memeorandum: '60s Figure Says He Financed Donor Hsu (Wall Street Journal)

11:45 AM ET, September 12, 2007

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Two of Seven Soldiers Who Wrote 'NYT' Op-Ed Die in Iraq — NEW YORK The Op-Ed by seven active duty U.S. soldiers in Iraq questioning the war drew international attention just three weeks ago. Now two of the seven are dead. — Sgt. Omar Mora and Sgt. Yance Gray died Monday in a vehicle accident …

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Think Progress:

Two Of Seven Soldiers Who Wrote New York Times Op-Ed Die In Iraq — On Aug. 19, seven active duty soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division wrote an op-ed in The New York Times called "The War As We Saw It." The piece expressed skepticism about "recent press coverage portraying the conflict as increasingly manageable":

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Brandon Friedman / Daily Kos:

Two of the Seven NYT Op-Ed Soldiers Have Died in Iraq — Two of the seven soldiers who wrote the New York Times op-ed piece criticizing U.S. counterinsurgency strategy 3 ½ weeks ago have been killed in Iraq. Yance T. Gray and Omar Mora died Monday in a vehicle accident in Baghdad.

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The Nation:

Petraeus: I "Don't Know" If Iraq War Makes U.S. Safer — Did General David Petraeus today suggest that the war in Iraq may not make the United States safer? — During his second day of appearances on Capitol Hill, Petraeus this afternoon appeared before the Senate armed services committee.

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Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:

(Updated) Petraeus Shouldn't Know if Iraq Makes Us Safer — Lefty blogs are making a huge deal of the fact that Petraeus didn't have an opinion on the wisdom of fighting a war in Iraq. Here, from DailyKos: … And here's Andrew Sullivan: … But the key point for these folks prior …

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Montana's News Station, Fair. Accurate. To the Point.: Soldier, Ismay native, dies in vehicle crash in Iraq

KHOU-TV: Texas City soldier killed outside Baghdad

Wall Street Journal:

'60s Figure Says He Financed Donor Hsu — Where did Norman Hsu get his money? — That has been one of the big questions hanging over the prominent Democratic fund-raiser, as reports have surfaced about hundreds of thousands of dollars he made in political donations, plus lavish parties …

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Patrick Healy / New York Times:

Clinton Sees Fear Realized in Trouble With Donor — Of all the possible vulnerabilities facing Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign, Mrs. Clinton has long believed that the one of the biggest was money, friends and advisers say. Some sort of fund-raising scandal that would echo …

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NY Daily News:

Team Clinton can't explain ignoring warnings on Hsu — WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton's campaign couldn't explain yesterday why it blew off warnings about felon-turned-fund-raiser Norman Hsu - and the Daily News learned FBI agents are collecting e-mail evidence in the widening scandal.

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New York Times:

Bush Nearing Choice to Lead Justice Dept. — The White House is closing in on a nominee to replace Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, with former Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson considered one of the leading candidates, administration and Congressional officials said Tuesday.

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CNN:
Poll: Bin Laden tops Musharraf in Pakistan

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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
9/11 Linked To Iraq, In Politics if Not in Fact

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Ynetnews:

Report: Israel spots nuclear installations in Syria — Washington official says Israeli surveillance shows possible Syrian nuclear installation stocked by North Korea, Israeli Arab newspaper claims target of alleged raid last week was Syrian missile base financed by Iran

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New York Times:
U.S. Confirms Israeli Strikes Hit Syrian Target Last Week

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Kay S. Hymowitz / Opinion Journal:

Freedom Fetishists — The cultural contradictions of libertarianism. — More than perhaps any other American political group, libertarians have suffered the blows of caricature. For many people, the term evokes an image of a scraggly misfit living in the woods with his gun collection …

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The Independent:

The 'proxy war': UK troops are sent to Iranian border — British soldiers return to action as tensions between US and Iran grow — British forces have been sent from Basra to the volatile border with Iran amid warnings from the senior US commander in Iraq that Tehran is fomenting a "proxy war".

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Reuters:

Fidel Castro says U.S. fooled world over 9/11 — HAVANA (Reuters) - Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro said the U.S. government misinformed Americans and the world about 9/11, echoing conspiracy theories about the terror attacks against the United States six years ago.

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Los Angeles Times:

Giuliani support is soft in key battlegrounds, poll finds — Although former N.Y. mayor is GOP leader, a new Times/Bloomberg survey shows him trailing in three early states. Clinton maintains solid lead among Democrats. — WASHINGTON — "America's Mayor" Rudolph Giuliani has been well ahead …

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Kim Chipman / Bloomberg:
Thompson Says He's No Churchgoer, Won't Tout Religion on Stump

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Jonathan E. Kaplan / The Hill:

Woolsey calls for attacks on colleagues — Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.) is encouraging anti-war activists to find challengers to centrist Democrats, with the aim of moving the party to the left and ramping up opposition to the war in Iraq, to the chagrin of top Democratic aides.

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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:

The Assault on Petraeus — There is a long American tradition of savaging failed generals, from George McClellan to William Westmoreland. It is a more novel tactic to attack a successful one. Sen. Dick Durbin accuses Gen. David Petraeus of "carefully manipulating the statistics."