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Los Angeles Times:
Fitzgerald Focuses Again on Rove  —  WASHINGTON — As his investigation nears a conclusion, special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald has returned his attention to White House adviser Karl Rove, interviewing a Rove colleague with detailed questions about contacts that President Bush's close aide …
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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
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.
Judd / Think Progress:
BREAKING: CBS To Report Fitzgerald Will Make His Decision Known Tomorrow  —  From the CBS Evening News, to air at 6:30PM: … Any guesses on the identity of Mr. X?  —  UPDATE: This bit from the CBS segment is also interesting -
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
The Incredibles  —  ON JUNE12, 2003, when he first published a story about the matter, Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus became the second journalist to have been used by Ambassador Joseph Wilson to peddle bogus information about his February 2002 trip to Niger.
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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.
Discussion: Mind in the Qatar and The Reaction
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CNN:
Poll: Bush would lose an election if held this year  —  (CNN) — A majority would vote for a Democrat over President Bush if an election were held this year, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll released Tuesday.  —  In the latest poll, 55 percent of the respondents said that they would vote …
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Chris Kromm / Facing South:
Rosa Parks: Symbols, myths and movements  —  If you've read the eulogies to Rosa Parks today, you've probably read the same story I have about the event that made her a civil rights legend: on December 1, 1955, a tired seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama gets on a bus, sits down …
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La Shawn / La Shawn Barber's Corner:
Rosa Parks, 1913-2005  —  Call her "the woman who refused to get up …
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.
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.
Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:
SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO?  —  The Salt Lake Tribune reports that 80% of Utah National Guard troops intend to reenlist - a number similar to retention rates nationwide.  Army and Air Guard members have served numerous deployments to the Middle East and elsewhere, and many of the Utah troops surveyed are now preparing for Iraq.
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 …
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
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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Kimsch / Musing Minds:
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Thomas Wagner / Associated Press:
Draft Constitution Adopted by Iraq Voters
White House:
President Addresses Joint Armed Forces Officers' Wives' Luncheon
Discussion: The Astute Blogger
Jose De Jesus Ortiz / Houston Chronicle:
Biggio's wife slapped at White Sox's ballpark
Seattle Times:
Miers not qualified for Supreme Court
Bloomberg:
Miers Joins Long March of Mediocrity to Court: Andrew Ferguson
Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:
RECRUITING PROBLEMS?  —  Here's a group that doesn't seem to have difficulty recruiting:
Discussion: Washington Times
This Is London:
Galloway: Charge me with perjury

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