memeorandum: Poll: Americans want Democrats in power (Donna Cassata/Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

1:25 PM ET, July 14, 2006

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Israel's Invasion, Syria's War — ISRAEL'S incursion into Lebanon after the kidnapping on Wednesday of two Israeli soldiers by the militant group Hezbollah is far more than another flare-up on a tense border. It must also be seen as a spinoff of a general counterattack against American …

Discussion: AMERICAN FUTURE, QandO, Captain's Quarters, The Mahablog, Blue Crab Boulevard, Done With Mirrors, The Beirut Spring and TAPPED

Michael Oren / Washington Post:

Necessary Steps for Israel — Confronting State Sponsors of Terror Is the Only Option — JERUSALEM — For the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973, Israel is facing hostilities on two fronts. The exceedingly volatile situation is liable to embroil other Middle Eastern states …

Discussion: Real Clear Politics and Power Line

New York Times:

Israel Blockades Lebanon; Wide Strikes by Hezbollah — BEIRUT, Lebanon, Friday, July 14 — Israel imposed a full naval blockade on Lebanon on Thursday and put Beirut's international airport out of commission, and the militant group Hezbollah loosed a hail of rockets and mortar shells that killed …

Discussion: Associated Press, Slate, Feministe, keithboykin.com, The Glittering Eye and Suburban Guerrilla

David Ignatius / Washington Post:

Behind the Crisis, A Push Toward War — After Hezbollah guerrillas captured Israeli soldiers Wednesday, a furious Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz warned that the Israeli army would "turn back the clock in Lebanon by 20 years." Unfortunately, that statement was truer than he may have intended.

Discussion: Opinion Journal, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES, Talking Points Memo, AMERICAN FUTURE, Blue Crab Boulevard, Mere Rhetoric and The Washington Monthly

New York Times:
Israel Extends Strikes Deeper Into Lebanon

Discussion: Counterterrorism Blog, SCSUScholars and Defense Tech

CNN: Rockets fly into Israel as it pounds Lebanon

John Gibson / Fox News:
Iran Attacking Israel Is Really Attack on U.S.

Discussion: Hullabaloo, The Moderate Voice, LiberalOasis, Hyscience, Crooks and Liars and Calling All Wingnuts

Pajamas Media:
The Israel-Hezbollah War Part Two

Discussion: Associated Press and TigerHawk

Haaretz:
Iran warns of 'fierce response' should Israel strike at Syria

Discussion: The Lebanese Bloggers, Jerusalem Post, Counterterrorism Blog, Hot Air, Yourish.com, QandO, Liberty and Justice, Mere Rhetoric, ThreatsWatch.Org, TigerHawk, Atlas Shrugs, Captain's Quarters, Reuters, Blue Crab Boulevard, The Real Ugly American.com and The Moderate Voice

Aaron Klein / WorldNetDaily:
Jumblatt: Don't bomb Beirut

Discussion: Israellycool, protein wisdom and Captain's Quarters

Sam F. Ghattas / Associated Press:
Israeli Warplanes Strike in Beirut Again

Discussion: Ynetnews and Shakespeare's Sister

Robert Tracinski / Real Clear Politics:
The War Comes to Us

Discussion: The Strata-Sphere, Dr. Sanity, AMERICAN FUTURE and Security Watchtower

Michael Slackman / New York Times: Voices of Peace Muffled by Rising Mideast Strife

DEBKAfile:
DEBKAfile reports: Iran's national security adviser Ali Larijani flies …

Discussion: Silflay Hraka

Austin Bay Blog:
UPDATED: The Lebanon Front: Blockade and Barrage/Operation Liberation of Lebanon

Discussion: Jerusalem Post, Atlas Shrugs and Instapundit.com

Dan / Riehl World View:
An Ominous Choice Of Words

Discussion: Obsidian Wings, Informed Comment, Murdoc Online, Counterterrorism Blog and A Blog For All

Business Wire:

Valerie Plame Wilson and Ambassador Joseph Wilson Initiate a Civil Action Against Vice President Cheney, Karl Rove, and Scooter Libby for Violations of their Constitutional and Other Legal Rights — WASHINGTON—(BUSINESS WIRE)—July 13, 2006—Former CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband …

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, RedState, JustOneMinute, Associated Press, Firedoglake, Ankle Biting Pundits, All Things Beautiful, SEIXON, Macsmind, The Next Hurrah, Gateway Pundit, Dr. Sanity, The Reality-Based Community, Media Blog on National …, NO QUARTER, The All Spin Zone, Wonkette and TBogg

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Washington Post:
Vice President Sued by Plame And Husband

Discussion: TPMmuckraker, Villainous Company, The Strata-Sphere, PostWatch, FishBowlDC and The Washington Note

Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
Ex-C.I.A. Officer Sues Cheney and Others Over Leak

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, Brilliant at Breakfast and The Real Ugly American.com

Richard B. Schmitt / Los Angeles Times:
Cheney, Rove, Libby sued in CIA leak case

Discussion: Firedoglake, Crooks and Liars, TalkLeft and TPMmuckraker

Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:

Bush Would Let Secret Court Sift Wiretap Process — WASHINGTON, July 13 — After months of resistance, the White House agreed Thursday to allow a secret intelligence court to review the legality of the National Security Agency's program to conduct wiretaps without warrants on Americans suspected of having ties to terrorists.

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Jonathan S. Landay / Knight Ridder:
Bush agrees to have domestic eavesdropping program reviewed

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Angry Bear

Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
What will Democrats do in the wake of the Specter cave-in?

Discussion: Balkinization, Hit and Run and Booman Tribune

Donna Cassata / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

Poll: Americans want Democrats in power — WASHINGTON — Republicans are in jeopardy of losing their grip on Congress in November. With less than four months to the midterm elections, the latest Associated Press-Ipsos poll found that Americans by an almost 3-to-1 margin hold …

Discussion: Right Wing News, Donklephant, PSoTD, AMERICAblog and The Next Hurrah

Walter Pincus / Washington Post:

Watching Finances Of Terror Suspects Discussed in 2002 — At a House subcommittee hearing five months after the Sept. 11 attacks, plans were openly discussed to give the government a highly secure, real-time electronic capability to request and receive data from financial institutions …

Discussion: The Strata-Sphere, RedState, Counterterrorism Blog, PostWatch, FishBowlDC, Secrecy News and Demagogue

White House:

President Bush and German Chancellor Merkel Participate in Press Availability — President's Trip to Germany and Russia — CHANCELLOR MERKEL: (As translated.) Ladies and gentlemen, I am delighted to be able to welcome the President of the United States here to Stralsund yet again.

Discussion: Washington Post, Think Progress, The Mahablog, Assorted Babble and NO QUARTER

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Mark Silva / ledger-enquirer.com:
Bush defuses tension at German news conference with gentle jibes

Discussion: Democratic Underground and Classical Values

Marc Caputo / Miami Herald:

Story of 'Joe's dead intern' began Harris' slide, insiders say — When Katherine Harris attacked a TV pundit, insiders say the incident revealed the depth of problems with her campaign — which was hit again by six staff departures. — mcaputo@herald.com

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report, Mia Culpa and TPMmuckraker

Times of London:

Baghdad starts to collapse as its people flee a life of death — As I hung up the phone, I wondered if I would ever see my friend Ali alive again. Ali, The Times translator for the past three years, lives in west Baghdad, an area that is now in meltdown as a bitter civil war rages between Sunni insurgents and Shia militias.

Discussion: MyDD and The Peking Duck

Mark Tapscott / Tapscott's Copy Desk:

PORKBUSTERS UPDATE: Senate Panel Asks For Testimony on Impact of Federal Spending Database on Journalism … There will be two panels, with the first consisting of senators John McCain, R-AZ, and Barack Obama, D-IL, who are with Coburn co-sponsors of the Oklahoma senator's proposal to create …

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, Democracy Project and Beltway Blogroll

Hindustan Times:

Pak's ISI masterminded 11/7, says intelligence — Forty-eight hours after bombs ripped through Mumbai, the needle pointed to Pakistan. Intelligence agencies on Thursday confirmed that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was the "mastermind" of the blasts that killed about 200 people.