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5:15 PM ET, July 2, 2007

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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
BREAKING: Libby Motion For Release On Bond Pending Appeal — DENIED  —  Breaking news from the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, in an opinion issued just moments ago, Judges Sentelle, Henderson and Tatel say the following: … It it a per curiam opinion issued on July 2, 2007, and initialled by all three of the judges.
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CNN Political Ticker:
Appeals court rejects Libby's bid for bail  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — A federal appeals court Monday rejected former White House aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby's request to remain free on bond while appealing his March conviction on perjury and obstruction of justice charges.
Cary O'Reilly / Bloomberg:
Libby, Ex-Cheney Aide, Must Go to Jail During Appeal  —  Lewis ``Scooter'' Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, must go to prison while appealing his conviction for obstructing a CIA leak probe, a U.S. appeals court said.  —  Libby may be behind bars within weeks …
Reuters:
Appeals court won't delay Libby prison term  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former vice presidential aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby on Monday lost his bid to delay serving his 2 1/2-year prison sentence while he appeals his conviction in the CIA leak case.  —  Conservatives have pressured President George W. Bush …
Discussion: Salon and Grasping Reality …
Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Court Denies Request to Delay Libby Sentence  —  A federal appeals court ruled today that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, must report to prison shortly to begin serving his 30-month sentence for lying to federal investigators about his role in leaking a CIA officer's identity.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
LIBBY LOSES ANOTHER APPEAL....If Scooter Libby is counting on a pardon to keep him out of jail, he'll need Bush to act very quickly. … It apparently wasn't too close a question for the appeals court panel — it was a unanimous decision dismissing the appeal with a one-paragraph order.
Faiz / Think Progress:   Wilson: Proponents Of Libby Pardon Are 'Accessories To An Ongoing Crime'
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Trial Balloon For Libby Pardon Falls Flat...Again
Discussion: NPR
ABCNEWS:
McCain Shakes Up Campaign  —  McCain, Trailing in Fundraising and Polls, Shakes Up 2008 Presidential Campaign  —  John McCain's campaign, trailing top Republican rivals in money and polls, is undergoing a significant reorganization with staff cuts in every department, officials with knowledge of the shake-up said Monday.
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Ryan Sager / Latest Politics:
McCain Watch: Watch This Space  —  Watch this space, as we'll be coming to you live with the details of today's 2 p.m. McCain conference call, where we should find out his 2nd quarter fundraising total and hear a bit about these staff trims...  2:00: Pre-call, I hear: The campaign …
Discussion: Reason Magazine and Townhall.com
Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
McCain Camp Raises $11.2 Million in 2Q  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican John McCain reorganized his campaign Monday, cutting staff in every department as he raised just $11.2 million in the last three months and reported an abysmal $2 million cash on hand for his presidential bid.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Michael Gordon trains his stenographer weapons on Iran
Discussion: The Democratic Daily and TalkLeft
Bernhard / Moon of Alabama:
Gordon's Source on Iran
Discussion: Firedoglake
John Solomon / Washington Post:
Obama Takes Lead In Money Raised  —  Pressure on Clinton Is Expected to Grow  —  Sen. Barack Obama raised $31 million for his presidential primary campaign over the past three months, surging past Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's fundraising machine by nearly $10 million for the quarter …
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Bill Schneider / CNN:   Obama's cash shakes up race
isna.ir:
ISNA - Tehran  —  TEHRAN, July 02 (ISNA)-Writer, producer and director, Michael Moore is to come to Iran for the screening of his new production SICKO in the first international documentary film festival held here.  —  This festival will be held from the 15th to the 19th of October in Tehran.
Discussion: Kamangir, Hot Air and theneweditor.com
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Munir Ahmad / Associated Press:
Pakistan Eases Curbs on A.Q. Khan  —  Authorities have eased the virtual house arrest imposed on A.Q. Khan, the disgraced scientist who sold Pakistan's nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya, officials said Monday.  —  In what is believed to be his first public comment in about three years …
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Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
Pakistan's Nuke Dealer Off House Arrest
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Hassan Butt / Daily Mail:
I was a fanatic...I know their thinking, says former radical Islamist  —  When I was still a member of what is probably best termed the British Jihadi Network - a series of British Muslim terrorist groups linked by a single ideology - I remember how we used to laugh in celebration whenever people …
Discussion: Right Wing News
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Staying Calm and Carrying On  —  The worrying aspect of the British terror-rash is that it's obviously an amateur effort, inspired rather than organized by al Qaeda.  This means we are likely to face more of these things, but that most of them are not going to be massively successful.
Brian Katulis / Center for American Progress:
Iraq Four Years Later: From "Bring 'Em On" to Bait and Switch  —  Today marks four long years since President Bush goaded militants in Iraq to attack U.S. troops, telling them to "Bring 'em on": "There are some that feel like if they attack us, that we may decide to leave prematurely.
Opinion Journal:
Jihad in Britain  —  The terrorists don't seem to care that Tony Blair is gone.  —  Barely 48 hours on the job, Britain's new Prime Minister Gordon Brown got a lesson in the realities of the post-9/11 world.  —  Terrorist plots in London and Glasgow pushed the U.K.'s security alert …
 
 
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
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Discussion: Jerusalem Post
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Putin Offers to Expand Plan for Missile Defense
Risa Goluboff / Slate:
HOW CONSERVATIVES APPROPRIATED BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION.
Discussion: The Corner
Nigel Hawkes / Times of London:
Q&A: Mohammad Asha and foreign doctors
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
Sharon Theimer / Associated Press:
Jets shredded, kept away from 'bad guys'
MSNBC:
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Michelle Malkin:
The diminished credibility of the Dept. of Homeland Insecurity
Discussion: ABCNEWS, Reuters and Daily Mail
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Voting Rights Turnabout
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Syed Saleem Shahzad / Asia Times:
US to hunt the Taliban inside Pakistan
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Presidential Pity Party
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Just Getting Warmed Up  —  MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' Scarborough, Undiluted in the A.M.
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and TVNewser
Ana Marie Cox / TIME: Swampland:
Mitt Romney Loves His "Family Pets"
Discussion: WHOTV, Daily Kos and Shakesville
Sharon Waxman / New York Times:
Al Gore's Top-Secret Access for the Final 'Sopranos' Episode