still flawed, despite efforts to fix them, and they could allow poll workers to tamper with the election results, according to a government-ordered study obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.
 
 
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Gigi Sohn / Public Knowledge:
Making Lemonade out of Lemons from the FCC's 700 MHz Spectrum Auction Decision
Sholnn Freeman / Washington Post:
Getting Revved Up Overseas
Discussion: Don Surber
Opinion Journal:
A New Owner  —  A change in control won't change Journal standards.
David Stout / New York Times:
Nominees for Joint Chiefs Are Questioned on Iraq
Discussion: Washington Post and Redstate
Guardian:
UN votes to deploy Darfur force
Jessica Holzer / The Hill:
BET founder blasts 'class war' on tax
Jerusalem Post:
Hizbullah officer: We would've given up
Discussion: A Blog For All
 Earlier Items: 
White House:
Press Briefing by Tony Snow
Discussion: First Draft
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Edwards's Campaign Tries to Harness Internet
Discussion: TalkLeft
David Lat / Abovethelaw.com:
Biglaw and Big Politics: Which Way Does Your Firm Lean?
The Raw Story:
20,000 MORE TROOPS WILL ROTATE INTO IRAQ
Discussion: Associated Press
The Raw Story:
Rumsfeld apparently refuses Pat Tillman hearing
Matthew Sanchez / Matt Sanchez:
BEAUCHAMP  —  After a helicopter ride around Baghdad …
Mike Stark / Daily Kos:
I just returned from Falafel Bill's house
Jonah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
Too uninformed to vote?
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
As the NYT Tech Guild goes on strike, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas offers the AI company's services to The NYT to help ensure election coverage is available

Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Around 75% of the largest US newspapers aren't endorsing anyone for president this year, as publishers try not to annoy any sliver of their remaining customers

Alyson Krueger / New York Times:
A profile of Town & Country EIC Stellene Volandes, who is trying to keep the Hearst-owned 178-year-old magazine relevant via social media and its website

 
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