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MSNBC:
U.K. charges official with leaking Blair memo  —  Document allegedly says PM dissuaded Bush push for attack on Al-Jazeera  —  LONDON - A civil servant has been charged under Britain's Official Secrets Act for allegedly leaking a government memo that a newspaper said Tuesday suggested …
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CNN:
U.S.: Al-Jazeera bomb story 'outlandish'  —  British paper: Blair talked Bush out of airstrike on network  —  LONDON, England (CNN) — The White House characterized as "outlandish" Tuesday a British newspaper report that President Bush once discussed bombing the headquarters …
Discussion: firedoglake and azerbic
Richard Norton-Taylor / Guardian:
Legal gag on Bush-Blair war row
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Murray Waas / nationaljournal.com:
Key Bush Intelligence Briefing Kept From Hill Panel  —  Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime …
David Stout / New York Times:
U.S. Indicts Padilla After 3 Years in Pentagon Custody  —  WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 - Jose Padilla, an American citizen held without charge for more than three years as an enemy combatant, has been indicted in what the federal authorities said today was a plot to "murder, kidnap and maim" people overseas.
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Balkinization:
Padilla Indicted  —  Today the U.S. government formally indicted …
Discussion: Opinio Juris and SCOTUSblog
U.S. Newswire:
CNN Caught Off-Guard; Recording Proves Damaging 'X' Over Vice President's Face was Intentional Says Team Hollywood  —  Contact: Jane Redding of Team Hollywood Inc., 310-289-2143  —  SANTA MONICA, Calif., Nov. 22 /U.S. Newswire/ — The following statement concerning CNN's airing of an 'X …
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The Gray Tie:
A Thanksgiving Cotillion Ball  —  I'm hosting this week's ball.  I'm not going to mess around with some fancy smancy introduction.  It's Thanksgiving week, you figure it out.  —  On with the cornucopia of entries from The Cotillion.  —  Armies of Liberation has a first for the blogosphere.
Discussion: Armies of Liberation
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Zendo Deb / TFS Magnum:   Responsibility and Blame
Jack Kelly / realclearpolitics.com:
Zarqawi's Bad Week  —  Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the al Qaida chieftain in Iraq, has had a bad week.  If it turns out Zarqawi was among seven al Qaida leaders killed in Mosul Saturday, it'll have been a really bad week.  But even if Zarqawi got away again, it's been a rotten week for him.
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Mark Steyn / Telegraph:
Listen to the word on the 'Arab street'
Edward Jay Epstein / Opinion Journal:
Atta in Prague?  —  An Iraqi prisoner holds the answer to this 9/11 mystery.  —  PRAGUE—On Oct. 27, 2001, the New York Times reported (erroneously) that 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta "flew to the Czech Republic on April 8 and met with [an] Iraqi intelligence officer," helping to give credence to the so-called Prague connection.
Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
On Torture (updated)  —  Given the impromptu discussion over torture that broke out in the comments of my last WP post, I thought now might be a good time to devote a dedicated post to the subject.  To begin, here's Thomas Sowell, from "Tortured Reasoning":
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Thomas Sowell / Townhall.com:
Tortured reasoning  —  Some people seem to see nothing between zero and infinity.
Discussion: Sadly, No!
wkrc.com:
Congresswoman Jean Schmidt Talks With Local 12  —  STATEMENT FROM CONGRESSWOMAN JEAN SCHMIDT Washington, DC -  —  Last week as I returned to the Capitol Building after attending a funeral at Arlington National Cemetery for a local fallen Marine, I found out that the Democrats had just announced …
Doug Windsor / 365gay.com:
FOF Brings 'Ex-Gay' Crusade To Macy's Parade  —  (New York City) Focus on the Family has announced plans to distribute 5,000 balls during Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to promote a website it operates that claims homosexuality is a disorder that can be changed through faith.
John O'Neill / Democracy Project:
John O'Neill on "Kerrying" our soldiers  —  A few minutes after I posted "Cowardly Congressional Snipers" below, John O'Neill and I were on the phone chuckling about how we still think alike 34-years after we first joined to bring truth to John Kerry's lies.  John has a great op-ed in today's New York Sun, "Summer Soldiers."
LBF / Left Brain Female in a Right Brain World:
Carnival of Liberty XXI  —  Wow!  Hard to believe how quickly this year has flown - here it is Thanksgiving already!  Well, if you need some fodder for conversation around the turkey table that is sure to generate lively discussion, you've come to the right place.
Jacob Gershman / New York Sun:
At Columbia, an Invitation to a Night of Nakedness  —  An invitation to an all-night party at an undisclosed location is spreading among Columbia University's student body with viral intensity.  —  "Compadres," the e-mail states, "join us in refusing to comply with a culture that tells us to hide our body …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
PJM Death Pool:
The Death Pool  —  Pajamas Media, née Open Source Media, née Pajamas Media, nee Tulips Advertising, have we come to this?  A death pool?  Well, this blog is proof of it.  So far, many have expressed their displeasure with the project at virtually every stage of its organization …
Steve Clemons:
"A Man for All Seasons": I Give the Devil Benefit of Law for My Own Safety's Sake  —  Yesterday evening, I went to another in a series of dinners and movies hosted by Margaret Carlson, Washington political commentator and Editor-at-Large of The Week Magazine, and this relatively new newsy weekly, The Week.
Discussion: Sirotablog

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U.S. seen vulnerable to space 'pulse' attack
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Discussion: Scared Monkeys
OSM:
Excuse us while we change back into our pajamas
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Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
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