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Douglas Jehl / New York Times:
Report Warned Bush Team About Intelligence Suspicions  —  WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 - A high Qaeda official in American custody was identified as a likely fabricator months before the Bush administration began to use his statements as the foundation for its claims that Iraq trained Al Qaeda members …
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Editor and Publisher:
Smoking Gun on Manipulation of Iraq Intelligence?  'NY Times' Cites New Document  —  NEW YORK Ever since the Democrats briefly closed the U.S. Senate from view earlier this week, to protest alleged Republican foot-dragging in probing Bush administration pre-war manipulation of intelligence …
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
MARKETING THE WAR....UPDATE....Via Atrios, this is an example of what I was talking about yesterday.  It's a preview of an article in Sunday's New York Times by Doug Jehl: … On balance, the CIA genuinely appears to have believed that Saddam Hussein was pursuing WMD programs before the war started …
Discussion: Ezra Klein
Steve Soto / The Left Coaster:
Did Harry Reid Hit Bill Frist This Week With The "Smoking Gun"?  —  When Harry Reid shut down the Senate earlier this week due to Pat Roberts and Bill Frist's stonewalling of a Phase Two investigation over how the Bush Administration used intelligence in making its case for war, many of us wondered why now?
Andrew / www.AndrewSullivan.com:
OBAMA THE HAWK:  —  Some tough talk from a future Democratic presidential contender.
Discussion: Legal Fiction
Faiz / Think Progress:   Bush, Cheney, and Powell Repeatedly Pushed False Evidence To Justify War
Don Surber:
L'Intifada (continued)  —  From Deutsche Presse Agentur (Hat tip Lucianne.com): … I prefer to fight Baghdad in Baghdad.  —  You know the French rioting is serious when Jo at Jo's Cafe starts blogging about it.  She is a military wife whose priorities are more focused on the light …
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Olivier Guitta / Weekly Standard:
Paris When It Sizzles  —  THE FRENCH USE THE EUPHEMISM …
Discussion: Austin Bay Blog
Olivier Guitta / The Counterterrorism Blog:   Intifada in Paris  —  For the past week, the suburbs of Paris …
Pieter Dorsman / Peaktalk:
FRANCE'S INTIFADA  —  It's hard to find some good reporting …
Jo's Cafe:
Rioting ... from the Dictionary, means:  —  1. A wild …
Discussion: T. Longren
Barton Gellman / Washington Post:
The FBI's Secret Scrutiny  —  In Hunt for Terrorists, Bureau Examines Records of Ordinary Americans  —  The FBI came calling in Windsor, Conn., this summer with a document marked for delivery by hand.  On Matianuk Avenue, across from the tennis courts, two special agents found their man.
Associated Press:
Cheney urges exception to torture ban for CIA  —  Vice president makes closed-door appeal to GOP senators  —  WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney made an unusual personal appeal to Republican senators this week to allow CIA exemptions to a proposed ban on the torture of terror suspects in U.S. custody …
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ReddHedd / firedoglake:
Holy Crap! Cheney Leaves a Big, Slimy Trail
Colbert I. King / Washington Post:
Credentials Are Fine, but Values Matter, Too  —  Thus sayeth the high priests of far-right conservatism: To be worthy of appointment to the Supreme Court, a nominee must be scholarly, a great intellect and a possessor of sterling conservative credentials.  In addition, the nominee …
Discussion: reasoned audacity …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Alito Smear #3: The Rock-Ribbed Racist's Candidate
Discussion: Confirm Them
Herbert E. Meyer / The American Thinker:
Finally, the spotlight has started to swing away from Lewis Libby and his allegedly perjurous grand-jury testimony toward where that spotlight should have focused all along: on the CIA's incompetent, weird - and possibly treasonous—response to Vice President Cheney's inquiry about Iraq's interest in purchasing yellowcake from Niger.
Eleanor Clift / Newsweek:
Pick Your Battles  —  Democrats shouldn't waste their time filibustering Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito.  There are bigger fights coming down the pike.  —  Nov. 4, 2005 - Democrats shouldn't filibuster Samuel Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court unless he really bungles the hearings.
James M. McPherson / New York Times:
'Team of Rivals': Friends of Abe  —  Mathew Brady/Corbis; Time Life Pictures/Getty Images; Mathew Brady/Hulton Archive/Getty Images; Hulton Archive/Getty Images  —  MORE books about Abraham Lincoln line the shelves of libraries than about any other American.  Can there be anything new to say about our 16th president?
Drudge Report:
JERSEY GOVERNOR RACE TURNS UGLY: CHARGES OF ABORTION, AFFAIRS DRIVE LAST DAYS  —  New Jersey Public Radio & Television aired a report Friday night in which New Jersey Democratic Candidate for Governor Jon Corzine was grilled about whether a staffer he allegedly had an affair with — had an abortion.
Discussion: Eschaton, Public Eye and A Blog For All
Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
Some in GOP Regretting Pork-Stuffed Highway Bill  —  The highway bill seemed like such a good idea when it sailed through Congress this summer.  But now Republicans who assembled the record spending package are suffering buyer's remorse.  —  The $286 billion legislation was stuffed …
Townhall.com:
MONEY FOR MCCAIN  —  Sen. John McCain, a potential 2008 Republican presidential candidate, has gotten a tepid response to a New York City fund-raiser Monday for his "Straight Talk America" political action committee.  —  McCain signed a Sept. 27 letter announcing his appearance at the St. Regis Hotel Nov. 7.

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