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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 …
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 …
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 …
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The Next Hurrah
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.
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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Eschaton
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.
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QandO
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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.
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.
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TAPPED, MyDD, Balloon Juice, Alternate Brain, The Carpetbagger Report, Wonkette, Middle Earth Journal, The Democratic Party, Comments From Left Field, Amygdala, The Sideshow, TalkLeft, Daily Pundit, Cold Fury, Angry Bear, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, The Rude Pundit, Bark Bark Woof Woof and Suburban Guerrilla
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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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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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 Barber's Corner, TigerHawk, ScrappleFace, Peaktalk, Wizbang, Ed Driscoll.com, Austin Bay Blog and Decision '08
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Daniel Rubin / Blinq:Dressing Up — Goodnight Pajamas Media. — Good morning Open Source Media.
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protein wisdom, The Talent Show, David Corn, Dennis The Peasant, The Belmont Club, Instapundit.com and Balloon Juice
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 …
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."
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Patterico's Pontifications, Betsy's Page, The Daily Brief, Skepticseye.com … and How Appealing
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?
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Running Scared
