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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Review of Port Deal Will Leave Decision to Bush — WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 — The Dubai company seeking to take over some terminal operations at six American ports formally asked the Bush administration on Sunday to conduct a deeper investigation into security concerns surrounding the deal.
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TKS on National Review Online:
AN ORGANIZED DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN ON THE PORT DEAL [02/27 06:16 AM] — My friends, there is an organized disinformation campaign going on in the discussion of the Dubai Ports World deal. Draw whatever conclusions you wish about whether the deal is worthwhile, but please do not buy …
New York Times:
How a Deal Became a Big Liability for G.O.P. — WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 — Representative Peter T. King of New York was in a room packed with reporters last week, complaining that the White House had jeopardized national security by contracting with an Arab-owned company to manage terminals …
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tcsdaily.com:
Give Civil War a Chance — Blogger and TCS contributor Stephen Green argues that civil war in Iraq might not be such a bad thing, noting that, "A civil war is the nastiest way to get a good result." He cites several examples, notably the Thirty Years War, the English Civil War …
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time.blogs.com:
Send Clinton — It appears that Iraq's elites may be pulling back from the brink. Zalmay Khalilzad has another mountain to climb - but, this time, the minds of his interlocutors might have been concentrated a little. We may be at the most critical juncture in the future of Iraq.
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National Review:
A CIA Leak Trial Without the CIA Leak — CIA leak prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald argued at a hearing Friday that, as far as the perjury charges against former Cheney chief of staff Lewis Libby are concerned, it does not matter whether or not Valerie Wilson was a covert CIA agent when she was mentioned …
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Another White House Briefing, Another Day of Mutual Mistrust — Mike McCurry, who was President Bill Clinton's press secretary a decade ago, is kicking himself to this day for ever allowing the White House briefings to be televised live. — "It was a huge error on my part," …
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James Glanz / New York Times:
Army to Pay Halliburton Unit Most Costs Disputed by Audit — The Army has decided to reimburse a Halliburton subsidiary for nearly all of its disputed costs on a $2.41 billion no-bid contract to deliver fuel and repair oil equipment in Iraq, even though the Pentagon's own auditors had identified …
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John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Jihadi Turns Bulldog — The Taliban's former spokesman is now a Yale student. Anyone see a problem with that? — Never has an article made me blink with astonishment as much as when I read in yesterday's New York Times magazine that Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, former ambassador-at-large for the Taliban …
harpers.org:
The Case for Impeachment — Why we can no longer afford George W. Bush … On December 18 of last year, Congressman John Conyers Jr. (D., Mich.) introduced into the House of Representatives a resolution inviting it to form "a select committee to investigate the Administration's intent …
MSNBC:
A tipping point on Islam? — With the Cartoon Wars giving way to the ports imbroglio, Jim Geraghty, blogging from Turkey, wonders if we're seeing a tipping point in Western attitudes toward Islam. Geraghty collects a lot of quotes, and writes of "my sense that in recent weeks …
R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
Texas Nonprofit Is Cleared After GOP-Prompted Audit — Group Says Probe Was 'Political Retaliation' by DeLay Allies — The Internal Revenue Service recently audited the books of a Texas nonprofit group that was critical of campaign spending by former House majority leader Tom DeLay …
Marc Kaufman / Washington Post:
Plan B Battles Embroil States — Filling a void left by the Food and Drug Administration's inability to decide whether to make the "morning-after" pill available without a prescription, nearly every state is or soon will be wrestling with legislation that would expand or restrict access to the drug.
LAW.com:
Harvard conference — Law professor blogging is such a hot topic that a confab of faculty members from across the country will meet at Harvard Law School in April for a two-day symposium focusing on how blogs are transforming legal scholarship. — "It's a whole different kind of animal," Caron said.
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
German Intelligence Gave U.S. Iraqi Defense Plan, Report Says — WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 — Two German intelligence agents in Baghdad obtained a copy of Saddam Hussein's plan to defend the Iraqi capital, which a German official passed on to American commanders a month before the invasion …
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Alexandra von Maltzan / All Things Beautiful:
Storm The White House — I just have one thing to say: Hahahahahahaha: … If this fails, go to Plan A and then Plan B. Yeah right. As I said before "If you believe in nothing you'll fall for anything" — Haven't had such a good laugh for a long time.....Thanks Michelle.
Lori Aratani / Washington Post:
Students Call for Banning of Peace Studies Class — Bethesda-Chevy Chase High Protesters Say That Teachings Are Skewed — For months, 17-year-old Andrew Saraf had been troubled by stories he was hearing about a Peace Studies course offered at his Bethesda high school.
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