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11:15 PM ET, January 23, 2007

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Think Progress:
BREAKING: Libby Destroyed Evidence Prior To Testifying, Cheney 'Deeply Involved'  —  Under oath, Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff Scooter Libby told a grand jury that he first learned that Joe Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA agent from conversations with the media.
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Holy Moly  —  Norah O'Donnell is asking Andy Card and Leon Panetta if the president is going to have to ask Dick Cheney to resign as a result of what's being alleged at the Libby Trial.  (They both punted.)  —  If that's the beltway chatter, look for the Republican noise machine to go into high gear.
Washington Post:
Defense Attorney Paints Libby as Scapegoat  —  I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was "put through the meat grinder" by the White House shortly after the Iraq war began, scapegoated to cloak the leak of a CIA officer's identity to the media by presidential adviser Karl Rove, Libby's lawyer contended today as Libby's perjury trial began.
Emptywheel / Firedoglake:
Libby Liveblog: Wells' Opening Statement, Part Two  —  Picking up after lunch.  —  To remind you of housekeeping.  This is not a transcript.  It is as close as I can get.  —  And I'll timestamp my updates.  I'll try to update every 15 minutes.  So don't overtax the servers by trying to update every two minutes.
Discussion: JustOneMinute, TAPPED and TalkLeft
Emptywheel / Firedoglake:
Libby Liveblog: Fitzgerald's Opening Statement
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Emptywheel / Firedoglake:
Libby Liveblog: Well's Opening Statement, Part One
Discussion: TalkLeft and Booman Tribune
Emptywheel / Firedoglake:   Libby Liveblog: Other Issues
Richard B. Schmitt / Los Angeles Times:
Opening statements in Libby trial paint different portraits
Discussion: Bench Conference
Think Progress:
Embargoed: State of the Union Text  —  We'll start respecting White House embargoes when they start telling the truth.  —  Embargoed Until Delivery of the State of the Union Address at 9:01 PM EST  —  January 23, 2007  —  STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS  —  As Prepared For Delivery
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Drudge Report:
EXCLUSIVE: FULL STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH  —  Madam Speaker, Vice President Cheney, Members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens:  —  This rite of custom brings us together at a defining hour - when decisions are hard and courage is tested.
Robert Mayer / Publius Pundit:   DEMOCRACY AS FOREIGN POLICY DYING, BUT NOT DEAD
Drudge Report:
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8:45pm ET]  —  Good evening.  —  I'm Senator Jim Webb, from Virginia, where this year we will celebrate the 400th anniversary of the settlement of Jamestown - an event that marked the first step in the long journey that has made us the greatest and most prosperous nation on earth.
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Abu Kais / From Beirut to the Beltway:
Hizbullah, Aoun unleash terror on Lebanon — continuous updates  —  Hundreds of masked men are setting fire to tires and dumpsters after filling them with fuel in Beirut and other areas.  Eyewitnesses told me that they saw bulldozers assisting the protestors by shoveling dirt and dumping it on some of the roads.
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John Byrne / The Raw Story:
Liberal talk show host trashes Clinton's staff  —  Fargo's liberal talker Ed Schultz broke out enraged against the staff of Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) in remarks broadcast Monday — and then met this morning with Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), RAW STORY has learned.  A Schultz aide said the meeting was long planned.
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Dean Barnett / Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:
FAQ - The State of the Union Address!  —  1) So what's going to happen tonight?  —  The only thing we can really know for sure is that Peggy Noonan will hate the speech.  Unless of course she wrote it.  Then she'll like it.  Except for the delivery.  —  2) Surely we know more about what's to come than that.
Discussion: JURIST and Blogs of War
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Washington Wire:
From the President, a Two-Letter Jab at the Democrats  —  President Bush departed from the prepared text of his State of the Union address to graciously congratulate Nancy Pelosi on her history-making selection as the first female Speaker of the House.  Then he departed from the prepared text …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:   Webb Offers Blunt Challenge to Bush
Washington Post:
Petraeus Confident in New Iraq Strategy  —  Lt. Gen. David Petraeus, President Bush's nominee to become the new top commander in Iraq, painted a grim picture today of the military challenge ahead in what both congressional Democrats and Republicans described as the "last chance" to stabilize the nation.
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Anne Flaherty / Associated Press:
Petraeus Says 'Tough Days' Ahead in Iraq
Discussion: Michelle Malkin
Ynetnews:
Iran: Israel, US will soon die  —  Ahmadinejad: Be assured that the US and Israel will soon end lives  —  Israel and the United States will soon be destroyed, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday during a meeting with Syria's foreign minister, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) website said in a report.
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere and Blogs of War
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Despite 1% Poll Standing, Brownback Is a Winner Among Antiabortion Right  —  Rep. Duncan Hunter walked into the Family Research Council's "Blog for Life" event yesterday at the start of the annual antiabortion march on the Mall.  Invited to the lectern, the California Republican gave a speech …
 
 
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Stephen Green / VodkaPundit:
SOTU Drunkblogging - LIVE!
Pundit Review Radio / BLACKFIVE:
WON'T SHIP TO IRAQ?  —  "We would NEVER ship to Iraq.
Atrios / Eschaton:
State of the Union  —  Lazy bastard pre-taped it so he could get to bed early.
Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
Subpoenas raise new questions
Discussion: TPMmuckraker, MyDD and CANNONFIRE
 Earlier Items: 
Howie Klein / Firedoglake:
BLUE AMERICA: A Chat with Senator Chris Dodd
Discussion: Beltway Blogroll
Steve Rosenthal / The Huffington Post:
They work for us - and we won't let them forget it!
Associated Press:
'Smoking gun' report to say global warming here
Jay Carney / Swampland:
Re: The Clinton Playbook
Confederate Yankee:
CRACKDOWN: Iraqi PM Locks Down Official Media Access to Key Government Ministries
 

 
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Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
The Financial Times signs a deal with OpenAI to train AI models on the publisher's archived content and to let ChatGPT reply with short summaries of FT articles

The Hollywood Reporter:
Paramount CEO Bob Bakish steps down; Brian Robbins, Chris McCarthy, and George Cheeks will run Paramount on an interim basis as an “Office of the CEO”

Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Shari Redstone agreed to take less than $2B for her Paramount stake as part of Skydance's “best and final” offer, lower than what was initially offered

 
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