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Washington Post:
Woodward Was Told of Plame More Than Two Years Ago  —  Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward testified under oath Monday in the CIA leak case that a senior administration official told him about CIA operative Valerie Plame and her position at the agency nearly a month before her identity was disclosed.
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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 …
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
Steve Clemons:
Bob Woodward's Confession: Vanity?  Need for Limelight?  Or Just Stupidity?  —  Today is one of those overflowing with so much news and commentary that it's hard to know where to begin.  —  First of all, Bob Woodward has revealed new information in the Valerie Plame case that could be staggering in its importance.
Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Journalists Said to Figure in Strategy in Leak Case  —  WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 - Lawyers for I. Lewis Libby Jr., the former White House official indicted on perjury charges, plan to seek testimony from journalists beyond those cited in the indictment and will probably challenge government agreements limiting …
Betsy Newmark / Michelle Malkin:
WILL A JOURNALIST AT THE POST HAVE TO BE INDICTED?  —  The Washington Post reveals that big foot reporter Bob Woodward heard from some government official who was not either Libby or Rove about the identity of Joe Wilson's wife as a CIA agent about a month before Libby is supposed to have told anyone …
Discussion: Power Line
Paul / Wizbang:
NEW TWIST IN THE PLAME GAME- WOORDWARD KNEW 2 YEARS AGO
Discussion: Hugh Hewitt
Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:   Bobby Has a Secret  —  Atrios put up a post about Woodward's appearance …
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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Radley Balko / TheAgitator.com:
Not So Fast  —  The blogosphere's buzzing with talk that the infamous "Bridges to Nowhere" has been defunded.  —  This is smoke and mirrors.  It's a cheap stunt by the GOP to deflect public criticism that doesn't really change much of anything.  All the conference committee did was remove the earmark for the bridges.
Discussion: QandO
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Washington Post:
Document Says Oil Chiefs Met With Cheney Task Force  —  A White House document shows that executives from big oil companies met with Vice President Cheney's energy task force in 2001 — something long suspected by environmentalists but denied as recently as last week by industry officials testifying before Congress.
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
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.
John F. Burns / New York Times:
Torture Alleged at Ministry Site Outside Baghdad  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 15 - Iraq's government said Tuesday that it had ordered an urgent investigation of allegations that many of the 173 detainees American troops discovered over the weekend in the basement of an Interior Ministry building …
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Kim Sengupta / Independent:   Raid on torture dungeon exposes Iraq's secret war
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 …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Mystery of Gossipy Blog on the Judiciary Is Solved  —  Alex Kozinski, a federal appeals court judge in California, was a little miffed last year when a blog called Underneath Their Robes, a dishy hybrid of People magazine and The Harvard Law Review, failed to list him as a candidate for "male superhottie of the federal judiciary."
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Pathetic  —  Pathetic.  —  One expected no better of the Senate Democrats, who want to get out of Iraq as soon as possible, or sooner than possible—most of them don't really care—and who want to embarrass president Bush.  But couldn't the Senate Republicans have stood and fought …

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