Top Items:
Warren Hoge / New York Times:
Bush and Rice Urge Action on Syria's Ties to Lebanon Killing — UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 21 - President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called today for the Security Council to take urgent action in response to a United Nations report implicating high-ranking members of the Syrian government …
RELATED ITEMS:
Robert Mayer / Publius Pundit:
SYRIA SCREWED — The Mehlis report was released today, and it was the historic bombshell that everyone knew it would be. It implicated Syrian and Lebanese intelligence chiefs and military generals, all the way up to members of Assad's family. The commission was also extended up until December …
ReddHedd / firedoglake:
Throw Judy From The Train — In advance of Public Editor Byron Calame's extensive article on the Judy escapade for Sunday's NYTimes, Bill Keller took his own case to the staff of the Times directly today. Crooks and Liars has the text of the letter up here.
Discussion:
Lawyers, Guns and Money
RELATED ITEM:
Crooks and Liars:
Breaking: A Message from Bill Keller — Breaking: A Message from Bill Keller — Check out this memo from Bill Keller at The NY Times to his staff in it's entirety that I have verified from three sources. He touches on many subjects and especially Judy Miller.
Discussion:
The Moderate Voice
Mary Curtius / Los Angeles Times:
Insider Condemns FEMA Response — Its lone representative in New Orleans as Katrina hit, he tells senators of maddening neglect. — WASHINGTON — The only FEMA employee to ride out Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans painted a grim portrait Thursday of an agency led by officials who were unprepared …
RELATED ITEM:
Steve Clemons:
WOW! Brent Scowcroft Lets it Rip (Like Larry Wilkerson) in Monday's New Yorker — The revered-in-tons-of-corners former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft definitively breaks ranks with the Bush administration in an article by nearly the same name, "Breaking Ranks," appearing in the upcoming Monday issue of The New Yorker.
Philip Shenon / New York Times:
DeLay, in First Court Appearance, Seeks a New Judge — AUSTIN, Tex., Oct. 21 - Representative Tom DeLay entered a criminal courtroom today for the first time to face his nemesis, the Texas county prosecutor who has charged with Mr. DeLay with money laundering and conspiracy …
Discussion:
Power Line, The Stakeholder, ACSBlog, Think Progress, The Carpetbagger Report, The Reaction and Democratic Veteran
Kathleen D. Tobin / Union Leader:
Sen. Judd Gregg wins $853K in Powerball — WASHINGTON — A quick stop at a New York Avenue gas station to fill up on his way to the Capitol proved to be a lucky stop for New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg. — Gregg, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, was one of 47 Powerball lottery winners Wednesday …
Discussion:
The Reaction
RELATED ITEM:
Don Surber:
Buy Harriet — Just home from the second pro-Harriet Miers blogger conference call. Before I mention that lemme just say that I love Der Kommissar at Politburo Diktat, the esteemed leader of the Ragin' RINOs. But he is full of waxed beans on this Miers thing. He posted the odds on Miers as less than 1 in 4.
Discussion:
Outside The Beltway, Oblogatory Anecdotes, BIG DOG's WEBLOG, TMH's Bacon Bits and Blogs for Bush
RELATED ITEM:
New York Times:
Leak Prosecutor Is Called Exacting and Apolitical — WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 - In 13 years prosecuting mobsters and terrorists in New York, Patrick J. Fitzgerald earned a public reputation for meticulous preparation, a flawless memory and an easy eloquence. Only his colleagues knew …
Discussion:
firedoglake
Washington Times:
Insiders see hint of Miers pullout — The White House has begun making contingency plans for the withdrawal of Harriet Miers as President Bush's choice to fill a seat on the Supreme Court, conservative sources said yesterday. — "White House senior staff are starting to ask outside people …
Discussion:
Patterico's Pontifications
Robyn Dixon / Los Angeles Times:
'I Will Eat Your Dollars' — To the cyber scammers in Nigeria who trawl for victims on the Internet, Americans are easy targets. But one thief had second thoughts. — FESTAC, Nigeria — As patient as fishermen, the young men toil day and night, trawling for replies to the e-mails they shoot to strangers half a world away.
ABCNEWS:
Young Singers Spread Racist Hate — Duo Considered the Olsen Twins of the White Nationalist Movement — Oct. 20, 2005 — Thirteen-year-old twins Lamb and Lynx Gaede have one album out, another on the way, a music video, and lots of fans. — They may remind you another famous pair of singers …
projo.com:
Bush's chief of staff Card cancels R.I. appearance for GOP — PROVIDENCE — A Rhode Island Republican Party fundraiser scheduled for tonight featuring Andrew H. Card, White House chief of staff, has been canceled because Card is spending the weekend with President Bush at the presidential retreat …
Time:
Stench Prompted U.S. Troops to Burn Corpses — The desecration of Taliban dead prompts outrage in Afghanistan — There simply wasn't enough room on the rocky hilltop above Gonbaz village in southern Afghanistan for the U.S. platoon and the corpses of the two Taliban fighters.
Washington Post:
Miers Backed Race, Sex Set-Asides — As president of the State Bar of Texas, Harriet Miers wrote that "our legal community must reflect our population as a whole," and under her leadership the organization embraced racial and gender set-asides and set numerical targets to achieve that goal.
