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10:45 PM ET, April 9, 2006

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Washington Post:
A Good Leak  —  President Bush declassified some of the intelligence he used to decide on war in Iraq.  Is that a scandal?  —  PRESIDENT BUSH was right to approve the declassification of parts of a National Intelligence Estimate about Iraq three years ago in order to make clear why he had believed …
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Does Fred Hiatt Even Read the Washington Post?  —  Update: Folks are gathering over at the post.blog to make their feelings on the subject known.  —  For years now the GOP machine has succeeded in strong-arming the Washington Post into legitimizing their propaganda, dribbling …
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Specter: CIA Leak Roles Must Be Explained  —  WASHINGTON — President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney should speak publicly about their involvement in the CIA leak case so people can understand what happened, a leading Republican senator said Sunday.  —  "We ought to get to the bottom …
Discussion: the talking dog
Newsweek:
The Leaker in Chief?  —  Is he a CEO who stays above the fray?  Or did he give the go-ahead to strike back at critics over prewar intel?  A presidential mystery.  —  Court filings indicate that Libby, right, Cheney's former chief of staff, told a grand jury that Bush, center, had authorized him to leak intelligence information
Doyle McManus / Los Angeles Times:
Controversy May Sap Bush's Credibility  —  His alleged role in the scandal might hurt his image and erode public support for the Iraq war.  —  WASHINGTON — Ever since he began running for president, George W. Bush has told Americans that he is a "plain-spoken man," a leader who would never play games with words.
Eriposte / The Left Coaster:   A Washington Post Editor Caught Brazenly Lying: When is this going to stop?
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
What's Your Definition of Leak?
Discussion: The Next Hurrah and Eschaton
Garry Wills / New York Times:
Christ Among the Partisans  —  THERE is no such thing as a "Christian politics."  If it is a politics, it cannot be Christian.  Jesus told Pilate: "My reign is not of this present order.  If my reign were of this present order, my supporters would have fought against my being turned over to the Jews.
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time.blogs.com:
"Christianism": A Defense
Discussion: Donklephant
Eric / Classical Values:   I CAN LIVE WITHOUT "CHRISTIANISM" (AND COLLUSIONISM. . .)
Martin Peretz / The New Republic:
JOHN KERRY AND JESUS:  —  Continuing his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, John F. Kerry addressed (by telephone) a conference convened by that racist hustler and prevaricator Al Sharpton who won, if I'm not mistaken, exactly one delegate at the party convention in 2004.
Discussion: Decision '08
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Hersh: Bush Plans On War With Iran UsingTactical Nukes (UPDATED)  —  A new, troubling story in the New Yorker from investigative reporter Seymour Hersh — who has had a pretty good track record in recent years — says President George Bush has already made up his mind to go to war with Iran and to use tactical nuclear weapons.
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Michelle Malkin:   SY HERSH: BLOWING U.S. COVER
Ctblogger / ConnecticutBLOG:
Joe Lieberman refuses to rule out independent run  —  Joe Lieberman met with DTC members in Windsor today and was asked a pointed question from Joe Lalli, a good friend of our favorite 17-year old who grilled a Lieberman staff member earlier this week.  —  The question was whether …
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Thirdparty / LamontBlog:
Joe In Windsor: I'll Run as an Independent
Discussion: My Left Nutmeg and Eschaton
Helen Thomas / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Want more Bush?  Elect McCain  —  WASHINGTON — In his bid for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, Sen. John McCain is moving to the right.  —  The Arizona Republican, who failed to win the Republican presidential nomination in 2000, is the most visible Republican on television …
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
No easy answers on immigration conundrum  —  Here's my immigration "compromise": We need to regularize the situation of the 298 million non-undocumented residents of the United States.  Right now, we get a lousy deal compared with the 15 million fine upstanding members of the Undocumented American community.
Discussion: A Blog For All
Lieut. General Greg Newbold / Time:
"Why I Think Rumsfeld Must Go"  —  A military insider sounds off against the war and the "zealots" who pushed it … In 1971, the rock group The Who released the antiwar anthem Won't Get Fooled Again.  To most in my generation, the song conveyed a sense of betrayal by the nation's leaders …
Discussion: MyDD, NewsHog and Dependable Renegade
Hindrocket / Power Line:
READY.  AIM.  SHOOT!  —  Another round of pro-illegal immigration demonstrations is scheduled to take place tomorrow.  One of the groups organizing tomorrow's demonstrations is a Communist organization called International A.N.S.W.E.R. A.N.S.W.E.R., which has championed every tyrant …
Tbogg / ...a somewhat popular blogger:
The ghost of Abner Snopes rides these dusty backroads  —  Scary monsters.  Super freaks  —  Welllll.... I wrote a little post over at Firedoglake last night and it would seem that the object of my inspection has his white robe in a bunch and has a few issues with what I wrote.
Discussion: Donkey Cons and Firedoglake
Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns and Money:
Should We Ban Abortion For Non-Affluent Women?  That Is The Only Question  —  This is, alas, not from a pessimistic feminist sci-fi novel: … What we have in El Salvador, then, is an actually principled forced pregnancy legal regime.  This framework does not have the procedural inequities …
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James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:
Pro-Life Nation  —  The NYT Magazine has a piece by Jack Hitt …
Jill Abramson / New York Times:
When Will We Stop Saying 'First Woman to _____'?  —  IT was the Platonic ideal of the ladies' lunch.  There was chicken salad, parfait and blue Tiffany gift boxes.  There was the first woman president, her friend Louise and, though we did not know it for certain, the first female solo network news anchor.
Time:
Pssst!  Who's behind the decline of politics?  [Consultants.]  —  On the evening of april 4, 1968, about an hour after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Robert F. Kennedy responded with a powerfully simple speech, which he delivered spontaneously in a black neighborhood of Indianapolis.
 
 
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