memeorandum: Loyal to Kerik, Giuliani Missed Warning Signs (Michael Powell/New York Times)

4:05 PM ET, November 3, 2007

Top Items:

Musharraf Declares State of Emergency — The Pakistani leader, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, declared a state of emergency tonight, suspending the country's constitution, blacking out all independent television news reports and filling the streets of the capital with hundreds of police and soldiers.

Discussion: Hot Air, Taylor Marsh, Eschaton, The Long War Journal, The American Street, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, Middle Earth Journal, Prairie Weather, Seeing the Forest and Mercury Rising

Matthew Pennington / Associated Press:

Musharraf declares emergency in Pakistan — ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Gen. Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency in Pakistan on Saturday, suspending the constitution, replacing the chief justice before a crucial Supreme Court ruling on his future as president, and cutting communications in the capital.

Discussion: The Newshoggers, Telegraph, Pajamas Media, TPMCafe blogs, Blue Crab Boulevard, Stop The ACLU, Macsmind, alphabet city and New York Times

Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:

Musharraf Declares State Of Emergency — Pervez Musharraf has declared a state of emergency in Pakistan, apparently not content to wait for the Supreme Court decision on his presidential election victory last month. So far, he has given no reason for the declaration, although the military activity …

Discussion: BitsBlog and Washington Times

Washington Post:

Musharraf Declares Emergency Rule in Pakistan — Provisional Constitution Instituted, Leader Expected to Address Nation Saturday — Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule Saturday, suspending the constitution amid a heavy security presence including armored personnel carriers on the streets of the capital.

Discussion: Is That Legal?, The Van Der Galiën Gazette and Shakespeare's Sister

CNN:
Musharraf declares state of emergency

Discussion: TalkLeft and The Carpetbagger Report

ABCNEWS:

Bush Administration Blocked Waterboarding Critic — Former DOJ Official Tested the Method Himself, in Effort to Form Torture Policy — A senior Justice Department official, charged with reworking the administration's legal position on torture in 2004 became so concerned …

Discussion: Think Progress, Baltimore Sun, NION, Crooks and Liars, The Heretik, Macsmind, Harper's and The Blotter

Richard B. Schmitt / Los Angeles Times:

Mukasey all but a shoo-in for approval — Two Democrats on the judiciary panel express concerns but say they will vote to confirm him as attorney general. — WASHINGTON — Michael B. Mukasey appeared on Friday to be all but assured of becoming the nation's 81st attorney general …

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report and Obsidian Wings

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Dean on Mukasey — Friend of TPM and former Nixon White House …

Discussion: The Impolitic and the talking dog

Rich Lowry / Real Clear Politics:
The Campaign Against Mukasey

Discussion: The Atlantic Online and Balkinization

Michael Powell / New York Times:

Loyal to Kerik, Giuliani Missed Warning Signs — If the rise of Bernard B. Kerik under the mentorship of Rudolph W. Giuliani was meteoric, the speed of his fall was breathtaking. — In December 2004, President Bush nominated Mr. Kerik, a former New York police commissioner, to head the federal Department of Homeland Security.

Discussion: Think Progress, The Carpetbagger Report, The Right's Field, Daily Kos, Wampum, Kiko's House, The Moderate Voice, KnoxViews, rubber hose, TalkLeft, DownWithTyranny!, Suburban Guerrilla, MSNBC and The Democratic Daily

Maggie Michael / Associated Press:

Al-Qaida's No. 2 threatens Libya — CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida's No. 2 figure harshly criticized Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in a new audio tape Saturday, accusing him of being an enemy of Islam and threatening a wave of attacks against the North African country because it improved relations with the U.S.

Discussion: The Jawa Report and Argghhh!

Gateway Pundit: Al Qaeda Threatens American Poodle... Libyan leader Gadhafi(?)

Steven R. Hurst / Associated Press:

Thousands Return to Safer Iraqi Capital — BAGHDAD (AP) - In a dramatic turnaround, more than 3,000 Iraqi families driven out of their Baghdad neighborhoods have returned to their homes in the past three months as sectarian violence has dropped, the government said Saturday.

Discussion: Assorted Babble

Jules Crittenden:

Not Cricket — This embarrassing. Even the Brits, who are barely in Iraq anymore, are noticing how unsporting the Iraq coverage is. Times of London: … Well, they are covering the good news in the United States. With the highest of yeah-but journalism standards.

Discussion: Times of London

Alice Miles / Times of London:
The Petraeus Curve — Serious success in Iraq is not being recognised as it should be

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, neo-neocon, The Strata-Sphere, Wake up America, Say Anything, Don Surber, Neptunus Lex, SWJ Blog, NewsBusters.org, Secular Blasphemy and alphabet city

Kate Michelman / Open Left:

We've Come A Long Way — Remember the commercial: — We've come a long way baby. — Well, have we? That's the question American women need to ask themselves. — We earn 77 cents for every dollar a man makes. — We are 48% more likely to live in poverty than men.

Discussion: CNN Political Ticker

Matt Stoller / Open Left:

The Religious Left Runs Against Porn — I like Tom Perriollo, though I find this diatribe on the common good very annoying. … There's lots of stuff that undermines women's rights, sexual health and 'the common good', from legal economic penalties to cultural norms to the sick gender bias …

Discussion: Eschaton and BitsBlog

Tom Perriello / The Coffee House: Our Culture War on Greed

The Earth Times Online Newspaper:

Pakistan considers Taliban rule in volatile valley - Summary — Islamabad - Pakistan is considering enforcement of Islamic laws in Pakistan's north-western Swat valley to meet the demands of pro-Taliban militants who briefly seized and then released around 100 security personnel …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers

Toni-Lynn Robbins / Bangor Daily News:

Flag-burning 'lesson' provokes UM student — ORONO, Maine - A University of Maine student alleges her former professor offered extra credit to class members if they burned the American flag or the U.S. Constitution or were arrested defending free speech. — On the first day of class …

Discussion: Stop The ACLU and Daily Pundit

The Corner:

Strange Times — In the recent silence about Iraq (apparently no bad news is no news at all), we fail to appreciate that we are witnessing one of the most dramatic turnabouts in a war in our history, comparable to the 90 day radical change from June to September 1864.

National Review:

The Toughest, Most Effective Web Ad I've Seen This Campaign So Far — It's very rare that I find myself in total agreement with Markos Moulitsas, creator of Daily Kos. But he calls John Edwards' response to Hillary Clinton's "pile-on" video "devastating," and I have to agree.