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New York Times:
Cables Obtained by WikiLeaks 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 …
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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 …
Spiegel Online:
A Superpower's View of the World — 251,000 State Department documents, many of them secret embassy reports from around the world, show how the US seeks to safeguard its influence around the world. It is nothing short of a political meltdown for US foreign policy.
New York Times:
A Note to Readers: The Decision to Publish Diplomatic Documents — The articles published today and in coming days are based on thousands of United States embassy cables, the daily reports from the field intended for the eyes of senior policy makers in Washington.
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Power Line, Associated Press, BBC, The Gateway Pundit, Guardian, Hot Air and Talking Points Memo, more at Mediagazer »
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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The Atlantic Online, The Wire, Runnin' Scared, Mediaite, Gizmodo and Pundit Press, more at Mediagazer »
Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
WikiLeaks hacked hours before expected document release — Just hours ahead of an expected release of three million classified U.S. documents, the website WikiLeaks said it has been the target of a computer attack. — “We are currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack,” WikiLeaks tweeted midday Sunday.
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The Politico, The Atlantic Online, ABCNEWS, TechCrunch and The Gateway Pundit, 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 …
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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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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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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
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.
Michael Morain / Des Moines Register:
Small-town Iowa embraces Grinnell's gay, black president — Grinnell, Ia. — When Grinnell College's new president, Raynard Kington, bikes over to the Danish Maid Bakery a few blocks off campus, he doesn't play the VIP card. — He doesn't mention the medical degree he earned at 21 or his centuries-old vacation home in Crete.
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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
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Politics Daily, Associated Press and Jihad Watch
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Got to Get This Right — On Nov. 19, Rasmussen Reports published results from a national telephone poll that showed that 47 percent of America's likely voters said the nation's “best days are in the past,” 37 percent said they are in the future. Sixteen percent were undecided.
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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
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
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
A G.O.P. Chairman Seeks New Power for U.S. Watchdogs — WASHINGTON — The Republican who will lead the chief investigative committee in the House is planning to vastly expand scrutiny of the Obama administration by seeking new subpoena powers for dozens of federal agency watchdogs in hopes …
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