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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: The RCP Blog
San Diego Union-Tribune:
Cunningham pleads guilty, resigns from Congress  —  SAN DIEGO - Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham resigned from Congress Monday morning after pleading guilty to conspiring to take bribes in exchange for using his influence to help a defense contractor get business.
Discussion: Wonkette
Tony Perry / Los Angeles Times:
Rep. Randy 'Duke' Cunningham to Plead Guilty to Tax Violations
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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David Johnston / New York Times:
Another Time Reporter Is Asked to Testify in Leak Case  —  WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 - A second reporter for Time magazine has been asked to testify under oath in the C.I.A. leak case, about conversations she had in 2004 with a lawyer for Karl Rove, the senior White House adviser, the magazine reported on Sunday.
ReddHedd / firedoglake:
I Call Partial Mulligan...  After quite a bit of late-night e-mailing with Jeralyn, and a subsequent good night's sleep (well, as good as it can get with an early-rising toddler in the house), I've decided that my theory on opening the attorney-client privilege to get to factual information may be fatally flawed.
Discussion: The Next Hurrah
CNN:
Back in court, Hussein hits out at 'occupiers'  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein argued with the judge and complained about Iraq's "occupiers" as his trial for crimes against humanity resumed in a Baghdad court Monday.  —  Hussein, carrying a copy of the Quran under …
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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.
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 …
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.
MTV:
50 Cent  —  50 Cent and Kanye West are the only ones selected to be GQ's "Men of the Year" who have no false modesty about it — both of the hip-hop stars justify their big egos in the mag's pages.  But they also have more on their minds than just themselves.
Discussion: Mark in Mexico
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
WHAT A MESH  —  I've spent the last few days reading Mary Mapes's Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power.  Mapes was of course the producer of the September 8, 2004 60 Minutes II segment attacking President Bush's Air National Guard Service.
Discussion: Shot In The Dark and YARGB
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.

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