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1:20 PM ET, August 6, 2007

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Washington Post:
Warrantless Surrender  —  THE DEMOCRATIC-led Congress, more concerned with protecting its political backside than with safeguarding the privacy of American citizens, left town early yesterday after caving in to administration demands that it allow warrantless surveillance of the phone calls …
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White House:
President Bush Commends Congress on Passage of Intelligence Legislation  —  When our intelligence professionals have the legal tools to gather information about the intentions of our enemies, America is safer.  And when these same legal tools also protect the civil liberties of Americans …
Scarecrow / Firedoglake:
A Nation Represented By Sheep
Discussion: Corrente
James Risen / New York Times:
Bush Signs Law to Widen Legal Reach for Wiretapping
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The strong and tough Democrats
Discussion: ACLU and The Heretik
Lucy Morrow Caldwell / Slate:
RUDY GIULIANI'S DAUGHTER IS SUPPORTING BARACK OBAMA.  —  There's one vote that Rudy Giuliani definitely can't count on in his 2008 presidential bid: his own daughter's.  According to the 17-year-old Caroline Giuliani's Facebook profile, she's supporting Barack Obama.
Discussion: Say Anything and The Big Picture
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Democrats Targeted In GOP Debate  —  The Republican candidates for president used a nationally televised morning debate to mock Democrats on foreign policy, taxes and health care while sparring with each other over abortion and the administration's anti-terrorism efforts.
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Real Clear Politics:
Iowa Republicans See Romney As Straw Poll Winner
Markpreston / CNN:
The march to Ames  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Three months ago …
Discussion: The Hill and The Politico
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Weapons Given to Iraq Are Missing  —  GAO Estimates 30% of Arms Are Unaccounted For  —  The Pentagon has lost track of about 190,000 AK-47 assault rifles and pistols given to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005, according to a new government report, raising fears that some of those weapons …
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Fester / The Newshoggers:   Restating the obvious  —  It has been a long held belief of mine …
Eli Lake / New York Sun:
Al Qaeda Cell May Be Loose in U.S., British Plot Hints  —  WASHINGTON — As an American-born spokesman for Al Qaeda threatens to blow up American embassies abroad, intelligence gleaned from last month's British "doctors plot" of car bombers suggests that a Qaeda cell is on the loose in the American homeland.
Jose Antonio Vargas / Washington Post:
A Diversity of Opinion, if Not Opinionators  —  At the Yearly Kos Bloggers' Convention, a Sea of Middle-Aged White Males  —  It's Sunday, day 4 of Yearly Kos, the major conference for progressive bloggers, and Gina Cooper, the confab's organizer-in-chief, surveys the ballroom of the massive McCormick Place Convention Center.
Ashley M. Heher / Associated Press:
Bloggers Consider Forming Labor Union  —  Left-Leaning Bloggers Debate Forming Labor Union  —  CHICAGO (AP) — Do bloggers need their own Norma Rae?  —  In a move that might make some people scratch their heads, a loosely formed coalition of left-leaning bloggers are trying to band together …
Oliver Kamm / Guardian:
Terrible, but not a crime  —  Hiroshima and Nagasaki should be remembered for the suffering which was brought to an end  —  Today is Hiroshima day, the anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb.  As the wartime generation passes on, our sense of gratitude is increasingly mixed …
Discussion: normblog, neo-neocon and Armavirumque
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Shaun Mullen / Kiko's House:
Shinichi's Trike & The Lessons of War
Discussion: The Glittering Eye and ZenPundit
Washington Post:
The Next Intervention  —  Is the United States out of the intervention business for a while?  With two difficult wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and a divided public, the conventional answer is that it will be a long time before any American president, Democrat or Republican, again dispatches troops into conflict overseas.
Confederate Yankee:
Further Confirmation: No Burned Woman Here  —  Adding to the debunking of The New Republic's new claim that "burned contractor" story took place in Kuwait before PV-2 Scott Thomas Beauchamp deployed into a combat zone, U.S. Army Public Affairs Chief PAO for US ARCENT Kuwait LTC Andy Sams replies to an emailed inquiry about the claim:
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Mad House  —  Congress needs an intervention.  —  The House of Representatives almost turned into the Fight Club Thursday night, when Democrats ruled that a GOP motion had failed even though, when the gavel fell, the electronic score board showed it winning 215-213 along with the word FINAL.
Haaretz:
Olmert, Abbas meet in Jericho on 'Agreement of Principles'  —  Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in Jericho on Monday, for talks focused on on making substantive progress in preparation for the regional summit planned to take place in November in Washington.
Discussion: Power Line and Blogs for Bush
AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
NSA Leak Case Moving Out  —  Update: This story gets more bizarre as I continue to hunt for info.  Our mystery mole, Thomas M Tamm, worked in the DoJ Office of Intelligence Policy and Review (OIPR), which also has some notoriety with regards to an internet data mining effort called "Carnivore" …
Michael Barone / Real Clear Politics:
Perceptions of Iraq War Are Starting to Shift  —  It's not often that an opinion article shakes up Washington and changes the way a major issue is viewed.  But that happened last week, when The New York Times printed an opinion article by Brookings Institution analysts Michael O'Hanlon …
 
 
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Ben Craw / Talking Points Memo:
TPMTV: HILLARY CLINTON BREAKS OUT AT YEARLY KOS
Discussion: TalkLeft
Jonathan Tasini / The Huffington Post:
John Edwards—On Trade, Leading The Way Again
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
Right-Of-Center Bloggers Select The Most & Least Desired 2008 …
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Unconfirmed After 11 Months, EEOC Nominee Says No Thanks
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New York Post:
CITY PRINCIPAL IS 'REVOLTING'
Andy McCarthy / The Corner:
South Carolina Bomb Scare Update
Discussion: Blogs of War and TBogg
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
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Discussion: Washington Monthly
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New York Times:
The Executioner's Hood  —  Many people assume that execution …
Discussion: TalkLeft
Dave Johnson / The Huffington Post:
Senator Chris Dodd
Discussion: Democrats.com
Julia Preston / New York Times:
Surge in Immigration Laws Around U.S.
Discussion: Wonkette
Robert Dallek / Washington Post:
Ouster By the People  —  Polls showing President Bush's approval …
David Ignatius / Real Clear Politics:
The Democrats Dither on Trade
Discussion: Betsy's Page
James Carroll / Boston Globe:
American disconnection
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
New York Times:
Tons of Repaving Material Was on Bridge at Collapse
Gretchen Morgenson / New York Times:
Mortgage Maze May Increase Foreclosures
 

 
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Analyzing Comcast's spinoff of cable networks, purposefully structured with low debt: the move might be a signal to the industry that it's time to consolidate

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
Filing: the US DOJ's proposal requires Google to allow websites more ability to opt-out of its AI products and provide more ad placement controls to advertisers

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
James Harding says the Tortoise-Observer deal could create a profitable media group and there isn't a guaranteed future for the Observer with the Guardian

 
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