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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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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: Decision '08
Sydney H. Schanberg / villagevoice.com:
Woodward's Dis … . . . a media marketplace that long ago …
Discussion: firedoglake
Atrios / Eschaton:
'Twas the Night Before Fitzmas
Discussion: firedoglake and Crooks and Liars
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:   So the news is out from the Post now — both in a statement …
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Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Believe It or Not  —  Are you sure you want to keep saying we were fooled by Ahmad Chalabi and the INC?  —  What do you have to believe in order to keep alive your conviction that the Bush administration conspired to launch a lie-based war?  As with (I admit) the pro-war case, the ground of argument has a tendency to shift.
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
GOP Senate Sends Bush Iraq Message But Balks On Exit Timetable  —  President George Bush has been sent a pointed message by the GOP-dominated Senate: give us detailed progress reports on Iraq, which include goals and progress so far.  —  In reality, the message sent by the GOPers …
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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.
Robert Burns / Associated Press:
Pentagon Used White Phosphorous in Iraq  —  WASHINGTON — Pentagon officials acknowledged Tuesday that U.S. troops used white phosphorous as a weapon against insurgent strongholds during the battle of Fallujah last November.  But they denied an Italian television news report …
Discussion: Rantingprofs and Shot In The Dark
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BBC:
US used white phosphorus in Iraq  —  US troops used white phosphorus as a weapon in last year's offensive in the Iraqi city of Falluja, the US has said.  —  "It was used as an incendiary weapon against enemy combatants," spokesman Lt Col Barry Venable told the BBC - though not against civilians, he said.
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
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Hagel Defends Criticisms of Iraq Policy  —  Administration Calls Statements by Democrats Harmful to War Effort, Troops  —  Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) strongly criticized yesterday the White House's new line of attack against critics of its Iraq policy, saying that "the Bush administration must understand …
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.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
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Claudia Rosett / Opinion Journal:
'Divide' and Conquer?  —  Why dictators are cheering the U.N. Internet turf grab.
Discussion: Power Line
William K. Rashbaum / New York Times:
Kerik Is Accused of Abusing Post as City Official  —  New Jersey officials said yesterday that Bernard B. Kerik abused his position as New York City correction commissioner in the late 1990's by accepting tens of thousands of dollars from a construction company that he was helping to pursue business with the city.
Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
Liveblogging the Pajamas Media launch festivities from the W Hotel in New York, 1  —  My cab pulled up outside the W a little before 9 PM New York time, and after checking in and dropping my suitcase on the bed, I immediately made my way to the hotel bar, where I found Tim Blair, Roger Simon …
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Dan Caterinicchia / Washington Times:
U.S. to retain oversight of Web  —  Efforts to replace U.S. oversight of the Internet with an international committee were defeated yesterday during U.N.-sponsored meetings.  —  Hundreds of government, nonprofit and industry delegates meeting at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis …
Discussion: Daily Pundit
Jay / Stop The ACLU:
Stop The ACLU Interviews Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit)  —  Many of you may remember our reaction to Glenn Reynold's sympathy for the ACLU.  We received a lot of flak for this reaction, and suprisingly a lot of praise.  However, many commented on my close mindedness of other views.
Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
Broadcast Chief Violated Laws, Inquiry Finds  —  WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 - Investigators at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting said on Tuesday that they had uncovered evidence that its former chairman had repeatedly broken federal law and the organization's own regulations in a campaign to combat what he saw as liberal bias.

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