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Washington Post:
Pushing the Limits Of Wartime Powers  —  In his four-year campaign against al Qaeda, President Bush has turned the U.S. national security apparatus inward to secretly collect information on American citizens on a scale unmatched since the intelligence reforms of the 1970s.
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Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
The Revolution will be blogged, 8 (UPDATED)  —  The Democratic spin doctors, spurred on by their disingenuous Congressional taskmasters , are all over the tube this morning trying to gin up additional outrage over this NSA domestic "spy story"—even as the President stands firm and defends the practice.
Los Angeles Times:
Spying Scandal Draws Heat  —  Lawmakers call on Bush to explain his post-9/11 order allowing a secret agency to monitor U.S. citizens without first getting a warrant.  —  WASHINGTON — Members of Congress demanded Friday that President Bush and his administration explain his decision to permit …
Discussion: War and Piece and The Left Coaster
Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:
Bush Defends Secret Spying in the U.S.
Judd / Think Progress:
Yesterday, Bush Said Confirming NYT Story …
Right Wing Nut House:
WHO LEAKED?
BBC:
Powell raps Europe on CIA flights  —  Ex-US Secretary of State Colin Powell has indicated that Europeans are being disingenuous when they deny knowledge of the rendition of terror suspects.  —  Mr Powell said the recently highlighted practice of moving people to places where they are not covered …
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Herald Sun:
White House 'never told' of WMD doubts  —  THE US administration was never told of doubts about the secret intelligence used to justify war with Iraq, former secretary of state Colin Powell told the BBC in an interview to be broadcast on Sunday night.  —  Mr Powell, who argued the case …
Mark / Mark in Mexico:
Now Colin Powell comes out swinging  —  In a stunning statement during an interview on the BBC, Colin Powell says that the White House was never told of doubts about WMD intelligence by the CIA. … While admitting that he had been bypassed on occasion by some of the White House hawks …
iranvajahan.net:
Iran President's Bodyguard Dies in Ambush  —  Tehran, Iran — One of the bodyguards of Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was killed and another wounded when an attempt to ambush the presidential motorcade was thwarted in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, according to a semi-official newspaper and local residents.
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Houston Chronicle:
TV: Bandits Kill Iranian President's Guard
Discussion: Secular Blasphemy
Patricia Sullivan / Washington Post:
Investigative Journalist Jack Anderson, 83, Dies  —  Pulitzer-Prize Winner Exposed Corruption in Washington in His Decades-Long Column  —  Jack N. Anderson, 83, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who for years was America's most widely read newspaper columnist, died Dec. 17 at his Bethesda home.
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Murray Waas / whatever already!:   Former columnist and muckracker Jack Anderson has died.
Ezra Klein:
FISA  —  On the wiretapping, I want to be crystal clear on one issue: the issue here isn't the espionage, it's the secrecy.  Of course law enforcement agencies will need to gather intelligence on domestic elements.  They do it to drug dealers, mob bosses, militia men, and gang lords.
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CNN:
THE SITUATION ROOM  —  Spying on Americans wihout Court Approval; Burbank Airplane Incident; Morgan Freeman on Black History Month; Howard Stern Signs Off  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.  —  WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: Thanks very much, Kitty.
Los Angeles Times:
Planted PR Stories Not News to Military  —  U.S. officials in Iraq knew that a contractor was paying local papers.  Discretion was the key.  —  WASHINGTON — U.S. military officials in Iraq were fully aware that a Pentagon contractor regularly paid Iraqi newspapers to publish positive stories …
Discussion: AMERICAblog and Liberty Street
New York Times:
Louisiana's Deadly Storm Took Strong as Well as the Helpless  —  NEW ORLEANS - More than 100 of them drowned.  Sixteen died trapped in attics.  More than 40 died of heart failure or respiratory problems, including running out of oxygen.  At least 65 died because help - shelter, water or a simple dose of insulin - came too late.
Discussion: Mia Culpa and The Mahablog
Philip P. Pan / Washington Post:
Chinese Evade Censors To Discuss Police Assault  —  HONG KONG, Dec. 16 — At first glance, it looked like a spirited online discussion about an essay written nearly 80 years ago by modern China's greatest author.  But then again, the exchange on a popular Chinese bulletin board site seemed a bit emotional, given the subject.
Discussion: The Peking Duck and Crooked Timber
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Bush's Fumbles Spur New Talk of Oversight on Hill  —  After a series of embarrassing disclosures, Congress is reconsidering its relatively lenient oversight of the Bush administration.  —  Lawmakers have been caught by surprise by several recent reports, including the existence …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Abby Goodnough / New York Times:
Tensions Rise as More Flee Cuba for U.S.  —  MIAMI, Dec. 17 - The number of Cubans intercepted at sea while trying to reach the United States is at its highest level since tens of thousands took to the Florida Straits on makeshift rafts and in small boats in the 1994 exodus sanctioned by President Fidel Castro.
Discussion: EU Rota
Associated Press:
AP: Frist AIDS Charity Paid Consultants  —  WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's AIDS charity paid nearly a half-million dollars in consulting fees to members of his political inner circle, according to tax returns providing the first financial accounting of the presidential hopeful's nonprofit.

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