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11:50 AM ET, March 20, 2007

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Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
TPM Needs YOU to Comb Through Thousands of Pages  —  Josh and I were just discussing how in the world we are ever going to make our way through 3,000 pages when it hit us: we don't have to.  Our readers can help.  —  So here's what we're going to do.  This comment thread will be our HQ for sorting through tonight's document dump.
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Washington Post:
Fitzgerald Ranked During Leak Case  —  U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald was ranked among prosecutors who had "not distinguished themselves" on a Justice Department chart sent to the White House in March 2005, when he was in the midst of leading the CIA leak investigation that resulted …
Associated Press:
Bush affirms support for Gonzales  —  WASHINGTON - President Bush sent a powerful message of support Tuesday for embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, calling his longtime friend to express support in the face of calls for his resignation.  —  The White House also denied reports …
New York Times:
New E-Mail Gives Details on Attorney Dismissals  —  Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales was "extremely upset" that his deputy told Congress last month that a federal prosecutor had been fired for no reason, according to e-mail released Monday by the Justice Department.
Mike Allen / The Politico:
White House Seeking Gonzales Replacements  —  Republican officials operating at the behest of the White House have begun seeking a possible successor to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, whose support among GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill has collapsed, according to party sources familiar with the discussions.
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Sittin' Purty In The Catbird Seat  —  Well, well, well.  Look who was on the list for potential firing as a US Attorney: (H/T to Peterr for sending me the link on this) … Do the words Saturday Night Massacre under cover of other firings have meaning for anyone else?
Discussion: Discourse.net and Law Blog
New York Times:
Material Shows Weakening of Climate Reports  —  A House committee released documents Monday that showed hundreds of instances in which a White House official who was previously an oil industry lobbyist edited government climate reports to play up uncertainty of a human role in global warming or play down evidence of such a role.
Discussion: The Impolitic and Liberal Values
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Eric Pfeiffer / Washington Times:
Climate scientist sees cover-up
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere
Chris Mooney / The Huffington Post:
NASA, Political Interference, and the Vindication of James Hansen
Discussion: Gristmill and The Intersection
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup Poll:
Giuliani Top Choice Among Both Moderate, Conservative Republicans  —  Gingrich, Romney do better among conservatives than moderates  —  PRINCETON, NJ — With the 2008 Republican presidential field beginning to come into shape, there are still questions and apparent opportunities for a favorite "conservative" candidate to emerge.
Discussion: TAPPED and The Moderate Voice
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Steven Thomma / Real Cities:
Obama more liberal than Kucinich, analysis reveals  —  WASHINGTON - The most liberal member of Congress running for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination isn't Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio.  —  It's Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois.  —  And the Republican candidate who's grown less conservative over his years in Congress?
Roger Boyes / Times of London:
The abandoned cub who faces death sentence  —  A fluffy polar bear cub called Knut, who has become a media celebrity, should be given a lethal injection according to German zoologists, who say he has become too dependent on humans.  —  Their controversial claims have provoked a public outcry …
Discussion: The Impolitic and Barcepundit
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Protect The Polar Bears By Killing Them
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
Elaine Sciolino / New York Times:
Russia Gives Iran Ultimatum on Enrichment  —  Russia has informed Iran that it will withhold nuclear fuel for Iran's nearly completed Bushehr power plant unless Iran suspends its uranium enrichment as demanded by the United Nations Security Council, European, American and Iranian officials said.
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Clinton, Obama Camps Spar on War  —  A brewing argument over Iraq between the presidential campaigns of Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama broke into public view here Monday night when Clinton's chief strategist challenged Obama's credentials as a consistent opponent of the war.
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Rick Klein / Boston Globe:
Obama's record shows caution, nuance on Iraq
Discussion: The Caucus and TIME
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
G.O.P. Candidates Confront Immigration Politics  —  Immigration, an issue that has divided Republicans in Washington, is reverberating across the party's presidential campaign field, causing particular complications for Senator John McCain of Arizona.  —  The topic came up repeatedly …
John Solomon / Washington Post:
FBI Issues New Rules For Getting Phone Records  —  The FBI, which has been criticized for improperly gathering telephone records in terrorism cases, has told its agents they may still ask phone companies to voluntarily hand over toll records in emergencies by using a new set of procedures, officials said yesterday.
Discussion: The Heretik
Jonah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
Betraying their base — the Democrats can do it too  —  IT'S IRONIC.  Republicans by most accounts got trounced in the last election because they "lost their way."  The latest cover of Time magazine even has a picture of Ronald Reagan crying like that American Indian from the old anti-pollution ads of the 1970s.
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and Betsy's Page
 
 
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Dave Wedge / Boston Herald:
Mitt's Commie phrase sparks rage
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Morning in America  —  To understand how much the Iraq war …
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Gordon Cucullu / New York Post:
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Communist Party USA Gives Its History to N.Y.U.
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
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Kevin J. O'Brien / International Herald Tribune:
Magazine publishers see future, but no profit, in shift to Internet
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Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Tortured Credibility
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
DELTA AND ME: Okay, my various cryptic references to Delta …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
When Obama failed to call, N.J. donors went to Clinton
Discussion: The Caucus
David S. Cloud / New York Times:
Army Brigade Finds Itself Stretched Thin
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Richard Kerbaj / The Australian:
Extremist students take over mosque
Kevin Krolicki / Reuters:
Houses cheaper than cars in Detroit
Discussion: On Deadline
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Up in Smoke at the High Court
Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Saddam's former deputy hanged in Iraq
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
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