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Lindsay Beyerstein / Majikthise:
The menticide of Jose Padilla — Democracy Now! has a fascinating interview with a psychiatrist who interviewed suspected terrorist Jose Padilla for over 22 hours in an attempt to determine whether he was fit to stand trial after more than 3 years of solitary confinement.
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Jury finds Padilla guilty on terror charges
Jury finds Padilla guilty on terror charges
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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
FBI Director's Notes Contradict Gonzales's Version Of Ashcroft Visit — Then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft was "feeble," "barely articulate" and "stressed" moments after a hospital room confrontation in March 2004 with Alberto R. Gonzales, who wanted Ashcroft to approve …
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Attorney General / leahy.senate.gov:
Leahy Asks Justice Department's Inspector General To Investigate Conflicting Testimony — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Thursday asked the Justice Department's Inspector General to investigate potentially false or misleading testimony given by Attorney General …
Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
Mueller Notes: Ashcroft out of White House Surveillance Loop
Mueller Notes: Ashcroft out of White House Surveillance Loop
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The Gavel, Threat Level, Democrats.com, The Anonymous Liberal, Think Progress, The Next Hurrah and The Krile Files
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
A Liberal Reconsiders Chavez — Jeb Koogler, a staunch liberal at The Moderate Voice, has defended Hugo Chavez for a long time. He thought that Chavez intended to help the poor and downtrodden and made excuses for his tough tactics as a necessary interlude towards a better society.
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Jeb Koogler / The Moderate Voice:
Getting Real About Chavez — For a long time, I've defended Hugo Chavez. I thought that he was fighting a worthy battle against greed and corruption, against years of foreign domination and cronyism. I thought he was trying to improve the lives of poor people, while establishing a strong economy …
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
PICKERING TO RESIGN FROM CONGRESS — From NBC's Mark Murray — Rep. Chip Pickering, R-Miss., is announcing he's resigning from Congress to work on K Street, becoming the latest House Republican to either vacate his seat or decide not to seek re-election in 2008.
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DownWithTyranny!
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James L. / Swing State Project:
MS-03: With Floodgates Open, Pickering Retires (Updated)
MS-03: With Floodgates Open, Pickering Retires (Updated)
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Cliff Schecter
Los Angeles Times:
A rush to pull out cash — Worried about the stability of mortgage giant Countrywide Financial, depositors crowd branches. — Anxious customers jammed the phone lines and website of Countrywide Bank and crowded its branch offices to pull out their savings because of concerns …
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CNN:
Poll: Majority mistrustful of upcoming Iraq report — WASHINGTON (CNN) — A majority of Americans don't trust the upcoming report by the Army's top commander in Iraq on the progress of the war and even if they did, it wouldn't change their mind, according to a new poll.
CNN Political Ticker:
Jenna Bush engaged — WASHINGTON (CNN) — President and Laura Bush's daughter, Jenna, is engaged to be married, the White House announced Thursday. — Jenna Bush, 24, is marrying Henry Hager, 28, a former White House aide who used to work with Karl Rove. His father, John Hager, is the chairman of the Virginia Republican Party.
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Tony Capaccio / Bloomberg:
Pentagon Paid $998,798 to Ship Two 19-Cent Washers — Aug. 16 (Bloomberg) — A small South Carolina parts supplier collected about $20.5 million over six years from the Pentagon for fraudulent shipping costs, including $998,798 for sending two 19-cent washers to an Army base in Texas, U.S. officials said.
Arwa Damon / CNN:
Iraqi women: Prostituting ourselves to feed our children — BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — The women are too afraid and ashamed to show their faces or have their real names used. They have been driven to sell their bodies to put food on the table for their children — for as little as $8 a day.
Steve Benen / Crooks and Liars:
An embarrassed Fox News hits Wikipedia — It's been a rough week for our ol' friends at Fox News. Thanks to some IP-address based research, the political world learned that the FNC was responsible for "touching up" Wikipedia pages, editing content that didn't fit with the partisan network's political agenda.
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The Van Der Galiën Gazette
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Richardson Aide Quits After Brothel Link Discovery — You've been reading about all the Republican sex scandals — and now it's time for a Democratic one: … So he's accused of screwing the brothel. MORE: … Managing a brothel...working for a political campaign?
Rory Carroll / Guardian:
Hotel mistakes Nobel laureate for bag lady — She was wearing a Mayan dress, the traditional attire of indigenous people in central America, and the hotel's response was also traditional: throw her out. — Staff at Cancun's five-star Hotel Coral Beach appear to have assumed …
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Cliff Schecter
Associated Press:
Man kissed ailing wife, threw her off balcony, prosecutors say — KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) — A man threw his seriously ill wife four stories to her death because he could no longer afford to pay for her medical care, prosecutors said in charging him with second-degree murder.
Nic Fleming / Telegraph:
'We have broken speed of light' — A pair of German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light - an achievement that would undermine our entire understanding of space and time. — According to Einstein's special theory of relativity, it would require an infinite amount of energy …
Eliott C. McLaughlin / CNN:
Real ID: Anti-terror tool or Big Brother? — (CNN) — Americans may need passports to board domestic flights or to picnic in a national park next year if they live in one of the states defying the federal Real ID Act. — The act, signed in 2005 as part of an emergency military spending …