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3:35 PM ET, May 15, 2006

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The Blotter:
Federal Source to ABC News: We Know Who You're Calling  —  Brian Ross and Richard Esposito Report:  —  A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we (Brian Ross and Richard Esposito) call in an effort to root out confidential sources.
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The Raw Story:
ABC News: Federal official says US tracking calls made by ABC News, New York Times, Washington Post  —  ABC News' press office just sent out this release to news organizations, RAW STORY has learned.  The story has been posted at the ABC NEWS blog (Read here).  —  ABC's Brian Ross and Richard Esposito Report:
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:   Isn't this the other shoe dropping?  —  The piece is written in a roundabout sort of way.
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Bush Set To Send Guard to Border  —  Assignment Would Be Temporary; Critics Cite Strain on Troops  —  President Bush tried to ease the worries of his Mexican counterpart yesterday as he prepared for a nationally televised address tonight unveiling a plan to send thousands of National Guard troops …
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Conservative Christians Warn Republicans Against Inaction  —  WASHINGTON, May 13 — Some of President Bush's most influential conservative Christian allies are becoming openly critical of the White House and Republicans in Congress, warning that they will withhold their support …
Geoff Earle / New York Post:
BUSH: WE CAN'T BOOT 11M ILLEGALS  —  TV SPEECH TO PITCH GUEST-WORKER PLAN  —  May 15, 2006 — WASHINGTON - In his live, nationally televised address tonight, President Bush will tell Americans that it's impossible to deport the estimated 11 million illegal aliens living here.
Michelle Malkin:
TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE  —  Here we go again.  —  President Bush is continuing the homeland security dog-and-pony charade in his quest to deliver a massive "guest worker"/amnesty plan to the open-borders lobby.  A few weeks ago, Bush's Department of Homeland Security put on a bogus performance …
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Plan to Deploy Guard at Border Worries Mexico
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Conservatives debate Bush impeachment over immigration
Rep. Tom Tancredo / Human Events:
Come Home, Mr. President
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Divide Is Sharpening Among Republicans
Discussion: AMERICAblog
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Bush to Call on Guard to Bolster Border
George Gedda / Associated Press:
U.S. to Renew Diplomatic Ties With Libya  —  WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has decided to restore normal diplomatic relations with Libya for the first time in over a quarter century after taking Moammar Gadhafi's country off a U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, State Department officials said Monday.
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Elise Labott / CNN:
U.S. to restore relations with Libya  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — The United States will restore full diplomatic relations with Libya and remove the North African country from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, the State Department announced Monday.  —  The removal from the terrorism list …
MSNBC:   U.S. to renew diplomatic relations with Libya
San Diego Union-Tribune:
Dutch lawmaker in asylum row to move to U.S.  —  AMSTERDAM - Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born Dutch politician known for her criticism of Islam, will leave parliament and move to the United States after admitting she lied to win asylum in the Netherlands, media reported on Monday.
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expatica.com:
Hirsi Ali to leave Netherlands for job with US think tank
Robert Rector / Heritage Foundation:
Senate Immigration Bill Would Allow 100 Million New Legal Immigrants over the Next Twenty Years  —  If enacted, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act (CIRA, S.2611) would be the most dramatic change in immigration law in 80 years, allowing an estimated 103 million persons to legally immigrate …
Discussion: Democracy Project, PrestoPundit and lgf
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Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Reform bill to double immigration
Discussion: Power Line and Small Town Veteran
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Negroponte Had Denied Domestic Call Monitoring  —  Administration Won't Comment on NSA Logs  —  When he was asked about the National Security Agency's controversial domestic surveillance program last Monday, U.S. intelligence chief John D. Negroponte objected to the question and said the government was …
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
More Americans Disapprove Than Approve of Government Collecting Phone Records
Discussion: Mystery Pollster
John McIntyre / The RCP Blog:
'Intellectuals' Pining for Higher Tax Rates  —  The Washington Post's Sebastian Mallaby is on a crusade to discredit pro-growth or supply-side economic policies.  Today's column titled "The Return of Voodoo Economics" makes one wonder about what he doesn't like about 4% growth …
Discussion: TAPPED and The Mahablog
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Mike Baker / Associated Press:
3rd Member of Duke Lacrosse Team Indicted  —  A grand jury indicted a third member of Duke University's lacrosse team Monday on charges stemming from a woman's allegations she was raped and beaten at a team party earlier this year.  —  David Evans, a senior and team captain from Bethesda …
Karol / Alarming News:
White House:
MR. McCLELLAN: Not necessarily.  —  Q — if a staffer is interviewed, is that staffer expected, have they been given guidance internally, to report that to the Counsel's Office, so the Counsel's Office knows?  —  MR. McCLELLAN: No. No.  —  Q On Cuba, the President mentioned trying to strengthen —
Discussion: Think Progress and Booman Tribune
 
 
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