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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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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.
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.
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 …
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.
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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Hamza Hendawi / Associated Press:   Iraq Insurgency Shows No Signs of Abating
Billmon:
Fitzgerald's New Boss  —  Josh Marshall wonders what it might mean for the special prosecutor's case 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.  —  McNulty, U.S. Attorney …
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:   Federal Prosecutor Paul McNulty Named Deputy Attorney General
volokh.com:   Americans for Better Justice Board of Advisors
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 …
MSNBC:
Bush expected to name Bernanke next Fed chief  —  Administration official says announcement set for 1 p.m. ET  —  President Bush is poised to name Ben Bernanke, chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers, to succeed Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, NBC News and Reuters reported Monday.
Discussion: MaxSpeak and GOP Bloggers
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Reuters:   Bush said to pick Bernanke as Fed chief
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Protecting the Presidential Seal.  No Joke.  —  You might have thought that the White House had enough on its plate late last month, what with its search for a new Supreme Court nominee, the continuing war in Iraq and the C.I.A. leak investigation.  But it found time to add another item to its agenda …
Martin Walker / UPI:
Walker's World: Bush at bay  —  WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (UPI) — The CIA leak inquiry that threatens senior White House aides has now widened to include the forgery of documents on African uranium that started the investigation, according to NAT0 intelligence sources.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Demagogue
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Bush Choice Gets Criticisms Rare for Nominees to Court  —  WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 - On Oct. 22, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon nominated to the Supreme Court a corporate lawyer and former bar association president with no judicial experience.  On Dec. 6, his choice, Lewis F. Powell Jr., was confirmed with fanfare by a vote of 89 to 1.
Discussion: Washington Post
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Associated Press:   Miers fails to sway skeptical senators
Steven R. Weisman / New York Times:
On Trip to South, Rice Uses an Atypical Topic: Herself  —  BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 23 - At the University of Alabama this weekend, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice seemed taken aback when the chairwoman of the campus College Republicans asked for advice on how to prepare for a career in politics.
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Gateway Pundit:
Condoleezza Shows Jack Straw Grits and Gridiron
Discussion: New York Times and Power Line
Michael Barone / Townhall.com:
The error of a political indictment  —  For more than two years, many in the mainstream media have been buzzing about the prospect that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove or Vice President Chief of Staff Scooter Libby would be indicted for revealing the name of CIA officer Valerie Plame.
Michael Yon / Online Magazine:
Purple Fingers  —  Baghdad  —  The Perch  —  I was in Baquba during the January elections.  I'd hitched a ride with the US Army to a polling site.  There were bombs exploding, mortars falling, and hot machine guns.  The fact that the voting was going great despite the violence was something few people expected.
Balkinization:
What Should Democrats Do About Miers?  Beyond the Popcorn Strategy  —  What should the Democrats do about the Miers nomination?  Currently, the Democrats are engaged in a "popcorn" strategy.  Metaphorically speaking, they are sitting back, munching on popcorn, and enjoying the show as Republicans fight among themselves.
Discussion: ACSBlog

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