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T. Christian Miller / Los Angeles Times:
Private Security Guards in Iraq Operate With Little Supervision  —  BAGHDAD — Private security contractors have been involved in scores of shootings in Iraq, but none have been prosecuted despite findings in at least one fatal case that the men had not followed proper procedures …
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
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JDZ / Never Yet Melted:
Pouting Spooks Leak Again
Discussion: JustOneMinute and Classical Values
Hilzoy / Obsidian Wings:   Oops; Our Bad.  —  There's a new story about rendition in the Washington Post.
New York Times:
Details Emerge on a Brazen Escape in Afghanistan
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:   SUNDAY'S NEWS....Today, the Washington Post revisits the story …
John Amato / The Huffington Post:
David Corn, I'm Confused  —  I just read your latest on the Huffington Post about your friend Viveca Novak, and I have a couple of questions to ask you (if you don't mind).  —  On Dec. 3rd, you wrote this:  —  Luskin, according to sources close to Viveca Novak, was a longtime source of hers …
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David Corn / The Huffington Post:
The Case of the Second Novak: Nothing To Be Confused About  —  There is nothing for liberal blogger John Amato to be confused about.  —  1. When I wrote on December 2nd that Time's Viveca Novak was a friend of Robert Luskin, Karl Rove's lawyer, I based that on the recent media reports.
Gateway Pundit:
Massive Democracy Protest in Hong Kong  —  THE MASSIVE TURNOUT IS SEEN AS AN EMBARASSMENT TO HONG KONG LEADERS,  —  VIDEO HERE  —  Thousands take to the streets in Hong Kong to protest for democracy.  —  Protesters march as others gather at Victoria Park to demand universal suffrage in Hong Kong December 4, 2005.
James Wolcott:
PAJAMA BOTTOMS (III)  —  With all the kindness in my heart that I could scrape together on short notice, I tried to warn The Nation's David Corn that by lending his name to the blog roster of Pajamas Media, he risked being associated with the worst sort of wharf rats and riffraff.
Discussion: The Poor Man and Eschaton
Zbigniew Brzezinski / Washington Post:
Do These Two Have Anything in Common?  —  President Bush has equated Islamic radicalism with communism.  Is the comparison sound?  Is it wise?  —  In a series of recent speeches to the American people, President Bush has sought to equate the current terrorist threat with the 20th-century menace of communist totalitarianism.
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Cori Dauber / Rantingprofs:
Deep Thinking  —  In a piece in today's Post, President Carter's …
Discussion: Dr. Sanity
Robin Wright / Washington Post:
Democrats Find Iraq Alternative Is Elusive  —  Party's Elite Differ on How to Shift U.S. Policy  —  Around the country, many grass-roots Democrats are clamoring for a quick withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq.  On Capitol Hill, Democratic politicians have grown newly aggressive in denouncing …
Discussion: Sirotablog and Daily Kos
OSM:
Choose now this day whom to trust  —  Professor Peng Hwa Ang of Nanyang Technical University in Singapore is a member of the UN Working Group on Internet Governance and attended the recently concluded World Summit on the Information Society.  You can read more of his opinions on internet governance here and here.
Mike Allen / Time:
Tax Reform: A Balk?  —  President Bush may have drawn cheers at campaign rallies last year by calling the federal income tax code "a complicated mess" and promising to make its "million pages" simpler and fairer.  But H&R Block can breathe easy for another season.
Discussion: MyDD
David Wharton / Los Angeles Times:
USC Bowls Over UCLA  —  The Trojans, looking for an unprecedented third straight championship, will meet the Texas Longhorns on Jan. 4 in a Pasadena showdown.  —  Forget all the hyperbole that swirled around the USC-UCLA football game last week, all the talk of a fierce battle between highly ranked rivals.
Discussion: L.A. Observed
Drudge Report:
SPIELBERG HOPES MOVIE CAN BREAK MID-EAST STALEMATE  —  Steven Spielberg, IN ONLY INTERVIEW WORLDWIDE BEFORE 'MUNICH' RELEASE Discusses CONTROVERSIAL New Film to Open Dec. 23.  —  'There has never been an adequate tribute paid to the Israeli athletes who were murdered in '72,' Spielberg says.
Discussion: The Mechanical Eye and Kesher Talk
BummerDietz / Scylla & Charybdis:
LA Times on Joe Wilson: Over 12 Mistakes in Just 2 Sentences  —  We know that the MSM repeats the mantra that those forged RatherGate memos have not been conclusively proven to be forgeries.  Whatever.  —  Another MSM mantra is that Joseph Wilson has not been conclusively proven to be ... a speaker lacking veracity.
Times of London:
Condi goes on offensive over secret CIA jails  —  Sarah Baxter, Washington and Nicola Smith, Brussels  —  UNDER siege over allegations of secret CIA detention centres in Europe, Condoleezza Rice, the American secretary of state, is to go on the offensive when she meets European allies this week.
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Observer:
Rice rejects EU protests over secret terror prisons
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Credibility Gap  —  A few people have e-mailed me today to tip me to this story in the NY Times about the NSC pollster who wrote the first draft of the president's "victory" speech last week.  —  I try not to do this too much because, well, it's stupid, but I can't help but point out that I've …
Rebecca Weisser / The Australian:
The big black book of horrors  —  WITH the trial of Saddam Hussein under way, those in the God-damn-America camp find themselves uncomfortably wedged.  Should they justify their opposition to the war by downplaying Saddam's crimes while sheeting home blame for the present turmoil to the US and its allies?
Discussion: Biased BBC
Guardian:
'Narnia represents everything that is most hateful about religion'  —  Children won't get the Christian subtext, but unbelievers should keep a sickbag handy during Disney's new epic, writes Polly Toynbee  —  Aslan the lion shakes his mighty mane and roars out across Narnia and eternity.
Chris L. Jenkins / Washington Post:
Allen Gives GOP Reason To Dry Tears  —  Senator Urges Loyalty To Conservative Ideals  —  HOT SPRINGS, Va., Dec. 3 — Sen. George Allen rallied fellow Virginia Republicans to his 2006 reelection campaign Saturday, telling them that he would stand for low taxes, energy independence and opposition to …

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