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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.
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Don Surber
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:
Faiz / Think Progress:
Right Wing Launches Baseless Smear Campaign Against 12 Year Old Recipient Of SCHIP — Two weeks ago, the Democratic radio address was delivered by a 12-year old Maryland boy named Graeme Frost. Graeme told his story of being involved in a severe car accident three years ago …
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The Corner:
The new poor — Over the weekend, I posted a couple of things re Graeme Frost, the Democratic Party's 12-year old healthcare spokesman. Michelle Malkin reports that the blogospheric lefties are all steamed about the wingnuts' Swiftboating of sick kids, etc. — Sorry, no sale.
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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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New York Times:
Democratic Concessions Are Expected on Wiretapping — Two months after vowing to roll back broad new wiretapping powers won by the Bush administration, Congressional Democrats appear ready to make concessions that could extend some of the key powers granted to the National Security Agency.
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 …
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.
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Giuliani law firm sued by high profile Texan — A prominent Texas Republican has sued Rudy Giuliani's law firm and a close friend and partner of Giuliani's, Kenneth Caruso, alleging that Caruso, the firm and others "schemed and conspired to steal $10 million."
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The Atlantic Online
New York Post:
LEG AVERSION — CHRISTIAN "media watchdog group" The Resistance is all worked up over the ultra-femme anchors of Fox News. The group's leader, Mark Dice, rants in an e-mail, "I see shorter skirts on the women of Fox News than I do on the prostitutes being arrested on cop shows."
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Cliff Schecter
Armed Liberal / Winds of Change.NET:
Cherrypicking Weber — It's just so damn much fun to read Yglesias again - I'd dropped him from my blogroll, but people I read (Crooked Timber, in this case) keep linking to things he says and I just can't help myself; his posts are a kind of intellectual pinata; a gift that just keeps giving.
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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 …