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12:40 AM ET, April 10, 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
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
What Is Happening At The WaPo?
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
WaPo Shocker: Editorial Supports President Bush on Recent Leak Allegations
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Eriposte / The Left Coaster:   A Washington Post Editor Caught Brazenly Lying: When is this going to stop?
Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:   Washington Post Editorial Supports President Bush on Supposed Plame …
Newsweek:
The Leaker in Chief?  —  Is he a CEO who stays above the fray?
SusanG / Daily Kos:
Joe Wilson Responds to Washington Post Editorial
Doyle McManus / Los Angeles Times:   Controversy May Sap Bush's Credibility
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
What's Your Definition of Leak?
Discussion: The Next Hurrah and Eschaton
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
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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Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
Military Plays Up Role of Zarqawi  —  Jordanian Painted As Foreign Threat To Iraq's Stability  —  The U.S. military is conducting a propaganda campaign to magnify the role of the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, according to internal military documents and officers familiar with the program.
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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
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 …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
McCain Shifting Gears  —  John McCain still garners the most media attention of all prospective Republican candidates for the presidential nomination in 2008.  His long-cultivated relationship with the media and his reputation as a "maverick" has provided endless fascination and a large boost to his prospects for capturing the ticket.
Discussion: RIGHTWINGSPARKLE and TPRS
Crooks and Liars:
Sy Hersh on the "Iran war plans"  —  Sy Hersh on the "Iran war plans"  —  Sy Hersh was on "Late Edition", and talked about his new article in the New Yorker with Wolf Blitzer about serious war plans being drawn up against Iran-that includes nukes-which is causing military leaders to say they'll resign.
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Michelle Malkin:   SY HERSH: BLOWING U.S. COVER
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Hersh: Bush Plans On War With Iran UsingTactical Nukes (UPDATED)
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.
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 …
time.blogs.com:
"Christianism": A Defense  —  Some readers have objected to my attempt to coin a new word to describe those who would deploy the teachings of Jesus as a political ideology as "Christianists."  They don't like the analogy to Islamists, and think it imputes to politicized Christians an endorsement of terror or violence.
Discussion: Donklephant
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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.
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.
Dan / Riehl World View:
Time Clowns Condi's Face In Leadership Poll  —  Perhaps you remember this USA Today flap via Michelle Malkin: … Time dot com goes one better with a leadership poll they are hosting today.  —  Talk a look at the three images at right.  If not the same picture, they are very close.
Reuters:
Republican leader rejects guest worker plan  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House of Representatives Majority Leader John Boehner on Sunday rejected efforts to establish a guest worker program in the United States, despite calls from President Bush to make provisions for millions of current illegal immigrants.
 
 
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