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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.
Hindrocket / Power Line:   THE TIMES CAN'T DEFINE A "WHISTLEBLOWER," BUT IT KNOWS ONE WHEN IT SEES ONE
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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Scott Shane / New York Times:
Report Questions Legality of Briefings on Surveillance  —  WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 - A legal analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service concludes that the Bush administration's limited briefings for Congress on the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping without warrants are "inconsistent with the law."
Discussion: IntoxiNation-News …
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Gore's Challenge  —  Former vice president Al Gore has turned himself into a one-man grand jury, ready to indict the Bush administration for any number of crimes against the Constitution.  Whether you agree with Gore's conclusions or not, the speech that the 2000 Democratic nominee …
New York Times:
U.S. Raid Killed Qaeda Leaders, Pakistanis Say  —  PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jan. 18 - Two senior members of Al Qaeda and the son-in-law of its No. 2 leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, were among those killed in the American airstrikes in remote northeastern Pakistan last week, two Pakistani officials said here on Wednesday.
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ThreatsWatch.Org:
al-Qaeda Commanders al-Magrabi and Habib killed in Damadola
ABCNEWS:
U.S. Strike Killed Al Qaeda Bomb Maker
Louis Charbonneau / Reuters:
Iran scorns EU trio's draft nuclear resolution  —  BERLIN (Reuters) - EU powers began circulating a draft resolution on Wednesday for a February 2 meeting of the U.N. nuclear watchdog asking it to report Iran to the Security Council, but Russia was seeking moves that stopped short of a formal referral.
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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. …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Confirm Them
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Democrats Urge Strategic 'No' Votes on Alito
Discussion: TalkLeft
Howard Mintz / Mercury News:
Feds after Google data  —  RECORDS SOUGHT IN U.S. QUEST TO REVIVE PORN LAW  —  The Bush administration on Wednesday asked a federal judge to order Google to turn over a broad range of material from its closely guarded databases.  —  The move is part of a government effort to revive …
Washington Post:
Diplomats Will Be Shifted to Hot Spots  —  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday that she will shift hundreds of Foreign Service positions from Europe and Washington to difficult assignments in the Middle East, Asia and elsewhere as part of a broad restructuring of the diplomatic corps …
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.
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New York Times:
In 'Design' vs. Darwinism, Darwin Wins Point in Rome  —  ROME, Jan. 18 - The official Vatican newspaper published an article this week labeling as "correct" the recent decision by a judge in Pennsylvania that intelligent design should not be taught as a scientific alternative to evolution.
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Democrats Unveil Lobbying Curbs  —  As Party Escalates Reform Push, GOP Calls Scandal Bipartisan  —  Congressional Democrats yesterday laid out a plan to change what they called a GOP "culture of corruption" in Washington, even as Republicans pointed to ethics lapses on their antagonists' side of the aisle.
Associated Press:
Obama Backs Clinton's Criticism of GOP  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Barack Obama and other black Democrats are defending Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's description of the House of Representatives as a "plantation."  First lady Laura Bush says Clinton's remark was "ridiculous."
Michelle Malkin:
HALEIGH WANTS TO LIVE  —  This is Haleigh Poutre:  —  Last fall, Haleigh was hospitalized after her stepfather allegedly burned her and beat her nearly to death with a baseball bat.  Haleigh, in a coma, was kept alive by a feeding tube and ventilator.  Doctors said she was "virtually brain dead" …
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.
Debbie Schlussel:
Interested in Opposing Today's ACLU NSA Lawsuit? . . .  You've no doubt heard that, today, the ACLU—and assorted other enemies of America—filed a lawsuit against the government for NSA "spying" (interesting that there was no such lawsuit when Bill Clinton was doing the same thing—Remember "Echelon" and "Carnivore"?).

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