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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
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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 …
Faiz / Think Progress:
Rush Smears 12-Yr Old: 'They Filled His Head With Lies Just As They Have Some Of These Soldiers' — Yesterday, ThinkProgress noted the right wing has been orchestrating a coordinated effort to smear a 12 year old recipient of SCHIP. These conservatives have been propagating baseless "facts" …
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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New York Times:Democrats Seem Ready to Extend Wiretap Powers
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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 …
Rick Weiss / Washington Post:
Dragonfly or Insect Spy? Scientists at Work on Robobugs. — Vanessa Alarcon saw them while working at an antiwar rally in Lafayette Square last month.
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."
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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Little Green Footballs:
Phony 'Satirical' Anti-Muslim Posters Circulated at GWU — At George Washington University, another outrageous action by the Saudi-funded radical Islamic front group calling itself the Muslim Student Association, as they circulate flyers purporting to be from a conservative campus group …
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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