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6:20 PM ET, June 30, 2006

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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Will Hamdan have any effect on the Bush Presidency?  —  The real significance of yesterday's Supreme Court ruling in Hamdan is that the Court categorically rejected, and even attacked, the Bush administration's radical theories of unlimited executive power.  While it's obviously the case …
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Rosa Brooks / Los Angeles Times:
Did Bush commit war crimes?  —  Supreme Court's decision in Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld could expose officials to prosecution.  —  THE SUPREME Court on Thursday dealt the Bush administration a stinging rebuke, declaring in Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld that military commissions for trying terrorist suspects violate …
William M. Arkin / Early Warning:
The Hero of Guantanamo  —  "We can't be scared out of who we are."  —  That statement by Lt. Cmdr.  Charles Swift, the military appointed defense attorney for Salim Ahmed Hamdan, is the real victory to build upon in the Supreme Court decision rejecting President Bush's handling of detainees.
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Checking the Decider
John Yoo / USA Today:
5 wrong justices  —  By putting on hold military commissions …
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
USA Today:
A note to our readers  —  On May 11, USA TODAY reported that the National Security Agency, with the cooperation of several of America's leading telecommunications companies, had compiled a database of domestic phone call records in an effort to monitor terrorist activity.
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USA Today:
Lawmakers: NSA database incomplete  —  WASHINGTON — Members of the House and Senate intelligence committees confirm that the National Security Agency has compiled a massive database of domestic phone call records.  But some lawmakers also say that cooperation by the nation's telecommunication companies …
AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:   More Terrorist Surveillance Exposure By USA Today
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Ibrahim Barzak / Associated Press:
Palestinian: Israel aims to topple gov't  —  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Friday that Israel's offensive in Gaza — including the kidnappings of some of his Cabinet ministers — was part of a premeditated plan to bring down the Hamas-led government.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Foreign Policy Tries a Little Shake, Rattle and Roll  —  MEMPHIS, June 30— In the annals of international diplomacy, it was not exactly Yalta.  But today's visit to Graceland — the ticky-tacky Elvis Presley mansion here — by President Bush and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi of Japan brought …
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Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:
Superman eschews longtime patriot act  —  Nevermind Superman's sexual orientation.  Here's another identity-related question that is likely to spark controversy as the Man of Steel soars into theaters nationwide this Fourth of July weekend in Warner Bros.  Pictures' "Superman Returns": Is Superman still American?
Lee Siegel / The New Republic:
SIEGEL V. BASEBALL CAPS:  —  There are few places on earth, as far as I'm concerned, where the light, especially in late afternoon, in summer, is more beautiful than on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.  It's a river light, soft and gently diffused.  It gets delicately soaked into the sides of buildings …
Ryan Lenz / Associated Press:
U.S. troops accused of killing Iraq family  —  BEIJI, Iraq - Five U.S. Army soldiers are being investigated for allegedly raping a young woman, then killing her and three members of her family in Iraq, a U.S. military official said Friday.  —  The soldiers also allegedly burned the body …
Lee Keath / Associated Press:
Bin Laden Hails Slain Zarqawi As 'Lion'  —  Osama bin Laden praised slain al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al- Zarqawi as the "lion of holy war" in a new videotape posted on the Internet on Friday.  —  The 19-minute message shows an old still photo of bin Laden in a split-screen next …
reuters.excite.com:
US, Iraqi forces clash with Shi'ite militia  —  BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi and U.S. troops battled Shi'ite militiamen in a village northeast of Baghdad on Thursday, and witnesses and police said U.S. helicopters bombed orchards to flush out gunmen hiding there.
New York Times:
Kerik Pleads Guilty for Gifts and a Loan  —  Bernard B. Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner, pleaded guilty today to two misdemeanor charges as the result of accepting tens of thousands of dollars of gifts and a loan while he was a city official in the late 1990's.
Discussion: TBogg and PrawfsBlawg
Guardian:
Guardian finds Afghan witnesses US couldn't  —  Declan Walsh in Gardez  —  The US government said it could not find the men that Guantánamo detainee Abdullah Mujahid believes could help set him free.  The Guardian found them in three days.  —  Two years ago the US military invited Mr Mujahid …
H. Josef Hebert / Associated Press:
House lifts offshore drilling ban  —  WASHINGTON - Congress has taken a major step toward allowing oil and gas drilling in coastal waters that have been off limits for a quarter-century.  —  Still, a battle looms in the Senate over the issue.  And the Bush administration's support for the legislation …
Megan Twohey / JSOnline:
Sept. 11 claim stirs UW probe  —  Instructor says U.S. planned the attacks to provoke war  —  mtwohey@journalsentinel.com  —  The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Thursday that it would launch a review of an instructor who argues that the U.S. government orchestrated the Sept. 11 attacks for its own benefit.
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard and TAPPED
 
 
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Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
Panel Unanimously Recommends Cervical Cancer Vaccine for Girls 11 and Up
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Minnesota Governor: Pawlenty in Pitched Battle
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Bull Moose:
What a Country!  —  The Moose responds to the Hamdan decision.
Michael Hirsh / Newsweek:
The Myth of Al Qaeda
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
THE HIDDEN POWER  —  On December 18th, Colin Powell …
Media Matters for America:
Fox & Friends co-host Kilmeade advocated "Office of Censorship" …
Discussion: The All Spin Zone
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
I Was A Teenage Maniac  —  The Globe & Mail continues …
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Dan Lungren / Los Angeles Times:
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Richard Keil / bloomberg.com:
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Discussion: The Stakeholder
Jim Dwyer / New York Times:
Kean Is Preparing a Campaign Film Against Menendez in the Style of a Swift Boat Ad
Art Brodsky / tpmcafe.com:
When A Net Neutrality Tie Is A Win
Discussion: MyDD
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
A Spat Over Iraq Revealed On Tape
David Lightman / Hartford Courant:
Sensitive Subject In The Senate