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2:05 PM ET, April 29, 2007

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Faiz / Think Progress:
Rice: 'I Don't Know What We Were Supposed To Preemptively Strike In Afghanistan' In July 2001  —  This evening, 60 Minutes will air its discussion with former CIA Director George Tenet.  In one exchange, Tenet elaborates on a briefing that he and his former aide Cofer Black delivered …
Discussion: Firedoglake and Taylor Marsh
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Michael F. Scheuer / Washington Post:
Tenet Tries to Shift the Blame.  Don't Buy It.  —  George Tenet has a story to tell.  With his appearance tonight on "60 Minutes" and the publication of his new memoir, "At the Center of the Storm," the former director of central intelligence is out to absolve himself of the failings of 9/11 and Iraq.
Larry Johnson / NO QUARTER:
Letter to George Tenet
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Sue Anne Pressley Montes / Washington Post:
'I Abhor Injustice,' Alleged Madam Says  —  "Miz Julia" doled out a steady stream of advice, both practical and philosophical.  —  From her California home, she e-mailed tips to the 132 women who worked across the Washington area for the firm Pamela Martin & Associates.
SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:
White House Officials Involved in Prostitution Scandal
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
For $82 a Day, Booking a Cell in a 5-Star Jail  —  Anyone convicted of a crime knows a debt to society often must be paid in jail.  But a slice of Californians willing to supplement that debt with cash (no personal checks, please) are finding that the time can be almost bearable.
Kirk Semple / New York Times:
Uneasy Alliance Is Taming One Insurgent Bastion  —  RAMADI, Iraq — Anbar Province, long the lawless heartland of the tenacious Sunni Arab resistance, is undergoing a surprising transformation.  Violence is ebbing in many areas, shops and schools are reopening, police forces are growing and the insurgency appears to be in retreat.
Andrew C. Revkin / New York Times:
Carbon-Neutral Is Hip, but Is It Green?  —  THE rush to go on a carbon diet, even if by proxy, is in overdrive.  —  In addition to the celebrities — Leo, Brad, George — politicians like John Edwards and Hillary Clinton are now running, at least part of the time, carbon-neutral campaigns.
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Washington Post:
Most Katrina Aid From Overseas Went Unclaimed  —  As the winds and water of Hurricane Katrina were receding, presidential confidante Karen Hughes sent a cable from her State Department office to U.S. ambassadors worldwide.  —  Titled "Echo-Chamber Message" — a public relations term …
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Light bulbs that don't signify ideas  —  Everything's difficult, isn't it?  In the Democratic presidential candidates' debate, Sen. Barack Obama was asked what he personally was doing to save the environment, and replied that his family was "working on" changing their light bulbs.
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
Daily Mail:
Slaughter: Horror at Sony's depraved promotion stunt with decapitated goat  —  Electronics giant Sony has sparked a major row over animal cruelty and the ethics of the computer industry by using a freshly slaughtered goat to promote a violent video game.  —  The corpse of the decapitated animal …
Kim Gamel / Associated Press:
9 U.S. troops die in Iraq battle, blasts  —  BAGHDAD - A car bomb exploded Saturday in the Shiite holy city of Karbala as the streets were packed with people heading for evening prayers, killing at least 58 and wounding scores near some of the country's most sacred shrines.
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
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Swaraaj Chauhan / The Moderate Voice:
Iraq Bloodbath: 'Imminent US Defeat,' Says A Serving Army Officer
Discussion: The Heretik and Riehl World View
Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times:
GOP has uphill climb for cash and candidates  —  The party feels the drag of investigations and minority status in Congress.  And then there's Bush.  —  WASHINGTON — President Bush's unpopularity and a string of political setbacks have created a toxic climate for the Republican Party …
Discussion: The Next Hurrah and Rising Hegemon
Gethin Chamberlain / Telegraph:
US aircrews show Taliban no mercy  —  Caught in the middle of the Helmand river, the fleeing Taliban were paddling their boat back to shore for dear life.  —  Smoke from the ambush they had just sprung on American special forces still hung in the air, but their attention was fixed …
Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
The other day, an editor of The Washington Post's outlook section sent out an email soliciting opinions from a variety of experts on the question of whether Harry Reid was right in saying that the Iraq War was "lost."  They promised to publish replies on the Op-ed page today.
Ali Eteraz / Dean's World:
There is no Hope  —  When the Soviet Union withdrew from from Afghanistan, do you know what a boatload of average Muslims thought?  —  "The mujahideen defeated the world's second greatest superpower."  —  I expressly recall hearing about the rise of the Taliban.
 
 
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