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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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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.
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 …
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."
Aljazeera:
Bin Laden offers Americans truce  —  In an audio tape broadcast on Aljazeera, Osama bin Laden has warned that al-Qaida was preparing an attack very soon, but also offered Americans a "long-term truce".  —  "The new operations of al-Qaida has not happened not because we could not penetrate the security measures.
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Associated Press:
Bin Laden Warns of Attacks, Offers Truce  —  Al-Jazeera aired an audiotape purportedly from Osama bin Laden on Thursday, saying al-Qaida is making preparations for attacks in the United States but offering a truce to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan.  —  The voice on the tape said heightened security measures …
BBC:
'Bin Laden tape' warns of attacks  —  Arabic TV station al-Jazeera has broadcast an audio tape it says is by the al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden.  —  In it the voice warns that new attacks on the US are being planned, but offers a "long-term truce" to the Americans.
Lee Keath / Associated Press:
Bin Laden Warns of Attacks, Offers Truce  —  CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Jazeera on Thursday broadcast portions of an audiotape purportedly from Osama bin Laden, saying al-Qaida is making preparations for attacks in the United States but offering a possible truce to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan.
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" …
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Patricia Wen / Boston Globe:
Girl in vegetative state reported to improve
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Associated Press:   Court: State can let beaten girl die
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 …
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.
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Democrats Claim a Better Idea on Controlling Lobbying
Elisabeth Rosenthal / New York Times:
When Bad People Are Punished, Men Smile (but Women Don't)  —  ROME, Jan. 18 - In "Don Juan" Lord Byron wrote, "Sweet is revenge - especially to women."  But a study released Wednesday, bolstered by magnetic resonance imaging, suggests that men may be the more natural avengers.
Discussion: JustOneMinute and Loaded Mouth
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Malcolm Ritter / Associated Press:   Study: Men Enjoy Seeing Bad People Suffer
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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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.
Discussion: BlondeSense and Balloon Juice
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 …
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.
Michelle Malkin:
THE GOP LEADERSHIP RACE  —  I'll be listening in on a blogger conference call with Rep. John Shadegg in just a minute.  There are two more calls scheduled later today with Rep. John Boehner and Rep. Blount.  The Corner and Hugh Hewitt's blog have been Grand Central Stations for info on the House GOP leadership race.
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.
BBC:
France 'would use nuclear arms'  —  French President Jacques Chirac has said France would be ready to use nuclear weapons against any state which launched a terrorist attack against it.  —  Speaking at a nuclear submarine base in north-western France, Mr Chirac said a French response "could be conventional.
Discussion: Fausta's Blog
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Elizabeth Pineau / Reuters:
France defends right to nuclear reply to terrorism
Discussion: The Glittering Eye and RedState
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."
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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