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2:05 AM ET, April 24, 2006

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Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Democrats Suggest Double Standard on Leaks  —  Key Democratic legislators yesterday joined Republicans in saying they do not condone the alleged leaking of classified information that led to last week's firing of a veteran CIA officer.  But they questioned whether a double standard exists …
Discussion: And Another Thing
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National Review:
Why Isn't She in Cuffs?  —  There are countless questions that arise out of the CIA's dismissal of a prominent intelligence officer, Mary O. McCarthy (no relation), for leaking classified information to the media.  But one in particular springs to mind right now: Why isn't she in handcuffs?
Katherine Shrader / Associated Press:   CIA Fires Analyst for Alleged Press Leak
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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Atlas Shrugs:
BIN LADEN: "CALLS ON MUSLIM FIGHTERS TO GO TO SUDAN TO WAGE WAR …
Discussion: ShrinkWrapped and Gates of Vienna
Zbigniew Brzezinski / Los Angeles Times:
Been there, done that  —  Talk of a U.S. strike on Iran is eerily reminiscent of the run-up to the Iraq war.  —  IRAN'S ANNOUNCEMENT that it has enriched a minute amount of uranium has unleashed urgent calls for a preventive U.S. airstrike from the same sources that earlier urged war on Iraq.
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Laurie Fox / Dallas Morning News:
As schools struggle, ends don't always meet  —  Rich districts do fundraisers, poor districts do without  —  Parents resort to fundraisers to boost teacher salaries, buy library books and even replace classroom doors.  —  Bond elections once reserved for new schools or fancy stadiums …
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Nate Nance / Common Sense:
Read their lips: No new taxes
New York Times:
Moves Signal Tighter Secrecy Within C.I.A.  —  WASHINGTON, April 23 — The crackdown on leaks at the Central Intelligence Agency that led to the dismissal of a veteran intelligence officer last week included a highly unusual polygraph examination for the agency's independent watchdog …
Discussion: PrairiePundit
Lawrence Wilkerson / Baltimore Sun:
Is U.S. being transformed into a radical republic?  —  We Americans came not from a revolution but from an evolution.  —  That is in large part why our so-called revolution produced success while most throughout history did not.  We came as much from the Magna Carta as from our own doings …
Con Coughlin / Telegraph:
'We would have been close even if 9/11 hadn't happened'  —  Tony Blair had just finished a video conference with George W. Bush when I arrived to meet him at Downing Street.  Their conversation, inevitably, had been mainly about Iraq.  "Every week, we have a video conference to catch up on things," he explained.
Discussion: Kesher Talk and RedState
Los Angeles Times:
Bush's third term  —  IF PRESIDENT BUSH HOPES the "shake-up" of his administration initiated last week will re-energize his listless presidency, he's bound to be disappointed.  A far more audacious makeover is needed — one that sends Vice President Dick Cheney into early retirement.
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Nothing to fear but the climate change alarmists  —  Do you worry?  You look like you do.  Worrying is the way the responsible citizen of an advanced society demonstrates his virtue: He feels good by feeling bad.  —  But what to worry about?  Iranian nukes?
NY Daily News:
Border battler  —  Hillary wants to build a U.S.-Mexico fence first — and she's right  —  Apart from a well-chosen warning about criminalizing Jesus, Sen. Hillary Clinton hasn't waded too deeply into the details of the immigration mess.  Until now.  —  In an interview Friday …
AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
The Raging RINO's Are HERE!  —  *** last minute submissions coming in at the end (OK, I posted early, not their fault!)  Yep, my turn to host those rampaging RINOs (and man, do they leave a mess on the carpet).  So, without further delay, here are your RINOs with this weeks Raging topics (in the order I received them).
Discussion: Argghhh!
Nico / Think Progress:
60 Minutes: CIA Official Reveals Bush, Cheney, Rice Were Personally Told Iraq Had No WMD in Fall 2002  —  Tonight on 60 Minutes, CIA analyst Tyler Drumheller revealed that in the fall of 2002, President Bush, Vice President Cheney, then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and others …
Cathy Siepp / Los Angeles Times:
Battling cancer — and Blue Cross  —  Unlike THE TYPICAL Blue Cross "valued member," as the annual letter on rate and benefit changes always calls us, I wasn't upset to learn that my monthly premium would increase by $50, to $395 a month, for me and my daughter.  —  That's because I'm not really a Blue Cross valued member.
Discussion: Cathy's World
 
 
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