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8:05 PM ET, June 27, 2007

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Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
White House, Cheney's office, subpoenaed  —  WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee subpoenaed the White House and Vice President Dick Cheney's office Wednesday for documents relating to President Bush's warrant-free eavesdropping program.  —  Also named in subpoenas signed …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Dems force Cheney to flip-flop on secret docs  —  Dick Cheney's office is abandoning a justification for keeping the Vice-President's secret papers out of the hands of the National Archives.  —  Officials working for Cheney had tried to claim he is separate from the executive branch …
leahy.senate.gov:
U.S. SENATOR PATRICK LEAHY  —  CONTACT: Office of Senator Leahy, 202-224-4242  —  VERMONT  —  Senate Judiciary Committee Issues Subpoenas  —  For Legal Basis Of Bush Administration's  —  Domestic Surveillance Program  —  Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) …
Discussion: The Next Hurrah and On Deadline
James Risen / New York Times:
Senate Issues Subpoenas in Eavesdropping Investigation  —  The Senate Judiciary Committee issued a series of subpoenas to the White House, Vice President Cheney's office, and the Justice Department today related to the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Jeremy Jacobs / The Hill:
Leahy: Bush's lawlessness worse than Nixon's  —  Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) blasted the Bush administration Wednesday, indicating that it is disregarding the law more flagrantly than the Nixon administration.  —  "Certainly not since I've been old enough to vote …
Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
SJC Wants WH, DOJ's Own "Family Jewels"  —  The CIA's declassification of its "family jewels" — decades-old files on scandals past — may have attracted a ton of attention, but the Senate Judiciary Committee this afternoon subpoenaed the Bush administration's family jewels …
Discussion: Salon and Scholars and Rogues
Daniel W. Reilly / The Politico:   Gonzales is back in the hot seat
Ana Marie Cox / TIME: Swampland:
Romney in Deep Doo-Doo?  —  I'll have a more formal version of this story up in a bit, but: it turns out that strapping your dog to the roof of your car might actually be against Massachusetts state law, which says anyone who … Not that we can lock him him up.
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Ana Marie Cox / TIME: Swampland:
Romney's Shaggy Dog Story  —  I can't be the only one who finds, in this anecdote, something else entirely besides, "emotion-free crisis management": … Unless by "emotion-free" you mean, "the kind of cold fish who could feel no emotion about strapping his dog to the roof of his car."
Boston Globe:
Journeys of a shared life  —  Raising sons, rising expectations bring unexpected turns  —  The five Romney boys each had their own profiles within the family.  As Tagg would later describe his brothers, Matt was "the jokester, always pushing people's buttons" and Josh was "the typical middle child …
Discussion: MSNBC and Wonkette
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Rioting In Iran  —  Here's some video:  —  For some reason, this isn't front-page news.  It should be.  You can see more photos from a Tehran blogger here.  Australia's ABC News is on the case.  FT has a story here.  Gateway Pundit has gone cable on it.  Blogger Winston opines: … Know hope.
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Rob Bluey / Bluey Blog:
Earmarks in the Amnesty Bill: Trading Votes for Pork  —  There are all sorts of goodies in Sen. Harry Reid's clay pigeon amendment, but two pork projects — one in Utah and the other in Alaska — stand out.  Why?  Three of the senators who would benefit from the earmarks voted in favor of cloture yesterday.
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Think Progress:
Senate Conservatives Aggressively Obstructing Critical Legislation  —  Senate conservatives in the 110th Congress are obstructing and blocking legislation at a rate more than double that of the past two Congresses combined.  —  During the first six months of the current Congress …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Leader's Journal releases of democrats:
Senate Republicans: The "Grand Obstructionist Party"
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP preps for talk radio confrontation  —  House Republican lawmakers are preparing to fight anticipated Democratic efforts to regulate talk radio by reviving rules requiring stations to balance conservative hosts such as Rush Limbaugh with liberals such as Al Franken.
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Washington Times:
'Amnesty' fake papers pledged in wiretap  —  ONLINE EXCLUSIVE:  —  The head of a Mexican forgery ring was convinced he could make phony documents that illegal aliens could use to indicate fraudulently that they were eligible for a new amnesty, says a government affidavit recounting wiretapped phone calls the man made.
New Hampshire / The Politico:
New Hampshire Dem leader is . . . Al Gore  —  Boston - A New Hampshire presidential poll by WHDH-TV and Suffolk University shows that local Democrats prefer Al Gore to any of the current contenders.  —  Hillary Clinton has a solid lead over the rest of the current Democratic field.
Nico / Think Progress:
Meet The Press Roundtable To Feature Christian Broadcasting Network Blogger  —  ThinkProgress has learned that this Sunday's edition of NBC's Meet the Press will include a journalist roundtable featuring David Brody, a blogger and news correspondent for the Christian Broadcasting Network.
Discussion: michellemalkin.com
CBS News:
Poll: Young Voters Favor Obama, Clinton  —  CBS/NYT/MTV Poll: More 17- To 29-Year-Olds Paying Attention To 2008 Presidential Campaign  —  (CBS) Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are the favored presidential candidates of younger Americans, according to a poll conducted by CBS News, The New York Times and MTV.
 
 
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Fester / The Newshoggers:
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CREW RELEASES "THE BEST LAID PLANS: THE STORY OF HOW THE GOVERNMENT …
MSNBC:
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Discussion: mediabistro.com
Frederick W. Kagan / Weekly Standard:
Understanding General Petraeus's Strategy
Discussion: INTEL DUMP
Jonathan Singer / MyDD:
Biden's Self-Parody  —  I've generally shied away from offering …
Kate Kaye / ClickZ:
Clinton Surpasses Obama in Site Traffic Race, Paul Rockets to First
Discussion: Chicago Tribune
White House:
President Bush Rededicates Islamic Center of Washington
 Earlier Items: 
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
PHARMA, PART 2....Andrew Sullivan returns to the Big Pharma …
Jeremy Redmon / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Judge: No bond for Genarlow Wilson
Discussion: TalkLeft
National Review:
Stabbed In the Back  —  Ross Douthat keeps giving credence to this …
Edward Epstein / San Francisco Chronicle:
GOP senators kill bid to unionize by card check
CNN:
Poll majority: Gays' orientation can't change
The Atlantic Online:
Too Little, Too Late  —  It's frustrating to see this level …
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
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Jonah Goldberg / Townhall.com:
The Cheney Irony  —  I'm a longtime member of a pretty select group …
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is considering replacing CEO Bob Bakish with an “Office of the CEO” made up of division heads on an interim basis

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The New York Times is broken, shown by its entitled, petulant reaction to Politico's report on its tense relationship with Biden

Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
Sources: Amazon Prime Video has a framework deal for NBA broadcast rights for at least a decade, starting in 2025-26; ESPN/ABC is expected to keep the finals

 
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