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New York Times:
Cables Shine Light Into Secret Diplomatic Channels — WASHINGTON — A cache of a quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables, most of them from the past three years, provides an unprecedented look at backroom bargaining by embassies around the world, brutally candid views …
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David Leigh / Guardian:
US cables leak sparks global diplomatic crisis — • More than 250,000 dispatches reveal US foreign strategies — • Diplomats ordered to spy on allies as well as enemies — • Hillary Clinton leads frantic ‘damage limitation’ — The United States was catapulted …
Adrian Chen / Gawker:
Wikileaks' Newest Leak Leaked on Twitter — Twitter has out-leaked the leakers. About 12 hours before Wikileaks latest enormous leak was scheduled to be released, a Twitter user bought a copy of a German news magazine outlining the leak after it was placed on newstands too early.
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New York Times:
A Note to Readers: The Decision to Publish Diplomatic Documents
A Note to Readers: The Decision to Publish Diplomatic Documents
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BBC, Hot Air, Liberty Pundits Blog and Talking Points Memo, more at Mediagazer »
Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
WikiLeaks hacked hours before expected document release
WikiLeaks hacked hours before expected document release
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The Politico, The Atlantic Online, ABCNEWS, The Lede and Raw Story, more at Techmeme »
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The FBI successfully thwarts its own Terrorist plot — The FBI is obviously quite pleased with itself over its arrest of a 19-year-old Somali-American, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, who — with months of encouragement, support and money from the FBI's own undercover agents — allegedly attempted …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL — Politically correct Portland rejected feds who saved city from terrorist attack — In 2005, leaders in Portland, Oregon, angry at the Bush administration's conduct of the war on terror, voted not to allow city law enforcement officers to participate in a key anti-terror initiative …
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The Gateway Pundit and A Chequer-Board of Nights …
Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
McCain wants ‘regime change’ in North Korea — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is calling for “regime change” in North Korea - and blames the recent crisis on the failings of Pyongyang's lone international supporter, China. — “It's time we talked about regime change in North Korea …
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Outside the Beltway, CNN, Washington Monthly and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Martin Fackler / New York Times:
China Seeks New Talks to Ease Korean Tensions
China Seeks New Talks to Ease Korean Tensions
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CNN, New York Magazine and Gothamist
Keith B. Richburg / Washington Post:
U.S., South Korea begin military exercises, as China calls …
U.S., South Korea begin military exercises, as China calls …
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Taylor Marsh and EA WorldView
David Segal / New York Times:
A Bully Finds a Pulpit on the Web — SHOPPING online in late July, Clarabelle Rodriguez typed the name of her favorite eyeglass brand into Google's search bar. — In moments, she found the perfect frames — made by a French company called Lafont — on a Web site that looked snazzy and stood at the top of the search results.
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Molly Hottle / Oregonian:
Fire was intentionally set at Islamic Center in Corvallis where alleged bomb plot suspect attended — A fire reported early this morning at the Salman Alfarisi Islamic Center in Corvallis where Portland bomb plot suspect Mohamed Osman Mohamud sometimes attended is being called arson.
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Patterico's Pontifications, Weasel Zippers and Teddy Partridge's myFDL diary
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Frank Mungeam / KGW-TV:
Details emerge about Mohamud, Westview / OSU student
Details emerge about Mohamud, Westview / OSU student
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Politics Daily, Associated Press and Jihad Watch
Frank Rich / New York Times:
Still the Best Congress Money Can Buy — SO America's latest crisis — until it wasn't — was airport screeners touching our junk. As this long year lurches toward its end, we all agree that something has gone wrong in America, and we're desperately casting about for a coherent explanation for our discontent, if not a scapegoat.
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Democratic South finally falls — For Democrats in the South, the most ominous part of a disastrous year may not be what happened on Election Day but what has happened in the weeks since. — After suffering a historic rout — in which nearly every white Deep South Democrat in the U.S. House …
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Pajamas Media
Jeffrey Rosen / Washington Post:
Why the TSA pat-downs and body scans are unconstitutional — The protest on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving was called National Opt-Out Day, and its organizers urged air travelers to refuse the Transportation Security Administration's full-body scanning machines. — But many appeared to have opted out of opting out.
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The League of Ordinary … and The Volokh Conspiracy
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Our puritanical progressives — An eminent Harvard law professor, James Thayer (1831-1902), argued that although the judicial function is “merely that of fixing the outside border of reasonable legislative action,” this still gives courts “a great and stately jurisdiction.”
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protein wisdom, Questions and Observations and Pajamas Media
Wall Street Journal:
A Glossy Approach to Inciting Terrorism — Al Qaeda's edgy new online magazine is raising alarms by trying to recruit alienated American Muslims — The November special issue of Inspire, a slick new English-language Web magazine produced by Al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula, aims to do more than report the news.
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Power Line and The Wire
Guardian:
Saudi Arabia urges US attack on Iran to stop nuclear programme — King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has repeatedly urged the United States to attack Iran to destroy its nuclear programme, according to leaked US diplomatic cables that describe how other Arab allies have secretly agitated for military action against Tehran.
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The Daily Dish and Raw Story
Sandhya Somashekhar / Washington Post:
Despite Alaska Senate race results, Joe Miller presses on in principle — Much of America may have moved on, but Joe Miller has not. More than a week after the last vote was counted in Alaska's closely watched U.S. Senate race, the Republican nominee continues to press his case in court …
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CNN, Outside the Beltway and Balloon Juice
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
BRODER BEING BRODER.... A week ago, David Broder mentioned in his Washington Post column that, in the post-midterm environment, there hasn't been any hint of Republicans' “willingness to compromise.” I was glad to see him notice. — But those insights didn't last.
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Balloon Juice
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Ex-Justice Criticizes Death Penalty — WASHINGTON — In 1976, just six months after he joined the Supreme Court, Justice John Paul Stevens voted to reinstate capital punishment after a four-year moratorium. With the right procedures, he wrote, it is possible to ensure “evenhanded …
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Harvard University Gazette, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Prairie Weather
Jack Hedin / New York Times:
An Almanac of Extreme Weather — THE news from this Midwestern farm is not good. The past four years of heavy rains and flash flooding here in southern Minnesota have left me worried about the future of agriculture in America's grain belt. For some time computer models of climate change …
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Climate Progress