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12:40 PM ET, March 23, 2007

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Washington Post:
E-Mails Show Machinations to Replace Prosecutor  —  Administration Worked for Months to Make Rove Aide U.S. Attorney in Arkansas  —  Two months before Bud Cummins was fired as U.S. attorney in Little Rock, a protege of presidential adviser Karl Rove was maneuvering with the Justice Department to take his place.
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
An Inside-the-Bushies Mentality  —  If you read the obituary pages of The Post each morning, you encounter the kinds of people who are being trashed by the Bush administration's contempt for public servants.  On a typical day, perhaps a third of the obits feature such people …
David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
A history of replacing U.S. attorneys
Discussion: Political Animal and Firedoglake
Robert Barr / Associated Press:
Iran nabs British sailors in Iraq waters  —  LONDON - Iranian naval vessels seized 15 British sailors who had boarded a ship suspected of smuggling cars in the Persian Gulf off the Iraqi coast on Friday, officials said.  —  The British government demanded "the immediate and safe return of our people and equipment."
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Reuters:
Iran seizes British navy personnel in Iraqi waters  —  LONDON (Reuters) - Iran captured fifteen British Royal Navy personnel during a "routine boarding operation" in Iraqi waters on Friday, Britain's Ministry of Defense said.  —  Iran's ambassador in London has been summoned and Britain …
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere
Sky News:
British Forces Held By Iran
Discussion: NewsHog and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
Sarah Lyall / New York Times:   Iran Detains British Sailors in Iraq Waters
Austin Bay Blog:
Michael Yon threatened with expulsion by a general  —  This is stupid.  Michael Yon and Bill Roggio are the best out there.  Telling Michael Yon to exit the theater is the WWII equivalent of telling Ernie Pyle to quit filing dispatches.  —  Everyone knows the PAO system has never …
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Washington Post:
Retreat and Butter  —  TODAY THE House of Representatives is due to vote on a bill that would grant $25 million to spinach farmers in California.  The legislation would also appropriate $75 million for peanut storage in Georgia and $15 million to protect Louisiana rice fields from saltwater.
New York Times:
Democrats Shore Up Support for Iraq Votes  —  For days, Democratic leaders have scrambled to shore up enough support to pass their Iraq legislation.  They delayed the final vote by a day, fearful that a few undecided lawmakers — on the left and right — could jeopardize their plan to set …
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
L.A. Editor Quits Over A Hollywood Connection  —  The editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times resigned yesterday after acknowledging a romantic relationship with a publicist for Brian Grazer, the Hollywood producer who had been tapped to serve as guest editor of the paper's opinion section on Sunday.
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Associated Press:
Ex-Interior No. 2 to plead guilty in Abramoff lobbying probe  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Deputy Interior Secretary Steven Griles will plead guilty to one count of obstruction of justice in the Jack Abramoff corruption investigation, The Associated Press has learned.
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
GAO Faults U.S. Military Over Munitions in Iraq  —  Report Says Insurgents Took Unsecured Explosives  —  The U.S. military's faulty war plans and insufficient troops in Iraq left thousands and possibly millions of tons of conventional munitions unsecured or in the hands of insurgent groups …
New York Times:
Army Revises Upward the Number of Desertions  —  A total of 3,196 active-duty soldiers deserted the Army last year, or 853 more than previously reported, according to revised figures from the Army.  —  The new calculations by the Army, which had about 500,000 active-duty troops at the end of 2006 …
Pew Research Center:
Trends in Political Values and Core Attitudes: 1987-2007  —  Political Landscape More Favorable To Democrats  —  Summary of Findings  —  View the complete report in pdf format  —  Increased public support for the social safety net, signs of growing public concern about income inequality …
New York Post:
H'WOOD'S 9/11 IDIOT BRIGADE  —  SOME celebrities don't know when to keep their traps shut - like Charlie Sheen and Rosie O'Donnell, who are throwing their weight behind the twisted theory that the United States government was behind the 9/11 terror attacks.  —  Page Six has learned that Sheen …
Joshua Kors / The Nation:
How Specialist Town Lost His Benefits  —  Jon Town has spent the last few years fighting two battles, one against his body, the other against the US Army.  Both began in October 2004 in Ramadi, Iraq.  He was standing in the doorway of his battalion's headquarters when a 107-millimeter rocket struck two feet above his head.
New York Times:
New to Pentagon, Gates Argued for Closing Guantánamo Prison  —  In his first weeks as defense secretary, Robert M. Gates repeatedly argued that the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, had become so tainted abroad that legal proceedings at Guantánamo would be viewed …
New York Times:
Edwards Says Wife's Cancer Has Returned  —  John Edwards, the North Carolina Democrat, said Thursday that his wife's cancer had returned in incurable form.  He proclaimed that he would continue his bid for the presidency, saying, "The campaign goes on strongly."
Discussion: TIME and PoliPundit.com
 
 
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