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11:30 AM ET, August 30, 2006

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Investor's Business Daily:
Did Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald Lie?  —  Plamegate: Patrick Fitzgerald's three-year manhunt to track down who blew Valerie Plame's CIA "cover" has been exposed as a costly sham.  He apparently knew all along that his man was not Scooter Libby.  —  When Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney …
CNN:
Sources: State Department official source of Plame leak
Discussion: Angry Bear
Mercury News:
Relatives: Rampage suspect may have been stressed over wedding  —  Relatives of a Fremont man connected to Tuesday's deadly driving rampage said he may have been distraught after returning recently from Afghanistan without his newlywed wife who iswaiting for a visa.
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Up to 14 hurt in SF hit-and-run spree 7 critical; driver believed …
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Ahmadinejad's High-Stakes Game  —  TEHRAN — Drivers here play a high-risk game of chicken at every intersection.  They barge into the frantic stream of traffic and you think there's going to be a crash for sure.  But at the last moment someone usually gives way, and a collision is avoided.
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Dafna Linzer / Washington Post:
Iran Enriching More Uranium
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
Broadcast Chief Misused Office, Inquiry Reports  —  State Department investigators have found that the head of the agency overseeing most government broadcasts to foreign countries has used his office to run a "horse racing operation" and that he improperly put a friend on the payroll …
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Associated Press:
Broadcast chief accused of misusing government funds  —  Adjust font size:  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are pushing for the ouster of the chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors who is accused of misusing government money, overbilling for his time and hiring a friend as a consultant.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Elena Becatoros / Associated Press:
Bodies with torture marks found in Iraq  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - At least two dozen bodies, many bearing signs of torture, were found dumped in Shiite areas of Baghdad on Tuesday, and the government almost doubled the death toll from clashes this week between militiamen and Iraqi forces, saying 73 people had died.
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Amit R. Paley / Washington Post:   Iraqi Hospitals Are War's New 'Killing Fields'
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
First the Flood, Now the Fight  —  Critics Say FEMA Is Impeding Gulf Coast Rebuilding As Disputes Hold Up Nearly $1 Billion in Relief Funds  —  Someone had to pay to remove 3,000 dead trees in New Orleans.  The trees, insisted the Federal Emergency Management Agency, couldn't have been killed …
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John Schwartz / New York Times:
For Harry Anderson, the New Orleans Magic Is Gone
Max Blumenthal / The Nation:
Beyond Macaca: The Photograph That Haunts George Allen  —  Barnstorming around Virginia in the re-election campaign that Republican Senator George Allen hopes will provide the impetus for his 2008 run for the presidency, he has suddenly been forced on the defensive.
Robin Wright / Washington Post:
Carter Agrees to Hold Talks With Khatami  —  Ex-President of Iran to Visit U.S. Amid Tensions Over Tehran's Nuclear Program  —  For an event that would turn a page in American history, former president Jimmy Carter has agreed in principle to host former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami …
Justin Rood / TPMmuckraker:
Coburn: Stevens Blocked My Bill  —  Twelve days ago, at a town meeting in Sallisaw, Oklahoma, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) accused Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) of obstructing his porkbuster-database bill with an anonymous hold.  —  That's according to an Aug. 18 article in the Fort Smith (Ark.) Times Record:
Paul J. Gough / Reuters:
CNN sorry for Bush speech gaffe  —  NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - CNN apologized Tuesday after an open mike transmitted an anchor's bathroom conversation with another woman live over the network as it was carrying President Bush's speech in New Orleans.  —  "Live From" anchor Kyra Phillips …
Donald Rumsfeld / Real Clear Politics:
Facing the Central Questions of Our Time  —  (Note: Remarks as prepared for delivery by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld before the American Legion National Convention yesterday in Salt Lake City, Utah.)  —  Tom [American Legion Commander Tom Bock], I understand that your son is flying …
Fox News:
Kidnapped Journalists Recall Chilling Abduction  —  Two kidnapped FOX News journalists freed by gunmen last Sunday described in chilling detail how their abductors calmly discussed killing one of them.  —  "Unfortunately for you, you were with an American," camerman Olaf Wiig said his captors told him.
Mark Tapscott / Tapscott's Copy Desk:
FEC Officially Votes to Silence Political Speech for Last Two Months of 06 Campaign  —  With a 3-3 vote featuring Democrat commissioners supporting the silencing of political speech against congressional incumbents and Republican commissioners in favoring of allowing it …
Brian / TVNewser:
Katie's Extreme Makeover?  —  "Talk about a waistline touch-up," an e-mailer says:  —  The left photo is the official first-pic-of-Katie released by CBS at this year's upfront.  (TVNewser posted it in May.)  The right photo is an edited version of the same photo, from the September issue of Watch magazine, which is owned by CBS.
Washington Post:
For Congress in Maryland  —  Our choices: two worthy incumbents and one fresh face  —  REP. ALBERT R. WYNN has represented Maryland's 4th Congressional District since 1993, and in that time he has never faced a serious challenger.  This year, in Donna Edwards , he does.
Discussion: Andrew Sullivan, Daily Kos and MyDD
Anick Jesdanun / Associated Press:
Times blocks article to U.K. Web readers  —  NEW YORK - The New York Times' Web site is blocking British readers from a news article detailing the investigation into the recent airline terror plot, turning its Internet ad-targeting technology into a means of complying with U.K. laws.
Mahan Abedin / Asia Times:
Al-Qaeda (and US) eclipsed by rise of Iran  —  One of the more interesting results of the Israel-Hezbollah War has been the sidelining of the global jihadi movement and the broader Salafi currents that sustain it.  Despite all its rhetoric of a global jihad against the enemies of Islam …
David S. Cloud / New York Times:
Rumsfeld Says War Critics Haven't Learned Lessons of History  —  Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday that critics of the war in Iraq and the campaign against terror groups "seem not to have learned history's lessons," and he alluded to those in the 1930's who advocated appeasing Nazi Germany.
 
 
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