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Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
Gonzales Resigns as Attorney General — Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, whose tenure has been marred by controversy and accusations of perjury before Congress, has resigned. A senior administration official said he would announce the decision later this morning in Washington.
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Attorney General Gonzales resigns, officials say — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Embattled U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has resigned, senior administration officials told CNN Monday. — Many lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have long called for his ouster after the firing of several U.S. attorneys in 2006.
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Think Progress:
BREAKING: Alberto Gonzales Resigns — The New York Times reports Alberto Gonzales will announce his resignation later this morning: … U.S. News reported this weekend, "The buzz among top Bushies is that beleaguered Attorney General Alberto Gonzales finally plans to depart and will be replaced …
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Alberto Gonzales Resigns As Attorney General — Alberto Gonzales has resigned as Attorney General. Apparently, he resigned by telephone on Friday, but the WH did not announce the resignation publicly until today. From the NYTimes: … A formal announcement on the resignation is expected later this morning.
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Reuters:
Iraq's leaders agree on key U.S. benchmarks — BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's top Shi'ite, Sunni Arab and Kurdish leaders announced on Sunday they had reached consensus on some key laws that Washington views as vital to fostering national reconciliation. — The agreement was the most significant …
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Megan Greenwell / Washington Post:
Iraqi Leaders Reach Accord On Prisoners, Ex-Baathists — After Meeting, Maliki Berates Clinton and Other Democrats — Iraq's top five political leaders announced an agreement Sunday night to release thousands of prisoners being held without charge and to reform the law that has kept thousands …
Hannah Allam / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Iraqi insurgents taking cut of U.S. rebuilding money — BAGHDAD — Iraq's deadly insurgent groups have financed their war against U.S. troops in part with hundreds of thousands of dollars in U.S. rebuilding funds that they've extorted from Iraqi contractors in Anbar province.
Roger L. Simon / Pajamas Media:
NOT BLOGGING THE BEIJING OLYMPICS — High tech big boys Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have been subject to much criticism, in and out of the blogosphere, for cooperating with online censorship in the People's Republic of China. Some say this cooperation has even led to the incarceration of journalists and dissidents.
Neo-Neocon / Pajamas Media:
FINESSING THE SURGE — Some Democrats are scrambling to re-position themselves on the surge in Iraq, and Neo-Neocon is watching them while pondering the contrast with another war and another ending. — Support Pajamas Media; Visit Our Advertisers — Some Democrats in Congress were for the Iraq war before they were against it.
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M Wolf / Economists' forum:
This is where Fannie and Freddie step in — Over the past 20 years major financial disruptions have taken place roughly every three years, starting with the 1987 stock market crash; the Savings & Loans collapse and credit crunch of the early 1990s; the 1994 Mexican crisis …
Carla Marinucci / San Francisco Chronicle:
Poll: Young voters disenchanted with Republican party — Two larger-than-life politicians, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ronald Reagan, charged into the California governor's office with the help of young voters, many of whom were drawn to the Republican Party by a message of sunny optimism.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
THE SHOE DROPS — Finally, unexpectedly, out of the blue even, we appear to have arrived at a grand cross-party consensus on Iraq: it's Nuri al Maliki's fault and he should be fired. Faced with the tough task of biting the bullet one way or another, pols across the partisan divide seem …
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Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
Pinning Hopes On Rural Voters — Campaign of Edwards, a Southerner, Sees an Advantage With White Men — BERLIN, N.H. — When a woman in the crowd shouted a question about education testing here on Saturday, former senator John Edwards made a casual farming quip.
Mark Steyn / Orange County Register:
They wait for us to run again — George W. Bush gave a speech about Iraq last week, and in the middle of it he did something long overdue: He attempted to appropriate the left's most treasured all-purpose historical analogy. Indeed, Vietnam is so ubiquitous in the fulminations of politicians …
David Brooks / New York Times:
Stop Making Sense — Between 2000 and 2006, a specter haunted the community of fundamentalist Democrats. Members of this community looked around and observed their moral and intellectual superiority. They observed that their policies were better for the middle classes.
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