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8:25 AM ET, January 4, 2007

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Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
Intelligence Chief Is Shifted to Deputy State Dept. Post  —  John D. Negroponte, whom President Bush installed less than two years ago as the first director of national intelligence, will soon leave his post to become the State Department's second-ranking official, administration officials said Wednesday.
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Associated Press:
Angry Nixon vowed to 'ruin' diplomatic corps … WASHINGTON (AP) — Embittered by career diplomats during his first term, President Nixon said he wanted to "ruin the Foreign Service" before leaving office, according to newly released State Department documents.
Discussion: Macsmind
Associated Press:
Negroponte stepping aside as top spy to become deputy secretary of state
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Fox News:
SHEEHAN, IRAQ WAR PROTESTERS BREAK UP HOUSE DEMOCRATS' PRESS CONFERENCE  —  Jan. 3: Peace activist Cindy Sheehan speaks on Capitol Hill.  —  WASHINGTON — Iraq war protesters broke up a press conference by House Democrats on Wednesday with chants to bring American troops home from Iraq.
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New York Times:
Ethics Overhaul Tops the Agenda in New Congress  —  On the brink of regaining power after 12 years, House Democrats said Wednesday that they would move immediately to try to sever ties between lawmakers and lobbyists who figured into scandals that helped Democrats win control of Congress.
David Edwards / The Raw Story:
Cindy Sheehan, anti-war activists interrupt Democratic press conference  —  Print page sponsored by Velvet Revolution.  —  While President Bush and his fellow Republican lawmakers have been the target of many protests since the invasion of Iraq in 2002, this time around …
Deborah Sontag / New York Times:
In Padilla Wiretaps, Murky View of 'Jihad' Case  —  In 1997, as the government listened in on their phone call, Adham Hassoun, a computer programmer in Broward County, Fla., proposed a road trip to Jose Padilla, a low-wage worker there.  The excursion to Tampa would be his treat, Mr. Hassoun said …
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Psikhushka  —  I have written before about this amazing essay, with which many of you are no doubt familiar.  It was written in December 2005, by former Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, who knows a lot about its subject —  torture.  —  Bukovsky was a very brave dissident and was widely touted …
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
U.S. Faces Major Hurdles in Prosecuting Padilla
Discussion: Associated Press and Daily Kos
Stephen Singer / Associated Press:
Lieberman Party Now in Hands of Critic  —  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - The party Sen. Joe Lieberman created to mount his independent re-election campaign has been seized by one of his critics, and the secretary of state's office said Wednesday that it won't challenge the takeover.
Discussion: SOTUblog
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Tony Mauro / LAW.com:
Rehnquist FBI File Sheds New Light on Drug Dependence, Confirmation Battles  —  The late Chief Justice William Rehnquist's Senate confirmation battles in 1971 and 1986 were more intense and political than previously known, according to a newly released FBI file that also offers dramatic …
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New York Sun:
Late Supreme Court Justice Hallucinated, Battled Addiction
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Christopher Drew / New York Times:
U.S. Bars Lab From Testing Electronic Voting  —  A laboratory that has tested most of the nation's electronic voting systems has been temporarily barred from approving new machines after federal officials found that it was not following its quality-control procedures and could not document that it was conducting all the required tests.
Discussion: CorrenteWire
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Bush Signals Budget Accord  —  President Bush promised yesterday to produce a plan to balance the federal budget in five years and challenged lawmakers to slash their special pet projects in half next year, embracing priorities of the new Democratic leadership that will assume control of Congress today.
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
The Right Minimum Wage  —  A federal minimum wage is an idea whose time came in 1938, when public confidence in markets was at a nadir and the federal government's confidence in itself was at an apogee.  This, in spite of the fact that with 19 percent unemployment and the economy contracting …
Dean Barnett / Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:
A Moment of Savagery - Now a New Hope?  —  If you're looking for a blogger to feel some pity for Saddam Hussein because his executioners were primitive and rude, you've come to the wrong place.  Punch up the Daily Kos and you'll find countless diarists eager to express some sympathy for this particular devil.
Discussion: Hot Air, Eschaton and Ace of Spades HQ
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Olivier Guitta / Counterterrorism Blog:
Did Moqtada Al Sadr take part in the actual hanging of Saddam Hussein?
Discussion: Hot Air
Ginny / Chicago Boyz:
We May be Biased Toward Hawks, but We've Become Doves  —  Pinker's brief contribution to the Edge's year-end treat gives a cheerful & progresive sense of proportion.  While acknowledging our historical tendency toward cruelty and barbarism, he describes a world more dovish.
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Mike Males / New York Times:
This Is Your Brain on Drugs, Dad  —  WHEN releasing last week's Monitoring the Future survey on drug use, John P. Walters, the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, boasted that "broad" declines in teenage drug use promise "enormous beneficial consequences not only for our children now …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Ezra Klein
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Jerry Taylor / Cato-at-liberty:
Drug War Update
John Darman / Newsweek:
What the Rudy Memo Missed  —  The Guiliani leak may be the least of his problems.  —  Rudy Giuliani is back on the front pages of the New York City tabloids, thanks to a juicy scandal straight out of junior high.  There's the misplaced binder (The New York Daily News published …
Discussion: New York Times and TalkLeft
BBC:
Belarus hits Russia with oil tax  —  Belarus has imposed big taxes on Russian oil pumped through its pipelines to customers in Europe.  —  The move comes three days after Belarus reluctantly agreed to demands by the Russian state energy giant, Gazprom, to a doubling of gas prices.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Joel Stein / Los Angeles Times:
Have something to say?  I don't care  —  Don't bother sending anything to that e-mail address below — because I don't care.  —  DON'T E-MAIL me.  —  That address on the bottom of this column?  That is the pathetic, confused death knell of the once-proud newspaper industry, and I want nothing to do with it.
Discussion: LA Observed
Ann Coulter / Human Events:
The Democratic Party: A Vast Sleeper Cell  —  Fortunately for liberals, the Iraqis executed Saddam Hussein the exact same week that former President Ford died, so it didn't seem strange that Nancy Pelosi's flag was at half-staff.  Also, Saddam's death made it less of a snub when Harry Reid skipped Ford's funeral.
 
 
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Brooke Hart / Business News:
NBC: Bush to call for more troops
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White House:
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
SMART, BUT WRONG  —  WHY W'S FIRING GEN. CASEY
Dominique Moïsi / Foreign Affairs:
The Clash of Emotions  —  Article preview: first 500 of 2,098 words total.
Discussion: Legal Fiction
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
McCain grumbles about having to build "the goddamned fence"
KC Johnson / Durham-in-Wonderland:
Duke Does the Right Thing
 Earlier Items: 
Ezra Klein / TAPPED:
THE GREAT RISK SHIFT: WAL-MART EDITION.  Wal-Mart is moving …
Discussion: Bradford Plumer and The RBC
Defense Tech:
THE LAW CATCHES UP TO PRIVATE MILITARIES, EMBEDS
TRex / Firedoglake:
Late Nite FDL: And They Call Us 'Unhinged', Partie Deux
James Vicini / Reuters:
FBI: Guantanamo interrogator squatted over Koran
Times of London:
Young celebrate freedom in a city where fear is still lurking
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Digby / Hullabaloo:
The Healing Process  —  Following up on my post below …
David Lat / Abovethelaw.com:
Justice John Paul Stevens: And He's Telling You He's Not Going