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Washington Post:
ALBERTO GONZALES, U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL — SPECTER: It's 9:30. The Judiciary Committee will now proceed with our hearing on the administration's program administered by the National Security Agency on surveillance. — We welcome the attorney general of the United States here today, who will be testifying.
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Washington Post:
U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Holds a Hearing on Wartime Executive Power and the National Security Agency's Surveillance Authority — The transcript picks up with the testimony of Senator Herb Kohl. Return to Part I. — Senator Kohl? — KOHL: Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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Decision '08, The Volokh Conspiracy, This Modern World, The Huffington Post and Sister Toldjah
William Branigin / Washington Post:
Gonzales Defends Legality of Surveillance — Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales told a Senate committee today that a controversial surveillance program is "lawful in all respects" and that President Bush launched it under authority from both the Constitution and U.S. law.
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Right Wing Nut House, the talking dog, The Heretik, All Things Beautiful and BrothersJudd Blog
Jay / Stop The ACLU:
ACLU Welcomes Senate Inquiry Into Warrantless NSA Spying Program With Full Page Propaganda — The ACLU are running this full page ad in conjunction with today's Senate hearings over the NSA. … To heck with any evidence! Mr. Romero says that Bush is already guilty …
David Stout / New York Times:
Defense of Eavesdropping Is Met With Skepticism in Senate — WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 — Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales told skeptical senators today that the Bush administration's domestic eavesdropping program is legal, constitutional and vital to national security in a time of terrorism.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:In Quizzing a Reticent Gonzales, Senators Encounter a Power Shortage
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:Spying and Lying: A Winning Issue for Dems... If They Stay Strong
Deacon / Power Line:
SCOOPED BY MY OWN PARTNER — As John mentioned, this morning Senator Durbin met the new media and, more specifically, "Pajama Line." This occurred because I had the good fortune of accompanying filmmaker Andrew Marcus of Pajamas Media to the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the legality of the NSA intercept program.
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Mark Tapscott / tapscottscopydesk.blogspot.com:
Betcha Durbin Knows About Pajamas Media Now! (And Don't Miss Update V on an AP Schools Story) — Capitol Hill is buzzing with talk of a news conference earlier today in which Powerline's Paul Mirengoff was pushing some hard questions at Sen. Teddy Kennedy, D-MA, and Sen. Richard Durbin …
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Michelle Malkin
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Hilarious: Pajamaline — First of all Power Line is not part of Pajamas Media as far as I know. (I believe they are part of the Blog News Service of PM) Durbin reacts to Mirengoff's parroting of Karl Rove's talking point. — Video-WMP Video-QT — Atrios:
mccain.senate.gov:
MCCAIN RELEASES LETTER TO OBAMA — Washington D.C. - Today, Senator McCain sent the following letter to Senator Obama regarding ongoing Congressional efforts towards bipartisan lobbying reform. The following is the text from that letter: — The Honorable Barack Obama — United States Senate
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Hotline On Call:
McCain Blasts — And We Mean Blasts — Obama — An outraged Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) today called Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) insincere and partisan, suggesting the Illinois freshman as much as lied in private dicussions the two had about ethics reform last week.
NEWS.com.au:
Iran to publish Holocaust cartoons — IRAN'S largest selling newspaper announced today it was holding a contest on cartoons of the Holocaust in response to the publishing in European papers of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. — "It will be an international cartoon contest about the Holocaust …
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Robin Toner / New York Times:
Holding Fast to a Policy of Tax Cutting — WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 — George W. Bush ran for office as a "compassionate conservative," arguing that Americans did not have to choose between huge tax cuts and a government that would do its part to address social needs like education and health care.
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Democratic Veteran
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Charles Levinson / Christian Science Monitor:
Sunni tribes turn against jihadis — To fight foreign terrorists, US and Iraqi forces are looking to the Sunni Arab resistance. — BAGHDAD - Sheikh Osama al-Jadaan, head of the influential Karabila tribe in Sunni Arab-dominated western Iraq, is more politician than traditional sheikh these days.
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In the Bullpen
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rawstory.com:
Reporter hits McClellan on taps: 'You know what happened to Nixon when he broke the law' — RAW STORY — White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan got in a heated row with a White House correspondent at Monday's press briefing over President Bush's warrantless domestic spying program, RAW STORY has learned.
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:Helen to Scotty: You know what happened to Nixon when he broke the law.
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Suburban Guerrilla
Gateway Pundit:
Danish Imams Busted! ** — Imam Ahmad Abu Laban, the leader of the Islamic Society of Denmark toured the Middle-East to "create awareness" about 12 cartoons that were published in Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, on September 30, 2005. — However, the truth is that Imam Ahmad Abu Laban …
Gerard Baker / Times of London:
New roles take centre stage but old divisions lurk in the wings — Sabre-rattling Europe and emollient US will soon settle down to business as usual — WHEN European and US policymakers, led by Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, and Donald Rumsfeld, the US Defence Secretary …
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A Chequer-Board of Nights …
Charlie Munn / The Officers' Club:
Meanwhile Back in Iran — Iran has cut trade with Denmark, attacked their embassies, their clerics have denounced the IAEA resolution, and have told the IAEA to remove their monitoring equipment from their facilities. — It looks like the Iranians are proceeding full speed ahead …
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Atlas Shrugs
Digby / Hullabaloo:
The Eunuch Caucus — I've been digesting this morning's hearings and I am dumbstruck by the totality of the Republicans' abdication of their duty. These men who spent years running on Madisonian principles ("The essence of government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands …
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firedoglake, TAPPED, The Carpetbagger Report, Running Scared, The Reaction and Factesque
