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2:40 PM ET, April 30, 2007

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Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
Maliki's Office Is Seen Behind Purge in Forces  —  A department of the Iraqi prime minister's office is playing a leading role in the arrest and removal of senior Iraqi army and national police officers, some of whom had apparently worked too aggressively to combat violent Shiite militias …
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Robin Wright / Washington Post:
Saudi King Declines to Receive Iraqi Leader  —  In a serious rebuff to U.S. diplomacy, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has refused to receive Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on the eve of a critical regional summit on the future of the war-ravaged country, Iraqi and other Arab officials said yesterday.
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
GOP's Base Helps Keep Unity on Iraq  —  With public opinion tilting firmly toward ending U.S. involvement in the war in Iraq, Rep. Wayne T. Gilchrest (R-Md.) might have expected praise for his votes that would start to bring the troops home.  Instead, at town hall meetings on the Eastern Shore …
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Sexual Threats Stifle Some Female Bloggers  —  A female freelance writer who blogged about the pornography industry was threatened with rape.  A single mother who blogged about "the daily ins and outs of being a mom" was threatened by a cyber-stalker who claimed that she beat her son and that he had her under surveillance.
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Maria Aspan / New York Times:
As Blogs Proliferate, a Gadfly With Accreditation at the U.N.
Discussion: Beltway Blogroll
George Tenet / HarperCollins Publishers:
At the Center of the Storm  —  Price:  —  $19.95  —  On Sale:  —  In the whirlwind of accusations and recriminations that emerged in the wake of 9/11 and the Iraq war, one man's vital testimony has been conspicuously absent.  Candid and gripping, At the Center of the Storm recounts George Tenet's …
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Faiz / Think Progress:
Tenet On Perle Conversation: 'I May Have Been Off By A Couple …
The Blotter:
D.C. Madam Wants Washington Clients to Testify  —  Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz & Justin Rood Report:  —  The woman charged in a federal indictment with running a high-class Washington, D.C. call girl service says she plans to call her prominent clients to testify at her trial.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Quiet Bush Aide Seeks Iraq Czar, Creating a Stir  —  Stephen J. Hadley would be the first to tell you he does not have star power.  But Mr. Hadley, the bespectacled, gray-haired, exceedingly precise Washington lawyer who is President Bush's national security adviser, is in the market for someone who does …
Paul Caron / TaxProf Blog:
Today is Tax Freedom Day®  —  The Tax Foundation has announced that today (the 120th day of 2007) is Tax Freedom Day® — Americans will work four months of the year, from January 1 to April 30, before they have earned enough money to pay this year's tax obligations at the federal, state and local levels.
John Tierney / TierneyLab:
Hurwitz Jurors Explain Their Verdict  —  Since the verdict in the Hurwit trial on Friday, I've interviewed three of the twelve jurors, and they told pretty much the same story.  They said that the jury considered Dr. William Hurwitz to be a doctor dedicated to treating pain …
Simon Barnes / Times of London:
Climate change hits Mars  —  Mars is being hit by rapid climate change and it is happening so fast that the red planet could lose its southern ice cap, writes Jonathan Leake.  —  Scientists from Nasa say that Mars has warmed by about 0.5C since the 1970s.  This is similar to the warming experienced …
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere and QandO
Sarah Baxter / Times of London:
Watergate reporter demolishes Hillary's career story  —  Drawing on a trove of private papers from Hillary Clinton's best friend, the legendary Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein is to publish a hard-hitting and intimate portrait of the 2008 presidential candidate, which will reveal a number of "discrepancies" in her official story.
Ana Marie Cox / TIME: Swampland:
Post-McCain "Announcement Tour" Thoughts  —  Some advice from a first-time campaign correspondent: Never leave your computer on the charter.  Also, invest in a broadband access card.  My limited posts from my limited time on the Straight Talk Express are due mostly to lack of internet access …
MSNBC:
The long reach and ambitions of al-Qaida  —  Tenet book details chilling plots to kill Gore, acquire nuclear weapons  —  April 30: Former CIA Director George Tenet talks with NBC News' Tom Brokaw about his new book.  —  Today show  —  NEW YORK - Former CIA Director George Tenet's defense …
Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
Clinton's PowerPointer  —  With Data and Slides, a Pollster Guides Campaign Strategy  —  It was fairly simple, Mark J. Penn said calmly to Vice President Al Gore, reporting the findings of an exhaustive survey he had conducted in the early stages of the 2000 presidential campaign.
Josh Gerstein / New York Sun:
Clinton and Obama Raiding Donors Who Backed Bush  —  As senators Clinton and Obama crisscross the country seeking the Democratic presidential nomination and sharply criticizing President Bush, they have been collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars from donors who funded one or both of Mr. Bush's campaigns for the White House.
 
 
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John Fund / Opinion Journal:
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