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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:
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.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Mukasey's nomination and the sudden opposition to "waterboarding" — (updated below) — On one level, it is, I suppose, a good sign that there is some opposition to the confirmation of Michael Mukasey due to what ought to be his completely unacceptable positions on torture and more generally on executive power.
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Scott Horton / Harper's:The Torture Litmus Test
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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.
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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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kucinich.house.gov:
Kucinich Will Introduce Privileged Resolution To Force Up Or Down Vote On Cheney Impeachment — Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) announced today that he will be offering a privileged resolution on the House floor next week that will bring articles of impeachment against the Vice President, Richard B. Cheney.
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.
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
What A Shock — Liberal Bias In The Media (Update - Read The Report) — Instapundit calls this a dog-bites-man story, but it does have a twist. Instead of the Media Research Center issuing a report on media bias, today's study comes from another bastion of conservative thought: Harvard University.
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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.
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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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Shane Harris / National Journal:
NSA Sought Data Before 9/11 — Beginning in February 2001, almost seven months before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the government's top electronic eavesdropping organization, the National Security Agency, asked a major U.S. telecommunications carrier for information about its customers …
James Traub / New York Times:
Is (His) Biography (Our) Destiny? — "If I am the face of American foreign policy and American power," Barack Obama mused not long ago aboard his campaign plane, "as long as we are also making prudent strategic decisions, handling emergencies, crises and opportunities in the world in an intelligent and sober way. . . ." He stopped.
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The Corner:
The Girl's Got Game — Well, well, well ... 166,000 new jobs. Twice the consensus view. Did somebody say Goldilocks? Did somebody say the greatest story never told? — U.S. businesses and entrepreneurs are in very good shape. These are the real job creators.
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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 …
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The Obama Domino Theory — Barack Obama poses this fascinating moral question to a five-year-old: … The easy answer, of course, is: Not with all this childhood obesity and diabetes going around she shouldn't. Maybe an apple or a pear or a carrot, but pizza? No way.
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