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8:40 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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Chip Somodevilla / Newsweek:
A Fresh Focus on Cheney  —  Hand-written notes by the Vice President surface in the Fitzgerald Probe  —  The Vice President at an awards ceremony on Wednesday  —  May 13, 2006 - The role of Vice President Dick Cheney in the criminal case stemming from the outing of White House critic …
The Raw Story:
Times' Frank Rich: Any 'witch hunt' for traitors should begin in the White House  —  Defending journalists who have been castigated as traitors for exposing government blunders, New York Times columnist Frank Rich writes that any "witch hunt" for traitors should begin in the White House, RAW STORY has found.
Discussion: Obsidian Wings
TalkLeft:
Breaking Report: Karl Rove Indicted  —  Huge breaking news from Jason Leopold just now at Truthout — Karl Rove has been indicted. … Leopold reports the charges include lying to investigators and perjury before the grand jury but it is not yet known if obstruction of justice is one of the charges.
Discussion: Sadly, No!
Empty Wheel / The Next Hurrah:
Fitzgerald Collecting Cheney's Smoking Guns
Discussion: Firedoglake
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  —  At least 30 people, including 19 policemen, have been killed in a spate of attacks in Sao Paulo, Brazil.  —  Armed criminals targeted officers in 55 attacks in the early hours of Saturday.  Authorities blamed the First Command of the Capital (PCC) faction.
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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expatica.com:
Liberals don't care Hirsi Ali lied to get asylum in 1992  —  AMSTERDAM — Somali-born MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali may have told more lies about her past in order to get asylum in the Netherlands in 1992 than she has previously admitted, news programme Zembla has suggested.
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 …
Pete Hoekstra / Los Angeles Times:
Rep. Pete Hoekstra: Journalism vs. security  —  Leaking classified information puts American lives at risk, says Republican congressman.  —  WE ARE IN the first war of the Information Age, and we have a critical advantage over our enemy: We are far better at gathering intelligence.
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William M. Arkin / Washington Post:
NSA's Multi-Billion Dollar Data Mining Effort
Discussion: The Mahablog and SEIXON
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 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 …
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 …
Discussion: Penraker and Mudville Gazette
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 …
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 …
Dan / Riehl World View:
Hey, I Got Polled  —  Looks like many are confused by recent polling over the NSA story. … They aren't alone.  But I did actually get a call today from Gallup / USA Today to participate in a poll on the topic.  I'll share some feedback from a participant's point of view.
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
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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.
Empty Wheel / The Next Hurrah:
Dick Takes Notes  —  Turns out Dick doesn't sleep through everything.  I'm going to go ahead and post two things:  — Fitzgerald's explanation of what articles he will submit as evidence  — Dick's annotated copy of Wilson's op-ed  —  The rest of the articles submitted by Fitz …
Discussion: Needlenose and Firedoglake
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
The Cirque du Soleil Defense, Part II
Discussion: The Next Hurrah
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.
Discussion: The American Mind
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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