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3:00 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
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Today's Must Read
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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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" …
Jamie Holly / Crooks and Liars:
Graeme Frost: What Would You Do If This Was Snooping Around Your House?  (Updated)  —  Play (2901) 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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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.
Discussion: Reuters, TalkLeft, ACSBlog and The Heretik
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Court Declines Case of Alleged CIA Torture Victim
Associated Press:   Court nixes suit claiming CIA torture
Patrick / mediabistro.com:
Matthews on Matthews  —  On today's "Morning Joe," Joe Scarborough asked Chris Matthews if Republican candidates would try to get a "cheap applause line" tonight by pointing to his recent controversial comments.  —  Said Matthews:  —  I've been thinking about that....It's not my stage tonight.
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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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 …
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.
Peter Baker / The Trail:
Bartlett on the GOP Field: A Hick, a "Dud" and a "Flip-Flopper"  —  Dan Bartlett, formerly one of the closest advisers to President Bush, has been offering a tough analysis of the GOP field.  (White House Photo Office).  —  One of President Bush's closest advisers has a brutally candid analysis …
Discussion: CNN Political Ticker
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.
Atrios / Eschaton:
Fake News Event of the Day  —  CNN's programming is really pretty weird.  I generally don't catch any of the morning show, but between that and the Situation Room it seems that every day is dominated by some fake news event - a school lockdown, a missing child, a truck accident …
Discussion: Ezra Klein and Brian Beutler
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 …
 
 
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Rusty / The Jawa Report:
Thanks UT, Now I'm Even Getting Instapundit in the Mail!
Peter Slevin / Washington Post:
Mich. Primary Move Splits Democrats
Discussion: The Corner
Confederate Yankee:
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Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
DoJ Vote Chief Argues Voter ID Laws Discriminate against Whites
Discussion: The BRAD BLOG
John Tierney / New York Times:
Diet and Fat: A Severe Case of Mistaken Consensus
Jonathan Chait / New York Times:
Captives of the Supply Side
James G. Neuger / Bloomberg:
NATO Staggers in Afghanistan as Some Can't Fight On
Commercial Appeal:
Davis, of 4th District, will run for governor
 Earlier Items: 
Redstate:
The Debates According to Fred
Discussion: Power Line, Fred File and IMAO
Stanley Kurtz / The Corner:
Deterrence Lost?  —  In two previous posts, I've commented …
Discussion: Hot Air and Townhall.com
The Blotter:
Nixon on Thompson: 'Dumb' but 'Friendly'
Brian Faughnan / Weekly Standard:
Mahmood: U R SO KEWL!!!!!
Rick Weiss / Washington Post:
Dragonfly or Insect Spy? Scientists at Work on Robobugs.
Irenep / Michael Yon:
Under Distant Stars
David Nather / CQPolitics.com:
Anti-War Movement Stuck in a Quagmire
John Yoo / Opinion Journal:
The Real Clarence Thomas