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Robert H. Reid / Associated Press:
U.S. Military Deaths Reach 2,000 in Iraq  —  A U.S. Army sergeant died of wounds suffered in Iraq, the Pentagon announced Tuesday.  The death _ along with two others announced Tuesday _ brought to 2,000 the number of U.S. military members who have died since the start of the Iraq conflict in 2003.
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Notes Ex Machina  —  The NY Times delivers a shocker in the Plame case - per notes taken by Lewis Libby, George Tenet, former director of the CIA, told Dick Cheney that Ms. Wilson was involved in Joe Wilson's trip to Niger.  Dick Cheney then relayed this information to Libby on June 12 …
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CNN:
Iraqi draft constitution passes, election officials say  —  Two U.S. Marines killed in Anbar province  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — The referendum on Iraq's draft constitution has passed, according to final provisional results issued Tuesday by Iraqi election officials.
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rawstory.com:
Fitzgerald has decided to seek indictments, those near inquiry say  —  Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has decided to seek indictments in the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson and has submitted at least one to the grand jury, those close to the investigation tell RAW STORY.
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Steve Clemons:
Indictments Coming Tomorrow; Targets Received Letters Today  —  An uber-insider source has just reported the following to TWN (since confirmed by another independent source): … The shoe is dropping.  —  More soon.  — Steve Clemons  —  Update: further commentary from CBS's John Roberts
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hughhewitt.com:
More from NRO  —  I am trying to fairly represent the arguments being made against Miers and to respond to them.  —  But I am surprised how some excellent writers and friends are refusing to understand arguments the anti-anti-Miers people are mounting, choosing instead to read them so casually as to avoid responding.
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National Review:
I'M SORRY, THE GOP ROLE MODEL AT THIS MOMENT SHOULD BE... WHAT?!?
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
Washington Post:
Cheney Plan Exempts CIA From Bill Barring Abuse of Detainees  —  The Bush administration has proposed exempting employees of the Central Intelligence Agency from a legislative measure endorsed earlier this month by 90 members of the Senate that would bar cruel and degrading treatment of any prisoners in U.S. custody.
Lawrence B. Wilkerson / Los Angeles Times:
The White House cabal  —  IN PRESIDENT BUSH'S first term, some of the most important decisions about U.S. national security — including vital decisions about postwar Iraq — were made by a secretive, little-known cabal.  It was made up of a very small group of people led by Vice President Dick Cheney …
Matthew Mosk / Washington Post:
Steele Announces Md. Senate Bid  —  Early Poll Shows Republican Trailing Cardin But Ahead of Mfume  —  Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele today formally announced he will run for the U.S. Senate, recasting the successful political partnership that enabled him to become the first African American elected to statewide office.
Kenneth R. Bazinet / NY Daily News:
Bushies take aim at probe  —  WASHINGTON - President Bush's damage-control handlers are plotting a sophisticated war room offensive to fight back against possible indictments in the CIA leak probe.  —  Trying to change the subject yesterday, Bush announced a new Federal Reserve chairman …
Discussion: Needlenose and firedoglake
Josephine Hearn / The Hill:
Dems test new slogan  —  House Democratic leaders are holding a closed-door meeting with members of their caucus this afternoon to discuss a new slogan for the 2006 midterm elections: "Together, We Can Do Better" or "Together, America Can Do Better," according to Democratic sources.
La Shawn / La Shawn Barber's Corner:
Rosa Parks, 1913-2005  —  Call her "the woman who refused to get up," but I'm sure Rosa Parks had no idea what her tired feet and frustrating treatment would lead to on December 1, 1955.  —  What became known as the Civil Rights movement was bound to start sooner or later.
Gary Hart / The Huffington Post:
Here is the Crime in Outing a CIA Agent  —  It is now fashionable among columnists supporting the Bush administration, New York Times journalist Judith Miller, Robert Novak and the increasing network of senior administration officials implicated in the Valerie Plame Wilson outing to say, "So what?
Discussion: firedoglake
Will / Attytood:
The New Philadelphia Experiment: Saving the Daily News  —  It was an unseasonably warm Monday morning, Oct. 26, 2025, and the sun was just peeping over the Jersey horizon, causing the Delaware River to shimmer.  And so Rocco Dilworth Bednarik decided to take his wi-fi-connected laptop out onto his patio …
Discussion: The All Spin Zone
Wall Street Journal:
Majority of Americans Say Military Action in Iraq Was Wrong, Poll Finds  —  A new Harris Interactive poll shows American sentiment about the situation in Iraq remains generally gloomy, with fewer than a quarter of Americans saying they are confident U.S. policies in Iraq will be successful.

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Miers not qualified for Supreme Court
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