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Elliot Spagat / Associated Press:
Calif. Congressman Admits Taking Bribes  —  Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy and tax charges and tearfully resigned from office, admitting he took $2.4 million in bribes to steer defense contracts to conspirators.  —  Cunningham, 63, entered pleas …
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Elliot Spagat / Associated Press:
Calif. Congressman Pleads Guilty  —  SAN DIEGO — Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy and tax charges involving the sale of his home two years ago to a defense contractor at an inflated price.  —  Admitting to a judge that he took bribes, Cunningham entered pleas …
sandiegotribune.com:
Cunningham pleads guilty to conspiring to take bribes, income tax evasion  —  SAN DIEGO - Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham pleaded guilty Monday morning to conspiring to take bribes in exchange for using his influence to help a defense contractor get business.  —  He also pleaded guilty to one count of income tax evasion.
Discussion: Bradford Plumer and The RCP Blog
Maria Newman / New York Times:
Congressman Resigns After Admitting He Took Bribes  —  Representative Randy Cunningham of California resigned from Congress today after admitting to a federal judge that he had taken $2.4 million in bribes from a military contractor.  —  Mr. Cunningham, 63, made a brief and tearful announcement …
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Daily Pundit
Tony Perry / Los Angeles Times:
Rep. Randy 'Duke' Cunningham to Plead Guilty to Tax Violations
San Diego Union-Tribune:
Cunningham pleads guilty, resigns from Congress
Discussion: Wonkette
San Diego Union-Tribune:
Duke Cunningham timeline
Discussion: The Fix and The Left Coaster
Associated Press:
Congressman Resigns, Admitting He Took Bribes
Discussion: Preemptive Karma
rawstory.com:
Testimony from Rove's former assistant may solidify case that he misled leak inquiry, lawyers say  —  Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald will present evidence to a second grand jury this week in his two year-old investigation into the outing of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson …
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ReddHedd / firedoglake:
I Call Partial Mulligan...
Discussion: The Next Hurrah
Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
Loose Lipped Luskin and the Sinking Ship Rove
Discussion: TalkLeft and Booman Tribune ~ Boo!
Sharon Behn / Washington Times:
Ramsey Clark arrives in Baghdad  —  BAGHDAD — Ramsey Clark, the former U.S. Attorney General and antiwar activist, arrived here yesterday and was expected to try to show up at the reopening of Saddam Hussein's trial in Baghdad today, but a U.S. government official warned that he was not officially registered with the court.
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Seymour M. Hersh / New Yorker:
UP IN THE AIR  —  Where is the Iraq war headed next?  —  In recent weeks, there has been widespread speculation that President George W. Bush, confronted by diminishing approval ratings and dissent within his own party, will begin pulling American troops out of Iraq next year.
citizensforethics.org:
CREW FILES IRS COMPLAINT AGAINST JAMES DOBSON'S FOCUS ON THE FAMILY  —  Washington, DC - Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) today filed an Internal Revenue Services (IRS) complaint against Focus on the Family, a conservative, non-profit organization led by its Founder and Chairman James C. Dobson.
Lillian Swift / Telegraph:
Iran's war on weblogs - the new voice of dissidents  —  Iran is fighting a constant battle against dissenters who are using the internet to voice criticism of the Islamic Republic and to push for freedom and democracy.  —  With the closure of most independent newspapers and magazines in Iran …
Washington Post:
Lavish Spending, Little Reward  —  D.C. Agencies Gave Contractor Millions for Projects but Scant Oversight  —  Archie Prioleau's finances were in shambles when District officials entrusted him with $1.7 million in grants in 1998.  His mission was to outfit a state-of-the-art computer center …
Discussion: Hugh Hewitt, Wonkette and Cafe Hayek
New York Sun:
Frank Rich's War  —  Those who charge President Bush and Vice President Cheney with lying to get America involved in the war in Iraq, as the New York Times columnist Frank Rich did yesterday, have a special obligation to get the truth correct themselves.  It's one thing for Mr. Rich to disagree …
John J. Miller / New York Times:
The Very Foundation of Conservatism  —  Washington — "Please give me a date," William E. Simon used to ask the industrialist John M. Olin years ago, when the two men discussed Mr. Olin's desire to have his charitable foundation go out of business at some point in the future.
Associated Press:
Marble chunk falls from Supreme Court facade  —  'All of a sudden, these blocks started falling'  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A basketball-sized piece of marble molding fell from the facade over the entrance to the Supreme Court Monday, landing on the steps near visitors waiting to enter the building.

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