memeorandum: Rice Continues Proud Tradition of State Dep't Stonewalling (Spencer Ackerman/TPMmuckraker)

11:05 AM ET, October 25, 2007

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New Steps by U.S. Against Iranians — The Bush administration will announce a long-debated policy of new sanctions against Iran on Thursday, accusing the elite Quds division of the Revolutionary Guard Corps of supporting terrorism, administration officials said Wednesday night.

Discussion: Think Progress, Washington Post, The Van Der Galiën Gazette, Associated Press, The American Street, Prairie Weather and Atlas Shrugs

Robin Wright / Washington Post:

U.S. to Impose New Sanctions Targeting Iran's Military — The Bush administration plans to roll out an unprecedented package of unilateral sanctions against Iran today, including the long-awaited designations of its Revolutionary Guard Corps as a proliferator of weapons of mass destruction …

Discussion: MoJoBlog, MSNBC and The Gate

Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:

Bomb Iran? U.S. Requests Bunker-Buster Bombs — White House Bomber Request Leaves Some Wondering if U.S. Is Preparing Action in Iran — Tucked inside the White House's $196 billion emergency funding request for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is an item that has some people wondering whether …

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New York Times:

Mideast Hawks Help to Develop Giuliani Policy — Rudolph W. Giuliani's approach to foreign policy shares with other Republican presidential candidates an aggressive posture toward terrorism, a commitment to strengthening the military and disdain for the United Nations.

Discussion: Comments from Left Field, The American Street, The Atlantic Online, Brendan Nyhan, Israel Matzav and The Belgravia Dispatch

Matthew Lee / Associated Press:

U.S. announces sanctions against Iran — WASHINGTON - The Bush administration announced sweeping new sanctions against Iran Thursday — the harshest since the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in 1979 — charging anew that Tehran supports terrorism in the Middle East, exports missiles and is engaging in a nuclear build up.

Discussion: Counterterrorism Blog and Blue Crab Boulevard

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:

Baghdad Diarist Was On Guard When Questioned by Editors — The soldier whose New Republic article about military cruelty in Iraq was labeled false by Army investigators refused to defend his accusations when questioned by the magazine, even after being told that the editors could no longer support him unless he cooperated.

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Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:

Army Acknowledges Leaking Beauchamp Docs To Drudge, Promises Investigation — There's been a very interesting turn in the saga of The New Republic's "Baghdad Diarist," the American soldier in Iraq who's been accused of fabricating negative stories about U.S. troops and publishing them in the mag.

Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Foer Still Spinning

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Mark Steyn / The Corner:
Beauchamp takes a powder

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Docweasel / docweaselblog:

Bobby Caina Calvan Blog : the entire post with comments preserved — UPDATE: Good gracious, blogging since '97 and my first Instalanche. Thank you Mr. Reynolds! Thank you AOSHQ and the lovely and talented Michelle Malkin as well. — The entire site is 404′d, and the comments were the sweetest plum!

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Bobby / The GALLIVANT:

Simply Simpatico — Lima is beautiful in the spring, when it's not too hot, I was told. Machu Pichu is a must see, too. — My visits to the Green Zone are always a joy when I pass through checkpoints manned by Peruvian troops, with whom I have established a rapport.

Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ and McClatchy Watch

Little Green Footballs:
Media Arrogance Squared

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Docweasel / docweaselblog:
Bobby Calvan does the impossible: Unites the entire internet …

Discussion: Hot Air and FreeSpeech.com

Daniel Henninger / Opinion Journal:

Rudy? — Giuliani and religious right meet on the road to political adulthood. — One school of thought on the religious right holds that if Rudy Giuliani would commit to an unequivocal anti-abortion position, they could vote for him. A second school of thought, articulated by Richard Land …

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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Brownback to meet Rudy

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Gail Collins / New York Times:
Who Doesn't ♥ Huckabee? — Chuck Norris has spoken.

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The Atlantic Online:

Musn't say the V-word — I read this sort of thing and I just do a slow burn. … The more interesting question is why should all of the parents who don't have the choice to send their kids to a private school, or move to the suburbs? How do you write an article this long without noting …

Discussion: Ezra Klein

John Distaso / New Hampshire Union Leader:

John DiStaso's Granite Status: Rudy just doesn't get it — Maybe Rudy Giuliani thinks there are no Yankee fans north of Hartford, Conn. — Well, we can tell you first hand that there are a few around. Diehard fans. Fans who unabashedly carry on in Red Sox territory, regardless of who's in the World Series and who isn't.

Discussion: MSNBC

Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:

Rice Continues Proud Tradition of State Dep't Stonewalling — So much for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ending State's recent stonewalling of the House oversight committee. Rice is testifying this morning about corruption in Iraq, a subject that the committee has been digging into for months.

Discussion: MoJoBlog and Washington Post

New York Times:

Another $200 Billion — President Bush waited until he had vetoed a relatively inexpensive children's health insurance bill before asking for tens of billions of dollars more for his misadventure in Iraq. The cynicism of that maneuver is only slightly less shameful than the president's distorted priorities.

Discussion: Main and Central, Prairie Weather and Think Progress