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ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: Sources Tell ABC News Top Al Qaeda Figures Held in Secret CIA Prisons  —  10 Out of 11 High-Value Terror Leaders Subjected to 'Enhanced Interrogation Techniques'  —  Dec. 5, 2005 — Two CIA secret prisons were operating in Eastern Europe until last month when they were shut …
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Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
CIA Ruse Is Said to Have Damaged Probe in Milan  —  Italy Allegedly Misled on Cleric's Abduction  —  MILAN — In March 2003, the Italian national anti-terrorism police received an urgent message from the CIA about a radical Islamic cleric who had mysteriously vanished from Milan a few weeks before.
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Rice Defends Tactics Used Against Suspects  —  Europe Aware of Operations, She Implies  —  BERLIN, Dec. 6 — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, seeking to dampen a furor in Europe over the CIA's secret detention and transport of suspected terrorists on European soil …
Joel Brinkley / New York Times:
U.S. Interrogations Are Saving European Lives, Rice Says  —  BERLIN, Dec. 5 - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice chastised European leaders on Monday, saying that before they complain about secret jails for terror suspects in European nations, they should realize that interrogations …
Washington Post:
A Weak Defense  —  IN AN ATTEMPT to quell a growing storm …
Discussion: Obsidian Wings and Liberty Street
Matthias Gebauer / service.spiegel.de:
Berlin's Silence for Washington
Washington Post:
Felony Charge Is Upheld for DeLay  —  But Election Code Conspiracy Count Is Dismissed  —  A Texas judge yesterday dismissed on legal grounds an indictment of former House majority leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) for conspiring with aides to violate the state's election law in 2002 …
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New York Times:
Texas Judge Lets Stand 2 of 3 Charges Against DeLay  —  HOUSTON, Dec. 5 - A Texas judge dismissed one charge against Representative Tom Delay on Monday but let stand two more serious charges, complicating Mr. DeLay's hopes of regaining his post as House majority leader when Congress resumes in January.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
CNN:
Poll: DeLay faces political woes at home
Discussion: Burnt Orange Report
David Stout / New York Times:
Judge Upholds Most Serious Charges Against DeLay
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Terrible News For Tom DeLay
Discussion: TalkLeft
April Castro / Associated Press:
DeLay's Money Laundering Charges Upheld
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
Jim Forsyth / woai.com:
Dean: US Won't Win in Iraq  —  (SAN ANTONIO) — Saying the "idea that we're going to win the war in Iraq is an idea which is just plain wrong," Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean predicted today that the Democratic Party will come together on a proposal to withdraw National Guard …
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Reliapundit / THE ASTUTE BLOGGER:
HOWARD DEAN IS A MISINFORMED, LYING DEFEATIST TRAITOR
Discussion: Blogs for Bush
John F. Burns / New York Times:
Defending Hussein, Clark Seeks to Set Historical Record Straight  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 5 - Amid the wrenching testimony of a survivor who told of the atrocities wrought by Saddam Hussein's secret police, the presence of a former American attorney general on Mr. Hussein's defense team …
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Robert F. Worth / New York Times:   Hussein Is Fiery Again in Unruly Court Session
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
With Abysmal GPA, Government Fails to Make Kean's List  —  Thomas H. Kean, the former chairman of the 9/11 commission, sounded like the parent confronting his bright but lazy child.  —  "Look at this report card!" he demanded.  "There are too many C's, D's and F's in this report card!"
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Timothy Williams / New York Times:
9/11 Panel Calls U.S. Response 'Disappointing'
William Yardley / New York Times:
Weicker May Return to Politics Over Lieberman's Support of War  —  HARTFORD, Dec. 5 - Former Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. on Monday criticized Senator Joseph I. Lieberman's continued support of the war in Iraq and said that if no candidate challenged the senator on the issue in the 2006 election, he would consider running.
Wesley K. Clark / New York Times:
The Next Iraq Offensive  —  WHILE the Bush administration and its critics escalated the debate last week over how long our troops should stay in Iraq, I was able to see the issue through the eyes of America's friends in the Persian Gulf region.  The Arab states agree on one thing …
Hotline On Call:
DC Sex Scandal About To Break?  —  Sometimes we read too many political clips and overlook some amazing things staring us in the face.  Among those in Monday's edition, this little factoid, culled from Sunday's San Diego Union-Tribune blockbuster digging deeper into the Duke Cunningham's relationship with …
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Craig S. Smith / New York Times:
Raised as Catholic in Belgium, She Died as a Muslim Bomber  —  MONCEAU-SUR-SAMBRE, Belgium, Dec. 5 - Muriel Degauque, believed to be the first European Muslim woman to stage a suicide attack, started out life as a good Roman Catholic girl in this coal mining corner of Belgium known as the black country.
BBC:
CCTV staff 'spied on naked woman'  —  Two council workers used CCTV cameras to spy on a woman as she undressed for a bath, a court has heard.  —  But the men were themselves caught on a camera monitoring Sefton Council's CCTV control room, Liverpool Crown Court was told.
Discussion: Samizdata.net
New York Times:
Verizon to Halt Pension Outlay for Managers  —  Verizon Communications, the nation's second-largest telephone company, said yesterday that it would freeze the guaranteed pension plan covering 50,000 of its managers and expand their 401(k) plans instead.  —  In freezing the plan …
Discussion: NathanNewman.org
Mickey Kaus / Slate:
Murtha of All Contradictions  —  Is it too much to ask him to get his story straight?  —  Pssst: Don't look now—Bush seems to be reviving among the robots. ...  Murtha vs. Murtha: Rep. Murtha on the prospects of an Iraqi civil war: … Continue Article  —  Rep. Murtha on whether the Iraqis will throw us out:
Discussion: USS Neverdock
White House:
President Discuses Economy and Tax Relief in North Carolina  —  John Deere-Hitachi Construction Machinery Corporation  —  Fact Sheet: President Bush's Agenda for Economic Growth  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thanks for having me.  Thanks for letting me come by to John Deere-Hitachi.  I'm here to talk about our economy.

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