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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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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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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 …
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 — 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.
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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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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.
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
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.