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10:40 AM ET, May 14, 2006

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Jason Leopold / truthout.org:
Karl Rove Indicted on Charges of Perjury, Lying to Investigators  —  Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald spent more than half a day Friday at the offices of Patton Boggs, the law firm representing Karl Rove.  —  During the course of that meeting, Fitzgerald served attorneys …
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Empty Wheel / The Next Hurrah:
Dick Takes Notes
Discussion: Needlenose and Firedoglake
TalkLeft:
Breaking Report: Karl Rove Indicted
Discussion: Sadly, No!
Empty Wheel / The Next Hurrah:
Fitzgerald Collecting Cheney's Smoking Guns
Discussion: Firedoglake
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
The Cirque du Soleil Defense, Part II
Discussion: The Next Hurrah
Arthur Max / Associated Press:
Critics Want Dutch Lawmaker Deported  —  AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born Dutch legislator who has championed the rights of Muslim women, is returning from a book tour to a firestorm for lying on her asylum application when she fled to the Netherlands in 1992 to escape an arranged marriage.
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
McCain Reconnects With Liberty University  —  Senator May Have an Eye Toward 2008 as He Reaches Out to Religious Conservatives  —  LYNCHBURG, Va., May 13 — Six years after labeling the Rev. Jerry Falwell one of the political "agents of intolerance," Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) …
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
At Falwell's University, McCain Defends Iraq War  —  LYNCHBURG, Va., May 13 — With the Rev. Jerry Falwell at his side, Senator John McCain offered a spirited defense of the Iraq war on Saturday, telling graduating students at Liberty University that victory there was crucial to world security.
Discussion: RuminateThis
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
SNL: If Al Gore were President  —  SNL: If Al Gore were President  —  "Saturday Night Live," opened their show tonight with Al Gore addressing the nation as if he was the President of the United States.  Gore was focused and quite funny in this entertaining spoof of the current administration and their long range of failures.
BBC:
Jail riots follow Brazil attacks  —  Riots have broken out in 18 prisons in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo after a wave of attacks on the streets left at least 30 people dead.  —  State officials said the riots were organised by the same criminal faction - the First Command of the Capital (PCC) - that carried out the attacks.
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BBC:   Attacks in Brazil leave 30 dead
CBS News:
Why Qwest Hung Up On NSA  —  Former CEO Believed Handing Over Call Data Violated Privacy, Telecom Act  —  (CBS/AP) AT&T Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., and BellSouth Corp. began sharing records of tens of millions of their customers' phone calls with the NSA shortly after the 2001 terror attacks, according to USA Today.
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New York Sun:
Dialing and the Democrats  —  No sooner had the man who ran …
Discussion: BitsBlog
William M. Arkin / Washington Post:
NSA's Multi-Billion Dollar Data Mining Effort
Discussion: The Mahablog and SEIXON
Washington Post:
BACK FROM IRAQ  —  Bad stuff happened in Iraq, stuff Adam Reuter doesn't want to talk about.  Not with his friends, not with the line cooks in the burger joint where he worked when he first came home or the tenants in the apartment complex he manages now.  —  He doesn't even want to talk …
R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
Fired Officer Believed CIA Lied to Congress  —  Friends Say McCarthy Learned of Denials About Detainees' Treatment  —  A senior CIA official, meeting with Senate staff in a secure room of the Capitol last June, promised repeatedly that the agency did not violate or seek to violate …
Associated Press:
Report: Mentally ill troops forced into combat  —  Military not following own rules on deployment, paper says  —  HARTFORD, Connecticut (AP) — U.S. military troops with severe psychological problems have been sent to Iraq or kept in combat, even when superiors have been aware of signs of mental illness …
New York Times:
Despite Political Pressure to Scale Back, Logistics Are Pinning Down U.S. in Iraq  —  WASHINGTON, May 13 — Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld regularly says he wants major troop withdrawals from Iraq, if possible this year.  But he rarely mentions the daunting challenges beyond …
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Hey Democrats, Why Win?  —  DEMOCRATS are all but breaking out the Champagne.  Republicans are divided and disheartened; President Bush's poll numbers seem to be in free fall.  Many Democrats are talking not only about victory in November but about what they will do once Congress is in their hands.
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Upper Left and Althouse
Thom Shanker / New York Times:
Military Plans Tests in Search for an Alternative to Oil-Based Fuel  —  WASHINGTON, May 13 — When an F-16 lights up its afterburners, it consumes nearly 28 gallons of fuel per minute.  No wonder, then, that of all the fuel the United States government uses each year, the Air Force accounts for more than half.
ABCNEWS:
Duke Lacrosse DNA: Mystery Man Revealed  —  Accuser's Boyfriend is 'Single Source' of DNA on Vaginal Swab  —  May 13, 2006 — The second round of DNA test results in the Duke University rape investigation show "no conclusive match'' to any lacrosse players, defense attorneys said …
MSNBC:
Hot-Seat Confirmation for CIA  —  Intelligence experts warn that a proposal to merge two Pentagon intelligence units could create an ominous new agency.  —  •  —  Court documents in the Moussaoui hearing cast doubts on his '20th hijacker' claim and provide fresh information about Al Qaeda's plans for another 9/11-style attack.
Discussion: The Left Coaster
Marty Lederman / Balkinization:
Where There's Smoke . . . There's Cheney and Addington  —  It was only a matter of time, right?  This can't come as a surprise to anyone by now: The New York Times reports that the idea of engaging in electronic surveillance in violation of FISA was hatched by the Vice President's Office …
Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:
Bush Fatigue  —  Bruce Kesler writes: … Nope.  I don't really care one iota about "irredentist Democrats in Congress and their fifth-column in the media."  I'm suffering from Bush fatigue brought on by the culmination of:  — Failure to finish the 9/11 job by bringing Osama to justice
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Cernig / NewsHog:   The Right Catches Lying Bastard Fatigue
 
 
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John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
Bush's Upcoming Speech On Illegal Immigration
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Is Campus Watch Part of a Conspiracy?
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Verizon Lawsuit - Whose Public Interest?
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More rank ingnorance at the New York Times
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Rumors May Fly, but Treasury Chief Hangs On
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 Earlier Items: 
Bill Roggio / Counterterrorism Blog:
Independent Operations and the Iraqi Army
Alexandra von Maltzan / All Things Beautiful:
Liberal Justice  —  There is something wonderful about a group …
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Randi and the Chicken Hawk
Dan / Riehl World View:
Hey, I Got Polled
The Raw Story:
Times' Frank Rich: Any 'witch hunt' for traitors should begin in the White House
Pete Hoekstra / Los Angeles Times:
Rep. Pete Hoekstra: Journalism vs. security