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3:21 AM ET, November 3, 2007

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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Schumer, Feinstein Announce Support for Mukasey  —  Sens. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) announced this afternoon that they will vote in favor of confirming Michael B. Mukasey as attorney general, effectively ending a growing revolt by fellow Democrats that had threatened Mukasey's confirmation.
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CNN:
Two Dems revive AG nominee's chances  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — The confirmation of Michael Mukasey as attorney general was all but assured Friday when two key Democratic senators said they will vote in favor of the nominee despite questions about his views on "waterboarding" and the president's power to order electronic surveillance.
New York Times:
Senator Schumer's Statement  —  Following is the statement issued today by Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, announcing that he will vote in favor of President Bush's nominee for attorney general, Michael B. Mukasey.  —  I will support Judge Michael Mukasey for attorney general.
New York Times:
Schumer and Feinstein Back Mukasey  —  The confirmation of Michael B. Mukasey as attorney general seemed all but assured late this afternoon when Senators Charles E. Schumer and Dianne Feinstein, two Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, announced that they would vote in favor of the nominee.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:   Dean on Mukasey  —  Friend of TPM and former Nixon White House …
Amanda / Think Progress:
Breaking: Leahy to oppose Mukasey.
Discussion: The Next Hurrah and Brian Beutler
Ben Smith / The Politico:
HRC White House papers will go public in 08  —  The Clinton library is readying a trove of detail about Hillary Rodham Clinton's eight years as first lady in the White House for release in late January, government lawyers said in a court filing.  —  But Bill Clinton's lawyer will have the final …
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Jessica Mintz / Associated Press:
Clinton presses for White House papers  —  REDMOND, Wash. - Former President Clinton said Friday that a letter he wrote to the National Archives was to expedite release of his papers, not slow the process or hide anything as rivals are suggesting in criticism of his wife.
Stephen Spruiell / The Corner:
Misleading?  —  Bill Clinton says that one of the questions Tim Russert asked Hillary at Tuesday night's debate was "breathtakingly misleading."  Let's take a look at the question: … And the follow-up: … Clinton says the question was misleading because, "She was incidental to the letter …
Discussion: Riehl World View
Ron Fournier / Associated Press:
ON DEADLINE: Hillary hides behind skirt?
Discussion: Washington Post and Reuters
Kate Phillips / The Caucus:
Clinton's 'Pile-On Politics'  —  Nearly three days after the Democratic debate Tuesday night, Senator Hillary Clinton's post-forum tactics — complete with her video titled "The Politics of Pile On" and her remarks about the all-men's club of politics — have reverberated with more buzz …
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Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:   Clinton and Obama Clash Over 'Piling On' Remarks
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
First Read: Obama campaign responds to Giuliani
Discussion: TalkLeft and The Democratic Daily
Rasmussen Reports:
Debate Fallout Has No Immediate Impact on Clinton Poll Position
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Goodbye to All That  —  T he logic behind the candidacy of Barack Obama is not, in the end, about Barack Obama.  It has little to do with his policy proposals, which are very close to his Democratic rivals' and which, with a few exceptions, exist firmly within the conventions of our politics.
The Blotter:
Exclusive: Only Three Have Been Waterboarded by CIA  —  Brian Ross and Richard Esposito Report:  —  For all the debate over waterboarding, it has been used on only three al Qaeda figures, according to current and former U.S. intelligence officials.  —  As ABC News first reported in September …
Matt Apuzzo / Associated Press:
Rice to face subpoena in espionage case  —  WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and some of President Bush's top foreign policy advisers must testify about their conversations with pro-Israel lobbyists, a federal judge ruled Friday in a trial over the misuse of classified information.
Arthur Silber / Once Upon a Time:
One Hundred Routes to War, One Hundred Ways to Hell  —  Almost two years ago, in writing about the effects of any foreign intervention that is not a demonstrably necessary act of self-defense, I identified what I considered to be the most important principle regarding interventions of this kind.
Gary Gentile / The Huffington Post:
Hollywood Writers Set Strike for Monday  —  LOS ANGELES — Film and TV writers prepared to go on strike Monday for the first time in two decades to break what has become a high-stakes stalemate with the world's largest media companies over profits from DVDs and programming on the Internet.
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter and TalkLeft
Jerusalem Post:
US Air Force struck Syrian nuclear site  —  The September 6 raid over Syria was carried out by the US Air Force, the Al-Jazeera Web site reported Friday.  The Web site quoted Israeli and Arab sources as saying that two strategic US jets armed with tactical nuclear weapons carried out an attack on a nuclear site under construction.
Arizona Republic:
Authorities: Suspicious item at Palo Verde a pipe bomb  —  A suspicious item seized Friday morning from the truck of a contract worker at Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station was an apparent pipe bomb, plant operator Arizona Public Service Co. said.  —  The worker has been detained and questioned.
 
 
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