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7:20 AM ET, June 24, 2006

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Tom Raum / Associated Press:
Analysis: CIA program expands Bush's power  —  WASHINGTON - A secret CIA-Treasury program to track financial records of millions of Americans is the latest installment in an expansion of executive authority in the name of fighting terrorism.  The administration doesn't apologize …
Discussion: Feministe and TPMCafe
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New York Times:
Cheney Assails Press on Report on Bank Data  —  WASHINGTON, June 23 — Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday vigorously defended a secret program that examines banking records of Americans and others in a vast international database, and harshly criticized the news media for disclosing …
Heather Mac Donald / Weekly Standard:
National Security Be Damned  —  BY NOW IT'S UNDENIABLE: The New York Times is a national security threat.  So drunk is it on its own power and so antagonistic to the Bush administration that it will expose every classified antiterror program it finds out about, no matter how legal the program …
New York Times:
White House Says Tracking Bank Data Deters Terror  —  WASHINGTON, June 23 — The White House vigorously defended today a secret program of combing through a vast international data base containing banking transactions involving thousands of Americans.  Vice President Dick Cheney and other officials …
Discussion: The Duck of Minerva
Gabriel Schoenfeld / Weekly Standard:
Leaks and the Law
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
The Daily Kos: Arresting Terrorists Is Just A Way To "Change The Focus"  —  Over at the Daily Kos, there's a recommended diary at krazypuppy, that explains that the terrorist ring down in Miami was busted — get ready for this — in order to distract people from John Kerry's attempts to cut'n'run in Iraq.
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Washington Post:
7 Indicted in Sears Tower Plot  —  The seven men indicted in Miami for allegedly plotting to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago never had actual contact with the al-Qaeda terrorist network or access to weapons and explosives, U.S. law enforcement officials said today.
New York Times:
F.B.I. Killed Plot in Talking Stage, a Top Aide Says
Discussion: Informed Comment
Miami Herald:
Terrorism raid targets a warehouse in Miami
Del Quentin Wilber / Washington Post:
Lone Democrat in Bush Cabinet Is Departing  —  Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta, who oversaw the tightening of airport security after the 2001 terrorist attacks and is the lone Democrat in President Bush's Cabinet, will step down early next month, the White House announced yesterday.
Discussion: The Sundries Shack
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kfoxtv.com:   Mineta Resigns As Transportation Secretary
Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:
Mineta to Quit As Transportation Secretary
Discussion: The Florida Masochist
White House:
Executive Order: Protecting the Property Rights of the American People  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to strengthen the rights of the American people against the taking of their private property, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Clinton Says GOP Blindly Follows Bush  —  She Calls an Open Debate on the Iraq War More Important Than Party Unity  —  One day after suffering a pair of defeats on the Senate floor, Democratic leaders argued yesterday that their internal divisions over Iraq will help push the country toward …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Donkey Cons
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Devlin Barrett / Associated Press:
Clinton: Democrats 'struggling' with Iraq
Discussion: Hot Air and Shakespeare's Sister
Martin Peretz / The New Republic:
A MESSAGE FROM TNR'S LIEBERMAN-LOVING NEOCON OWNER:  —  Forgive me.  But I never read Daily Kos until today.  Well, now that I've read it, the first thought that came to me is how illiterate Kos is, just plain illiterate.  There has been other not-with-a-pick-axe-but-with-a- bludgeon left-wing journalism …
Discussion: Hot Air and Liberty and Justice
Associated Press:
Television producer Aaron Spelling dies  —  LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Aaron Spelling, a onetime movie bit player who created a massive number of hit series, from the vintage "Charlie's Angels" and "Dynasty" to "Beverly Hills 90210" and "Melrose Place," died Friday, his publicist said.  He was 83.
Discussion: Ed Driscoll.com
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Patterico on Times reporters: Lock 'em up  —  He wants them subpoenaed to find out who leaked the bank info, and then, after the leakers are put away, it's their turn at the defense table.  —  I think he's kidding himself.  Not on the law, but as a political matter.
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Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:
Can Journalists Be Prosecuted for Publishing Classified Information?
Katherine Shrader / Associated Press:
New intel report reignites Iraq arms fight  —  WASHINGTON - Hundreds of chemical weapons found in Iraq were produced before the 1991 Gulf War and probably are so old they couldn't be used as designed, intelligence officials said Thursday.  —  Two lawmakers — Sen. Rick Santorum (news, bio …
Punkass Marc / PunkAssBlog.com:
ATHEISM FOR DECEPTIVE A**HOLE FUNDIES  —  Stop me if you're shocked: as far as the Christies are concerned, the Raving Atheist has decided to shut his yammering trap: … Instead, he will limit his raving to attacks on women's rights.  —  As you might recall, Amanda wrote …
Discussion: Pharyngula and Pandagon
Bill Gertz / Washington Times:
Ex-DIA analyst admits passing secrets to China  —  A former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst has pleaded guilty to illegally holding classified documents and admitted in a plea agreement to passing "top secret" information to Chinese intelligence officials.
Discussion: Hot Air
kare11.com:
Mondale: Force an option for stopping North Korea  —  Former Vice President Walter Mondale says he supports a pre-emptive U.S. strike against a North Korean missile that is raising nuclear fears around the globe.  —  Earlier this week North Korea announced it was preparing to test a missile that could reach United States mainland.
 
 
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Antimedia / Media Lies:
A deliberate deception?....  ....A local man, who was involved …
Vauhini Vara / Wall Street Journal:
In Event of Big Web Disruption, U.S. Is Ill-Prepared, Study Says
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Hugh Hewitt:
Dear Mr. Keller
Rose French / Associated Press:
Gore 'not planning' 2008 White House run
White House:
Press Briefing by Tony Snow
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Examiner:
White House becoming more secretive after leaks
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Americans Divided on Whether Federal Government Should Promote Moral Values
Media Matters for America:
Coulter: If Murtha "did get fragged, he'd finally deserve …
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Democrats need a new script
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