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3:35 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 …
Matt Apuzzo / Associated Press:
Court won't delay Libby prison sentence  —  WASHINGTON - Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby cannot delay his 2 1/2-year prison term in the CIA leak case, a federal appeals court unanimously ruled Monday.  —  The decision is a dramatic setback for Libby, who likely will have to surrender to prison in weeks.
Discussion: TalkLeft, Wonkette and Mercury Rising
Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Court Denies Request to Delay Libby Sentence
Discussion: Abovethelaw.com and BeldarBlog
Faiz / Think Progress:
Wilson: Proponents Of Libby Pardon Are 'Accessories To An Ongoing Crime'
Discussion: Firedoglake
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
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Romney, McCain address secretive group
Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:
Not Looking Good for McCain Campaign
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
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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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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Austan Goolsbee / Slate:
Michael Moore and the Beige Bomber
Discussion: Ezra Klein and EconLog
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
A President Besieged and Isolated, Yet at Ease  —  Bush, Grasping for Answers and Fixated on Iraq, Remains Resolute  —  At the nadir of his presidency, George W. Bush is looking for answers.  One at a time or in small groups, he summons leading authors, historians, philosophers and theologians …
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Presidential Pity Party
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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Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
U.S. Ties Iranians to Iraq Attack That Killed G.I.'s  —  Iranian operatives helped plan a January raid in Karbala in which five American soldiers were killed, an American military spokesman in Iraq said today.  —  Brig. Gen. Kevin J. Bergner, the military spokesman, also said that Iran's …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Michael Gordon trains his stenographer weapons on Iran
Discussion: TalkLeft
MSNBC:
Deadly blast at Yemen tourist site  —  7 Spaniards, 2 Yemenis dead in apparent al-Qaida-linked suicide bombing  —  Security guards inspect the scene of a car bomb attack Monday in the Yemeni province of Marib.  —  MSNBC video  —  Blast kills tourists  —  July 2: A suicide bomb attack in Yemen kills at least eight people.
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Associated Press:   9 die in Yemen suicide blast, officials say
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.
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Voting Rights Turnabout  —  A victory for disfranchised Mississippi voters—and they happen to be white.  —  Last week a federal district judge found direct evidence that the political machine in Noxubee County, Miss., had discriminated against voters with the intent to infringe their rights and that …
Discussion: protein wisdom
 
 
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Lieberman: George Soros' Views 'Anti-American'
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American Enterprise Institute:
Paul Wolfowitz Joins AEI
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Jets shredded, kept away from 'bad guys'
Michelle Malkin:
The diminished credibility of the Dept. of Homeland Insecurity
Discussion: Reuters, ABCNEWS and Hot Air
Maggie Haberman / New York Post:
GIULIANI RETURNS 'FIRE'
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Hamas-Fatah struggle moves from street to TV
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