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7:40 PM ET, December 7, 2007

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Emptywheel:
Whitehouse Reveals Smoking Gun of White House Claiming Not to Be Bound by Any Law  —  Damn, I love me some Sheldon Whitehouse.  He, like, actually knows the law.  And he, like, is willing to actually read the stuff he is exercising oversight over.  —  Which is why this speech he gave today …
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Faiz / Think Progress:
Sen. Whitehouse Reveals Secret DoJ Legal Memos: Bush Determines What Is Constitutional  —  This morning, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) delivered an impassioned floor speech to help frame the debate over FISA reform.  Using his privilege as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee …
Discussion: TPMmuckraker and Emptywheel
whitehouse.senate.gov:
In FISA Speech, Whitehouse Sharply Criticizes Bush Administration's Assertion of Executive Power  —  Washington  —  , D.C. - U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, delivered the following remarks on the floor of the U.S. Senate today:
Michael Hirsh / Newsweek:
Huckabee Surges, Obama Gains in Iowa  —  The new NEWSWEEK poll shows the former Arkansas governor now has a two-to-one lead over Romney, while Barack improves against Hillary.  —  Yana Paskova / Getty Images  —  Looking Up: Huckabee now seems unstoppable in the Iowa caucuses
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:   Edwards' Internal Poll Shows Three-Way Tie
Calvin Woodward / Associated Press:
White House hopefuls crack best jokes
Discussion: Ed Driscoll.com
Eric Kleefeld / TPM Election Central:
Romney Spokesman Won't Say If Atheists Have Place In America  —  A spokesman for the Mitt Romney campaign is thus far refusing to say whether Romney sees any positive role in America for atheists and other non-believers, after Election Central inquired about the topic yesterday
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Faith vs. the Faithless  —  Jon Meacham is the editor of Newsweek and the author of "American Gospel," which describes the history of religious liberty in the United States.  Richard John Neuhaus is the editor in chief of First Things and the author of "The Naked Public Square," …
Blue Texan / Firedoglake:
Peggy Noonan Admits GOP Is Controlled By Fundies, "Idiots"  —  Nooner, who's apparently been in a coma for the past 30 years, is shocked, shocked! to find that the GOP's base is a bunch of [flat-earther homophobic] religious bigots. … And why would that be? … You don't say!  Goodness, who let them in?
Discussion: Liberal Values
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Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
Mormon in America  —  How Mitt Romney came to give The Speech—and how he did.  —  Did Mitt Romney have to give a speech on religion?  Yes.  When you're in a race so close you could lose due to one issue, your Mormonism, you must address the issue of your Mormonism.
Lee Harris / TCS Daily:
How and Why Romney Bombed
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
Democrats Call for Inquiry in Destruction of Tapes by C.I.A.  —  Angry Democratic lawmakers called for investigations today into the Central Intelligence Agency's destruction in 2005 of at least two videotapes documenting the interrogation of two Qaeda operatives in the agency's custody.
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Pelosi calls Cheney swipe undignified  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says a swipe that Vice President Cheney took at Democratic House leaders is "beneath the dignity of his office."  —  Capitol Hill was abuzz Thursday with discussion of the vice president's assertion in an interview …
Mesh / Harvard:
Iran NIE and a prediction  —  From Stephen Peter Rosen  —  For the most part, the arguments about the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran have been and will be a debate, not about intelligence, but about Bush foreign policy.  But the NIE also provides an opportunity to assess …
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Yaakov Katz / Jerusalem Post:
IDF to show US nuclear data on Iran  —  Disappointed after failing to make their case on Iran and influence the outcome of the United States's National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) released this week, Military Intelligence will present its hard core evidence on the Islamic Republic's nuclear program …
Satyam / Think Progress:
O'Reilly: Progressive blog readers = 'devil worshippers.'  —  On Fox News yesterday, Bill O'Reilly let loose on "far-left websites" like DailyKos, stating, "If you read these far-left websites, you're a devil worshipper.  You are."  O'Reilly's ombudsman responded, "As a journalist, you know better than that."
John Distaso / New Hampshire Union Leader:
Site of Barack-Oprah event isn't unionized  —  MANCHESTER - Barack Obama's presidential campaign deeply concerned organized labor by booking its big rally Sunday with superstar Oprah Winfrey at the Verizon Wireless Arena.  —  A union representing organized stage hands have been trying unsuccessfully …
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Katharine Q. Seelye / The Caucus:
Not Feeling the Oprah Love
Discussion: Don Surber
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Ron Paul blimp ready to rock America back to the gold standard  —  I was going to say "rock the fiat money right out yo' pockets" but I figure the number of Paul donors among the HA readership is blessedly small.  —  Anyway, they did it. … To get it airborne cost them $200 grand …
 
 
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