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Richard Keil / Bloomberg:
Cheney May Be Entangled in CIA Leak Investigation, People Say — Oct. 17 (Bloomberg) — A special counsel is focusing on whether Vice President Dick Cheney played a role in leaking a covert CIA agent's name, according to people familiar with the probe that already threatens top White House aides Karl Rove and Lewis Libby.
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
FLEITZ TO BOLTON TO NOVAK?....I've always thought that the single most mysterious issue in the Valerie Plame case is...."Valerie Plame." Reporters never refer to a woman by her maiden name if she normally goes by her married name, yet for some reason Robert Novak's July 14 column specifically referred …
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The Moderate Voice, War and Piece, Needlenose, The Huffington Post and Talking Points Memo
Washington Post:
Miller's Lawyer Says Aide May Face 'Problem' in Probe — Attorney for Reporter Cites Possibility of Conflicting Testimony — Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, has "a problem" in the investigation of the leak of a CIA operative's identity if his testimony conflicts …
Caroline Daniel / Financial Times:
White House prepares for possible indictments — The White House is bracing itself for the possible indictment of senior officials as Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor, prepares to wrap up his two-year inquiry into the leaking of a covert CIA agent's name.
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:MILLER AND FITZGERALD....Hold on a second. I've now read several …
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Administration's Tone Signals a Longer, Broader Iraq Conflict — WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 - For most of the 30 months since American-led forces ousted Saddam Hussein, the Bush administration has argued that as democracy took hold in Iraq, the insurgency would lose steam because Al Qaeda …
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The Blogging of the President
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Washington Post:
Iraqi Constitution Appears Headed For Voter Approval — BAGHDAD, Oct. 16 — Iraq's war-battered voters apparently approved a new constitution in voting Saturday, preliminary and unofficial results showed Sunday, but disaffected Sunni Arabs proved unexpectedly formidable in their first venture …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
For U.S., a Hard Road Is Still Ahead in Iraq — For the Bush administration, the apparent approval of Iraq's constitution is less of a victory than yet another chance to possibly fashion a political solution that does not result in the bloody division of Iraq.
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Judgment Call — Did Christian conservatives receive assurances that Miers would oppose Roe v. Wade? — Two days after President Bush announced Harriet Miers's Supreme Court nomination, James Dobson of Focus on the Family raised some eyebrows by declaring on his radio program …
Mike Allen / Time:
Why They Can't Hit The Right Note — With even Laura off-key on Miers, Bush plans to change the message—again — Get ready for a whole new Harriet. After a disastrous two weeks, White House officials say they hope to relaunch the nomination of Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court by moving …
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Editor and Publisher:
'Hidden Scandal' in Miller Story, Charges Former CBS Newsman — NEW YORK Since the posting of The New York Times lengthy article on Judith Miller's involvement in the Plame scandal Saturday night, much Web buzzing has ensued concerning the revelation that she had some sort of special classified status …
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The Left Coaster
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Mark Tapscott / tapscottscopydesk.blogspot.com:
Does "Suicide Message" Close OU Bomber Case? — If it does, then we can expect to see the FBI and Joint Task Force on Terrorism leaving the case and the U.S. Department of Justice asking the federal court to unseal the search warrant authorities used to begin the investigation of Joel Henry Hinrichs Oct. 1 death.
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Gateway Pundit
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Darren Freeman / Virginian-Pilot:
PETA workers face 25 felony counts in North Carolina — WINTON, N.C. — The cats and dogs two PETA employees have been charged with euthanizing and dumping in an Ahoskie garbage bin were killed by injections of pentobarbital, a barbiturate commonly used to put down animals, according to new warrants issued and served on Friday.
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Bareknucklepolitics.com
Brad Plumer / Bradford Plumer:
DOWN WITH "REFORM" — Kos argues that California's "redistricting reform" ballot initiative is a good thing, while Nancy Pelosi is making it her "top priority" to defeat the measure. On this, I think Pelosi's absolutely right and Kos is wrong. Yes, redistricting reform makes sense …
Lockergnome / Chris Pirillo:
Google: Kill Blogspot Already!!! — In the past few days, I've been inundated with an enormous amount of subscribed search spam for designated keywords. To the tune of hundreds, if not THOUSANDS, of bunk entries. Who knew "lockergnome" and "pirillo" would be THAT popular?!
Ala / blonde sagacity:
CARNIVAL OF THE RECIPES: NO. 61 — ...In response to the U.K.'s banning/contemplating banning of porcine pop culture icons... Techno Gypsy has a recipe posted for Pork & Peanuts that has sesame seeds, a splash of sherry and is served over rice. — David from Third World Country is definitely "dishing" with his Infidel Casserole.
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Argghhh!
John / AMERICAblog:
The Normalization of Treason, the Republicans' gift to America — If a senior White House staffer had intentionally outed an American spy during World War II, he'd have been shot. — We're at war, George Bush keeps reminding us. We cannot continue with business as usual. A pre-9/11 mentality is deadly.
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Daily Kos
MSNBC:
Transcript for October 16 — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: Ballots in Iraq are being counted as millions turned out yesterday to vote on a new constitution. What will this mean for violence and bloodshed and U.S. troop levels? With us, the secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice.
