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Washington Post:
Conservatives Confront Bush Aides  —  Anger Over Nomination of Miers Boils Over During Private Meetings  —  The conservative uprising against President Bush escalated yesterday as Republican activists angry over his nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court confronted …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The Sales Calls Begin on Capitol Hill, but Some Aren't Buying
Discussion: Balkinization
Union Leader:
The President can do better  —  AMERICA is not supposed to work this way.
Discussion: SCOTUSblog
Wes Allison / St. Petersburg Times:   Miers may require a supreme sales job
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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Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
F.B.I. Widens Investigation in New Jersey Espionage Case  —  WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 - The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Wednesday it had expanded a New Jersey espionage investigation in an effort to determine whether one of its own agents, charged last month with spying for the Philippines …
Michelle Malkin:
ESPIONAGE IN THE WHITE HOUSE  —  Drudge is headlining an ABC News story on a deeply disturbing espionage case at the White House involving a naturalized American of Filipino descent who worked for Vice President Dick Cheney (and also Al Gore). … It's actually more widespread than the ABC News story indicates.
Bill / PunditGuy:
SPY in the House of Bush  —  This is not good.  —  While much of this story has been out for nearly a month (see links below), ABC News has been investigating a possible White House angle.  That part of the story is breaking for the first time today. … Undetected for 3 years?
Washington Post:
Spy Probe Widens to Cover Aide's White House Service
Reuters:
US officials brace for decisions in CIA leak case  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The federal prosecutor investigating who leaked the identity of a CIA operative is expected to signal within days whether he intends to bring indictments in the case, legal sources close to the investigation said on Wednesday.
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CNN:
Bush plans 'major speech' on Iraq, terrorism  —  Democrats say they want to hear more than 'stay the course'  —  Programming Note: Watch President Bush's speech on U.S. efforts against terrorism, Thursday at 10 a.m. ET  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush will deliver a "major speech" …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
There were rumors flying around all day today that Plame prosecutor …
Discussion: The American Street
Washington Post:
Senate Supports Interrogation Limits  —  90-9 Vote on the Treatment of Detainees Is a Bipartisan Rebuff of the White House  —  The Senate defied the White House yesterday and voted to set new limits on interrogating detainees in Iraq and elsewhere, underscoring Congress's growing concerns …
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Associated Press:
Senate votes to restrict treatment of detainees  —  Bush rebuffed in 90-9 vote to bar 'cruel, inhuman or degrading' treatment  —  WASHINGTON - The Republican-controlled Senate voted Wednesday to impose restrictions on the treatment of terrorism suspects, delivering a rare wartime rebuke to President Bush.
Discussion: Demagogue
Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
Senate Approves Detainee Treatment Rules
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
Scott Shields / MyDD:
Nine GOP Senators Refuse to Reject Torture
Discussion: NewsHog
Mark Tapscott / tapscottscopydesk.blogspot.com:
13 Plastic Bottles Found in Hinrichs' Car; Lots of Small, Round Holes Seen in Tree Near Bomb Site  —  EXCLUSIVE:  —  A Lincoln Town Car registered in the name of OU Suicide Bomber Joel Henry Hinrichs III remained as of 4:00 p.m. EST today in the parking lot of the apartment where he lived …
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
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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 …
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David Kline / BlogRevolt.com:
O'Reilly's Sneak Attack on Bloggers!
Glasgow Herald:
Iran guards 'supplied know-how for attacks on British'  —  BRITISH officials yesterday accused Iran's Revolutionary Guards of supplying the lethal explosive technology responsible for killing British solders in Iraq.  —  American and British intelligence chiefs have long suspected that Iran was training …
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BBC:   Iran 'behind attacks on British'
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
Wieland / Transparent Grid:
Unqualified Crony in Charge of Pandemic Response  —  This story may sound very familiar.  —  The National Response Plan (NRP), whose formulation was headed by the Department of Homeland Security, is intended to serve as the blueprint to the response to a host of possible disasters and terrorist attacks.
MSNBC:
Where do Democrats stand?  —  DNC Chair Dean says 'culture of corruption' exists in Republican party  —  Where do Democrats stand on the Miers nomination, the war in Iraq, and other key issues in Washington?  —  Dr. Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, played Hardball to give answers.
Discussion: Wonkette
Associated Press:
Python Tries to Eat Alligator, Explodes  —  MIAMI, Fla. — Alligators have clashed with nonnative pythons before in Everglades National Park.  But when a 6-foot gator tangled with a 13-foot python recently, the result wasn't pretty.  —  The snake apparently tried to swallow the gator whole — and then exploded.
Discussion: Majikthise

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