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New York Times:
Republicans Testing Ways to Blunt Leak Charges — WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 - With a decision expected this week on possible indictments in the C.I.A. leak case, allies of the White House suggested Sunday that they intended to pursue a strategy of attacking any criminal charges as a disagreement …
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Washington Post:
Inquiry as Exacting As Special Counsel Is — A Tough Investigation Is Also Praised as Nonpartisan — CHICAGO, Oct. 23 — Patrick J. Fitzgerald's final witness was behind bars, refusing to testify, and no one was budging. Hunting for room to maneuver, the special counsel talked with one side, then the other.
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Michelle Malkin:
SEN. HUTCHISON'S BLUNDER — The Left had a field day over Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's remarks on NBC's Meet the Press this morning in which she downplayed possible perjury and obstruction of justice indictments this week in the Rove/Plame/Miller/Libby/God-knows-who- else leak case.
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Letters Show Frist Notified Of Stocks in 'Blind' Trusts — Documents Contradict Comments on Holdings — Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) was given considerable information about his stake in his family's hospital company, according to records that are at odds with his past statements …
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
What Went Wrong — Lessons the White House should learn from the Miers debacle. — President Bush has returned from a weekend in Camp David, where much of the discussion centered on the beleaguered nomination of Harriet Miers. While the president is determined to press forward, the prognosis he received was grim.
Steve Clemons:
Brent Scowcroft "Breaks Ranks" with George W. Bush in Major New Yorker Article — Jeffrey Goldberg has written a critique in The New Yorker of the Bush White House that equals Ron Suskind's devastating critique of Bush before the last election titled "Without a Doubt."
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Bradley Graham / Washington Post:
Enemy Body Counts Revived — U.S. Is Citing Tolls to Show Success in Iraq — Eager to demonstrate success in Iraq, the U.S. military has abandoned its previous refusal to publicize enemy body counts and now cites such numbers periodically to show the impact of some counterinsurgency operations.
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Thomas M. DeFrank / NY Daily News:
Bushies feeling the boss' wrath — Prez's anger growing in hard times - pals — WASHINGTON - Facing the darkest days of his presidency, President Bush is frustrated, sometimes angry and even bitter, his associates say. — With a seemingly uncontrollable insurgency in Iraq …
Ian / The Political Teen:
Howard Dean: Bush Basher and Hypocrite (VIDEO) — DNC Chairman Howard Dean appeared on This Week to discuss the Harriet Miers nomation, Iraq, a recent speech, and the Plame "leak" scandal. — Notes: — Stephanopoulos shows two opinions on leaving Iraq: (1) Feingold says we should pull out by Dec. 2006.
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Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Judiciary Panel May Ask Dobson to Testify — Evangelical Leader Says He Has Been Privy to Miers's Views — The Senate Judiciary Committee is likely to summon a leading conservative Christian to explain the private assurances he says he received from the White House about Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers …
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Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
'Mao': The Real Mao — If Chairman Mao had been truly prescient, he would have located a little girl in Sichuan Province named Jung Chang and "mie jiuzu"- killed her and wiped out all her relatives to the ninth degree. — But instead that girl grew up, moved to Britain and has now written …
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David Adesnik / OxBlog:
WHAT DEMOCRATS BELIEVE: Earlier this week I participated in a sort of focus group for Democratic activists designed to clarify the party's core beliefs. Not that I am a Democratic activist, but I took part because the participants in the focus group consisted specifically of moderate/DLC types committed …
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The Moderate Voice
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Gateway Pundit:
All Quiet from The Quagmire — Listen carefully! Do you hear that? — ** crickets chirping ** — This past week we heard no comforting words of "occupation" from Cindy Sheehan (although she is planning more civil disobedience and Thanksgiving turkey in Crawford, Texas!) …
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Time:
Searching for Saviors in Strange Places — Could Ahmad Chalabi end up running Iraq? — You remember Ahmad Chalabi. He was once the Bush Administration's favorite Iraqi exile. His group, the Iraqi National Congress, provided all sorts of wondrous reports about Saddam Hussein's weapons …
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No More Mister Nice Blog
Billmon:
Fitzgerald's New Boss — Josh Marshall wonders what it might mean for the special prosecutor's investigation now that U.S. Attorney Paul McNulty has been nominated for the number-two job at the Justice Department. I suspect the short answer is: nothing good.
Observer:
Just Say 'No' — They're the New Puritans. A generation of young, educated and opinionated people determined to sidestep the consumerist perils of modern life. So if you own a 4x4, spend all your time shopping, or are simply overweight - watch your back. Lucy Siegle meets the moral minority aiming to mend our ways
Washington Post:
List of Foiled Plots Puzzling to Some — White House Document Mixes Half-Baked Plans With Serious Terrorist Threats — A White House list of 10 terrorist plots disrupted by the United States has confused counterterrorism experts and officials, who say they cannot distinguish between …
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The Huffington Post
