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Scott Shields / MyDD:
Smearing Harry Reid  —  Checking the latest headlines at Yahoo! News a few minutes ago, I was shocked to read that "Reid Aided Abramoff Clients, Records Show."  Immediately, I clicked on it to get the story.  My first impression was that, unless I wanted to be a complete and total hypocrite …
MSNBC:
Abramoff says Bush met, even joked, with him  —  Statement follows White House claim that president does not know lobbyist  —  WASHINGTON - Jack Abramoff said in correspondence made public Thursday that President Bush met him "almost a dozen" times, disputing White House claims Bush …
Murray Waas / nationaljournal.com:
Cheney 'Authorized' Libby to Leak Classified Information  —  Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, testified to a federal grand jury that he had been "authorized" by Cheney and other White House "superiors" in the summer of 2003 to disclose classified information …
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Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:   Comey Asked by Specter to Testify Before Judiciary Committee
Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:   Will the Comey-to-Margolis Handoff Hold?
White House:
President Discusses Progress in War on Terror to National Guard  —  Washington, D.C.  —  In Focus: National Security  —  In Focus: Defense  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thanks for that warm welcome.  I'm delighted to be here with the men and women of the National Guard Association of the United States.
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Associated Press:
Bush: Al Qaeda attack on West Coast thwarted  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush said the U.S.-led global war on terror has "weakened and fractured" al Qaeda and allied groups, outlining as proof new details about the multinational cooperation that foiled purported terrorist plans to fly …
John / AMERICAblog:
Wash Times: 1) Bush is spying on American-American phone calls IN THE US; 2) Known Al Qaeda agents are running free inside US; 3) Spy program useless  —  by John in DC - 2/09/2006 12:22:00 PM  —  It's hard to overstate the significance of this article in the Washington Times' magazine.
MSNBC:
Bush highlights foiled 2002 L.A. terror plot  —  Mayor says White House didn't inform city of threat … MSNBC TV  —  MSNBC staff and news service reports  —  WASHINGTON - Seeking to justify his tactics in the war on terrorism, President Bush on Thursday disclosed new details …
Discussion: Fox News and The Daily Nightly
Associated Press:
Ex-FEMA chief: I may tell all about Katrina  —  Michael Brown asks White House if they want him to stay quiet  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Former disaster agency chief Michael Brown is indicating he is ready to reveal his correspondence with President Bush and other officials during Hurricane Katrina unless …
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Andrew C. Revkin / New York Times:
NASA Aide Who Resigned Over Warming Offers Defense  —  George C. Deutsch, the young NASA press aide who resigned on Tuesday in the center of a storm over claims that he had tried to keep keep the agency's top climate scientist from speaking publicly about global warming, defended himself today in his first public interviews.
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
A Catch-22 for the Administration  —  (updated below)  —  This article by The Washington Post's Dan Eggen (who, as I've said before, has been one of the best journalists by far covering this story) analyzes one of the truly inexplicable aspects of the Administration's rationale …
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Reuters:
Anti-war mom Sheehan will not run for Senate  —  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Cindy Sheehan, the anti-Iraq war activist whose son was killed in the conflict there, put an end to speculation on Thursday that she would launch a long-shot bid to become a U.S. senator from California.
Discussion: PunditGuy
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Joe Garofoli / San Francisco Chronicle:
Sheehan won't run against Feinstein
Discussion: protein wisdom
Bill Theobald / gallatinnewsexaminer.com:
Hastert, Frist said to rig bill for drug firms  —  Frist denies protection was added in secret  —  WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and House Speaker Dennis Hastert engineered a backroom legislative maneuver to protect pharmaceutical companies from lawsuits, say witnesses to the pre-Christmas power play.
Garance Franke-Ruta / TAPPED:
INTELLECTUAL ARM CANDY.  Ezra, riffing off an item on Judith Warner's Times Select blog about "assortative mating," notes on one of his other blogs that the Dowdian idea that men prefer to date their intellectual inferiors doesn't hold water in his circle of people in their early 20's:
The Anchoress:
NY Times illustrates cartoon story  —  Faced with an ethical dilemma, the New York Times has chosen to illustrate a report on the so-called Cartoon Wars with an image which is offensive to some with religious sensibilities.  —  The picture they have chosen is Chris Ofili's portrait of of the Virgin Mary, painted with elephant dung.
Media Matters for America:
After Fox edited out applause following Lowery's remarks at King funeral, Kondracke expressed surprise at audience's muted reaction … The February 8 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume featured an edited video clip of civil rights leader Rev. Joseph Lowery's address …
Karen W. Arenson / New York Times:
Panel Explores Standard Tests for Colleges  —  A higher education commission named by the Bush administration is examining whether standardized testing should be expanded into universities and colleges to prove that students are learning and to allow easier comparisons on quality.
Discussion: Eduwonk.com, TAPPED and Bitch Ph.D.
Lizette Alvarez / New York Times:
Army Effort to Enlist Hispanics Draws Recruits, and Criticism  —  DENVER — As Sgt. First Class Gavino Barron, dressed in a crisp Army uniform, trawls the Wal-Mart here for recruits, past stacks of pillows and towers of detergent, he is zeroing-in on one of the Army's "special missions" …

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