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Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
Democrats Force Closed Meeting on Iraq  —  WASHINGTON - Democrats forced the Republican-controlled Senate into an unusual closed session Tuesday, questioning intelligence that President Bush used in the run-up to the war in Iraq and accusing Republicans of ignoring the issue.
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Fox News:
Senate Goes Into Rare Closed Session  —  WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate prepared to go into closed session Tuesday after Democrats enacted a rare parliamentary rule forcing the shutdown of the chamber so senators could speak in a classified session about the lead-up to the war in Iraq.
Steve Clemons:
RULE 21 CLOSED DOOR SENATE SESSION: Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid's Stock Moves Strongly Up  —  Senator Harry Reid, in a motion seconded by Senator Richard Durbin, just called for a very rare closed door executive session of the Senate.  This motion is called "Rule 21" so that Senators can discuss "secret matters."
John / AMERICAblog:
Holy s**t, put on CNN  —  UPDATE: Call Harry Reid's DC office and tell them their boss rocks.  It's high time a Democrat showed some cojones.  We need to support them when they do the right thing (and you know the Republicans are going to try to destroy Reid over this).  —  Reid's phone number:
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New York Times:
Democrats Force Senate Into Closed Session Over Iraq Data  —  WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 - Democrats invoked a rarely used rule today that sent the Senate into a two-hour closed session, infuriating Republicans but producing an agreement for a bipartisan look at whether the Republican leadership …
rawstory.com:
Reid takes Senate into closed session over Iraq intelligence  —  RAW STORY  —  The Senate's Democratic leader Harry Reid (D-NV) unexpectedly pulled the Senate into secret session Tuesday afternoon in order to have closed discussion of Iraq intelligence, RAW STORY has learned.
Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
Democrats Force Closed Meeting on Iraq
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AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:   Civil War In The Senate!
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Democrats Deny Open Government To American Electorate
James Joyner / » Outside The Beltway:   Reid Invokes Rule 21, Democrats in Revolt
CNN:
Democrats close Senate to push war probe
Discussion: Big Brass Blog
livejournal.com:
I want to explain what's wrong with Alito's strip-search thing  —  There's been a lot of internet chatter about Alito's dissent, which would have permitted the strip search of a 10-year-old, in Doe v. Groody, 361 F.3d 232 (3d Cir. 2004).  I want to explain why I, personally …
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Lindsay Beyerstein / Majikthise:
Strip Search Sammy—the law behind the label
Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns and Money:   More On Strip-Search Sammy  —  Doe v. Grody—the case …
April Castro / Associated Press:
Judge Removed From DeLay's Criminal Case  —  AUSTIN, Texas - The judge in the conspiracy case against Republican Rep. Tom DeLay was removed at the congressman's request Tuesday because of his donations to Democratic candidates and causes.  —  A semi-retired judge who was called in to hear the dispute …
Los Angeles Times:
Filibuster Option Is in the Democrats' Arsenal  —  Senators say the 'Gang of 14,' a bipartisan group that helped avoid a showdown on judicial nominees in May, could decide Alito's fate.  —  WASHINGTON — Democrats began gearing up Monday for a high-stakes fight over federal appellate Judge Samuel …
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Bloomberg:
Democrats Signal Hesitance to Use Filibuster Against Alito
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Thomas Oliphant / Boston Globe:
The coverup worked  —  NO ONE really noticed, but Patrick Fitzgerald made an unassailable point last week about the timing of the indictment that his CIA leak investigation has produced so far.  —  ''I would have wanted nothing better," he said, ''that when the subpoenas were issued in August of 2004 …
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Trent Lott: Get Rid-O-Rove  —  Trent Lott: Get Rid-O-Rove  —  Trent was on Hardball today and said:  —  TRENT LOTT: Well, the question is, that you asked, is he good for American politics?  Look, he has been very successful, very effective in the political arena.
Associated Press:
13 Arrested In Paris Suburb Riots  —  (AP) Youths torched cars, set garbage bins alight and threw stones at police in a fifth night of rioting in a Paris suburb, and set two primary school classrooms on fire as rioting spread to two other suburban towns, police and an official said Tuesday.
Dana Priest / Washington Post:
CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons  —  Debate Is Growing Within Agency About Legality and Morality of Overseas System Set Up After 9/11  —  The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe …
Discussion: The Heretik and Balkinization
JSOnline:
Editorial: A nomination that will divide  —  In picking Appeals Court Judge Samuel Alito for the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, President Bush gave his right flank what it wanted: a true-blue conservative.  The question now is: Is Bush giving the country what it needs?

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