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12:55 PM ET, April 25, 2006

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Washington Post:
Dismissed CIA Officer Denies Leak Role  —  Official Says Agency Is Not Asserting She Told of Secret Prisons  —  A lawyer representing fired CIA officer Mary O. McCarthy said yesterday that his client did not leak any classified information and did not disclose to Washington Post reporter Dana Priest …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
CIA Leak: A Blog Primer  —  This is one of those stories where, if you miss the first 48 hours, you end up feeling so far behind the curve that you tune it out and never bother with it again.  So here's a round-up of news and blog coverage which, while longish, will bring you up to speed.
Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
CIA VS. THE WHITE HOUSE: TY COBB AIN'T NO BENCHWARMER  —  The Mary McCarthy story just took a fascinating turn with the revelation that high powered criminal attorney Ty Cobb has taken on McCarthy as a client.  —  What is significant about Mr. Cobb is that he defended some of the highest profile criminals …
Opinion Journal:
Denny Pelosi  —  Gas prices rise, and Republicans panic.  —  Few things are less becoming in a political party than desperation, as Republicans are now demonstrating as they panic over rising oil and gas prices.  If blaming private industry for Congress's own energy mistakes is the best the GOP can do …
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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Bush Orders Probe Into Gas Price Cheating
Ron Fournier / Associated Press:
Republicans Worry Gas Prices Add to Woes
Discussion: AMERICAblog
Mac Johnson / Human Events:   The O'Reilly Fiction  —  I have a friend who is fond of the saying …
Suzanne Malveaux / CNN:
Sources: Tony Snow likely to take White House post  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sources close to the White House said Monday that Fox anchor Tony Snow is likely to accept the job as White House press secretary, succeeding Scott McClellan.  —  The sources said they expect him to announce his decision within the next few days.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Sen. Roberts seeks delay of Intel probe  —  Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), who chairs the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said he wants to divide his panel's inquiry into the Bush administration's handling of Iraq-related intelligence into two parts, a move that would push off …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Middle Earth Journal
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Christopher Elliott / New York Times:
One Day, That Economy Ticket May Buy You a Place to Stand  —  The airlines have come up with a new answer to an old question: How many passengers can be squeezed into economy class?  —  A lot more, it turns out, especially if an idea still in the early stage should catch on: standing-room-only "seats."
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Lone Lawmaker Blocks Flight 93 Monument in Pa.  —  For emotional wallop, there are few rivals to the windswept, grassy field outside of Shanksville, Pa., where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11, 2001.  —  But for three years, that field has made do with a makeshift monument …
Michael Forsythe / Bloomberg:
Democrats Beat Republicans in 2005 Fund-Raising on Wall Street  —  April 24 (Bloomberg) — Democrats outdid Republicans last year in attracting political donations from investment banks, brokerages and fund managers for the first time since 1994, helped by support from hedge funds and companies such as Merrill Lynch & Co.
Lisa Wangsness / Boston Globe:
Harvard author faces scrutiny  —  Novel compared with earlier book  —  A Harvard undergraduate who signed a book deal for reportedly $500,000 while still a freshman is facing allegations that portions of her newly published first novel closely resemble parts of a coming-of-age novel published by a New Jersey writer in 2001.
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Boston Globe:
'Opal Mehta' vs. 'Sloppy Firsts'
Discussion: Ezra Klein and Brendan Nyhan
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
President Bush "the Televangelist"  —  Both E&P and the Washington Post covered Bush's speech today.  FOX carried it, but not as far as the Q&A so I was only able to get a small portion.  E&P says: "Bush Explains How God Shapes His Foreign Policy."  That about sums it up.  —  Video-WMP Video-QT
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Jonathan Finer / Washington Post:
Shiite Militias Move Into Oil-Rich Kirkuk, Even as Kurds Dig In  —  Control of Iraqi City Has Long Been in Dispute  —  KIRKUK, Iraq — Hundreds of Shiite Muslim militiamen have deployed in recent weeks to this restive city — widely considered the most likely flash point for an Iraqi civil war …
ThreatsWatch.Org:
Stolen Honor Reclaimed  —  No one, not even an entire culture, can steal a man's character.  They can only cast an illusion.  —  By Steve Schippert  —  There are days when a man feels compelled to reflect and self-evaluate.  It is usually when surrounded by peers whose respectable accomplishments …
Richard Allen Greene / BBC:
Blogs link families with children at war  —  Carla Lois started an online diary - a weblog - just before the army sent her son Noah to Iraq in January 2005.  —  Eight months later, it paid off in a way she must always have prayed it would not, when she posted a terse item headlined: "My Son Has Been Injured."
New York Times:
Iran Is Described as Defiant on 2nd Nuclear Program  —  WASHINGTON, April 24 — Iran has told the International Atomic Energy Agency that it will refuse to answer questions about a second, secret uranium-enrichment program, according to European and American diplomats.
Mariam Fam / Associated Press:
10 Arrests Made in Egypt Resort Attack  —  DAHAB, Egypt - Police arrested 10 people Tuesday and divers retrieved body parts from the sea after three bombs ripped apart a Sinai beach resort at the height of Egypt's tourist season, killing 24 people and injuring more than 80, many of them foreigners.
 
 
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White House:
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