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9:00 PM ET, January 2, 2008

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Matt Apuzzo / Associated Press:
Criminal probe opened over CIA tapes  —  WASHINGTON - The Justice Department opened a full criminal investigation Wednesday into the destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes, putting the politically charged probe in the hands of a mob-busting public corruption prosecutor with a reputation for being independent.
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New York Times:
Stonewalled by the C.I.A.  —  MORE than five years ago …
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Rush: Huck ‘not a conservative’  —  Rush Limbaugh devoted a large portion of his first show since the holidays to criticizing Mike Huckabee's candidacy and offering a disapproving bottom-line assessment of the former governor.  —  “Ladies and gentlemen, Gov. Huckabee, mighty fine man …
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Foon Rhee / Boston Globe:
McCain addresses age issue  —  PEMBROKE, N.H. — John McCain is 71 years old, but the issue of his age comes up only occasionally at his town meetings.  That is why a query this morning at Pembroke Academy was striking.  A woman asked whether McCain had the stamina to serve as president for eight years.
Christopher Hayes / The Nation:
Return of the Swift Boaters  —  More than three years after John Kerry's bitter defeat, at the dawn of what looks like a far more promising campaign cycle for the Democrats, the party is still haunted by the specter of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.  Once upon a time, “Swift boat” …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Wonkette
Rick Klein / ABCNEWS:
Clinton Camp Pre-Spinning Possible Bad News in Iowa  —  Campaign Insists Even a Third-Place Finish Would Not Be Disappointing  —  As the presidential candidates engage in furious pre-caucus spin, one of Sen. Hillary Clinton's most prominent Iowa supporters said Wednesday that she's already accomplished …
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Peter Robinson / The Corner:
Late-Breaking Surge for Thompson  —  The latest news from Iowa?  According to Zogby's latest—and I quote: “Sen. Fred Thompson...has seen a late-breaking surge."  (Rich notes the same poll below.)  —  What's going on here?  My guess is that there are whole lot of Iowa Republicans …
Discussion: Hot Air and James Wolcott's Blog
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Simon / Bloggasm:
Readership of major liberal blogs declined in 2007 while conservative blog readership increased  —  It has long been understood that the largest liberal blogs have generally produced more web traffic than the largest conservative blogs.  But I have noticed a general trend over the past few months …
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Clinton to appear on Letterman  —  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) made a last-minute decision to appear on “Late Night with David Letterman” on the eve of the Iowa caucuses, campaign sources said.  —  Wednesday is Letterman's first night back since the writer's strike began.
Discussion: TalkLeft, PunditGuy and 2008Central.net
Nick Langewis / PageOneQ.com Latest:
High-ranking DNC officials subpoenaed in discrimination lawsuit  —  According to documents obtained by PageOneQ, a series of senior Democratic National Committee officials has been subpoenaed in an ongoing discrimination lawsuit by former LGBT outreach director Donald Hitchcock.
Michael J. Totten:
A Plan to Kill Everyone  —  “War, children, it's just a shot away, it's just a shot away” - The Rolling Stones, from “Gimme Shelter"  —  FALLUJAH — A sign on the door leading out of India Company's Combat Operations Center says “Have a Plan to Kill Everyone You Meet.”
William Beutler / Blog P.I.:
Josh Marshall's Readers Are... Not So Bright  —  This end of a post at Talking Points Memo today made me laugh: … $1.8 billion sounds plausible?  Using what counting system?  —  Elsewhere on the web today, a Des Moines-based WFAA reporter says Romney has spent $4 million on TV ads …
Discussion: CNSNews, WFAA-TV and Hot Air
Michael Joseph Gross / Vanity Fair:
A Vast Right-Wing Hypocrisy  —  Richard Mellon Scaife, billionaire bankroller of conservative crusades, spent heavily to expose Bill Clinton's “Troopergate” misbehavior.  Now Scaife's divorce from his second wife, Ritchie, is providing another unsavory saga—adultery! addiction! assault! dognapping!?!—as both parties let loose to V.F.
 
 
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Zachary Coile / San Francisco Chronicle:
Lantos, stricken with cancer, to retire at the end of the year
Eric Kleefeld / TPM Election Central:
New Rudy Ad Features Bhutto Footage, Warns Of Death At Hands Of Radical Muslims
Eve Fairbanks / The New Republic:
Young and in Love  —  The congressman from Texas has the race's …
Mark Halperin / The Page:
More on Letters to Pro-Huckabee Pastors
Matt Stoller / Open Left:
A Slimey Hallmark Card Named Mitt Romney
Deacon / Power Line:
THE ARLEN SPECTER OF THE SOUTH WEIGHS IN ON BEHALF OF JOHN MCCAIN
Discussion: Redstate
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Kristol in Iowa: “Snarky and Contemptuous”
Marc Ambinder:
An Obama Ad Appears On Drudge, Mistakenly (Updated)
Matthew Yglesias:
Juno's Politics  —  [This post contains spoilers] …
USA Today:
Legal voters thrown off rolls
Joe Biden / CNN:
Biden highlights Clinton Pakistan gaffe
Discussion: Hot Air
New York Times:
Interview with John Edwards
Clifford Krauss / New York Times:
Oil Hits $100 a Barrel for the First Time
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
The 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes Of 2007
 

 
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The NYT reports Q3 digital subscribers hit 260K, for 11.9M in total, digital ad revenue rose 8.8% YoY to $81.6M, and The Athletic turned its first profit

Porter Anderson / Publishing Perspectives:
PEN America: 10,046 school books bans across 29 states were recorded from July 2023 to June 2024, up ~200% YoY; Florida had 4,500+ bans and Iowa had 3,600+ bans

Ross Raihala / Twin Cities:
Q&A with Aaron Rupar on leaving Vox to start Public Notice on Substack, watching ~400 Trump rallies to share clips with his 989K followers on X, and more

 
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