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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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Think Progress, Shakespeare's Sister, State of the Day, Central Sanity, Monkeyfister and DownWithTyranny!
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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 …
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Balkinization, the cucking stool, New Pairodimes, The Anonymous Liberal and Prairie Weather
James Risen / New York Times:
Bush Signs Law to Widen Legal Reach for Wiretapping
Bush Signs Law to Widen Legal Reach for Wiretapping
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Crooks and Liars, Firedoglake, Hot Air, Reason Magazine, PoliBlog (TM), Comments From Left Field, A Blog For All, The Crone Speaks, The Huffington Post, Once Upon a Time, Washington Monthly, Bark Bark Woof Woof, All Spin Zone, CNN, The Gun Toting Liberal™, The Heretik, MSNBC, Vox Popoli, Althouse, Don Surber, TalkLeft and Prairie Weather
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.
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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Booman Tribune, The Atlantic Online, DownWithTyranny!, Los Angeles Times, Salon, MSNBC, TIME: Swampland and ABCNEWS
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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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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.
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The Jawa Report, National Review, Redstate, A Blog For All, JammieWearingFool and Blogs of War
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 …
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The Moderate Voice, Captain's Quarters, Reason Magazine, Wizbang, The Jawa Report and QandO
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 …
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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.
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The Newshoggers, Booman Tribune, Outside The Beltway, The Atlantic Online and Brian Beutler
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:
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
[TS] Op-Ed Columnist: The Substance Thing — What are the presidential candidates saying about policy, and what does it tell us about them?
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.
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The Influence Peddler, Instapundit.com, QandO, The Volokh Conspiracy and Reason Magazine
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.
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 …