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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
White House Knew of Levee's Failure on Night of Storm  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 — In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Bush administration officials said they had been caught by surprise when they were told on Tuesday, Aug. 30, that a levee had broken, allowing floodwaters to engulf New Orleans.
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Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press:
Documents: White House Knew About Levees  —  WASHINGTON - The earliest official report of a New Orleans levee breach came at 8:30 a.m., hours after Hurricane Katrina roared ashore.  Word of the possible breach surfaced at the White House less than three hours later, at 11:13 a.m.
CNN:
Brown says he's been made Katrina scapegoat  —  Ex-FEMA chief blames Homeland Security for slow response  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown told a Senate panel Friday that he feels he's been made a scapegoat for the government's sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina.
Discussion: Centerfield
Porter Goss / New York Times:
Loose Lips Sink Spies  —  AT the Central Intelligence Agency, we are more than holding our own in the global war on terrorism, but we are at risk of losing a key battle: the battle to protect our classified information.  —  Judge Laurence Silberman, a chairman of President Bush's commission …
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Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
Ex-Cheney Aide Testified Leak Was Ordered, Prosecutor Says  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 — I. Lewis Libby Jr., the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, told a grand jury that he was authorized by his "superiors" to disclose classified information to reporters about Iraq's weapons capability …
Daniel Henninger / Opinion Journal:
Can We Talk?  —  If al Qaeda phones, tell them we can't take the call.  —  Let's start with the one thing we know for sure about the Bush administration's program to listen to al Qaeda's phone calls into and out of the United States: It's dead.  —  After all the publicity of the past two weeks …
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Libby Testified He Was Told To Leak Data About Iraq
Juan / Informed Comment:   Cheney Authorized Libby to Disclose Classified Documents
Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Patriot Act Compromise Clears Way for Senate Vote  —  Efforts to extend the USA Patriot Act cleared a major hurdle yesterday when the White House and key senators agreed to revisions that are virtually certain to secure Senate passage and likely to win House approval, congressional leaders said.
Discussion: volokh.com and The Heretik
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The Hill:
Small typo, big headache
Discussion: Lean Left and NewDonkey.com
Jim VandeHei / Washington Post:
Cheney Says NSA Spying Should Be an Election Issue
Discussion: Charging RINO and AMERICAblog
Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
GOP reaches Patriot Act deal
Discussion: Hit and Run and Hugh Hewitt
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Former FEMA Director to Testify About Katrina
Discussion: The RCP Blog
New York Times:
Bush Gives New Details of 2002 Qaeda Plot to Attack Los Angeles  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 — President Bush offered new information on Thursday about what he said was a foiled plot by Al Qaeda in 2002 to fly a hijacked airplane into the tallest building west of the Mississippi …
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Curse of the Moderates  —  As much of the Islamic world erupts in a studied frenzy over the Danish Muhammad cartoons, there are voices of reason being heard on both sides.  Some Islamic leaders and organizations, while endorsing the demonstrators' sense of grievance and sharing their outrage …
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Diana West / Washington Times:   Cartoon rage  —  We need to learn a new word: dhimmitude.
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Ex-CIA Official Faults Use of Data on Iraq  —  Intelligence 'Misused' to Justify War, He Says  —  The former CIA official who coordinated U.S. intelligence on the Middle East until last year has accused the Bush administration of "cherry-picking" intelligence on Iraq to justify a decision …
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Paul R. Pillar / Foreign Affairs:
Intelligence, Policy,and the War in Iraq  —  Summary: During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, writes the intelligence community's former senior analyst for the Middle East, the Bush administration disregarded the community's expertise, politicized the intelligence process …
Discussion: Air America Radio and Stygius
Paul Reynolds / BBC:
Bloggers: an army of irregulars  —  World Affairs correspondent, BBC News website  —  For many in the "mainstream media", as bloggers call us, weblogs are at best a nuisance and at worst dangerous.  —  They are seen as the rantings and ravings either of the unbalanced or the tedious.
Discussion: Harry's Place
Washington Post:
Steele Apologizes for Holocaust Remarks  —  Compared Stem Cell Research to Nazi Medical Experiments  —  Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele apologized this morning for telling a Baltimore Jewish group yesterday that he believes stem cell research could be comparable to Nazi medical testing on Jews during World War II.
Antonio Regalado / Wall Street Journal:
Academy to Referee Climate-Change Fight  —  Scientists' Group Agrees  —  To Congressional Request to Study  —  Temperature-History Charting  —  Seeking to resolve a scientific dispute that has taken on a rancorous political edge, the National Academy of Sciences said it had agreed …
Discussion: Decision '08 and Dean's World

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