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Washington Post:
N.Y. Times Reporter Released From Jail — New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released from jail late yesterday and is scheduled to testify this morning before a federal grand jury investigating whether any government officials illegally leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame to the media …
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Arianna Huffington / huffingtonpost.com:
Miller Walks: The Plot Thickens — It's time for Judy Miller and Arthur Sulzberger to change their talking points. — The claim that Miller "has finally received a direct and uncoerced waiver" is laughable... and, indeed, has already been laughed at by 1) my increasingly frustrated sources within …
The Nation:
A CIA-Did-It Defense for Scooter in the Plame Leak Case? — When you already have a fall guy, use him—especially if he's a dead man. — Could that be the legal strategy of I. Lewis Libby (a.k.a. Scooter), Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, in the Plame/CIA leak case?
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Poynter Online
Empty Wheel / The Next Hurrah:I may not know why a caged bird sings—but I've got my guesses
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Hullabaloo, firedoglake, The Washington Monthly, Michelle Malkin, Rook's Rant and The Mahablog
Anonymousliberal / The Anonymous Liberal:The Truth is Finally Revealed in the Leakgate Scandal
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Roger Ailes
Richard B. Schmitt / Los Angeles Times:Journalist Freed to Testify in Plame Case
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Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
William Bennett Defends Comment on Abortion and Crime — 'Book of Virtues' Author Says Hypothetical Remark Was Valid — Sept. 29, 2005 — After pondering on his radio program how aborting every black infant in America would affect crime rates, best-selling author and self-styled …
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Steven D. Levitt / Freakonomics:
Bill Bennett and Freakonomics — Bill Bennett and I have a fair amount in common. We've both written about crime (his "superpredator" theory gets a quick discussion in Freakonomics), we have both thought a lot about illegal drugs and education (he was the original "drug czar" …
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The Corner on National …
Brian Faler / Washington Post:Bennett Under Fire for Remark on Crime and Black Abortions
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Robert Burns / apnews.excite.com:
Army Faces Worst Recruiting Slump in Years — WASHINGTON (AP) - The Army is closing the books on one of the leanest recruiting years since it became an all-volunteer service three decades ago, missing its enlistment target by the largest margin since 1979 and raising questions about its plans for growth.
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Dafydd / Big Lizards:
An Army of One... Million — The headline is deep. Dark. Scary: — Army Faces Worst Recruiting Slump in Years — Cue the bass, the sad snare-drum tattoo, thunder in the distance. … The mind of the mathematician suddenly registers something it likes: numbers!
Washington Post:
Decline in Iraqi Troops' Readiness Cited — Generals Tell Lawmakers They Cannot Predict When U.S. Forces Can Withdraw — The number of Iraqi army battalions that can fight insurgents without U.S. and coalition help has dropped from three to one, top U.S. generals told Congress yesterday …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
DeLay Faces Tough Road Back to Top — Indictment, Ethics Questions, Abramoff Case Are Obstacles — For the first time in more than a decade, Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) arrived at work yesterday without a leadership title attached to his name. Sidelined from his post as majority leader …
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The Moderate Voice, The Carpetbagger Report, ScrappleFace, THE DAILY DELAY, The Heretik and USA Today
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Aoife White / Associated Press:
EU Wants Shared Control of Internet — The European Union insisted Friday that governments and the private sector must share the responsibility of overseeing the Internet, setting the stage for a showdown with the United States on the future of Internet governance.
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Matt Margolis / Blogs for Bush:
With Love, From Air America — An alert B4B reader and blogger, Jeff, alerted us last night that Mark Noonan's piece Do the Democrats Want a Civil War? caught the attention of Air America host Mike Malloy. Jeff told Mark that Malloy "recommended that his listeners physically assault you several times.
John / AMERICAblog:
Note to Congress: Grow some cojones. Here's your chance — I've been thinking some more about my post, below, about the fact that our troops are STILL being forced to buy their own body armor. — It's time for Democrats to take an obvious issue handed to them by God himself and run with it in an intelligent, strategic way.
Associated Press:
Gingrich says scandal, Katrina could liberate GOP — GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich says Republicans can turn the indictment of House Speaker Tom DeLay and the criticism over the Bush administration's response to Hurricane Katrina to their advantage.
