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9:45 PM ET, March 16, 2007

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Editor and Publisher:
White House Security Chief Reveals — No Probe of Plame Leak There  —  NEW YORK Dr. James Knodell, director of the Office of Security at the White House, told a congressional committee today that he was aware of no internal investigation or report into the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame.
Discussion: Firedoglake, The Gavel and NewsHog
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Jesse Lee / The Gavel:
Hearing on Disclosure of CIA Identity:No White House Investigation  —  No White House Investigation  —  The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is holding a hearing on whether White House officials followed appropriate procedures for safeguarding the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson.
Faiz / Think Progress:
VIDEO: Valerie Plame Confirms Her Covert Status Prior To Novak Leak  —  This morning, in her testimony under oath before the House Government and Oversight Committee, Valerie Plame Wilson asserted that she was in fact a covert officer at the time that columnist Robert Novak revealed her employment at the CIA.
CNN:
Valerie Plame Wilson: I worked on secret missions … WASHINGTON (CNN) — Valerie Plame Wilson was called to testify Friday before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform about her work at the CIA before her covert identity was revealed.  Here is a transcript of her opening statement.
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Plame On!  —  Let's get into the Plame hearing conducted by Rep. Waxman today.  —  Matt Apuzzo of the AP deserves the props we gave him - this story seems to hit the key controversies and presents both sides.  Here we go:  —  (1) Was Valerie involved in sending Joe?
David Stout / New York Times:
Subject of C.I.A. Leak Testifies on Capitol Hill
Discussion: Althouse
The Nation:
Valerie Plame Speaks—Finally—About CIA Leak Case
Discussion: NO QUARTER
Nico / Think Progress:
CIA Director Hayden: 'Wilson Was Covert'
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Donklephant
The Raw Story:
Plame hearing transcript
Discussion: The BRAD BLOG
David Corn:
Valerie Plame Speaks
Discussion: JustOneMinute and Booman Tribune
CBS News:
Will Gonzales Fall For Attorney Firings?  —  Sources: AG's Ouster Is Inevitable; Fired Attorney Blames Partisan Politics  —  (CBS/AP) One of the eight recently fired U.S. attorneys at the center of a growing political scandal tells CBS News that he lost his job because he "did not play ball" with powerful Republicans.
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Nico / Think Progress:
Gonzales Gave Kyle Sampson New Justice Dept. Office After His Supposed 'Resignation'  —  Attorney General Alberto Gonzales planned to install his former aide Kyle Sampson as a lawyer in the Justice Department's environment division even after Sampson's "resignation," NPR reported today.
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
White House Backs Off on Miers Scenario
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
New York Times:
White House Now Unsure if Firings Were Miers's Idea
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
White House murky on prosecutor firings
Associated Press:
White House cites 'hazy memories' on attorney firings
Discussion: Sister Toldjah
Ronald Brownstein / Los Angeles Times:
Fox hounded  —  How the Democrats are turning on Fox News.  —  In the history of capitalism has any company had more success with just a wink and a nod than the Fox News Channel?  And can Democrats be successful in the 2008 campaign by refusing to wink or nod back?
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Nitpicker:
Dance, Foxholes, Dance!  —  In the light of Fox News scrambling to maintain the thinnest veneer of "balance" after Democrats refused to lend them respectability, I thought it might be time to point out something I witnessed first hand as a public affairs sergeant in Afghanistan.  I call it the "Fox News Two Step."
Discussion: MyDD and Daily Kos
Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press:
FBI: Extremists Driving School Buses  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - Suspected members of extremist groups have signed up as school bus drivers in the United States, counterterror officials said Friday, in a cautionary bulletin to police.  An FBI spokesman said, "Parents and children have nothing to fear."
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Fox News:
FBI PUTS LOCAL OFFICIALS ON NOTICE ABOUT EXTREMISTS TRYING TO SIGN UP TO BE SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS  —  WASHINGTON — The FBI has issued an "informational bulletin" to state and local officials saying to watch out for people tied to extremist groups trying to earn licenses to drive school buses.
Discussion: Jihad Watch and Confederate Yankee
Eric Pianin / Campaign Trail:
McCain is stumped on the stump  —  It's not often that a reporter stumps John McCain.  But it happened Friday, and it was a telling moment for the Republican presidential contender.  —  The bus had been rolling for a half-hour and McCain was holding court on everything from Iraq to college basketball.
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Adam Nagourney / The Caucus:   McCain Stumbles on H.I.V. Prevention
Bryan Bender / Boston Globe:
General seeks another brigade in Iraq  —  WASHINGTON — The top US commander in Iraq has requested another Army brigade, in addition to five already on the way, as part of the controversial "surge" of American troops designed to clamp down on sectarian violence and insurgent groups, senior Pentagon officials said yesterday.
New York Post:
BILL RIPS TIMES' HILL BASHING  —  THE long love affair between Bill and Hillary Clinton and The New York Times seems to be over.  —  At a fund-raiser Tuesday night at the Trump World Tower apartment of mortgage mogul Keith Kantrowitz, the former president spoke for two hours to a select group …
Lara Setrakian / ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: Duke Lacrosse Accuser Not Answering Investigators' Key Questions  —  With the Investigation in Its Final Weeks, Sources Say Neither the Accuser Nor the Second Dancer Have Fully Cooperated With Special Prosecutors  —  Law & Justice Unit  —  The woman who accused three members …
 
 
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Romney's words grow hard on immigration
Discussion: The Caucus and The Swamp
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Will Dunham / Reuters:
Immense ice deposits found at south pole of Mars
The Raw Story:
45,000-member evangelical group breaks ranks with Bush administration on torture
 

 
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
G/O Media sells The Onion to Global Tetrahedron, a new Chicago firm owned by former Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson; former NBC News senior reporter Ben Collins is CEO

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Memo: CNN's Poppy Harlow is leaving the network; she joined in 2008 and most recently co-hosted CNN This Morning, which was effectively canceled earlier in 2024

Financial Times:
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