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Matt / Think Progress:
Cooper Contradicts Rove: He's 'Dissembling' With 'Non-Sense' About The Plame Leak — During his tour of the Sunday shows this morning, Karl Rove attempted to downplay and dismiss his role in the CIA leak scandal, telling Fox News' Chris Wallace that he acted benignly in his conversations with reporters about Valerie Plame's identity:
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Marty Kaplan / The Huffington Post:
The Truths Rove Told — While it's tempting to truth-squad the lies and smears that Karl Rove's been spreading during his infamy lap, let's focus instead on the truths. — Sure, it's natural to want to focus on the disinformation he's still retailing (like, Joe Wilson lied in his New York Times op-ed) …
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Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:Essay: "I'm the proud owner of Karl Rove's father's solid gold cock ring."
Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:Karl Rove Spins His Way Out Of Town On Meet The Press
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Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars: Matt Cooper Says Rove DID Leak Valerie Plame's Identity To Him: UPDATED!
ABCNEWS:
TRANSCRIPT: The Democratic Debate — George Stephanopoulos Moderates Democratic Debate on a Special Edition of "This Week" — STEPHANOPOULOS: Good morning, everyone, and welcome to this special edition of "This Week." We're back here at Drake University in Iowa for the first Democratic presidential debate in Iowa.
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David Neiwert / Firedoglake:
Manly men — People who talk about masculinity — especially conservatives, who seem to obsess about it, but in a peculiarly juvenile way — have always seemed a little weird to me. It's like the cliche retort the wealthy like to use: "If you have to ask how much it is, you can't afford it."
Michael Skube / Los Angeles Times:
Blogs: All the noise that fits — The hard-line opinions on weblogs are no substitute for the patient fact-finding of reporters. — The late Christopher Lasch once wrote that public affairs generally and journalism in particular suffered not from too little information but from entirely too much.
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New York Times:
The War as We Saw It — VIEWED from Iraq at the tail end of a 15-month deployment, the political debate in Washington is indeed surreal. Counterinsurgency is, by definition, a competition between insurgents and counterinsurgents for the control and support of a population.
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Emptywheel / The Next Hurrah:
Why Rove Resigned? To Grant the Administration Immunity — There have been a flurry of stories depicting the degree to which the Bush Administration has politicized ... everything. McClatchy described how Treasury and Commerce were making decisions based on the political value for the Republican party.
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Sarah Baxter / Times of London:
Rudy plays the security card: ID for all tourists — EVERY foreigner in America, including British visitors, would be required to carry an ID card bearing photograph and fingerprints under plans drawn up by Rudolph Giuliani, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination.
Adam Cohen / New York Times:
The Founders Had an Idea for Handling Alberto Gonzales — William Belknap, Ulysses S. Grant's disgraced secretary of war, is experiencing a revival. Impeached in 1876 for taking bribes, he has become the inspiration for a movement to remove Attorney General Alberto Gonzales from office.
Misha Glenny / Washington Post:
The Lost War — We've Spent 36 Years and Billions of Dollars Fighting It, but the Drug Trade Keeps Growing — Poppies were the first thing that British army Capt. Leo Docherty noticed when he arrived in Afghanistan's turbulent Helmand province in April 2006.
David Saltonstall / NY Daily News:
Giuliani's Fox-y pal cash flap — It's no secret that Sean Hannity, the conservative Fox News commentator, has helped to raise Rudy Giuliani's profile - but now he's helped the former mayor raise money, too. — In a little noticed event this month, Hannity - co-host of Fox News' …
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The Independent:
Military commanders tell Brown to withdraw from Iraq without delay — Senior military commanders have told the Government that Britain can achieve "nothing more" in south-east Iraq, and that the 5,500 British troops still deployed there should move towards withdrawal without further delay.
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Mark Lilla / New York Times:
The Politics of God — I. "The Will of God Will Prevail" — The twilight of the idols has been postponed. For more than two centuries, from the American and French Revolutions to the collapse of Soviet Communism, world politics revolved around eminently political problems.
Tom Matzzie / The Huffington Post:
TV Ads: Bush-Petraeus 10-Year Plan Means a Draft — Americans have seen some news reports over the last few days suggesting that the White House "might-maybe-could-possibly" bring some troops home from Iraq next year. If this happens, that's great. But don't break out the confetti just yet.
Mark Steyn / Orange County Register:
Speaking of sanctuary, where's ours? — At the funeral of Iofemi Hightower, her classmate Mecca Ali wore a T-shirt with the slogan: "Tell Me Why They Had To Die." — "They" are Miss Hightower, Dashon Harvey and Terrance Aeriel, three young citizens of Newark, New Jersey …
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Chris Kelly / The Huffington Post:
Learning to Loathe Yourself: Peggy Noonan and How To Be a Conservative Pundit — Chaucer, like I need to tell you, says you have to take the rough with the smooth. And that's how I've always felt about the Wall Street Journal. You get to read some of the best reporting on Earth …
Kim Gamel / Associated Press:
France offers U.S. symbol with Iraq trip — BAGHDAD - France's foreign minister paid an unannounced and highly symbolic visit to Baghdad on Sunday — the first by a senior French official since the war started and a gesture to the American effort in Iraq after years of icy relations over the U.S.-led invasion.
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