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7:40 PM ET, January 13, 2007

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New York Times:
Military Expands Domestic Surveillance  —  The Pentagon has been using a little-known power to obtain banking and credit records of hundreds of Americans and others suspected of terrorism or espionage inside the United States, part of an aggressive expansion by the military into domestic intelligence gathering.
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Rod Dreher: "Hadn't the hippies tried to tell my generation this"?  —  (updated below)  —  Rod Dreher is as conservative as it gets — a contributor to National Review and the Corner, a current columnist for The Dallas Morning News, a self-described "practicing Christian and political conservative."
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Maha / The Mahablog:
Betrayal  —  Per Glenn Greenwald, don't miss this audio essay by rightie Rod Dreher. … Like so many loyal soldiers of movement conservatism, Dreher's earliest political memories are of the Carter Administration and the Iranian hostage crisis, followed by the triumphant ascension of Ronald Reagan.
Jonathan Zasloff / The RBC:   Vietnam, the Democrats and foreign policy
Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
Official Attacks Top Law Firms Over Detainees  —  The senior Pentagon official in charge of military detainees suspected of terrorism said in an interview this week that he was dismayed that lawyers at many of the nation's top firms were representing prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba …
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Jeralyn Merritt / The Huffington Post:
Keeping an Eye on Cully Stimson
Discussion: PBD
Carla Marinucci / San Francisco Chronicle:
Boxer comments to Rice draw fire from the right  —  Senator says she won't apologize for 'strong message'  —  Was Sen. Barbara Boxer's heated confrontation this week with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice a case of "vicious" feminine politics — as some critics have suggested — or merely the politics of frank talk in tough times?
Discussion: Neptunus Lex
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Boxer: I spoke "truth to power" …
Discussion: Ed Driscoll.com
Los Angeles Times:
Iraqi leader goes own way to fill top post  —  He picks an unknown to lead forces in Baghdad, which raises questions about his motives.  —  BAGHDAD — Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has filled the top military job in Baghdad with a virtually unknown officer chosen over the objections …
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Nancy Trejos / Washington Post:
Battling With Sadr for Iraqi Soldiers' Hearts  —  BAGHDAD — The Iraqi soldiers broke into chants to commemorate the 86th anniversary of the creation of their army.  —  "Muhammad, Haider, Fatima, Hasan and Husayn!" shouted a group of dancing soldiers, bellowing the names of the prophet …
60 Minutes Sunday:
Expert Admits "Big Error" In Duke Case  —  (CBS) The forensic expert hired by the prosecutor in the Duke rape case says he made a "big error" in judgment by not stating in his report that the only DNA he found on the accuser was from several men who were not on the Duke lacrosse team.
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Pajamas Media:
ERITREA SIDES WITH AL-QAEDA IN SOMALIA  —  A Pajamas Media Exclusive by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross.  —  Eritrea has deployed some two thousand troops to fight alongside Somalia's al-Qaeda linked Islamic Courts Union, Pajamas Media has learned.  —  Thus, Ethiopia and the United States …
Discussion: Counterterrorism Blog
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Final Islamist Collapse In Somalia (Updated)
Discussion: Jay Reding.com
BBC:
Last Somali Islamist base 'falls'
Discussion: ThreatsWatch
Guardian:
'The jihad now is against the Shias, not the Americans'  —  As 20,000 more US troops head for Iraq, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, the only correspondent reporting regularly from behind the country's sectarian battle lines, reveals how the Sunni insurgency has changed  —  One morning a few weeks ago …
Discussion: Majikthise
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
In hindsight, Sunni jihadis not sure killing Shiites was such a good idea
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ and QandO
Anne Gearan / Associated Press:
Rice says U.S. won't pull plug on Iraq  —  JERUSALEM - Americans' skepticism about Iraq will not change until they see progress, but the U.S. will not "pull the plug" on the war, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said.  —  Rice, at the start of a Mideast trip, would not detail any backup strategy …
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Haaretz:
Rice: I am not coming to Middle East with a plan
Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton Calls Situation in Iraq 'Heartbreaking'  —  Senator Spoke Out Against the President's Policy in Iraq  —  In an exclusive interview with ABC News in Baghdad, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., called the situation in Iraq "heartbreaking" and said she doubts Congress …
Daniela Deane / Washington Post:
Bush Lashes Out at Opponents on Iraq Plan  —  President Bush fought back at lawmakers opposing his new plan for Iraq today, charging that simply being against the strategy without suggesting alternatives was "irresponsible."  He challenged them to come up with a better plan.
Opinion Journal:
The Berger Files  —  The case of the purloined archives gets stranger all the time.  —  The more we learn about Sandy Berger's brilliant career as a document thief, the clearer it becomes that there is plenty we still don't know and may never learn.  On Tuesday, the House Government Reform …
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard and Power Line
Mark Kleiman / The RBC:
A coup in Baghad?  —  Yesterday, trying to figure out why Mr. Bush and his crew think the escalation in Iraq might have a chance to work, I speculated that replacing Nouri al-Maliki might be part of the plan.  Today, that doesn't seem so speculative.  —  Here's John Burns on CNN (emphases added):
Rick Klein / Boston Globe:
Democrats may push to shutter war prisons  —  Party leaders say they'll cut funding  —  WASHINGTON — House Democratic leaders yesterday outlined plans to try to force the Bush administration to close the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba …
Beth Fouhy / Associated Press:
Obama, Clinton making 2008 moves  —  NEW YORK - Democratic Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record), a pair of front-runners in waiting, have shown fresh signs in recent days of joining the 2008 race, hiring senior aides while they court potential supporters in Iowa, New Hampshire and other key states.
Thomas Harding / Telegraph:
Terrorists 'use Google maps to hit UK troops'  —  Royal Green Jackets provide 'top cover' from their Bulldog armoured vehicle outside Basra Palace  —  Terrorists attacking British bases in Basra are using aerial footage displayed by the Google Earth internet tool to pinpoint their attacks, say Army intelligence sources.
Discussion: Defense Tech
 
 
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