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11:10 PM ET, September 8, 2007

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Matt / Think Progress:
Brooks: In His New Tape, Bin Laden Sounds Like He's Been 'Reading Lefty Blogs'  —  Last night on PBS' The NewsHour, New York Times columnist David Brooks compared 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden's latest video message to "lefty blogs," saying the al Qaeda head is like "one of these childish …
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Online NewsHour:   Iraq Reports Reveal Security Weakness, Petraeus Prepares for Congress
The Daily Gut:
bonus weekend gregalogue! BIN LADEN'S TAPE!
Discussion: BLACKFIVE
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Sen. Hagel Won't Seek Reelection in 2008  —  The Omaha World-Herald is reporting — and The Post's Jonathan Weisman has confirmed — that Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) will announce Monday that he will not seek a third term in 2008 nor run for any other national office.
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David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Hagel to Retire at End of Term, Aides Say  —  Senator Chuck Hagel, the Nebraska Republican and outspoken critic of the Iraq war who had been mulling a run for president, will retire at the end of his term in early 2009 and drop his bid for the White House, aides said today.
Jake Thompson / Omaha World-Herald:
Hagel is calling it quits
Richard Sisk / NY Daily News:
Fred Thompson: Al Qaeda smoking ban pushed Iraqis to U.S.  —  SIOUX CITY, Iowa - Freshly minted GOP White House hopeful Fred Thompson puzzled Iowans yesterday by insisting an Al Qaeda smoking ban was one reason freedom-loving Iraqis bolted to the U.S. side.  —  "They said, 'You gotta quit smoking …
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Susan Saulny / New York Times:   Thompson, Hitting Trail, Gets the Candidate Treatment
Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:
The Field So Far  —  Now that Fred Thompson is officially in the race …
Robin Wright / Washington Post:
New Report Recommends Iraq Handover in 5 Years  —  Panel Also Calls for 50 Percent Troop Reduction Within 3 Years  —  In a report to be released Sunday, a panel of experts assembled by the U.S. Institute of Peace calls for a 50 percent reduction in U.S. forces in Iraq within three years …
New York Times:
Troop Buildup, Yielding Slight Gains, Fails to Meet U.S. Goals  —  Seven months after the American-led troop "surge" began, Baghdad has experienced modest security gains that have neither reversed the city's underlying sectarian dynamic nor created a unified and trusted national government.
San Francisco Chronicle:
Fugitive fundraiser Hsu 'freaked out' on train, witness says  —  (09-08) 04:00 PDT Chicago - —  Fugitive political fundraiser Norman Hsu was behaving erratically as he fled the Bay Area on Amtrak's California Zephyr, at one point stripping off his shirt and shoes, before paramedics …
George Packer / New Yorker:
PLANNING FOR DEFEAT  —  How should we withdraw from Iraq? … An Iraqi whom I will call Ahmed lives in Saidiya, an area in south Baghdad where, in the nineteen-eighties, the regime of Saddam Hussein built large houses for well-connected Army officers, most of them Sunnis.
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Huffington Post:
Giuliani: "For Me Every Day Is An Anniversary Of Sept. 11"  —  Basking in the lasting glow of his Sept. 11 leadership while campaigning in Pinellas County and Orlando on Friday, Giuliani stressed national security and electability, rather than the sort of hot-button social issues that are thought …
Associated Press:
Bush urges united support on Iraq  —  SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — President Bush, facing a critical juncture in the war, urged Democrats and Republicans on Saturday to unite and back the war strategy he'll lay out shortly for the next chapter of U.S. involvement in Iraq.
Good Lt / The Jawa Report:
Alex Jones Arrested  —  The leather-lunged, bull-horn wielding nutbar king himself was arrested outside Fox News today for disrupting a Geraldo broadcast.  No - he didn't spit on them: … Fascism!
Discussion: Hot Air
Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
F.B.I. Data Mining Reached Beyond Initial Targets  —  The F.B.I. cast a much wider net in its terrorism investigations than it has previously acknowledged by relying on telecommunications companies to analyze phone-call and e-mail patterns of the associates of Americans who had come under suspicion …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Iran Must Pay $2.6 Billion for '83 Attack  —  A federal judge yesterday ordered Iran to pay more than $2.6 billion to nearly 1,000 family members and a handful of survivors of a 1983 bombing of a Marine barracks in Lebanon that killed 241 soldiers.  The ruling brought cheers and tears …
Bill / INDCJournal:
Operation Alljah: The Swarm  —  Commenced on May 29 and ending last week, Operation Alljah was the latest and most successful bid to achieve security in the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, marrying projection of force with aggressive civil affairs outreach.
Discussion: Hot Air and The Jawa Report
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
The McCain Surge  —  It's bearing fruit in New Hampshire.  —  Concord, N.H.  —  Tempers flared as a horde of journalists jostled its way through the headquarters of Granite State Manufacturing last week.  "Where are you from?" demanded a cameraman with a shaved head toting an unwieldy television camera on his shoulder.
Discussion: Power Line
Daniel Klaidman / Newsweek:
'The Law Required It'  —  Former Justice Department lawyer Jack Goldsmith explains why he fought the White House's aggressive legal maneuvers in the fight against terror.  —  Jack Goldsmith may not be a household name.  But he was a key player in the post-9/11 battle over how much power …
Discussion: Balkinization and The Newshoggers
 
 
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Washington Post:
Hsu Steered Major Fundraiser to Obama
James S. Robbins / National Review Online:
Robbins: Not Osamas Best Work
Chicago Tribune:
chicagotribune.com  —  Is the 'Queen of Talk' also a kingmaker?
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Michelle Malkin:
A closer look at the NJ Democrat corruption case
Discussion: Riehl World View
Paul Glastris / Washington Monthly:
The last wars we won.  —  When I was a kid during Vietnam …
Faiz / Think Progress:
EXCLUSIVE: Former Sen. Intel Chair Reports White House Misled …
Discussion: The Next Hurrah
Steve Benen / Talking Points Memo:
"IT'S NOT A CRIME"  —  I think it's safe to assume the right …
CBS News:
Bush: Note To Self, Thank Austr(al)ians
Discussion: Angry Bear
 Earlier Items: 
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
THE MASTER OF DISASTER....In Slate, Fred Kaplan takes a crack …
Discussion: Rook's Rant
The Atlantic Online:
Richardson on Iraq  —  I'm really not sure that, all things considered …
Michel Hoebink / Radio Netherlands Worldwide:
'Dutch left must be more articulate in Islam debate'
Erik Kirschbaum / Reuters:
German suspects had deadline for attacks-report
Jamiecnn / CNN Political Ticker:
Schwarzenegger challenges Republicans
Discussion: Say Anything and Oliver Willis
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Bush Expected to Nominate Attorney General Next Week
Donna Goodison / Boston Herald:
Bar-exam flunker quits suit over gay-wed question
Matthias Küntzel / Weekly Standard:
Jew-Hatred and Jihad  —  The Nazi roots of the 9/11 attack.
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

 
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