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New York Times:
G.O.P. Candidates See Signs of Progress in Iraq — The leading Republican presidential candidates said today that the military escalation in Iraq appeared to be restoring stability in that country and they berated their Democratic counterparts for advocating an end to American involvement there.
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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
THE BLACK SITES — A rare look inside the C.I.A.'s secret interrogation program. — In March, Mariane Pearl, the widow of the murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, received a phone call from Alberto Gonzales, the Attorney General. At the time, Gonzales's role …
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Washington Post:
Report: Harsh Methods Used On 9/11 Suspect — Article Details Torture That Mastermind Said He Endured — Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was subjected to the CIA's harshest interrogation methods while he was held in secret prisons around …
Sharon Begley / Newsweek:
Truth about global-warming deniers — Sen. Barbara Boxer had been chair of the Senate's Environment Committee for less than a month when the verdict landed last February. "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal," concluded a report by 600 scientists from governments, academia, green groups and businesses in 40 countries.
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Jonathan Alter / Newsweek:
Is California GOP Trying to Steal the 2008 Election? — Our way of electing presidents has always been fer-tile ground for mischief. But there's sensible mischief—toying with existing laws and the Constitution to reflect popular will—and then there's the other kind …
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
ELECTORAL COLLEGE FOLLIES....I see that the latest crackpot initiative from the Golden State has now gotten national attention. Jon Alter writes in the current issue of Newsweek about a plan to carve up California's electoral votes between multiple candidates instead of awarding them all to a single winner in November:
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CNN:
Bush signs wiretap bill; Dems vow to 'fix it' — WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush signed a controversial bill Sunday that temporarily revises federal electronic surveillance laws. — "This law gives our intelligence professionals this greater flexibility while closing a dangerous gap …
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Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
Government hunts for warrantless wiretap leaker — Priorities: The Attorney General apologized for 'creating confusion' — The controversy over President Bush's warrantless surveillance program took another surprise turn last week when a team of FBI agents, armed with a classified search warrant …
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James Risen / New York Times:
Bush Signs Law to Widen Legal Reach for Wiretapping — People familiar with the law said that it provided a legal framework for much of the surveillance without warrants that was being conducted in secret.
Ynetnews:
'Establish Islamic state' — Radical UK Islamist group holds London conference. 'Why is Palestine still occupied?' asks speaker — Yaakov Lappin — The British branch of a world-wide radical Islamist group, Hizb ut-Tahrir, held a conference London on Saturday, in which speakers called …
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Lydia Hislop / Times of London:
Schools are run by Islamic group Blair pledged to ban
Schools are run by Islamic group Blair pledged to ban
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Melanie Phillips's Diary
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Jackie Mason goes nuclear on the Democrats over Iraq — What's odder, the fact that Jackie Mason is doing YouTube commentaries — this is number 40, apparently — or the fact that no one but no one seems to be watching them? This is red meat served tartare and in two weeks it's only mustered 1,600 hits.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: O'Hanlon and Pollack on military progress and the nutroots backlash — Emphasis on military. There's no political progress whatsoever to speak of. — I wonder if they deliberately chose Fox for this just to squirt a little more lemon juice in the nutroots' eyes or if Fox was the only outfit that was willing to have them on.
Editor and Publisher:
Murdoch Says He Just Wants More 'Urgency' in 'WSJ' — NEW YORK His Saturday business column for The New York Times (available online only via TimesSelect) mainly explores how the Bancroft family blew the deal with the News Corp. But Joseph Nocera closes it with a brief sit-down interview …
Andy McCarthy / The Corner:
BREAKING: Two Middle Eastern Men Carrying a Bomb Detained in South Carolina — Here is the report from the ABC News affiliate (hat tip: Steve Emerson's Investigative Project on Terrorism):
Rick Moran / Pajamas Media:
"THIS IS PART OF THE BATTLEFIELD" — Sergeant David D. Aguina returned to the YearlyKos gathering on Saturday, a day after he had been unceremoniously thrown out of a panel on the military and progressives. This time he may have been out of uniform, but he told PJM's Rick Moran, that he would never give up his fight.