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1:40 PM ET, April 18, 2006

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Brit Hume / Fox News:
Zinni's Zinger?  —  Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine:  —  Former Clinton CENTCOM commander, Anthony Zinni — the most prominent of the retired generals attacking Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld — now says that, in the run-up to the war in Iraq, "What bothered me ...
Discussion: JunkYardBlog
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CNN:
Bush: 'I'm the decider' on Rumsfeld  —  Defense chief set to meet with so-called 'TV generals'  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush sharply defended Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday, saying the embattled Pentagon chief is doing a "fine job" despite calls for his resignation from six retired military generals.
Washington Post:
The Generals' Revolt  —  There are many reasons for Donald Rumsfeld to leave.  Finger-pointing by retired officers shouldn't be one.  —  PRESIDENT BUSH'S stubborn support for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has compounded U.S. troubles in Iraq, prevented a remedy for the criminal mistreatment …
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Roots of the Uprising  —  Making Donald Rumsfeld the scapegoat for all that has gone wrong in Iraq is a way for other members of the administration to dodge responsibility for a misguided policy.  —  It makes perfect sense for a group of rebellious retired generals to demand that Rumsfeld go.
Discussion: Hugh Hewitt
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Listen to the Brass  —  Several months ago, when Rep. John Murtha, the Marine Corps veteran and longtime Democratic advocate for military preparedness, spoke out on the Iraq war, I received an interesting phone call from the Pentagon.  When Murtha advocated a fundamental reassessment …
New York Times:
Rumsfeld Says Calls for Ouster 'Will Pass'
Discussion: Bark Bark Woof Woof
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New York Times:
Two Duke Lacrosse Players Are Arrested and Charged  —  DURHAM, N.C., April 18 — Two Duke University men's lacrosse players were arrested today and charged with rape and kidnapping in a case involving a woman who has accused three team members of attacking her at a party last month.
Discussion: Feministe and JustOneMinute
Tim Whitmire / Associated Press:
2 Duke Lacrosse Players Are Arrested
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
Deepti Hajela / Associated Press:
Times-Picayune, Sun Herald Win Pulitzer  —  NEW YORK - The staffs of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans and The Sun Herald of south Mississippi captured Pulitzer Prizes for public service on Monday for chronicling the catastrophic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina despite life-changing damage to their own homes and workplaces.
Discussion: NewsBusters.org, Gawker and Daily Kos
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
New Chief of Staff Sends Message: The White House Exits Are Open  —  WASHINGTON, April 17 — The new White House chief of staff put the West Wing and official Washington on notice on Monday about potentially substantial changes in the way the White House is staffed and operates.
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Bush Picks Portman as Budget Director
Discussion: Wonkette
Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
Moussaoui's Childhood Is Presented as Mitigating Factor  —  ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 — Lawyers trying to persuade a jury to spare the life of Zacarias Moussaoui began presenting testimony about his childhood on Monday, to show that he grew up in a neglectful household in France where his father beat …
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Richard A. Serrano / Los Angeles Times:   Moussaoui's Sisters Defend `Sweetheart'
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Clinton Sets Bar for '08 Funds  —  Senator Has $20 Million for Reelection, Possible Presidential Bid  —  Candidates eyeing 2008 presidential bids collected millions for a variety of campaign committees over the first three months of the year, with New York Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton far ahead of the pack.
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
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Danielle Braff / Chicago Sun Times:
Bush death threat tied to PU student  —  A Purdue University graduate student was arrested and charged with threatening to kill President George W. Bush, Laura Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.  —  Vikram Buddhi allegedly posted the detailed and threatening messages on an online message board.
Jason Leopold / truthout.org:
State Department Memo: '16 Words' Were False  —  Eleven days before President Bush's January 28, 2003, State of the Union address in which he said that the US learned from British intelligence that Iraq had attempted to acquire uranium from Africa - an explosive claim that helped pave the way to war …
John Gorenfeld / alternet.org:
Rev. Moon's Conjugal Visitations  —  We all know the religious Right wants to tell us what we can't do in the bedroom, but no one asks what they want us to do instead.  —  Tools  —  Among the trendier gripes about why liberals lack power in American politics is that there isn't enough tolerance for America's faithful.
Warren Hoge / New York Times:
U.S. Envoy to Expose 4 Sudanese in U.N. Debate About Darfur  —  UNITED NATIONS, April 17 — John R. Bolton, the United States ambassador, said Monday that he intended to offer a Security Council resolution on Tuesday that would publicly identify four Sudanese individuals responsible for atrocities …
Scott Carlson / Chronicle of Higher Education:
George Washington U. to Receive Jack Anderson's Papers — but FBI Wants to See Them First  —  During his life and career as a muckraking journalist in Washington, Jack Anderson cultivated secret sources throughout the halls of government — sources who passed on information that allowed Anderson …
Discussion: Attytood and TPM Muckraker
Sobek / SobekPundit:
A Very Brief History of Art, Featuring Mr. Potato Head  —  As part of my never-ending quest to make the Llamabutchers one day say, "Holy crap, that Sobek fellow is so geeky, he makes us look flat out hip!" as well as part of certain court-ordered community service (I was framed, BTW) …
Hemmy So / Los Angeles Times:
Campus Lockdown Appalls Parents  —  Some students at an Inglewood elementary school were barred from using the restroom.  —  As students from neighboring secondary schools walked out of class recently to protest immigration legislation, one Inglewood elementary school imposed a lockdown …
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Mississippi Senators' Rail Plan Challenged  —  War Bill Includes Millions to Move Just-Rebuilt Line  —  Mississippi's two U.S. senators included $700 million in an emergency war spending bill to relocate a Gulf Coast rail line that has already been rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina at a cost of at least $250 million.
Discussion: Air America Radio
Jamie Glazov / Front Page Magazine:
Saddam and Osama: The New Revelations  —  Frontpage Interview's guest today is Thomas Joscelyn, an expert on the international terrorist network.  Much of his research has focused on the role that nations such as Saddam's Iraq and the mullah's Iran have played in providing support …
 
 
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