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U.S. Strike Killed Al Qaeda Bomb Maker — Terror Big Also Trained 'Shoe Bomber,' Moussaoui — Jan. 18, 2006 — ABC News has learned that al Qaeda's master bomb maker and chemical weapons expert was one of the men killed in last week's U.S. missile attack in eastern Pakistan.
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New York Times:
Inquiry on Clinton Official Ends With Accusations of Cover-Up — WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 - After the longest independent counsel investigation in history, the prosecutor in the case of former Housing Secretary Henry G. Cisneros is finally closing his operation with a scathing report accusing …
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James Gordon Meek / NY Daily News:
Prober blasts Bill — Cites coverup on Cisneros — WASHINGTON - A special prosecutor's long-delayed report charges that a coverup at senior levels of the Clinton administration killed a tax fraud case against ex-cabinet member Henry Cisneros, the Daily News has learned.
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Democrats Unveil Their Own Plan for Rules on Lobbying — WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 - With a stinging attack on Republican ethics, Congressional Democrats today proposed a lobbying overhaul they said far exceeds new Republican proposals in limiting the influence of monied special interests on Capitol Hill.
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Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
An Evening with the Bush Administration's Good Side and A Call for Senator Reid's Tough Side: Navigating Political Rapids As They Are, Not As We'd Like Them To Be — As I have stressed a number of times on TWN, I am not into ideological zealotry — from the right or the left.
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Winds of Change.NET, Booman Tribune, The American Mind, PoliPundit.com and Brad DeLong's Semi …
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:Democrats Unveil Lobbying Curbs
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The Democratic Daily Blog
Simon Jenkins / Guardian:
The west has picked a fight with Iran that it cannot win — Washington's kneejerk belligerence ignores Tehran's influence and the need for subtle engagement — Never pick a fight you know you cannot win. Or so I was told. Pick an argument if you must, but not a fight.
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USS Neverdock, A Daily Briefing on Iran, EU Referendum, Liberty Street, BrothersJudd Blog, TigerHawk and Below The Beltway
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Nasser Karimi / Associated Press:
Rice: No Point in More Iran Negotiations — TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - France, with the support of the United States, rejected Iran's request for more negotiations on the Islamic republic's nuclear program, with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice saying Wednesday "there's not much to talk about" after Iran resumed atomic activities.
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Congressional Agency Questions Legality of Wiretaps — The Bush administration appears to have violated the National Security Act by limiting its briefings about a warrantless domestic eavesdropping program to congressional leaders, according to a memo from Congress's research arm released yesterday.
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Associated Press:
Democratic Senator Endorses Alito — (AP) Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito has the confirmation vote of at least one Senate Democrat but several other Democrats said Wednesday they had lingering questions about the nominee and will vote against him. — Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. …
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Debbie Schlussel:
Who's Behind the ACLU NSA Lawsuit . . . And Why Are They Lying? — You've heard a lot about the ACLU lawsuit since its filing yesterday. — But you haven't heard much about its less famous plaintiffs, plaintiffs with whom I'm all too familiar and about whom I've written a great deal.
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
A Swift-Moving Story — Is Jack Murtha being unfairly Swift-boated? — The left side of the commentariat is up in arms about my piece on a conservative Web site raising questions about the congressman's two Purple Hearts. — Here's the report by the Cybercast News Service: Check it out and reach your own conclusions.
Richard Winton / Los Angeles Times:
Former Teen Idol Garrett Charged With Heroin Possession — Seventies teen idol Leif Garrett was charged this morning with possession of heroin after his arrest in the Pershing Square subway station over the weekend. — Garrett was due to appear in Los Angeles County Superior Court later today.
Dan / danieldrezner.com:
LIBERAL ABSURDITIES ON IRAN — Perusing the liberal blogosphere over the past week, I see a lot of skepticism regarding U.S. policy towards Iran. — Atrios seems convinced the Bushies are planning a reply of how Iraq played in the 2002 elections. — Josh Marshall — with strong endorsements …
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Shakespeare's Sister:
Progressives Still Not Getting It — Shaker Merciless pointed me in the direction of this post by Garance Franke-Ruta at Tapped, which discusses the "Saving Our Democracy" conference scheduled for Jan. 21, described as "a major colloquium to rescue our democracy from the far right" …
White House:
Press Briefing by Scott McClellan — MR. MCCLELLAN: Good afternoon, everyone. I have one announcement to begin with. The President will host Polish President Kaczynski at the White House on February 9th. President Kaczynski is making his first visit to the White House since he assumed the presidency of Poland on December 23rd.
BBC:
Iraq detainees to be freed early — Iraq's ministry of justice has told the BBC that six of the eight women being held by coalition forces in Iraq are to be released early. — The six will be freed because there is insufficient evidence to charge them, a justice ministry spokesman said.
Paul Craig Roberts / lewrockwell.com:
Gore Is Right — Former vice president Al Gore gave what I believe to be the most important political speech in my lifetime, and the New York Times, "the newspaper of record," did not report it. Not even excerpts. — For the New York Times, it was a nonevent that a former vice president …
Associated Press:
Death row elder needed 2 injections — Last words: 'Hoka hey, it's a good day to die' — SAN QUENTIN, California (AP) — In the end, California's oldest condemned inmate did not seem quite as feeble as his attorneys made him out to be in their efforts to save his life.
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Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:
60 MINUTES WITH MURTHA AND ME — Hey come on in! Grab a beer, pull up a chair - you're right on time to watch the 60 Minutes Murtha interview with me. — What? You'd rather go to the Dentist? Fine, click here. — Okay, extra chair now. Sit down, show's on:
Richard Whitmire / The New Republic:
Boy Trouble — It's been a year since Harvard President Larry Summers uttered some unfortunate speculations about why so few women hold elite professorships in the sciences. During Summers's speech, a biologist, overwhelmed by the injustice of it all, nearly collapsed with what George F. Will unkindly described as the vapors.
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The Washington Monthly
