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11:20 AM 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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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:
Opinion Journal:
Tortured Arguments  —  Giving al Qaeda an interrogation-resistance manual.
Discussion: PrairiePundit
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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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court grants no new cases, turns down CIA case  —  The Supreme Court granted no new cases Tuesday and, in a major action, refused to reopen the question of the government's power to limit or scuttle lawsuits by claiming that "state secrets" have to be protected.
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:   Political Parties, Under Challenge, Seem to Have Justices' Sympathy
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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 …
Discussion: TalkLeft and JammieWearingFool
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 …
Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
GOP hits Hillary's 'baby bonds'  —  Republican strategists say Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton"s call for giving every newborn $5,000 for education is the first major mistake in her front-running campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.  —  They say it undermines the centrist image …
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Michael Cooper / New York Times:
A Senate Star Sparkles Less on the Stump
Discussion: MSNBC and Wonkette
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Looking for the union label: All over the party
Discussion: CNN Political Ticker
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
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
Discussion: Fraters Libertas
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 …
Brian Faughnan / Weekly Standard:
Mahmood: U R SO KEWL!!!!!  —  Who would have imagined that the march of technology would eventually force Mahmood Ahmadinejad to confront trolls on his blog.  Nevertheless, a lively debate has broken out among the commenters—you might even call it a flamewar.  —  There are the critics:
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.
Discussion: Flopping Aces and Right Wing News
Brian Faughnan / Weekly Standard:
Netroots Doing the Work of the NRCC—A Continuing Saga  —  We've chronicled the shift in recent months in the attitude among the netroots towards moderate and conservative Democrats.  Just a few months ago, the paramount goal of the left was achieving Congressional majorities …
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 …
 
 
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Rick Weiss / Washington Post:
Dragonfly or Insect Spy? Scientists at Work on Robobugs.
Discussion: Sweetness & Light
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
Associated Press:
Man jailed for trying to pass $1M bill
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
For Thompson, It's Showtime
Sebastien Berger / Telegraph:
Zimbabwe a laughing stock, says Mugabe
Jon Kalahar / WLBT-TV:
'Wall Street Journal' Questions Hayne's Ethics
Discussion: The Agitator and Reason
Reuters:
Mexican leader critiques U.S. border fence
Discussion: PoliPundit.com and QandO
 Earlier Items: 
Elizabeth Ames Jones / Washington Post:
Energy Security 101  —  Americans burn 490 million gallons …
Rich Lowry / Real Clear Politics:
The Lonely War  —  BAGHDAD — A war has probably never …
Discussion: PrairiePundit
Alan Breslauer / The BRAD BLOG:
VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: DoJ Voting Rights Chief Says 'It's a Shame' Elderly …
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Giuliani law firm sued by high profile Texan
Bret Stephens / Opinion Journal:
So Be It?  —  The dangers of defining "torture" down.
Frank Newport / Gallup Poll:
Giuliani Still on Top as Republicans Prepare to Debate in Michigan
Jane Gross / New York Times:
Aging and Gay, and Facing Prejudice in Twilight
Damien McElroy / Telegraph:
Iraq insurgency: People rise against al-Qa'eda