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10:10 AM ET, August 1, 2007

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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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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:   Here Lies a Man Impeached
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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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Obama might send troops into Pakistan  —  WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Wednesday that he would possibly send troops into Pakistan to hunt down terrorists, an attempt to show strength when his chief rival has described his foreign policy skills as naive.
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ABCNEWS:   Obama to Deliver Bold Speech About War on Terror
Wall Street Journal:
Murdoch Wins His Bid for Dow Jones  —  Bancroft Family Agrees  —  To $5 Billion Offer  —  After Deal on Fees  —  A New Owner for Journal  —  A century of Bancroft-family ownership at Dow Jones & Co. is over.  —  Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. sealed a $5 billion agreement to purchase …
Discussion: TVNewser and paidContent.org
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Gigi Sohn / Public Knowledge:
Making Lemonade out of Lemons from the FCC's 700 MHz Spectrum Auction Decision  —  As we expected, the FCC voted today to require just two of the four "open access" conditions for one third of the 700 MHz spectrum that will be auctioned early next year.  The conditions the Commission adopted require …
Discussion: Open Left and The Huffington Post
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
FCC sets 700MHz auction rules: limited open access, no wholesale requirement
What's New at FreePress.net:
Spectrum Auction Won't Bring Needed Broadband Competition
Discussion: The Huffington Post
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
Sean Lengell / Washington Times:
GOP slams 'giant leap' to social health care  —  Republicans and the White House say Democrats are pursuing a "giant leap" toward socialized health care by trying to draw middle-class families into a federally funded health insurance program for low-income children.
Discussion: PrairiePundit
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Media Matters for America:
Savage: "You're telling me there's no possibility of a conspiracy by the Democrats" to cause Roberts' seizure?  —  On the July 30 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage reacted to news that Chief Justice John Roberts had suffered a seizure that day by raising the possibility that …
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New York Times:
Roberts Facing Medical Option on 2nd Seizure
Bryan Bender / Boston Globe:
Analysis says war could cost $1 trillion  —  Budget office sees effect on taxpayers for decade  —  WASHINGTON — The war in Iraq could ultimately cost well over a trillion dollars — at least double what has already been spent — including the long-term costs of replacing damaged equipment …
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).
Discussion: Reuters, TigerHawk and Alternate Brain
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Reid Wilson / Real Clear Politics:
Republicans Should Skip the YouTube Debate
Discussion: Patrick Ruffini
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.
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.
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.
Michael Scherer / Salon:
Stalking Hillary  —  In the corner of a hotel conference room, the Republican youth circled their chairs, crumpling neatly pressed suits and skirts to hear the influential Utah Sen. Bob Bennett explain the magical key to winning the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.
Barry Bearak / New York Times:
Amid War, Passion for TV Chefs, Soaps and Idols  —  Seven years ago, during a very different time in a very different Afghanistan, a medical student named Daoud Sediqi was bicycling from campus when he was stopped by the Taliban's whip-wielding religious police.
Discussion: Kesher Talk
 
 
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Ian Urbina / New York Times:
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U.S.: Shiite militias main threat to Iraq
Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
Retired General Is Censured Over Tillman Case
Discussion: MSNBC
Pat Toomey / Wall Street Journal:
Economists Against Protectionism
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Edward Cody / Washington Post:
China's Local Censors Muffle an Explosion
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New York Times:
Saudis Consider Upgraded Relations With Iraq
Discussion: The Crone Speaks
Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Lawmakers, aides say Murtha Iraq-withdrawal proposal dead
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Alexandra Blair / Times of London:
Teachers demand ban on sites used by cyber-bullies
Editor and Publisher:
Group to Deliver Bibles With Newspapers
Discussion: Cliff Schecter
Erica Naone / Technology Review:
Building onto Facebook's Platform
Brendan Farrington / Associated Press:
Study: Fla. Voting Machines Still Flawed
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Edwards's Campaign Tries to Harness Internet