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1:50 PM ET, October 9, 2007

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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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Rusty / The Jawa Report:
Uh, About that "Leak" That Burned Our al Qaeda Intel  —  I know what the NY Sun and Washington Post are saying about a major source of intel being burned by a leak, but it just isn't so.  Rita Katz and the SITE Institute do a great job, but attributing the interception of this video to them is just false.
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.
Will / Attytood:
Betrayal: How Bush's Iraq politics ruined our spying on bin Laden  —  Back at the time this happened — Sept. 7, 2007, a date that should live in infamy — this struck us as quite odd indeed.  There were rumblings in the news that Osama bin Laden had made his first videotape in three years …
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Today's Must Read
Discussion: Think Progress and CANNONFIRE
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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Jamie Holly / Crooks and Liars:
Graeme Frost: What Would You Do If This Was Snooping Around Your House?  (Updated)  —  Play (2602) Here's an old Daily Show Clip with Malkinite...  (small file WMP only)  —  The wingnuts have been in full force attack against the family of Graeme Frost, the twelve year old boy that gave …
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 …
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
FISA: The Constitution Needs Your Calls Today
Bill Summary / Think Progress:
Summary Of The RESTORE Act
Discussion: Daily Kos and WorkingForChange
New York Times:
Democrats Seem Ready to Extend Wiretap Powers
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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Agence France Presse:
Top US court rejects damages claim by former CIA prisoner
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
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 …
Discussion: Think Progress and Pollster.com
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 …
Michael Cooper / New York Times:
A Senate Star Sparkles Less on the Stump  —  As he strode into a coffee-and-scones meeting with the Jasper County Democrats the other night in Newton, Iowa, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. slipped off his suit jacket and unknotted his tie.  —  "Folks, I apologize if I'm a little overdressed," Mr. Biden told the small group.
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Patrick Healy / The Caucus:
As Clinton's Lead Grows, Voter Q&A's Shrink
Discussion: techPresident and QandO
Atrios / Eschaton:
A**holes  —  Mark Steyn: … Yah, I remember how we made this kid  —  "fair game" back in the day: … Expect, of course, we don't ever make anyone "fair game" for this kind of personal harassment.  —  God they're a**holes.
Irenep / Michael Yon:
Under Distant Stars  —  In his book, Gates of Fire, Steven Pressfield offers the following translation of the epitaph engraved on a commemorative stone placed on top of the burial mound of the Spartans at Thermopylae: … CSM James Pippin  —  He was shot; four months ago—nearly to the day …
The Blotter:
Nixon on Thompson: 'Dumb' but 'Friendly'  —  Brian Ross and Avni Patel Report:  —  Fred Thompson has made much of his role 30 years ago as a young Senate lawyer helping to lead the investigation of the Watergate scandal and President Richard Nixon.  —  But a much different …
 
 
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Atrios / Eschaton:
Fake News Event of the Day
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Little Green Footballs:
Phony 'Satirical' Anti-Muslim Posters Circulated at GWU
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Patrick / mediabistro.com:
Matthews on Matthews  —  On today's "Morning Joe," …
Discussion: Moonbattery and Suitably Flip
Los Angeles Times:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: abandoned to fanatics
James G. Neuger / Bloomberg:
NATO Staggers in Afghanistan as Some Can't Fight On
Commercial Appeal:
Davis, of 4th District, will run for governor
Stanley Kurtz / The Corner:
Deterrence Lost?  —  In two previous posts, I've commented …
Discussion: Townhall.com and Daily Pundit
Brian Faughnan / Weekly Standard:
Mahmood: U R SO KEWL!!!!!
 Earlier Items: 
Brian Faughnan / Weekly Standard:
Netroots Doing the Work of the NRCC—A Continuing Saga
The Corner:
Fred Today  —  Thompson got an excellent send-up on The Today Show …
David Nather / CQPolitics.com:
Anti-War Movement Stuck in a Quagmire
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Ernesto Is Not A New Man  —  Hugo Chavez has decided to direct …
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Court Identifies Eleven Inaccuracies in Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth'
Elizabeth Ames Jones / Washington Post:
Energy Security 101  —  Americans burn 490 million gallons …
New York Post:
LEG AVERSION  —  CHRISTIAN "media watchdog group" …
Discussion: Cliff Schecter
Jane Gross / New York Times:
Aging and Gay, and Facing Prejudice in Twilight
 

 
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