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Joel Seidman / MSNBC:
Plame was 'covert' agent at time of name leak — Newly released unclassified document details CIA employment — WASHINGTON - An unclassified summary of outed CIA officer Valerie Plame's employment history at the spy agency, disclosed for the first time today in a court filing …
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Larry Johnson / NO QUARTER:
How About Them Apples Vicky Toensing? — Download libby_governments_sentencing_ memo.pdf — Victoria Toensing, Cliff May, Byron York and the other rightwing apologists who have long insisted that Valerie Plame Wilson was not undercover have some "splaining" to do.
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Another Reason To Question The Tenet Regime At Langley — NBC has received a declassified report from the CIA which states that the agency considered Valerie Plame a "covert agent" at the time her identity was revealed to Robert Novak and other journalists in July 2003.
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Newsweek:
Fitzgerald Says Plame Was a Covert Agent — In new court filings, special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald has finally resolved one of the most disputed issues at the core of the long-running CIA leak controversy: Valerie Plame Wilson, he asserts, was a "covert" CIA officer …
Dan Froomkin / Washington Post:Fitzgerald Again Points to Cheney
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Bush Takes on Opponents of Immigration Deal — President Bush today accused opponents of his proposed immigration measure of fear-mongering to defeat it in Congress, and took on his own conservative political base as he did so. — "If you want to scare the American people …
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Bush Takes On Conservatives Over Immigration — President Bush took on parts of his conservative base on Tuesday by accusing opponents of his proposed immigration measure of fear-mongering to defeat its passage in Congress. — "If you want to scare the American people …
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New York Times:
Advisers Fault Harsh Methods in Interrogation — As the Bush administration completes secret new rules governing interrogations, a group of experts advising the intelligence agencies argue that the harsh techniques used since the 2001 terrorist attacks are outmoded, amateurish and unreliable.
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Fausta Wertz / Pajamas Media:
CHAVENEZUELA — How the Man Who Would Be Castro marked a new milestone on the path towards totalitarianism by shutting down the nation's most popular television station. He will keep at it until there is no free press left and no one to report the fact that it disappeared.
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Peter S. Goodman / Washington Post:
Bush to Pick Zoellick for World Bank — Former Trade Negotiator Tapped to Replace Wolfowitz — President Bush today plans to name Robert B. Zoellick, a career diplomat and trade negotiator, to head the World Bank, seeking to dispatch the leadership crisis that has gripped …
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Audrey Hudson / Washington Times:
Security flaws confirmed on Flight 327 — A newly released inspector general report (PDF) backs eyewitness accounts of suspicious behavior by 13 Middle Eastern men on a Northwest Airlines flight in 2004 and reveals several missteps by government officials, including failure to file …
Financial Times:
US troops death in Iraq hits 2-year high — A series of fatalities announced on Tuesday in Iraq saw the US military's death toll rise to its highest monthly level in more than two years. — The US army reported that eight troops died in roadside bombings and a helicopter crash …
Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Bernstein Book Directly Contradicts A Key Charge In Gerth And Van Natta's Book — Okay, the duel of the Hillary books just heated up big time. — We've just received our copy of Carl Bernstein's new book on Hillary, and something leaps right out at us. — Specifically: Bernstein's …
Susan Saulny / New York Times:
Some Hitherto Staunch G.O.P. Voters Souring on Iraq — Through four elections, Debbie Thompson has supported Representative Mark Steven Kirk, a Republican and staunch backer of the Bush administration's policies in Iraq. — But Ms. Thompson, a mother of two from this affluent suburb of Chicago …
Dean Barnett / Townhall.com:
Introducing the McCain Campaign Dead Pool! — The general trend of the polls is unmistakable. John McCain's campaign is sinking like the Titanic after having run into the iceberg of immigration "reform". Oh sure, we can expect the McCain campaign and its misguided sympathizers to cling …
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Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
Featured Report from Iraq: A look at the surge from Baghdad — By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, who is currently embedded with the 2nd Battalion, 32nd Field Artillery in western Baghdad. Support for Daveed's reporting was provided by Public Multimedia Inc. — As I write this …
Michael A. Fletcher / Washington Post:
Bush to Seek Extension of AIDS Effort — President to Ask for $30 Billion to Double U.S. Contribution — President Bush will call on Congress today to provide $30 billion toward battling the global AIDS crisis over the first five years after he leaves office, according to senior administration officials …
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