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11:55 PM ET, August 2, 2007

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The New Republic:
A Statement on Scott Thomas Beauchamp  —  Scott Thomas Beauchamp is a U.S. Army private serving in Iraq.  He came to THE NEW REPUBLIC's attention through Elspeth Reeve, a TNR reporter-researcher, whom he later married.  Over the course of the war, we have tried to provide our readers with a sense of Iraq as it is seen by the troops.
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Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
TNR Claims (Partial) Vindication  —  Read it all.  —  I'll start with this: … Error?  Mistake?  He was off by an entire country and something like nine months?  —  This is what TNR terms an "error," a "mistake"?  And when they "fact-checked" this beforehand, how did their …
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Gateway Pundit
Dean Barnett / Townhall.com:
Franklin Foer and Co. Keep Digging  —  At long last, The New Republic's editors have released a statement regarding the Beauchamp affair.  It is a maddening piece of work - evasive, misleading, self-pitying and deliberately distortive.  By all means, read the whole thing.  But do so critically and carefully.
Discussion: The Corner and Washington Monthly
Michelle Malkin:
The Scott Thomas Beauchamp saga: The fallibility of TNR's fact-checkers  —  Update 9:30pm Eastern.  Dean Barnett boils it down: … Update 8:49pm Eastern.  This is Camp Buehring in Kuwait.  In response to one of the commenters below, Camp Buehring is a separate facility/staging area …
National Review:   Say What?  [Stephen Spruiell]  —  TNR's editors on an "error" …
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
TNR's "Investigation" Reveals Beauchamp Was Always a Monster
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Jennifer Parker / Political Radar:
Blame-Game Begins on Infrastructure Spending
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:   This Could Have Waited  —  It's not that I completely disagree …
Associated Press:
Obama says use of nuclear weapons to fight al-Qaida 'not on the table,'  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday he would not use nuclear weapons «in any circumstance.  —  «I think it would be a profound mistake for us to use nuclear weapons …
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The Politico:
Obama on nukes: policy or character?  (Updated)  —  The latest Obama story, from an interview with The Associated Press, isn't online yet, but get ready: It's an interview* in which Obama initially rules out the use of nuclear weapons entirely, then seems to take it back:
Agence France Presse:
Pakistan slams 'ignorant' Obama attack warning  —  ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan accused Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama of "sheer ignorance" for threatening to launch US military strikes against Al-Qaeda on Pakistani soil.  —  Obama warned Wednesday that if he is elected president …
ABCNEWS:
Presidential Race Goes Nuclear  —  Clinton Implies Obama's Comments Were Careless  —  Sens. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., sparred over foreign policy as the former first lady implied that the first term senator's comments on the use of nuclear weapons were careless and unpresidential.
Agence France Presse:
Gates says US underestimated depth of Sunni-Shiite divisions  —  The US administration underestimated the difficulty of having Iraq's Sunnis and Shiites agree on key national reconciliation measures, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates admitted Thursday.  —  At the end of a regional tour …
Discussion: The Belmont Club
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David S. Cloud / New York Times:
Gates Offers Blunt Assessment of Iraqi Political Progress
Discussion: Prairie Weather
David Stout / New York Times:
With Rove Absent, Aide Is Grilled by Senate Panel  —  The Senate Judiciary Committee grilled a young political aide from the White House today about the firings of nine United States attorneys and voiced disdain for a man who was not there: the aide's boss, Karl Rove, President Bush's chief political adviser.
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Ed Henry / CNN:
Rove a no-show at hearing
Discussion: TPMCafe blogs
Tariq Panja / Associated Press:
Glasgow terror suspect dies from burns  —  LONDON - A man critically burned after allegedly crashing an explosive-laden Jeep into Glasgow Airport died of his injuries Thursday, Strathclyde Police said.  —  Kafeel Ahmed, 27, had been in the hospital for a month with burns from the alleged attack on June 30 …
Daniela Deane / Washington Post:
Out of the Theater, Into the Courtroom  —  Jhannet Sejas and her boyfriend were celebrating her 19th birthday by taking in a matinee showing of the hit movie "Transformers" at the theater at Ballston Common mall.  —  Sejas was enjoying the movie so much that she decided to film a short clip …
Byron York / National Review Online:
The Vast Left-Wing Establishment  —  Today more than a thousand Kossacks — adherents of the left-wing website DailyKos — are gathering for their annual convention in Chicago.  It's the second YearlyKos, in circumstances far different from the first, held in June 2006 in Las Vegas.
Dover Bitch / Hullabaloo:
Here comes another one  —  Just two weeks ago, we read this chapter in the closing-the-barn-door-too-late saga of the Bush years: … Feinstein supported a filibuster of Alito, after initially opposing it.  She seems, from her votes and the above statement, to understand that Bush's nominees …
 
 
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Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
Flashback: Franklin Foer Claimed He "Confirmed The Woman"
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Jonathan Singer / MyDD:
Dodd Smacks Down O'Reilly Over Yearly Kos
Zachary Coile / San Francisco Chronicle:
No Tillman cover-up, Rumsfeld tells House panel
Jeffrey Breinholt / Counterterrorism Blog:
More Overlooked History: The Muslim Libel Cases
N.Z. / Victory Caucus:
Mitt Romney: The Victory Caucus Interview
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Joe Klein / Time:
Political Pariahs  —  "Some people say we've lost our standing …
Ian James / Associated Press:
Sean Penn praised by Venezuela's Chavez
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Jonathan E. Kaplan / The Hill:
Bloggers, pols flock to YearlyKos
 Earlier Items: 
Associated Press:
Minister In Skirt Charged With Indecent Exposure
KNTV-TV:
Police: Masked Gunman Kills Veteran Oakland Reporter
Discussion: Sadly, No! and At-Largely
Joseph L. Bruno / Opinion Journal:
A Special Counsel for Spitzer
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Edwards assails rivals over News Corp.
Discussion: Hot Air and Done With Mirrors
Associated Press:
Bush administration readying immigration crackdown on employers
Los Angeles Times:
D.C. elites want you to shush on Iraq
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Edwards: "Giuliani is Bush on Steroids"
Melanie Markley / Houston Chronicle:
Students must remember 'God' in Texas pledge