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New York Times:
Bush Secretly Lifted Some Limits on Spying in U.S. After 9/11, Officials Say  —  WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 ­- Months after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States to search for evidence …
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John F. Burns / New York Times:
Freedom From Fear Lifts Sunnis  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 15 - Ali is only 9 years old.  But when he and his buddies broke away from a street soccer game to drop into a polling station in Baghdad's Adhamiya district at noon on Thursday, Ali, a chirpy, tousle-haired youngster …
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CNN:
Iraqi polls extend hours as turnout high  —  'It's the beginning of our new life' … BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Iraqis turned out in droves Thursday to elect their first full-term parliament since the ouster of Saddam Hussein.  —  Turnout was so heavy across the country that the Independent …
Reuters:
Big turnout in Iraq election as Sunnis vote  —  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Undeterred by scattered violence, Iraqis voted in overwhelming numbers in an election on Thursday, with minority Sunni Arabs who boycotted the last poll determined not to miss out on power again.
Jonathan S. Landay / Knight Ridder:
Congress doesn't see same intelligence as president, report finds  —  WASHINGTON - President Bush and top administration officials have access to a much broader ranger of intelligence reports than members of Congress do, a nonpartisan congressional research agency said in a report Thursday …
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Katherine Shrader / Associated Press:
Senator stalls intelligence spending bill
Matt Pottinger / Opinion Journal:
Mightier Than the Pen  —  Why I gave up journalism to join the Marines.  —  When people ask why I recently left The Wall Street Journal to join the Marines, I usually have a short answer.  It felt like the time had come to stop reporting events and get more directly involved.
Brian Knowlton / New York Times:
Bush and McCain Reach Deal on Treatment of Terror Suspects  —  WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 - The White House, after weeks of resistance, agreed today to Senator John McCain's call for a law specifically banning cruel or inhuman treatment of terror suspects anywhere in the world.
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Jay / Stop The ACLU:
McCain, Bush Agree On Torture Ban, Still Not Good Enough for ACLU
njdc.org:
Breaking News: GOP House Top Priority?  Christmas Vote!  —  War in Iraq, war against terrorism, war in Afghanistan, move over — today, House GOP leaders have decided there is a more pressing war to attend to: the fictional war against Christmas, which apparently requires protection for Christmas symbols.
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Zoe Kentucky / Demagogue:
Political Poetry  —  Last night Congressman John Dingell …
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Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
Feingold Now Has Numbers on His Side  —  WASHINGTON - In Congress, where numbers are everything, the math on the Patriot Act suddenly seems to be moving in favor of Sen. Russell Feingold.  —  He was a minority of one four years ago, when the Wisconsin Democrat cast the lone Senate vote …
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
In Iran, Arming for Armageddon  —  Lest you get carried away with today's good news from Iraq, consider what's happening next door in Iran.  The wild pronouncements of the new Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have gotten sporadic press ever since he called for Israel to be wiped off the map.
Discussion: Mark in Mexico
New York Times:
N.Y. Transit Union Rejects Offer and Will Begin Limited Strike  —  After five hours of intense negotiations with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the transit workers' union decided this morning to delay for four days a decision on whether to strike the New York City subway and bus system …
Joyce Howard Price / Washington Times:
Students sue for tuition parity with California illegals  —  Students from 19 states yesterday filed a class-action lawsuit seeking hundreds of millions of dollars from California officials for charging them significantly more than illegal aliens pay to attend state-run colleges.
John Harwood / Wall Street Journal:
Republicans Risk Losing Key Voting Bloc  —  Senior Citizens' Unhappiness With Issues  —  Has Implications for Midterm Elections  —  WASHINGTON - While President Bush has high hopes for today's elections in Iraq, his Republican Party faces a different challenge at home …
Discussion: MyDD and The Sideshow
Peter Savodnik / The Hill:
Dean still gives Dems heartburn  —  Democrats are voicing concern that Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Howard Dean is compromising his party's political prospects by straying on to controversial policy turf such as the Iraq war and Social Security reform.
Kevin / SoCalPundit:
Liberal Blogs Choose Silence On Iraq Elections  —  I guess the liberal blogs have taken grandmother's advice and, having nothing nice to say have said nothing at all.  The Daily Kos and Talking Points Memo have stories about all kinds of alleged Republican malfeasance but nary a single post on the historic elections in Iraq.
CNN:
Official: Al-Zarqawi caught, released  —  Authorities didn't realize prisoner was terrorist mastermind  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Iraqi security forces caught the most wanted man in the country last year, but released him because they didn't know who he was, the Iraqi deputy minister of interior said Thursday.

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