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6:05 PM ET, May 27, 2007

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Newsweek:
Bush's Monica problem: the Gonzales mess  —  Gonzales, the president's lawyer and Texas buddy, is twisting slowly in the wind, facing a vote of no confidence from the Senate.  —  The United States Department of Justice has not always been above politics.  John F. Kennedy, after all …
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Tales From The Department Of Justice  —  This keeps up, and I'm going to need more coffee.  Michael Isikoff and Evan Thomas have quite the interesting article in Newsweek, but it requires a closer read because there is some connect the dots that needs to be done and several points …
Discussion: Norwegianity
Uzi Mahnaimi / Times of London:
Al-Qaeda chief urges Iraqis to export jihad  —  THE deputy leader of Al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has urged supporters in Iraq to extend their "holy war" to other Middle Eastern countries.  —  In a letter sent to the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq in the past few weeks, Zawahiri claims …
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Peter S. Canellos / Boston Globe:
GOP rivals embrace unproven Iraq-9/11 tie  —  WASHINGTON — In defending the Iraq war, leading Republican presidential contenders are increasingly echoing words and phrases used by President Bush in the run-up to the war that reinforce the misleading impression that Iraq was responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Al Qaeda's Enabler
Discussion: Firedoglake and The Impolitic
Audrey Hudson / Washington Times:
More details on Flight 327 released  —  The inspector general for Homeland Security late Friday released new details of what federal air marshals say was a terrorist dry run aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 327 from Detroit to Los Angeles on June 29, 2004.  —  Several portions of the report remain redacted.
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:   NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT 327: A TERRORIST DRY RUN
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Flight 327: More To The Story
Discussion: Hot Air
Tony Blair / Times of London:
Shackled in the war on terror  —  The absconding of three people on control orders because of suspicion of their involvement in terrorism has, once again, thrown into sharp relief the debate about terrorism and civil liberty.  Within the next few weeks we will publish new proposals on anti-terror laws.
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Andrew J. Bacevich / Washington Post:
I Lost My Son to a War I Oppose.  We Were Both Doing Our Duty.  —  Parents who lose children, whether through accident or illness, inevitably wonder what they could have done to prevent their loss.  When my son was killed in Iraq earlier this month at age 27, I found myself pondering my responsibility for his death.
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Jim Henley / Unqualified Offerings:   The Scarlet Tide  —  Andrew J. Bacevich on the death of his son in Iraq.
Washington Post:
U.S. Security Contractors Open Fire in Baghdad  —  Blackwater Employees Were Involved in Two Shooting Incidents in Past Week  —  Employees of Blackwater USA, a private security firm under contract to the State Department, opened fire on the streets of Baghdad twice in two days last week …
Gary J. Bass / New York Times:
Clueless  —  Of all the people who deserve some blame for the debacle in Iraq, don't forget the American public.  Today, about two-thirds of Americans oppose the war.  But back in March 2003, when United States troops stormed into Iraq, nearly three out of four Americans supported the invasion.
Financial Times:
Tehran confident ahead of US talks  —  By Gareth Smyth in Tehran and Guy Dinmore in Washington  —  Iran enters talks with the US in Baghdad on Monday confident that the situation in Iraq is working in its favour but wary that Washington may not have abandoned hopes for regime change in Iran or may plan to bomb its nuclear facilities.
New York Post:
SHEEN RETHINKS NUTTY 9/11 FILM  —  SUPPORT for the loopy 9/11 documentary "Loose Change" - which argues that the World Trade Center terror attack was part of a secret U.S. government conspiracy - is quickly losing steam.  —  A source tells us Charlie Sheen "is having second thoughts" …
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
Washington Post:
Unflattering Books Cause Hardly a Ripple  —  Politics as Usual As Sen. Clinton Traverses Iowa  —  As Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) campaigned across Iowa this weekend, she was asked about the war in Iraq, illegal immigration and even whether her husband, former president Bill Clinton …
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Matt / Think Progress:
Borger Predicts 'Mass Resignation' Of House Members Due To Stricter Ethics Standards  —  On Thursday, the House passed new ethics legislation "that would penalize lawmakers who receive a wide range of favors from special interests, and would require lobbyists to disclose the campaign contributions they collect and deliver to lawmakers."
Holly / The Moderate Voice:
An Interreligious Conversation with MvdG: Part One  —  TMV Co-Blogger Michael vdG will ask me questions on his own blog and I will answer them here as time permits.  —  Michael begins by asking me what Jews believe about an Afterlife.  My best answer is, it depends!
Anthony DePalma / New York Times:
Michael Moore's Math: 'Sicko,' Castro and the '120 Years Club'  —  CUBA works hard to jam American TV signals and keep out decadent Hollywood films.  But it's a good bet that Fidel Castro's government will turn a blind eye to bootleg copies of "Sicko," Michael Moore's newest movie, if they show up on the streets of Havana.
Faiz / Think Progress:
Kristol: Bush 'Was Furious' Over NYT Report Of 2008 Withdrawal  —  The New York Times reported this weekend that the Bush administration is developing "concepts for reducing American combat forces in Iraq by as much as half next year, according to senior administration officials in the midst of the internal debate."
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
 
 
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Mike Baker / Associated Press:
McCain: Current Iraq plan is best option
UPI:
More than 100 U.S. soldiers killed in May
Washington Post:
Democrats Prepare for Another Funding Battle
Time:
Kevorkian Release Nears
Donald Lambro / Washington Times:
Antiwar base directs wrath at Democrats
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Klaus Marre / The Hill:
Sessions: Time to draw down troops is coming
The Raw Story:
In video, booing is at 1:52 remaining in the video
Discussion: News Hounds
 Earlier Items: 
Agence France Presse:
Al Gore slams 'trivialities and nonsense' in news media
Greg Mankiw / Greg Mankiw's Blog:
Turnabout  —  Suppose the U.S. President were to propose …
Discussion: Angry Bear and Club for Growth
Emily Friedlander / The Juggle:
Are You Better Off Than Your Parents?
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Peter Slevin / Washington Post:
A Long Time Gone  —  As Minnesota Guardsmen's Tour Is Extended …
Steven Pinker / New York Times:
The Known World  —  A baby sucks on a pencil and her panicky …
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
So much news, so little sense
Pat / Screw Loose Change:
One Last Shot of 9-11 Denial on the View
New York Times:
For Democrats, Debate on Fox Reveals Divide