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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Senate Votes to Demand Regular Iraq Updates From White House — WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 - The Senate signaled its growing unease with the war in Iraq today, voting overwhelmingly to demand regular reports from the White House on the course of the conflict and on the progress that Iraqi forces are making in securing their own country.
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Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
Senate Republicans Block Iraq Timetable — WASHINGTON - The Republican-controlled Senate easily defeated a Democratic effort Tuesday to pressure President Bush to outline a timetable for a phased withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. It then overwhelmingly endorsed a weaker statement calling …
Marty Lederman / Balkinization:
Confusing Developments Senate-Side on GTMO Detention, Commissions and Habeas — (Cross-posted in part at SCOTUSblog.) — [UPDATE: The Senate approved the Graham/Levin "compromise" amendment (see below) by a vote of 84-14. All of the No votes but one (that of Sen. Specter) were cast by Democrats.]
Hilzoy / Obsidian Wings:
Habeas and Guantanamo: Breaking News — All right. There are two new amendments: — Graham has proposed an amendment to his own amendment, which is co-sponsored by Carl Levin and John Kyl. Here is a PDF of it. It still cuts off habeas but it allows more judicial review than the version …
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:Senators Agree on Detainee Rights
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Setting the Record Straight: The New York Times Editorial on Pre-War Intelligence — The New York Times Editorial Says Foreign Intelligence Services Did Not Support American Intelligence. "Foreign intelligence services did not have full access to American intelligence.
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Fred Kaplan / Slate:
I Was Wrong, but So Were You — Parsing Bush's new mantra. — Download the MP3 audio version of this story here, or sign up to get all of Slate's free daily podcasts. — President George W. Bush has suddenly shifted rhetoric on the war in Iraq. Until recently, the administration's line …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Now Its The Times Versus The Times — The Times editors choose their side as Bush pushes back against "baseless" charges: — The Bush administration was also alone in making the absurd claim that Iraq was in league with Al Qaeda and somehow connected to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Andrew Leigh / National Review:
Pajama-Clad Revolutionaries — A year ago, Jonathan Klein, current president of CNN, airily dismissed the bloggers who dethroned Dan Rather. "These bloggers have no checks and balances... You couldn't have a starker contrast between the multiple layers of checks and balances [at 60 Minutes] …
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USA Today:
A 'fiscal hurricane' on the horizon — WASHINGTON — The comptroller general of the United States is explaining over eggs how the nation's finances are going to hell. — "We face a demographic tsunami" that "will never recede," David Walker tells a group of reporters.
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Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
Report Says Ex-Chief of Public TV Violated Federal Law — WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 - Investigators at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting concluded today that its former chairman repeatedly broke federal law and its own regulations in a campaign to combat what he saw as liberal bias.
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Thomas Oliphant / Boston Globe:
Bush's magnificent deception — JUST FOR the record, the polling numbers President Bush claims not to read show the following with regard to the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003: — According to The Wall Street Journal-NBC News survey last week, 57 percent of the sample believe Bush …
John / AMERICAblog:
Very disturbing story about Bush's state of mind in the Wash Times magazine — The Washington Times, you may know, is an "independent" newspaper that is basically the mouthpiece of the Republican party. For that reason, it sometimes gets inside scoops as to what the GOP is thinking, and even what's going on inside the White House.
Lorie Byrd / Michelle Malkin:
HERE IS WHY DEMOCRATS THOUGHT THEY WOULD GET AWAY WITH IT — When you watch this incredibly good RNC web video you might ask how on earth the Democrats ever thought they would get away with accusing the President of lying and misleading the country into the war in Iraq. I would answer that with the following:
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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
The Ginsburg Fallacy — To hear some Republicans tell it, letting Ruth Bader Ginsburg onto the Supreme Court was a tough pill to swallow. She was an ACLU-loving, bra-burning feminazi, but they supported her anyway, dutifully respecting the president's right to put his own stamp on the high court.
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Nathan / NathanNewman.org:
Alito Against Democracy — The release of Alito's 1985 Job Application is causing ripples because of his clear statement that "the Constitution does not protect the right to an abortion." — But forget Roe— that's just confirmation of what everyone suspected, and I continue to believe …
James Pinkerton / Tech Central Station:
Truth and Doodie — Welcome to the next installment of the continuing saga: Mary Mapes vs. the Blogs, in which, for good measure, she takes on reality, too. And at the same time, we can consider the rise, fall — and possible comeback — of Mapes as part of the ongoing power-struggle between the MSM …
