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Todd S. Purdum / New York Times:
New Disclosure Could Prolong Inquiry on Leak  —  WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 - The disclosure that a current or former Bush administration official told Bob Woodward of The Washington Post more than two years ago that the wife of a prominent administration critic worked for the C.I.A. threatened Wednesday …
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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 …
Washington Post:
Woodward Could Be a Boon to Libby  —  The revelation that The Washington Post's Bob Woodward may have been the first reporter to learn about CIA operative Valerie Plame could provide a boost to the only person indicted in the leak case: I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
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.
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
Woodward: From Watergate Hero to Plamegate Goat  —  Bob Woodward.  What a career arc.  From exposing a presidential cover-up in Watergate to covering up his role in Plamegate.  And being forced to apologize to his own paper.  And asking a colleague, Walter Pincus, not to mention Woodward's role in the story.
Will / Attytood:
Bob and me  —  I've never been very trendy, but there was one …
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Hullabaloo
Maria Newman / New York Times:
Washington Post's Woodward Apologizes for Lapse on Leak
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:   Dick Cheney Walking The Plank?
John / AMERICAblog:
Bob Woodward's explanation …
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Hard Target by di
Steve Soto / The Left Coaster:   Hadley Was Woodward's Source - Bad News For Bush
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Taking off the Pajamas: now, what do you see?  —  Kevin Alwyrd is present at the revelation of Open Source Media, the erstwhile Pajamas Media, and he's a little distracted (by one of the speakers), but he "still [doesn't] completely get it."  He links to Mike Krempasky ("It's a pretty flashy event …
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Atlas Shrugs:
THE LAST SUPPER FOR PAJAMA MEDIA  —  Not alot of time to post (on not alot of sleep) but for those followers of Pajama Media, here are some snaps of the first (and last supper) at a chi chi little boite in the Big Apple last night.  All of the Masters of the Blog Universe were present …
Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
Liveblogging the Pajamas Media launch festivities from the W Hotel in New York, 1
Discussion: All Things Beautiful
moxie:
open media sores of indeterminate origins
Drudge Report:
CHENEY FIGHTS BACK  —  Excerpts As Prepared For Delivery Tonight by Vice President Cheney  —  THE VICE PRESIDENT: "As most of you know, I have spent a lot of years in public service, and first came to work in Washington, D.C. back in the late 1960s.  I know what it's like to operate …
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Michael A. Fletcher / Washington Post:
Cheney Denounces Critics of Iraq War
Discussion: Legal Fiction and firedoglake
James Glanz / New York Times:
American Faces Charge of Graft for Work in Iraq  —  In what is expected to be the first of a series of criminal charges against officials and contractors overseeing the rebuilding of Iraq, an American has been charged with paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and kickbacks …
Discussion: CorrenteWire and Roger Ailes
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Aram Roston / MSNBC:
NBC: Massive bid-rigging scam alleged in Iraq
Discussion: Informed Comment and Demagogue
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Senate Presses Administration for Iraq Plans  —  WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 - The Senate voted on Tuesday to press the Bush administration to provide more public information about the course of the war in Iraq as lawmakers of both parties made it clear they wanted chief responsibility for securing …
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National Review:
Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:
Cheney Joins GOP Criticism of Democrats  —  WASHINGTON — Vice President Dick Cheney on Wednesday added his voice to the chorus of Republican criticism of Democrats who contend the Bush administration of manipulating intelligence on Iraq.  —  That accusation, he said, "one of the most dishonest …
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Wall Street Journal:
Bush's Approval Rating Falls Again, Poll Shows  —  President Bush's positive job rating continues to fall, touching another new low for his presidency, the latest Harris Interactive poll finds.  —  Bush's current job approval rating stands at 34%, compared with a positive rating of 88% soon after 9/11 …
Jamie Glazov / Front Page Magazine:
Where the WMDs Went  —  Frontpage Interview's guest today is Bill Tierney, a former military intelligence officer and Arabic speaker who worked at Guantanamo Bay in 2002 and as a counter-infiltration operator in Baghdad in 2004.  He was also an inspector (1996-1998) for the United Nations Special Commission …
Dan Savage / New York Times:
Can I Get a Little Privacy?  —  WILL Estelle Griswold ever be able to rest in peace?  Although she died in 1981, the poor woman gets kicked up and down the block whenever someone is nominated to a seat on the United States Supreme Court.  But few people remember who Griswold was or what she did.

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