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8:00 AM ET, March 25, 2007

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Times of London:
Iran 'to try Britons for espionage'  —  FIFTEEN British sailors and marines arrested by Iran's Revolutionary Guards off the coast of Iraq may be charged with spying.  —  A website run by associates of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, reported last night that the Britons would be put before a court and indicted.
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Brian Brady / Scotsman:
Blair convenes Cobra team as crisis in Iran escalates  —  THE official notification, delivered in secure calls yesterday morning to senior Whitehall figures, was the latest dramatic behind-the-scenes move to get to grips with a crisis that is now engulfing the government.
Discussion: Riehl World View
Ali Akbar Dareini / Associated Press:   Iran: UK Troops Illegally Entered Waters
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Iran To Violate The Geneva Convention
Discussion: The Belmont Club and Samizdata.net
Fars News Agency:   British Marines Were Fully Aware of Presence in Iran's Waters
New York Times:
For Gonzales, More Records, and Questions  —  An accumulating body of evidence is at odds with the statements of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales that he played little role in the deliberations over the dismissal of eight United States attorneys.  —  Mr. Gonzales has said he did not take part …
Discussion: GINA COBB, The Heretik and TalkLeft
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E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Inserting Politics Into Justice  —  The senator vigorously rejected the president's claim of executive privilege.  "I find this extraordinary and troublesome," he said, "and I think it will ultimately be damaging to the president. . . . This is an attempt to stonewall our committee, and the public will be outraged."
Robert Kuttner / Boston Globe:
Gonzales should be impeached  —  THE HOUSE of Representatives should begin impeachment proceedings against Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.  —  Gonzales, the nation's highest legal officer, has been point man for serial assaults against the rule of law, most recently in the crude attempt to politicize criminal prosecutions.
Crooks and Liars:   A Decision The President Alone Must Justify
Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press:
Documents Show Gonzales Approved Firings
Discussion: Big Lizards and News Bloggers Blog
Jim Dwyer / New York Times:
N.Y. Police Spied Broadly Before G.O.P. Convention  —  For at least a year before the 2004 Republican National Convention, teams of undercover New York City police officers traveled to cities across the country, Canada and Europe to conduct covert observations of people who planned to protest …
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Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:   Spying For Bush: Bloomberg Used NYPD To Surveil Protesters
Alison Leigh Cowan / New York Times:
Play About Iraq War Divides a Connecticut School  —  Student productions at Wilton High School range from splashy musicals like last year's "West Side Story," performed in the state-of-the-art, $10 million auditorium, to weightier works like Arthur Miller's "Crucible," on stage last fall in the school's smaller theater.
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Pachacutec / Firedoglake:
Late Nite FDL: Wilton High School  —  Photo by Christopher Capozziello for The New York Times  —  Good on ya, kids: … There's a very good account in this article of all the ways the kids tried to amend the play's content to make it acceptable to the Lieberman voters who killed the production …
Discussion: NO QUARTER
Farhad Manjoo / Salon:
MoveOn moves in with Pelosi  —  The netroots group's support proved crucial to passage of the Democrats' Iraq spending plan.  But antiwar activists say MoveOn has been co-opted by its access to power.  —  When Eli Pariser, the executive director of MoveOn.org, looks at the Iraq spending bill …
Discussion: The Mahablog
Zbigniew Brzezinski / Washington Post:
Terrorized by 'War on Terror'  —  How a Three-Word Mantra Has Undermined America  —  The "war on terror" has created a culture of fear in America.  The Bush administration's elevation of these three words into a national mantra since the horrific events of 9/11 has had a pernicious impact …
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Rice Hints at U.S. Peace Push on Mideast  —  In making her fourth trip to the Middle East in four months to try to breathe life into dormant Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has opened the door to the possibility that the United States might offer …
Discussion: TPMCafe blogs and The Corner
Townhall.com:
Bill Bennett  • Mike Gallagher  • Dennis Prager  • Michael Medved  • Hugh Hewitt  —  Partisans in the quarrel of Bush vs. Congress have the satisfaction of knowing that weighty arguments can be made in behalf of either position.  Presidential immunity respecting …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters and Macsmind
Hotline On Call:
McCain: We Won't Meet Fundraising Goals  —  GRAFTON CO., NH — Sen. John McCain said his presidential campaign would not meet its fundraising goals this quarter, and his campaign advisers acknowledged that ex-MA Gov. Mitt Romney may wind up raising more.  —  "We're going to pay a price …
Discussion: Don Surber and The Right's Field
Michael Fricklas / Washington Post:
Our Case Against YouTube  —  Viacom initiated litigation against YouTube and Google this month for their long-standing infringement of Viacom's copyrights.  Our action has stirred discussion about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and quite a lot of confusion.  —  First, let's narrow the debate.
Garance Franke-Ruta / TAPPED:
A FINAL WORD ON HILLARY.  For this round of the debate, at least.  Let me begin with an anecdote.  A bunch of us Tappers went for drinks the other day, and Hillary Clinton came up.  It was a mixed crowd, but, reflecting the magazine's writing employees, mainly men.
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