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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  —  SPECTER: Thank you very much, Senator Cornyn.  —  DURBIN: Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.  —  Thank you, Attorney General, for being here.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
In Quizzing a Reticent Gonzales, Senators Encounter a Power Shortage  —  In an entire day of testimony about the Bush administration's secret wiretapping program, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales recognized the supremacy of congressional authority in precisely one instance: the power to declare a recess.
Discussion: Associated Press and AMERICAblog
William Branigin / Washington Post:
Gonzales Defends Legality of Surveillance
Katherine Shrader / Associated Press:
Gonzales Answers Tough Questions on Spying
Discussion: Say Anything and In the Bullpen
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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Aljazeera:
Iran paper plans Holocaust cartoons  —  Iran's largest selling newspaper has announced it is holding a contest on cartoons of the Holocaust in response to the publishing in European papers of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.  —  "It will be an international cartoon contest about the Holocaust …
Times of London:
Iranian paper launches Holocaust cartoon competition  —  Iran's biggest-selling newspaper has waded into the Muhammad controversy by launching a competition to find the 12 "best" cartoons about the Holocaust.  —  Farid Mortazavi, graphics editor for Tehran's Hamshahri newspaper …
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.
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 …
Discussion: Roger L. Simon and Michelle Malkin
Hindrocket / Power Line:
DURBIN ENCOUNTERS THE NEW MEDIA
Discussion: The World Wide Rant
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 …
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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.
Discussion: In the Bullpen
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W. Thomas Smith, Jr / Townhall.com:
From the frontlines in Iraq — Part II
Discussion: Dean's World and INDC Journal
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.
Discussion: Democratic Veteran
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Joel Havemann / Los Angeles Times:
Bush Budget Plan Strikes Home, Not Deficit
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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Polly Toynbee / Guardian:
No more fantasy diplomacy: cut a deal with the mullahs
Discussion: Harry's Place
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.
Discussion: Suburban Guerrilla
MSNBC:
Because they can  —  If I were the kind of blogger who ran contests, I'd have an essay contest today asking people to write in and explain which of the following two stories is the more perfect representation of the Bush Administration's overall approach to the rest of the world.
Discussion: The Big Picture and Solomonia
Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:
DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR  —  The latest Iraq war urban legend:  —  Several female service members have died of dehydration because they refused to drink liquids late in the day due to fear of being raped by male soldiers if they had to use the women's latrine after dark.
Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff / Washington Post:
Tolerance Toward Intolerance  —  Last week the publication I work for, the German newsweekly Die Zeit, printed one of the controversial caricatures of the prophet Muhammad.  It was the right thing to do.  —  When the cartoons were first published in Denmark in September, nobody in Germany took notice.

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