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John Solomon / Associated Press:
Rove Said to Testify in CIA Leak Case  —  Federal prosecutors have accepted an offer from presidential adviser Karl Rove to give 11th hour testimony in the case of a CIA officer's leaked identity but have warned they cannot guarantee he won't be indicted, according to people directly familiar with the investigation.
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John Solomon / Associated Press:
Rove Said to Testify in CIA Leak Case
Murray Waas / whatever already!:
Rove before grand jury in the morning
Discussion: War and Piece
Editor and Publisher:   Indictments in Plame Case Could Come Any Time
ABCNEWS:
Police Investigate New York Subway Terror Threat  —  Security to be Increased Following Possible Plot Information  —  Oct. 6, 2005 — The New York Police Department is investigating what it deems a credible tip that 19 operatives have been deployed to the city to place bombs in the subway …
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Tom Hays / Associated Press:
NYC Increases Subway Security After Threat  —  NEW YORK - Authorities stepped up mass transit security Thursday after receiving a credible threat that the city's subway system could be the target of a terrorist attack in coming days.  —  Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly …
Andrew Cochran / The Counterterrorism Blog:
NY Subways on Heightened Terrorism Alert (updated)  —  LAST POST AT 6:50 pm ET.  NYPD & FBI & Mayor Bloomberg press conference on heightened threat "in the coming days": Mayor Bloomberg: this is first threat of this specificity and this event isn't tied to Jewish holy days or specific religion …
Athena / Terrorism Unveiled:
NYC SUBWAY THREAT  —  Sources say that three insurgents who were captured in Iraq released specific information on a date, time, target and method of attack in the NYC subway system.  —  This is being treated as a credible threat.  —  From ABC: … Fox News is saying that their sources from DHS are saying 19 suitcase bombs.
New York Newsday:   Subway security boosted in response to threat
Fox News:   NYC Ups Subway Security After Bomb Threats
Confederate Yankee:
New York Terror Alert
White House:
President Discusses War on Terror at National Endowment for Democracy  —  Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center  —  Washington, D.C.  —  In Focus: Homeland Security  —  In Focus: National Security  —  Fact Sheet: President Bush Remarks on the War on Terror  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all.
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MaryKatharineHam:
Bush Speech on War on Terror
Tom Raum / Associated Press:
Bush Accuses Islamic Militants of Trying to Intimidate World
John Dickerson / slate.com:
Gods vs. Geeks  —  GOP evangelicals fight intellectuals over Harriet Miers.  —  The debate within the Republican Party over Harriet Miers has quickly devolved into a simple question: Is the nominee qualified because of her religious faith, or unqualified by her lack of intellectual heft?
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Atrios / Eschaton:
Elitisms  —  Lots of discussion in wingnuttia about whether …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Feministe
bbc.co.uk:
God told me to invade Iraq, Bush tells Palestinian ministers  —  This press release is embargoed until 2230 hours on Thursday 6 October.  Before that time it is only available through the link which you have been sent.  —  President George W. Bush told Palestinian ministers that God had told …
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Ryan Welton / channeloklahoma.com:
Norman Police Investigated Hinrichs  —  NORMAN, Okla. — Norman police confirmed Thursday that they ran a routine investigation of a 21-year-old University of Oklahoma student who blew himself up on campus Saturday night.  —  At a 2 p.m. news conference, Norman Police Department spokesman J.D. Younger …
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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta:
Islamic Terrorism in Oklahoma Likely
Drudge Report:
FBI FREEH UNLOADS ON CLINTON: 'CLOSETS WERE FULL OF SKELETONS'  —  Louis Freeh Speaks for the First Time About his Terrible Relationship with the President  —  Former FBI Director Louis Freeh says publicly for the first time that his relationship with President Bill Clinton …
Stanley Kurtz / The Corner on National Review Online:
MIERS & STEINEM  —  Although I would have chosen differently, I've tried to give the president the benefit of the doubt on the Miers nomination.  Having said that, I note a worrisome report in today's Chronicle of Higher Education.  It seems that Miers was a key figure behind the establishment …
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Peter Schmidt / Chronicle of Higher Education:
Supreme Court Nominee Helped Set …
Discussion: firedoglake
Rob Anderson / The New Republic:
The Quiet Americans  —  In late July, news surfaced that Iran had executed two gay teenagers—ostensibly for sexual assault, but most likely for the crime of being gay.  As pictures of their executions spread around the Internet, American gay and lesbian activists responded swiftly …
Michael Yon / Online Magazine:
The Battle For Mosul IV  —  Soldiers, Spies, and Sheep  —  Charles Ford and "Jeff" at the sheep market  —  They fled.  It was all over the news.  When the bullets flew, they fled.  Leaving stations, abandoning posts, forgetting duties, hundreds of police fled.
Guardian:
Breaking America's grip on the net  —  After troubled negotiations in Geneva, the US may be forced to relinquish control of the internet to a coalition of governments  —  Kieren McCarthy  —  You would expect an announcement that would forever change the face of the internet to be a grand affair …

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