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11:00 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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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: Law Blog and ScrappleFace
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.
Los Angeles Times:   Former aide contradicts Gonzales
Political Radar:
White House Impatient With Gonzales?
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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Larry McShane / Associated Press:
Giuliani faces questions about Sept. 11  —  NEW YORK - Rudy Giuliani's White House aspirations are inescapably tied to Sept. 11, 2001 — for better and for worse.  —  While the former mayor of the nation's largest city was widely lionized for his post-9/11 leadership — "Churchillian" …
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Giuliani Says Wife Could Go to Cabinet Meetings
Discussion: TalkLeft
Washington Post:
Giuliani Sees Policy Role for Wife
Discussion: Althouse
Felicity Barringer / New York Times:
Report Says Interior Official Overrode Work of Scientists  —  A top-ranking official overseeing the Fish and Wildlife Service at the Interior Department rode roughshod over agency scientists, and decisions made on her watch may not survive court challenges, investigators within the Interior Department have found.
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:   Report Faults Interior Appointee
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.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Observations about John Harris' replies  —  The Politico's Editor-in-Chief, John Harris, has responded via e-mail to the posts I wrote earlier this week, as well as to questions I sent to Poliico reporter Mike Allen about the Politico/Drudge relationship (posted in the first link).
Richard Miniter / Washington Times:
Turkey, Iraq and the PKK  —  ANKARA, TURKEY.  —  When Iraq's vice president came to Turkey's capital on Tuesday to plead with the Turks not to invade northern Iraq to kill Kurdish terrorists, he spoke to the press in code.  —  The PKK is a Kurdish terrorist group that has killed some 30,000 Turks …
New York Times:
Presidential Candidates Focus on Fund-Raising  —  Forget campaigning.  Last week, Rudolph W. Giuliani held a presidential fund-raiser every day of the week.  Senator John McCain raised money at three events on Wednesday and another Thursday, racking up 27 this month alone.
Discussion: On Politics and First Read
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
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Policy Aide's Departure Continues Transformation of Bush's Staff  —  Over the past several years, Peter H. Wehner has sent a blizzard of e-mails around the White House and the rest of Washington, offering strategy and policy ideas to President Bush and making the case for those policies to outsiders.
Discussion: David Corn
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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Noam N. Levey / Los Angeles Times:
Iraq: It may be a rough road to a Senate-House compromise  —  WASHINGTON — Fresh from passing the first timelines to bring home U.S. troops from Iraq, congressional Democrats now face the daunting task of reconciling critical differences between a Senate withdrawal plan passed Thursday and one approved by the House last week.
Discussion: Sirotablog
Jose Antonio Vargas / Washington Post:
Grass Roots Planted In Cyberspace  —  John Edwards's Campaign Leads the Field In Political Use of Social Networking Sites  —  If there's a social networking site that John Edwards is not a part of, we'd like to know what it is, pronto.  —  No one's sure exactly what role these sites …
Washington Post:
Senate Sets Stage For Iraq Face-Off  —  Faced with his second rebuke in a week from congressional Democrats on Iraq policy, President Bush yesterday summoned Republican allies to his side in an effort to shift momentum in the escalating battle over the course of the war.
Discussion: FP Passport
 
 
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Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:
Burns of NY Times on 'Today': 'No Limit to this Violence' if US Troops Removed
Discussion: Confederate Yankee
Hindrocket / Power Line:
PELOSI REFUSING TO SUPPORT BRITISH ON IRAN?
Craig Murray:
Both Sides Must Stop This Mad Confrontation, Now
FREE ZONE:
'Quite a miracle'  —  Five-year-old falls nine storeys and survives …
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
Elaine Sciolino / New York Times:
Tensions Over French Identity Shape Voter Drives
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Justices Weigh Opening New Phase on Guantánamo
Discussion: SCOTUSblog
San Francisco Chronicle:
Critics See the Wrong Film
Sean Lengell / Washington Times:
Earmark monitor's exit baffles, troubles GOP
Discussion: Donklephant and PoliPundit.com
 Earlier Items: 
Nico / Think Progress:
Sampson Admits He Made Call To Silence FBI Complaints Over Lam's Firing
Dr. Helen:
Women, Anger and the Web
Discussion: Vox Popoli and Polimom Says
Faiza Saleh Ambah / Washington Post:
Arabs Call on Israel To Take Peace Offer
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
David Elliot / Abolish the Death Penalty:
Alberto Gonzales must go
Nico / Think Progress:
Boehner Repeatedly Mispronounces 'Tuskegee' During Congressional Ceremony
Discussion: Associated Press and fishwrap
Rebecca Traister / Salon:
Fox's Ann Coulter 2.0
Guardian:
Tehran raises the stakes in hostage crisis
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
FOX NEWS POLL: MOST THINK DEMOCRATS WILL WIN WHITE HOUSE IN 2008