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11:55 PM ET, September 8, 2007

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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 …
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Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
Bush Moves to Put Himself in a Position For Troop Drawdown  —  Reduced U.S. Presence in Iraq Is Hinted At  —  As he prepares to provide Congress and the nation a progress report on Iraq this week, President Bush has sought to reframe the domestic political battle over the war …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Washington Post:
Wide Skepticism Ahead of Assessment  —  Poll Respondents Doubt Petraeus Will Give True Picture of Situation in Iraq  —  Most Americans think this week's report from Army Gen. David H. Petraeus will exaggerate progress in Iraq, and few expect it to result in a major shift in President Bush's policy.
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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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 …
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
Jake Thompson / Omaha World-Herald:
Hagel is calling it quits
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.
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
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 …
Good Lt / The Jawa Report:
Alex Jones Arrested  —  The leather-lunged, bull-horn wielding nutbar Twoofer king himself was arrested outside Fox News today for disrupting a Geraldo broadcast.  No - he didn't spit on them: … Fascism!  —  UPDATE: Here's some video from the event (wild and wooly!):  —  UPDATE II: The NWO released Jones!
Discussion: Hot Air
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
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Bush Expected to Nominate Attorney General Next Week  —  Former Solicitor General Is Called a Leading Candidate  —  President Bush is expected to choose a replacement for Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales by the middle of next week, and former solicitor general Theodore B. Olson has emerged …
 
 
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Washington Post:
Hsu Steered Major Fundraiser to Obama
James S. Robbins / National Review Online:
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Chicago Tribune:
chicagotribune.com  —  Is the 'Queen of Talk' also a kingmaker?
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Daniel Klaidman / Newsweek:
'The Law Required It'  —  Former Justice Department lawyer …
Michelle Malkin:
A closer look at the NJ Democrat corruption case
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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 …
 Earlier Items: 
CBS News:
Bush: Note To Self, Thank Austr(al)ians
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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
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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