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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Woodward Apologizes to Post for Withholding Knowledge of Plame  —  Bob Woodward apologized today to The Washington Post's executive editor for failing to tell him for more than two years that a senior Bush administration official had told him about CIA operative Valerie Plame …
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Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
Pincus: Woodward 'Asked Me to Keep Him Out' of Plame Reporting  —  NEW YORK Walter Pincus, the longtime Washington Post reporter and one of several journalists who testified in the Valerie Plame case, said he believed as far back as 2003 that Bob Woodward had some involvement in the case …
Discussion: Poynter Online and firedoglake
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
"Will Mr. Fitzgerald Now Say He Was Wrong?"  —  Bob Woodward tosses a spanner into the Plame leak chronology developed by Special Counsel Fitzgerald: … As noted by Libby's counsel, that does not jibe well with the assertion made by Mr. Fitzgerald at his press conference that "In fact …
Washington Post:
Testifying in the CIA Leak Case  —  On Monday, November 14, I testified under oath in a sworn deposition to Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald for more than two hours about small portions of interviews I conducted with three current or former Bush administration officials that relate …
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Taking the pajamas off  —  Now I'm even more confused about [Pajamas] Open Source Media.  I just tuned in from Munich to their Rockefeller Center event and they're into a panel about fashion.  The first person says she doesn't blog and thinks blogging is absurd and never reads them and is liberal …
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La Shawn / La Shawn Barber's Corner:
Open Source Media: Start Spreading the News  —  I'll update this post with news and views (and photos) on Open Source Media later today.  In the meantime, check out funnyman Scrappleface (blogging on WordPress now).  —  Live-blogging the launch!  —  Update (10:07 a.m.): I'm sitting in the Rainbow Room at 30 Rock with...bloggers!
Dave / newdave.com:
Open Source Media Launch
Andrew Roth / The Club For Growth:
The 'Bridge to Nowhere' Is No More!  —  CNBC's Squawk Box is reporting that the "Bridget to Nowhere" has been officially defunded.  However, this can only be seen as a small victory.  The millions of dollars allocated for this pork project will go to the Alaska state government for them to spend …
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Radley Balko / TheAgitator.com:
Not So Fast  —  The blogosphere's buzzing with talk that the infamous …
Discussion: QandO
Mark Tapscott / tapscottscopydesk.blogspot.com:   Why is Club for Growth Linking …
scout prime:
Black Bodies Remain Still.....Part II  —  Imagine this...  You watch on TV the news that your mother's city has been destroyed by this latest disaster.  For days you wait to hear from her.  Days pass into weeks but still no word.  Your hope of finding her alive fades.
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CNN:
ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES  —  Severe Weather Pounds U.S.; New Allegations of Iraqi Prisoner Abuse Legitimate?  ; Bodies of Hurricane Katrina Victims Still Being Found in New Orleans  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
Discussion: Majikthise
New York Times:
Ignore the Man Behind That Memo  —  Judge Samuel Alito Jr.'s insistence that the Constitution does not protect abortion rights is not the only alarming aspect of a newly released memo he wrote in 1985.  That statement strongly suggests that Judge Alito is far outside the legal mainstream …
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Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:
Alito's Smoking Gun
Hugh Hewitt / hughhewitt.com:
"Two Parts Grandstanding to One Part Suicide"  —  That's the title of Powerline's Scott Johnson's post on the Senate GOP's capitulation yesterday.  John Hinderaker adds that "moral preening" is an apt description.  —  GOP Senators who wake up this morning to discover stacks of angry phone messages …
Discussion: Power Line and Daily Pundit
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Michael Wilbon / Washington Post:
Finally, Baseball's Steroid Policy Shows a Little Muscle  —  It's a rare thing when major league baseball players run scared.  In this particular case, they've run scared from Congress.  And the beneficiary is Bud Selig.  Actually, the beneficiaries are Selig, the players themselves, and, certainly, the game.
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Associated Press:
Deal averts Internet showdown  —  TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A summit focusing on narrowing the digital divide between the rich and poor residents and countries opened Wednesday with an agreement of sorts on who will maintain ultimate oversight of the Internet and the flow of information, commerce and dissent.
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Claudia Rosett / Opinion Journal:
'Divide' and Conquer?  —  Why dictators are cheering the U.N. Internet turf grab.
Discussion: Power Line
rawstory.com:
National Security Adviser was Woodward's source, attorneys say  —  National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley was the senior administration official who told Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward that Valerie Plame Wilson was a CIA officer, attorneys close to the investigation and intelligence officials tell RAW STORY.
Katherine Shrader / Associated Press:
U.S. Has Detained 83,000 in War on Terror  —  The United States has detained more than 83,000 foreigners in the four years of the war on terror, enough to nearly fill the NFL's largest stadium.  The administration defends the practice of holding detainees in prisons from Afghanistan …
Sour Duck:
The Carnival of Feminists, Issue 3  —  Welcome to The Carnival of Feminists!  —  Issue 3 is split into two sections: "1970s into 2000" and the "Editor's Feminist Cafeteria."  —  And I hope you're sitting comfortably, because it is a whopper!  —  First, though: why feminism?
Discussion: Running Scared
Tony Blankley / Townhall.com:
An incontinent Congress  —  Little good comes when Congress grabs control of American foreign policy and war-fighting strategies from the hands of a scandal-weakened White House.  Of course it is always possible that there are 51 forward-leaning, shrewd, patriotic, non-partisan senators assembled …
Robert S. Boynton / Slate:
Attack of the Career-Killing Blogs  —  When academics post online, do they risk their jobs?  —  "Here goes nothing.  I shouldn't be doing this.  I'll be going up for tenure soon," reads the first post of the blog that University of Chicago political scientist Daniel Drezner started in September 2002.
Discussion: Althouse and The Volokh Conspiracy

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