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6:25 PM ET, May 23, 2007

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David Stout / New York Times:
Ex-Gonzales Aide Testifies, 'I Crossed the Line'  —  The Justice Department's former liaison to the White House testified before Congress today that she improperly weighed political factors in considering applicants for career positions in the department, and she said she was sorry.
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Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
McNulty: I'm No Liar  —  During her testimony today, Monica Goodling pointed the finger squarely at Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, saying that he had not been "fully candid" in his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee about his knowledge of White House involvement …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Think Progress:
Goodling Hints Attorney Firings Came From 'White House Judicial Selection Committee'  —  In her opening statement before the House Judiciary Committee today, Monica Goodling — the Department of Justice's White House liaison — said she had no idea where the idea to fire several U.S. attorneys may have originated.
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:   Goodling: "I Don't Know"  —  Here's Goodling under the first line …
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Monica Goodling Testimony, Part III
Beth Fouhy / Associated Press:
Edwards: Move Past 'War on Terror'  —  NEW YORK (AP) - Democrat John Edwards Wednesday repudiated the notion that there is a "global war on terror," calling it an ideological doctrine advanced by the Bush administration that has strained American military resources and emboldened terrorists.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Flashback video: Edwards pledges unity throughout this "war on terrorism"  —  From October 2001, in response to a question from O'Reilly about the war widening to Iran, Syria, Libya, the Sudan — and Iraq, in the person of Saddam Hussein.  —  You can thank Patrick Ishmael and the squad at News Buckit for digging it up.
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Kris W. Kobach / Heritage Foundation:
Rewarding Illegal Aliens: Senate Bill Undermines The Rule of Law  —  The most controversial component of the Senate's Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Reform Act of 2007 is Title VI, euphemistically ntitled "Nonimmigrants in the United States Previously in Unlawful Status."
Michelle Malkin:
The comprehensive open-borders goodie bag
Discussion: Maggie's Farm
Michael Brady / Keeping the Majority Accountable …:
Freshmen fail first ethics test  —  Despite last week's media blitz promoting tougher ethics enforcement, a group of freshmen Congressmen failed their first practical test Tuesday night, when they refused to reprimand one of their colleagues for an apparent ethics violation.
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Democrats Pull Troop Deadline From Iraq Bill  —  Congressional Democrats relented Tuesday on their insistence that a war spending measure set a date for withdrawing American combat troops from Iraq.  Instead, they moved toward a deal with President Bush that would impose new conditions on the Iraqi government.
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Giuliani's Abortion Muddle  —  Rudy Giuliani is understandably the Republican front-runner.  And not just because of the fading echoes of Sept. 11, 2001.  Giuliani is a crucial figure in the conservative movement.  —  In the late 1980s and early '90s, many conservatives believed …
CNN:
Bush uses bin Laden info to defend Iraq war … NEW LONDON, Connecticut (CNN) — President Bush used declassified intelligence about Osama bin Laden Wednesday to defend his Iraq war policy.  —  During a commencement address at the Coast Guard Academy, the president mentioned declassified intelligence …
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Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
Bush Declassifies Bin Laden Intelligence
Discussion: QandO, Hot Air and Oliver Willis
Alan Cooperman / Washington Post:
Survey: U.S. Muslims Assimilated, Opposed to Extremism  —  Unlike Muslim minorities in many European countries, U.S. Muslims are highly assimilated, close to parity with other Americans in income and overwhelmingly opposed to Islamic extremism, according to the first major, nationwide random survey of Muslims.
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National Review:   Re: That Poll
New York Times:
Senate Votes to Keep Temporary Worker Program  —  A comprehensive immigration bill survived a significant test on Tuesday as the Senate voted to keep a provision that would let hundreds of thousands of temporary foreign workers enter the country each year.  —  If the guest worker program …
John Edwards for President:
Remarks As Prepared For Delivery At The Council on Foreign Relations  —  A Strong Military for a New Century  —  Council on Foreign Relations  —  New York, New York  —  May 23, 2007  —  It is wonderful to be back here at the Council.  Thank you for having me.
Discussion: AMERICAblog and National Review
Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
McClatchy's D.C. Bureau Claims It's Barred From Defense Secretary Plane  —  NEW YORK Staffers at McClatchy's Washington, D.C., Bureau — one of the few major news outlets skeptical of intelligence reports during the run-up to the war in Iraq — claims it is now being punished for that coverage.
Discussion: mediabistro.com and Liberal Values
Jeff Emanuel / Opinion Journal:
'I Love Those Guys'  —  Embedded journalists in Iraq are having their minds changed left and right by U.S. soldiers.  —  Operation Iraqi Freedom saw the advent of a practice that revolutionized modern war reporting: the embedding of journalists with frontline combat units in war.
Discussion: Barcepundit
CNN:
CNN LARRY KING LIVE  —  Interview with Al Gore  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.  —  LARRY KING, HOST: Tonight, Al Gore.  Some say he's helping save the planet.  Now they want him to save the nation and run for president.
From The Blotter / The Blotter:
GOP Candidates Criticize ABC News Report on CIA-Iran Plan  —  From The Blotter:  —  Two Republican presidential candidates today criticized the ABC News report Tuesday about the CIA's covert plan to destabilize the Iranian regime.  —  "I was shocked to see the ABC News report regarding covert action …
Discussion: CBS News, Hot Air and NewsBusters.org
Dick Morris / The Hill:
Republicans should back immigration compromise  —  The Republican Party would be self-destructive (not for the first time, either) if they did not let the immigration compromise negotiated by Sens. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) and Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) pass and become law.
Adam Nagourney / The Caucus:
Clinton Staff Memo Urges Shunning Iowa  —  A senior official in the campaign for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton wrote an internal memorandum to the campaign advising Mrs. Clinton not to participate in the Iowa caucuses, arguing that she probably could not win them and that she would be better off spending …
Discussion: The Fix and Hotline On Call
New York Post:
WOLFOWITZ AND GAL PAL SPLIT UP  —  PAUL Wolfowitz has really had a bad couple of weeks.  He not only lost his job, he lost his girlfriend, too.  —  Wolfowitz, one of the architects of the Iraq war, was pushed out as president of the World Bank over a controversial pay and promotion package …
Discussion: TBogg and Carry on America
State Sen. Mario Gallegos / Houston Chronicle:
Why right to vote, without an ID, is worth fighting for  —  This lawmaker counts his grandmother among reasons  —  In my community in Houston, thousands of first- and second-generation Americans came of age in the "greatest generation."  They volunteered to protect our freedom in World War II.
 
 
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
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IAEA Report Contradicts Major Media Narrative On Iran
Mary Milliken / Reuters:
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