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New York Post:
SPITZER HAS USED HOOKERS FOR 6 YEARS: SOURCES — Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been soliciting high-priced hookers for at least six years and possibly for more than a decade, sources tell The Post. — The revelation yesterday that the crusading governor was in fact “Client 9” …
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Amid Charges of Spitzer Tryst, Embattled Prostitute “Kristen” Expected to Resign — New York - At a hastily scheduled morning press conference at the headquarters of New York's exclusive Emperors Club prostitution ring, high priced call girl “Kristen” announced that she would temporarily step aside …
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Jacob Gershman / New York Sun:
Sources: Spitzer To Step Down Tomorrow — Governor Huddles With Lawyers at Home — ALBANY — After wrestling over the decision for days, Governor Spitzer is poised to announce his resignation tomorrow, according to senior aides. — Earlier today, a top aide to Mr. Spitzer …
ABCNEWS:
Spitzer Escort: Governor Was a Nice Guy, Good Tipper — 22-Year-Old Escort Says Spitzer 'Didn't Do Anything That Wasn't Clean' — A 22-year-old escort found on another call-girl Web site told ABC News in a phone interview that Gov. Eliot Spitzer had been one of her customers two years ago …
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Fate Popcorn / RADAR:
FLEISS ADVICE: AVOIDING AN ELIOT MESS — Just how in the hell would a high-profile, ho-bustin' politician like Eliot Spitzer ever expect to get away with his pay-for-play D.C. side piece? — “It's so easy not to not get caught,” reformed Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss tells Radar …
Richard Esposito / ABCNEWS:State Police Internal Investigation: How Did Gov. Spitzer Slip Security Leash?
WNBC:GOP Pol: Resign Or Else
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Gene Maddaus / Daily Breeze:
Ferraro defends controversial comments on Barack Obama — Former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro today defended a remark she made to the Daily Breeze last week, in which she suggested that Sen. Barack Obama would not be where he is if he were white.
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Hillary Clinton / CNN:
Obama adviser says Clinton must ‘repudiate’ backer's comments — (CNN) — A senior adviser to Barack Obama's presidential campaign called on Hillary Clinton to “repudiate” a comment by one of her top fundraisers that Barack Obama would not be a major presidential contender if he were not black.
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Byron York / The Corner:Axelrod: An “Insidious Pattern” In The Clinton Campaign
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New York Times:
Top U.S. Commander in Mideast to Retire Early — WASHINGTON — Adm. William J. Fallon, the top American commander in the Middle East whose views on Iran and other issues have seemed to put him at odds with the Bush administration, is retiring early, the Pentagon said Tuesday afternoon.
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Spencer Ackerman / The Washington Independent:
Since U Been Gone, I Can Bomb For The First Time — Admiral William Fallon, the bulwark between Bush and a war with Iran, is resigning as head of U.S. Central Command. According to the tidbit I just saw on CNN, apparently Secretary Bob Gates said that Fallon quit for the most postmodern of reasons …
Jim Miklaszewski / MSNBC:A PENTAGON PROBLEM - LOOSE LIPS
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Think Progress:Breaking: CentCom Chief Admiral Fallon Resigns
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Mary Ann Akers / The Sleuth:
Sinbad Unloads on Hillary Clinton — Finally, the Barack Obama campaign has found a big gun to help shoot down Hillary Rodham Clinton's self-proclaimed foreign policy experience. And he may be the wackiest gun of all: Sinbad, the actor, who has come out from under a rock to defend Obama in the war over foreign policy credentials.
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:Obama Memo: “No Support For Claim That Clinton Has Passed ‘Commander-In-Chief Test’”
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Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:Hillary's Resume — Jim - The New York Times did its due diligence …
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Orlando Patterson / New York Times:
The Red Phone in Black and White — ON first watching Hillary Clinton's recent “It's 3 a.m.” advertisement, I was left with an uneasy feeling that something was not quite right — something that went beyond my disappointment that she had decided to go negative. Repeated watching of the ad on YouTube increased my unease.
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NECN:
Pelosi dismisses Democratic ‘Dream Ticket’ — (NECN) - Thinking a Clinton-Obama or Obama-Clinton ticket sounds too good to be true for Democrats? The Speaker of the House, Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California says you're right. — “I think that ticket either way is impossible,” …
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Romney says he'd take Veep job — Mitt Romney said in his first interview since departing the GOP race that he would accept the number two position on the ticket and that there is no lingering bitterness between him and John McCain. — “I think any Republican leader in this country …
Fox News:
Obama Wins Mississippi Democratic Primary — Barack Obama won the Mississippi Democratic primary Tuesday, FOX News projects, giving him an expected but vital victory as he tries to fracture the momentum Hillary Clinton picked up with her wins one week earlier.
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Warren P. Strobel / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Exhaustive review finds no link between Saddam and al Qaida — WASHINGTON — An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents that were captured after the 2003 U.S. invasion has found no evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime had any operational links with Osama bin Laden's al Qaida terrorist network.
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Ali / Think Progress:
Dr. Laura blames Spitzer's wife for scandal. — Today, right-wing radio host Dr. Laura Schlessinger appeared on NBC's Today Show in a segment called “Why do men cheat?” Schlessinger argued that Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D) cheated because his wife failed “make him feel like a man”: … Watch it:
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