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Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
Leak Severed a Link to Al-Qaeda's Secrets — Firm Says Administration's Handling of Video Ruined Its Spying Efforts — A small private intelligence company that monitors Islamic terrorist groups obtained a new Osama bin Laden video ahead of its official release last month …
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Eli Lake / New York Sun:
Qaeda Goes Dark After a U.S. Slip — Enemy Vanishes From Its Web Sites — WASHINGTON — Al Qaeda's Internet communications system has suddenly gone dark to American intelligence after the leak of Osama bin Laden's September 11 speech inadvertently disclosed the fact that we had penetrated the enemy's system.
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
AL QAEDA GOES DARK — Eli Lake has the story of the day in today's New York Sun: "Qaeda goes dark after a U.S. slip." Lake reports that the September 7 Osama bin Laden video (the one with the funny looking black beard) was picked up by Rita Katz's SITE Institute and provided to the National Counterterrorism Center:
John Yoo / Opinion Journal:
The Real Clarence Thomas — His fidelity to the Constitution often leads to results liberals like. — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas again finds himself in the crosshairs of liberals. After 16 years of diligently avoiding the press, he has written a memoir, "My Grandfather's Son …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Political Parties, Under Challenge, Seem to Have Justices' Sympathy — There is a place, after all, where political party leaders still get a little respect, and it's called the Supreme Court. — The justices last week heard two cases that challenge the authority of party bosses and the freedom …
New York Times:
Democrats Seem Ready to Extend Wiretap Powers — Two months after insisting that they would roll back broad eavesdropping powers won by the Bush administration, Democrats in Congress appear ready to make concessions that could extend some crucial powers given to the National Security Agency.
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Salon:
Greenwald takes a closer look at FISA revisions — What FISA capitulations are Democrats planning next? — An article in this morning's NYT reports what many have long been expecting — that Congressional Democrats are ready to capitulate to the White House again on warrantless eavesdropping …
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
What Is Wrong With You?!? — The difference between the far right wing and the far left wing: the far right will do anything — anything — so long as the ends justifies the means. The far left folks have ethical boundaries that they try very hard not to cross: things like attacking …
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The Corner:The new poor — Over the weekend, I posted a couple …
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Ernesto Is Not A New Man — Hugo Chavez has decided to direct his socialist crusade at some politically correct targets. He wants Venezuelans to emulate his New Man ideal, a socialist revolutionary ascetic, and he's using tax policy to force them to do so.
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Christopher Toothaker / Associated Press:Venezuela's Chavez on moral crusade
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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Court Identifies Eleven Inaccuracies in Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' — Here's something American media are virtually guaranteed to not report: a British court has determined that Al Gore's schlockumentary "An Inconvenient Truth" contains at least eleven material falsehoods.
Lydia Saad / Gallup Poll:
Bush's Approval Rating Returns to Low 30s — Matches his average rating since July — PRINCETON, NJ — According to a new Gallup Poll, conducted Oct. 4-7, 2007, President George W. Bush's job approval rating from the American public is an anemic 32%. That is slightly below his previous reading …
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Newsday:
British pullout in Iraq leaves Basra in chaos — BY TIMOTHY M. PHELPS.timothy.phelps@newsday.com; This story was supplemented with wire reports. — WASHINGTON - The British troop pullout from Iraq announced yesterday leaves Basra, Iraq's second largest and most strategically important city …
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Looking for the union label: All over the party — Looking for the union label isn't always easy in the campaign for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. Union rank and file, or at least their leaders, are as split as the party now. — The AFL-CIO's inability to rally early around …
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Jane Gross / New York Times:
Aging and Gay, and Facing Prejudice in Twilight — Even now, at 81 and with her memory beginning to fade, Gloria Donadello recalls her painful brush with bigotry at an assisted-living center in Santa Fe, N.M. Sitting with those she considered friends, "people were laughing and making certain kinds …
Frank Newport / Gallup Poll:
Giuliani Still on Top as Republicans Prepare to Debate in Michigan — Latest Gallup Poll shows Thompson in second place, followed by McCain — PRINCETON, NJ — As the Republican presidential candidates square off in the latest in a series of debates — this time in Dearborn, Mich. tonight …
Damien McElroy / Telegraph:
Iraq insurgency: People rise against al-Qa'eda — Damien McElroy spent a week in the heart of the insurgency in Anbar province in Iraq. In the second of seven exclusive reports he describes how peace and prosperity have returned to a town formerly riven by sectarian killings.
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Jon Kalahar / WLBT-TV:
'Wall Street Journal' Questions Hayne's Ethics — An editorial in The Wall Street Journal accuses a former state medical examiner of making mistakes during his examinations — mistakes that led to innocent people going to jail. — As a medical examiner, Dr. Steven Hayne testifies in court …
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