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ABCNEWS:
Espionage Case Breaches the White House  —  Accused Marine Worked in Vice President's Office  —  Oct. 5, 2005 — Both the FBI and CIA are calling it the first case of espionage in the White House in modern history.  —  Officials tell ABC News the alleged spy worked undetected at the White House for almost three years.
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John / AMERICAblog:
The White House is hiding Karl Rove - they know something's coming...  I just talked to a source who told me that Karl Rove has been missing from a number of recent White House presidential events - events that he has ALWAYS attended in the past.  For example, Rove was absent …
rawstory.com:
Rove missing from White House events; Word on Hill is that he has been told he's target of probe  —  RAW STORY  —  President Bush's most trusted adviser, Karl Rove, has been absent from recent White House events, leading those close to a CIA outing case to speculate that he has been told …
Discussion: Wampum and Shakespeare's Sister
Bill / PunditGuy:
SPY in the House of Bush
Presstitutes:   Indictments Imminent In Plame Case?
Media Matters for America:
O'Reilly calls Media Matters "assassins" and "the worst" among "most vicious" political websites  —  In a segment on the October 4 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor that he promoted as examining "the most vicious political websites in the country," host Bill O'Reilly named Media Matters for America …
Discussion: Think Progress and THE NEWS BLOG
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David Kline / BlogRevolt.com:
O'Reilly's Sneak Attack on Bloggers!  —  Last night I appeared on the conservative TV talk show The O'Reilly Factor, ostensibly to talk about political blogs and the impact they are having on the American political process.  —  Or so I was told by the two producers for the show who spent over an hour pre-interviewing me.
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
WILL VERSUS BLANKLEY VERSUS MALKIN  —  While we're moving on, George Will and Tony Blankley address the merits of President Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.  Will's column is frankly oppositional: "Miers is the wrong pick."  Will writes:
Discussion: Townhall.com, Confirm Them and QandO
Cillizzac / The Fix:
Miers Nomination: The Gang Meets
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Michael J. Sniffen / Associated Press:
Former Bush Official Indicted in Probe  —  WASHINGTON — The Bush administration's former chief procurement official was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury on charges of making false statements and obstructing investigations into high-powered Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Discussion: The Mahablog and AMERICAblog
Laylan Copelin / statesman.com:
Prosecutor reveals third grand jury had refused DeLay indictment  —  Newly impaneled grand jury returned money-laundering charge within hours  —  A Travis County grand jury last week refused to indict former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay as prosecutors raced to salvage their felony case against the Sugar Land Republican.
CNN:
Poll: Support for Miers not as high as that for Roberts  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Americans, particularly conservatives, are less supportive of President Bush's nominee to the Supreme Court than they initially were for his nomination of John Roberts, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Tuesday night.
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Associated Press:
DeLay, Successor Blunt Swapped Donations  —  WASHINGTON - Tom DeLay deliberately raised more money than he needed to throw parties at the 2000 presidential convention, then diverted some of the excess to longtime ally Roy Blunt through a series of donations that benefited both men's causes.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Erin Neff / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Son of former president to challenge Ensign in 2006  —  Jack Carter, the son of former President Carter, said Tuesday he plans to run against John Ensign for the U.S. Senate next year.  —  Carter, 58, and his wife, Elizabeth, have lived in Las Vegas since 2003, operating the investment consulting firm Carter Global.
James S. Tyree / normantranscript.com:
Stadium security to be stepped up  —  University of Oklahoma President David Boren on Tuesday said investigators are saying there is no known threat connected to the Saturday bomb explosion near a packed football stadium, and an FBI press release repeated Boren's opinion.
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Sara Kugler / Associated Press:
Rangel: Cheney should be 'ashamed' for age remark  —  NEW YORK — Vice President Dick Cheney's feud with Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel was perpetuated Wednesday when the 75-year-old congressman said Cheney "ought to be ashamed of himself" for a remark about his age.
John Podhoretz / The Corner on National Review Online:
IS THIS BUSH'S HIDDEN AGENDA?  —  A friend, one of the wisest analysts of politics I know, asks the following fascinating questions: Did the president pick Harriet Miers because she is an evangelical Christian?  Is this the real meaning of the "trust me" message — and are her religious beliefs …

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Tom & Katie Expecting a Baby
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Public Dig coming in October!
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Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Oregon's Assisted-Suicide Law
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Earlier Picks:

Ruth Gledhill / Times of London:
Catholic Church no longer swears by truth of the Bible
Discussion: Southern Appeal and Pharyngula
Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:
The Case Against Harriet Miers: The Baseball Analogy
Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Sunnis Drop Threat to Boycott Referendum
Los Angeles Times:
Bush Says Social Security Overhaul Is Stalled
Discussion: The Left Coaster
girlscientist.blogspot.com:
Tangled Bank #38  —  Welcome to Tangled Bank, Issue 38!
Discussion: the skwib
David R. Sands / Washington Times:
Army takes control of Iran nukes
BBC:
Dane fights for state-funded sex
Meghan Clyne / New York Sun:
Senate Will Probe Saudi Distribution Of Hate Materials
Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:
The Right's Dissed Intellectuals
 
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