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Washington Post:
CIA Officer's Job Made Any Leaks More Delicate — The rare firing last week of a CIA officer accused of leaking information to the news media stems both from the sensitivity of the subjects she allegedly discussed and the Bush administration's forceful efforts to block national security disclosures …
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Andy McCarthy / The Corner on National Review Online:
BALANCE — WPOST STYLE — The WPost includes in this morning's predictably sympathetic portrait of Mary O. McCarthy, the CIA officer fired for leaking, the following: … OK. Let's leave aside that people with access to classified information take an oath not to disclose …
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
McCarthy's Contributions - Still An Impenetrable Mystery At The Times — What might have been motivating the fired CIA officer? The Times noted her $2,000 campaign contribution to John Kerry in their Friday coverage, but overlooked another $5,000 contribution that she had made to the Ohio DNC …
Juan / Informed Comment:
All Right, Not All Right — Today at Informed Comment, we are going to play the game of "All Right, Not All Right," known in Washington, DC, as "business as usual," but otherwise castigated by the moral philosophers as hypocrisy. — It IS all right for Bush campaign strategist Karl Rove
New York Times:
C.I.A. Director Has Made Plugging Leaks a Top Priority — WASHINGTON, April 22 — The firing of a veteran Central Intelligence Agency officer who has been accused of leaking classified information is a rare and dramatic move, yet C.I.A. officials say it is only the beginning of a campaign …
Michael Tanji / GroupIntel:McCarthyism — Another kind of CIA-related "outing" …
Discussion:
protein wisdom, In From the Cold, Roger L. Simon, The Belmont Club and The Strata-Sphere
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:Treason by association — Almost every Bush follower screeching …
CNN:
Purported bin Laden tape slams West for 'crusader-Zionist war' — (CNN) — Parts of an audiotape purportedly from Osama bin Laden aired Sunday on an Arabic-language TV network in which the al Qaeda leader attacks the West for cutting off funds to the Palestinian Hamas-led government and referred to a …
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Steven R. Hurst / Associated Press:
In Tape, bin Laden Urges Fighters to Sudan — Osama bin Laden issued ominous new threats in an audiotape broadcast Sunday, purportedly saying the West was at war with Islam and calling on his followers to go to Sudan to fight a proposed U.N. force. — In his first new message in three months …
Mike Allen / Time:
Can Josh Bolten Rescue the Bush Presidency? — He started by shaking up the staff. Next comes a five-point White House "recovery plan" — At the George W. Bush campaign headquarters in Austin, Texas, in 1999, policy director Josh Bolten was a low-key Washingtonian in a building full of brash Texans.
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New York Times:
Corrections — A front-page article on Thursday about strain on government services in Texas caused by hurricane evacuees misstated the number of evacuee children in Houston public schools and the amount of Federal aid the state has received. The most recent count, in late February, showed 5,475 students, not 30,000.
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Newsweek:
What Happened at Duke? — Sex. Race. A raucous party. A rape charge. And a prosecutor up for re-election. Inside the mystery that has roiled a campus and riveted the country. — Photos: Gerry Broome / AP (2 left, center); Sara D. Davis / AP (upper right); Jeffrey A. Camarati / AP (lower right)
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Sarah Baxter / Times of London:
Dump Cheney for Condi, Bush urged — REPUBLICANS are urging President George W Bush to dump Dick Cheney as vice-president and replace him with Condoleezza Rice if he is serious about presenting a new face to the jaded American public. — They believe that only the sacrifice …
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Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
New Plans Foresee Fighting Terrorism Beyond War Zones — Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has approved the military's most ambitious plan yet to fight terrorism around the world and retaliate more rapidly and decisively in the case of another major terrorist attack on the United States, according to defense officials.
White House:
President's Radio Address — THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This weekend I am traveling in California, where I'm focusing on important issues for our Nation's future, including our economy, energy prices, the war on terror, and immigration reform. — America's economy is strong …
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New York Times:
Young Officers Join the Debate Over Rumsfeld — WASHINGTON, April 22 — The revolt by retired generals who publicly criticized Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has opened an extraordinary debate among younger officers, in military academies, in the armed services' staff colleges and even in command posts and mess halls in Iraq.
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Times of London:
Iran's president recruits terror master — Sarah Baxter, Washington and Uzi Mahnaimi, Tel Aviv — Plot for revenge attacks on West — IRAN'S president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, attended a meeting in Syria earlier this year with one of the world's most wanted terrorists …
Hook / Sgt Hook:
After Action Review — As most of you know, because of military duties I was unabale to attend the first ever Milblog Conference held in Washington D.C. yesterday, but I was able to participate via live video feed. The conference was a resounding success from my standpoint …
Robert D. Kaplan / Washington Post:
Old States, New Threats — You know these bad guys. But there is a whole other world of tyrants, dictators and despots. — Crossing a border has always carried a special drama. Moments after my train crossed from Hungary to Romania in the 1980s — from a country run by a liberal communist regime …
Washington Post:
Iraqi Lawmakers End Months of Deadlock — BAGHDAD, April 22 — Four months of political paralysis lifted on Saturday when a newly convened parliament chose seven top officials to run Iraq's first long-term government since the fall of Saddam Hussein. — In a largely ceremonial meeting …
Discussion:
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New York Times:
How a Billionaire Friend of Bill Helps Him Do Good, and Well — After leaving the White House in 2001, former President Bill Clinton was inundated with business and job offers, from investment-bank partnerships to seats on corporate boards. He turned them all down, with one exception …
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