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8:00 AM ET, March 30, 2007

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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Taking One for the Team, When He Could Remember  —  Kyle Sampson, the former chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, was in his fourth hour testifying yesterday about the firing of federal prosecutors when Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy cut him off.
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Alan Cooperman / Washington Post:
Bush Loyalist Rose Quickly at Justice  —  When a college intern in the Justice Department whined that all he was doing was filing and answering phones, Monica M. Goodling took him aside.  If he wanted to do "substantive work," she told him, he was going to have to prove himself first.
Washington Post:
Ex-Aide Contradicts Gonzales on Firings  —  Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales was more deeply involved in the firings of eight U.S. attorneys than he has sometimes acknowledged, and Gonzales and his aides have made a series of inaccurate claims about the issue in recent weeks …
New York Times:
Ex-Aide Rejects Gonzales Stand Over Dismissals  —  The former chief of staff to Alberto R. Gonzales testified on Thursday that he had consulted regularly with the attorney general about dismissing United States attorneys, disputing Mr. Gonzales's public account of his role as very limited.
Discussion: ScrappleFace
Nico / Think Progress:
Conservatives shut down Sampson hearing?
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
William K. Rashbaum / New York Times:
Testimony by Giuliani Indicates He Was Briefed on Kerik in '00  —  Rudolph W. Giuliani told a grand jury that his former chief investigator remembered having briefed him on some aspects of Bernard B. Kerik's relationship with a company suspected of ties to organized crime before Mr. Kerik's appointment …
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
FOX NEWS POLL: MOST THINK DEMOCRATS WILL WIN WHITE HOUSE IN 2008  —  NEW YORK — The latest FOX News poll finds that Americans think the next person to move into the White House will be a Democrat, and while many voters would be enthusiastic or pleased if any one of the current front-runners were to win …
Larry McShane / Associated Press:
Giuliani faces questions about Sept. 11
Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
Gunmen Go On Rampage In Iraqi City  —  Killings Are Revenge For Blasts in Tall Afar  —  A day after twin truck bombings laid waste to predominantly Shiite neighborhoods in the northern Iraqi city of Tall Afar, marauding Shiite gunmen and police executed dozens of Sunnis in retaliatory attacks …
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Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:   More Than 100 Killed in Baghdad, Nearby Town
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Rosie melts down on "The View"  —  I'm not exaggerating when I say that this is the video against which all future Rosie clips will be compared.  Never has so much useful idiocy about so many subjects been compressed into so little time.  —  It's her finest hour.
Discussion: protein wisdom and Verum Serum
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Faiza Saleh Ambah / Washington Post:
Arabs Call on Israel To Take Peace Offer  —  Arab leaders on Thursday reiterated their offer to normalize ties with Israel and showed signs of flexibility in their terms for peace.  —  At a news conference at the end of a summit where the Arab leaders' peace plan was the main issue on the agenda …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
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Guardian:
Tehran raises the stakes in hostage crisis  —  Second 'confession' letter released questioning UK's presence in Iraq  —  The Iranian hostage crisis took a sinister turn last night when Tehran withdrew an earlier offer to release one of the 15 captive sailors and marines and issued a second …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Hostage update: Blair threatens to bring out the big gun …
Rebecca Traister / Salon:
Fox's Ann Coulter 2.0  —  Conserva-babe and star-in-the-making Rachel Marsden has a, um, colorful past.  What was Fox thinking?  —  "Maybe [Pakistani cricket fans] should focus less on cricket and a little more on hygiene," opined Rachel Marsden on a recent episode of Fox News' middle-of-the-night talk oddity "Red Eye."
Discussion: Firedoglake, Gawker and Cliff Schecter
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Giuliani Says Wife Could Go to Cabinet Meetings  —  Rudolph W. Giuliani says that if he were president, his wife would be permitted to attend cabinet meetings and advise him on federal policy, an unusually overt role in government decision-making for a first lady.
Discussion: TalkLeft
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Associated Press:
Giuliani, wife discuss White House roles
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Nico / Think Progress:
Boehner Repeatedly Mispronounces 'Tuskegee' During Congressional Ceremony  —  The Tuskegee airmen were the U.S. military's first group of African American fighter pilots, an elite unit that served with distinction during World War II only to return home to face to discrimination and harassment.
Discussion: Associated Press and fishwrap
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Which Is 'The Real War'?  —  "Our bill calls for the redeployment of U.S. troops out of Iraq so that we can focus more fully on the real war on terror, which is in Afghanistan."  —  The Senate and the House have both passed bills for ending the Iraq war, or at least liquidating the American involvement in it.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
 
 
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Owner apologizes to veterans
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Steven R. Hurst / Associated Press:
Shiite market bombings kill at least 122
Jesse Lee / The Gavel:
Following Up on the GSA Hearing
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
THE CASE OF THE FLYING IMAMS: CAIR SPEAKS
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Bush Meets Russian Faulted For Atrocities
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
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The Politico:
Fundraising Reports Not Likely To Pack Knockout in WH Race
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Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
FEAR, FEAR, FEAR....In the LA Times today, L.J. Williamson writes …
Kelly Thornton / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Chastized head of local FBI office anounces retirement
Kate Phillips / The Caucus:
Fox Sets 2 Debates With Congressional Black Caucus
Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:
The "Readers' Representative" …
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