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1:00 PM ET, March 8, 2007

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Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:
A Verdict on the Wilson Affair  —  Denis Collins, a Washington journalist on the Scooter Libby jury, described sentiments in the jury room reflecting those in the Senate Democratic cloakroom: "It was said a number of times. . . . Where's Rove?  Where are these other guys?"
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Washington Post:
Bush Deflects Pressure To Give Libby a Pardon  —  Clemency Before 2008 Election Could Be Politically Risky  —  President Bush said yesterday that he is "pretty much going to stay out of" the case of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby until the legal process has run its course, deflecting pressure …
MSNBC:
Juror calls on Bush to pardon Libby
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David Espo / Associated Press:
House Democrats to unveil Iraq war plan  —  WASHINGTON - In a direct challenge to President Bush, House Democrats are advancing legislation requiring the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the fall of next year.  —  Democratic officials who described the measure said the timetable …
David Espo / Associated Press:
Democrats to propose troop withdrawal from Iraq by fall of 2008
Discussion: The Impolitic
Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:
GETTING PORKED ('07)  —  The just-released "2007 Pig Book" from the group Citizens Against Government Waste should be a bit embarrassing (it definitely would be, in a sane world) to congress members loudly bemoaning the treatment of troops at Walter Reed.  —  While un-armored Iraq …
Discussion: The Corner and The Caucus
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Nico / Think Progress:
CONFIRMED: Top House Spending Official Knew Of Walter Reed Squalor  —  Congressional Quarterly confirms today that senior House conservatives, including the chairmen of the appropriations and oversight committees, knew about the neglect and deplorable conditions at Walter Reed years before they were exposed by the Washington Post.
Seth Stern / CQ.com:
Members Were Aware of Lapses at Walter Reed  —  Senior Republicans who knew about problems at Walter Reed Army Medical Center while their party controlled Congress insist they did all they could to prod the Pentagon to fix them.  —  But C.W. Bill Young, R-Fla., former chairman …
Discussion: AMERICAblog
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
New York Label May Not Fit All in Giuliani Run  —  When Republicans say they are skeptical that Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, can survive their party's presidential nominating process, they usually point to his record of support for abortion rights, gay rights and gun control.
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Ian Bishop / New York Post:   RUDY HAS HILL'S NUMBER
Cpl. Matt Sanchez / Cpl Matt Sanchez:
Salon.com  —  Was I totally clueless?  When I stepped forward to talk about an anti-military bias at Columbia of course I knew my life would come under some scrutiny.  We hear it everyday, with the universality of the internet, it's impossible to have privacy.
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Matt Sanchez / Salon:
Porn free  —  Left-wing blogs gleefully outed my gay porn past after I criticized antiwar zealots.  But the truth has set me free.  —  Was I totally clueless?  When I stepped forward in late 2005 to talk about anti-military attitudes at New York's Columbia University, I knew my past might be put under the microscope.
New York Times:
Buildup in Iraq Needed Into '08, U.S. General Says  —  The day-to-day commander of American forces in Iraq has recommended that the heightened American troop levels there be maintained through February 2008, military officials said Wednesday.  —  The White House has never said exactly …
New York Times:
The Gonzales Eight  —  Americans often suspect that their political leaders are arrogant and out of touch.  But even then it is nearly impossible to fathom what self-delusion could have convinced Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico that he had a right to call a federal prosecutor at home …
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David Johnston / New York Times:
Inquiry Into Ouster of U.S. Attorneys Moves Toward Subpoenas at Justice Department
Discussion: The Democratic Daily
Dafna Linzer / Washington Post:
Former Iranian Defense Official Talks to Western Intelligence  —  A former Iranian deputy defense minister who once commanded the Revolutionary Guard has left his country and is cooperating with Western intelligence agencies, providing information on Hezbollah and Iran's ties to the organization, according to a senior U.S. official.
Bill Carter / New York Times:
Producer for Katie Couric Out at CBS News  —  The shake-ups at the evening newscasts continued last night.  —  In the latest disruption, CBS News replaced Rome Hartman, the executive producer of the "Evening News with Katie Couric," with the long-time TV news executive and producer Rick Kaplan …
Discussion: CBS News, Wizbang and Romenesko
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Jim Henley / Unqualified Offerings:
There's Your Trouble, the Continuing Series  —  I'll try to play the "Look Through Your March 2003 Archives" game this weekend.  Meantime, Gene Healy shows that, as I'd have suspected, he has nothing much to be ashamed of on that score himself.  He also links to a Glenn Reynolds auto-retrospective that includes the sentence:
 
 
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Michael Barone / US News:
Lawmaker's Intervention in Law Enforcement Crosses Line
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
After Libby Trial, New Era for Government and Press
Mike Lux / The Huffington Post:
The Democratic Divide  —  In a two-party, winner-take-all system …
Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution:
Unions really really don't matter that much these days...
Debra Burlingame / Opinion Journal:
Gitmo's Guerrilla Lawyers
The Politico:
RudyTube 1993: Rudy and Donna
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and Gawker
Joe Kovacs / WorldNetDaily:
'Naughty hottie' has sex with 'God' on TV
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ and Hot Air
The Smoking Gun:
Feds Seek To Gag D.C. Madam
 Earlier Items: 
Christian Bottorff / Tennessean.com:
More Tennessee women carry guns
Discussion: ¡No Pasarán!
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
'Common Ground' Caucus
Discussion: TalkLeft and CorrenteWire
James Norton / The Somerville News:
Obama finally pays local parking tickets
Advocate:
Why we need a federal hate-crimes law—and why we can get it
Andrew C. Revkin / New York Times:
Memos Tell Officials How to Discuss Climate
Discussion: 27B Stroke 6 and AMERICAblog
Michael Powell / New York Times:
Next for the C.I.A.'s Least Secret Officer: A Quieter Life
Discussion: Hot Air
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Jailed Man Is A Videographer And a Blogger but Is He a Journalist?
Kevin Allison / Financial Times:
Gates warns on US immigration curbs
 

 
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