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7:20 PM ET, May 29, 2007

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Joel Seidman / MSNBC:
Plame was 'covert' agent at time of name leak  —  Newly released unclassified document details CIA employment  —  WASHINGTON - An unclassified summary of outed CIA officer Valerie Plame's employment history at the spy agency, disclosed for the first time today in a court filing …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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Dan Froomkin / Washington Post:
Fitzgerald Again Points to Cheney  —  Special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald has made it clearer than ever that he was hot on the trail of a coordinated campaign to out CIA agent Valerie Plame until that line of investigation was cut off by the repeated lies from Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
Richard Mauer / Anchorage Daily News:
Feds eye Stevens' home remodeling project  —  GIRDWOOD: Veco approved some invoices for 2000 upgrade at senator's house, says builder.  —  The FBI and a federal grand jury have been investigating an extensive remodeling project at U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens' home in Girdwood that involved …
Discussion: The Politico and Booman Tribune
Fox News:
Mexican Audience Boos Miss USA During Miss Universe Pageant  —  MEXICO CITY — It wasn't Miss USA's night.  —  Booed mercilessly at the Miss Universe pageant by a Mexican audience angry at U.S. immigration policy, and seen by millions of TV viewers as she slipped and fell on the pageant stage …
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Mike Glover / Associated Press:
Obama offers universal health care plan  —  IOWA CITY, Iowa - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record) on Tuesday offered a plan to provide health care to millions of Americans and more affordable medical insurance, financed by tax increases on the wealthy.
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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Bush the Neoliberal  —  Years ago, someone coined the term "neoliberal."  I was never sure what it meant, and it has since fallen into disuse, but whatever the case, I'd like to revive (and mangle) the term and apply it — brace yourself — to George W. Bush.  He's more liberal than you might think.
CBS News:
Cindy Sheehan Calls It Quits  —  Anti-War Activist And Mom Of Killed G.I. In Iraq Resigns Role As "Face" Of Movement  —  (CBS/AP) Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan announced Monday she is giving up her role as the "face" of the American anti-war movement.  —  "I've been wondering …
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Angela K. Brown / Associated Press:
Sheehan 'resigns' as protest leader
Discussion: In From the Cold and All Spin Zone
Julian E. Barnes / Los Angeles Times:
Progress in Iraq likely to miss target  —  Military officers doubt any of the three top goals will be achieved before the September assessment.  —  BAGHDAD — U.S. military leaders in Iraq are increasingly convinced that most of the broad political goals President Bush laid out early this year …
Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns and Money:
Court Protects Gender Discrimintion  —  As Ruth Bader Ginsburg notes, the evidence of gender discrimination in the case of Ledbetter v. Goodyear, decided today by the Supreme Court, is unambiguous: … Despite this, and contrary to the judgment of the EEOC, the Court by a bare 5-4 majority threw …
JD Johannes / Outside the Wire:
Kharmah Awakens  —  "In fact, there is a civil war in progress in Iraq, one comparable in important respects to other civil wars that have occurred in postcolonial states with weak institutions.  Those cases suggest that the Bush administration's political objective in Iraq—creating a stable …
Discussion: Pundit Review and BLACKFIVE
The Prowler / American Spectator:
Sooner Rather Than Later  —  COBURN OK  —  Sen. Tom Coburn is mulling an entry into the Republican presidential primary, according to sources inside and outside the Senate.  Coburn, a senator from Oklahoma, is believed to be receiving encouragement from a small group of wealthy businessmen …
Rusty / The Jawa Report:
Palestinian "Missile" Fauxtography?  (Updated)  —  The Seattle Times ran this as their "photo of the day".  What's wrong with this picture?  (Click for bigger pic)  —  Here is the caption from the Seattle Times: … Er, pardon my skepticism here....but how fast does a "missile" travel anyway?
Discussion: Hot Air
Rafael Noboa / Agence France Presse:
Venezuela protests TV clampdown by Chavez  —  CARACAS (AFP) - President Hugo Chavez's clampdown on opposition television stations widened Monday as police used rubber bullets and tear gas on demonstrators protesting what they called an attack on free speech.
New York Times:
Digital Fears Emerge After Data Siege in Estonia  —  When Estonian authorities began removing a bronze statue of a World War II-era Soviet soldier from a park in this bustling Baltic seaport last month, they expected violent street protests by Estonians of Russian descent.
Justin Rood Reports / The Blotter:
Send Wolfowitz to Iraq, Says GOP Lawmaker  —  Justin Rood Reports:  —  Paul Wolfowitz may have been ousted from his post at the World Bank, but a free-speaking GOP lawmaker has an idea to keep the so-called "architect" of the Iraq War from standing in the unemployment line.
David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:
Social conservatives bite bullet, back Rudy  —  Rudy Giuliani, whose positions on abortion and homosexuality mark him as the most socially liberal Republican presidential candidate in more than a generation, is so far winning the contest for the support of social conservatives, according to a new analysis of recent polls.
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
"Verschärfte Vernehmung"  —  The phrase "Verschärfte Vernehmung" is German for "enhanced interrogation".  Other translations include "intensified interrogation" or "sharpened interrogation".  It's a phrase that appears to have been concocted in 1937, to describe a form of torture …
 
 
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Will Dunham / Reuters:
U.S. isolates traveler infected with super-TB
Discussion: Firedoglake and Wonkette
Ian Welsh / The Agonist:
The View From There  —  On Saturday I talked about walking a mile in your enemies shoes.
Discussion: The Sideshow
Ilya Somin / The Volokh Conspiracy:
POWER TO THE EXPERTS!  - A SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF POLITICAL IGNORANCE?
Discussion: Maggie's Farm
Tiffany Kary / Psychology Today:
Crying Over Spilled Semen
Discussion: Neptunus Lex
WNBC:
Giuliani Confronted At New York Fundraiser
Discussion: The Jawa Report
White House:
President Bush Discusses Comprehensive Immigration Reform in Glynco, Georgia
Discussion: First Draft
Michel Comte / Middle East Times:
Afghans 'pessimistic' about NATO
Discussion: National Review
National Review:
Texas is a Better Place
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BBC:
Outcry over TV kidney competition
Discussion: Althouse, On Deadline and Truthdig
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
After everything we did for them  —  Tony Blair, in The Sunday Times this weekend:
Darrell Issa / Washington Post:
The Case for Talking to Syria
David Barboza / New York Times:
China Sentences Former Drug Regulator to Death
Nancy Cleeland / The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed:
Why I'm Leaving The L.A. Times
Peter Berkowitz / Opinion Journal:
The Conservative Mind  —  The American right is a cauldron of debate; the left isn't.
Dennis Cauchon / USA Today:
Rules 'hiding' trillions in debt
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Campaign Puts New Strain on Secret Service