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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Exclusive: McClellan whacks Bush, White House — Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that President Bush “veered terribly off course,” was not “open and forthright on Iraq,” and took a “permanent campaign approach” …
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Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Ex-Press Aide Writes That Bush Misled U.S. on Iraq — Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that the Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated “political propaganda campaign” led by President Bush and aimed at “manipulating sources of public opinion” …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Scott McClellan on the “liberal media” — In a minimally rational world, this extraordinary passage, from the new book by Scott McClellan, would forever slay the single most ludicrous myth in our political culture: The “Liberal Media”: … Just consider how remarkable that is.
Ken Herman / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Bush misled U.S. on Iraq, former aide says in new book — Scott McClellan's ‘What Happened’ delivers tough criticism of president, advisers — WASHINGTON — In a book due out Monday, former White House press secretary Scott McClellan offers a blistering review of the administration …
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Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
In Ex-Spokesman's Book, Harsh Words for Bush — PHOENIX — President Bush “convinces himself to believe what suits his needs at the moment,” and has engaged in “self-deception” to justify his political ends, Scott McClellan, the former White House press secretary, writes in a critical new memoir about his years in the West Wing.
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Roger Simon / The Politico:
Dems seek to avoid meltdown — Those people who believe all problems have solutions may be unfamiliar with the inner workings of the Democratic Party. — On Saturday, the party's Rules and Bylaws Committee will try to solve a big problem, in order to avoid a huge problem in order to prevent a train wreck.
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Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Obama urges supporters not to demonstrate at crucial DNC meeting — Sen. Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) campaign is urging its supporters not to demonstrate at Saturday's highly anticipated Democratic National Committee (DNC) meeting on how to handle the delegates of Florida and Michigan.
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Dem lawyers: Fla., Mich. can't be fully restored — WASHINGTON - A Democratic Party rules committee has the authority to seat some delegates from Michigan and Florida but not fully restore the two states as Hillary Rodham Clinton wants, according to party lawyers.
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Krooney / TIME.com:
DNC Lawyers: Michigan, Florida Delegates Can't Be Fully Restored
DNC Lawyers: Michigan, Florida Delegates Can't Be Fully Restored
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Stephen Adams / Telegraph:
John Bolton to be target of citizen's arrest at Hay Festival — John Bolton, the former US ambassador to the United Nations, faces a citizen's arrest when he addresses an audience at the Hay Festival in Wales this evening. — George Monbiot, the journalist and activist …
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Evan Kohlmann / Counterterrorism Blog:
Media and Intel Community Caught by Apparent Al-Qaida Nuke Message “Prank” — As of early this evening, ABC News and the Drudge Report are running a headline claiming that “al Qaeda operatives will post a new video on the Internet in the next 24 hours, calling for what one source said is 'jihadists …
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David Boaz / Wall Street Journal:
Our Collectivist Candidates — On Sunday Barack Obama urged graduates of Connecticut's Wesleyan University to devote themselves to “collective service.” This is not an unusual theme for a commencement address. But it was interesting how long he went on discussing various kinds …
Fernando Suarez / CBS News:
Clinton Casts Wide Net of Exaggeration, Claims to Lead in “Every Poll” — From CBS News' Fernando Suarez: — BILLINGS, MONT. — During an evening rally in Montana's largest city Tuesday night, Hillary Clinton explained to the crowd why she should be the Democratic Party's nominee …
StrategyPage:
Al Qaeda Discusses Losing Iraq — Al Qaeda web sites are making a lot of noise about “why we lost in Iraq.” Western intelligence agencies are fascinated by the statistics being posted in several of these Arab language sites. Not the kind of stuff you read about in the Western media.
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Isabel Kershner / New York Times:
U.S. Businessman Testifies He Gave Olmert $150,000 Over 13 Years — JERUSALEM — A Long Island businessman at the heart of a corruption case involving Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told an Israeli court on Tuesday that he gave about $150,000, mostly in cash stuffed into envelopes, to Mr. Olmert over the course of 13 years.
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Scott W. Johnson / Weekly Standard:
The Kennedy-Khrushchev Conference for Dummies — Remedial history for Barack Obama. — BARACK OBAMA FIRST VOWED to meet unconditionally with the leaders of America's foremost enemies in the YouTube Democratic candidates' debate on July 23, 2007. Since then he has reaffirmed and expanded …
Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
FBI interviews Arizona staffers — Federal agents interviewed staffers for likely Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) as part of their corruption case against Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.). — U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona Diane J. Humetewa and fellow prosecutors disclosed …