Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
9:45 AM ET, July 3, 2007

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
CNN:
Bush commutes Libby's prison sentence  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush on Monday spared I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby from prison, commuting the former White House aide's 30-month prison term.  —  The prison time was imposed after a federal court convicted Libby of perjury …
RELATED:
Opinion Journal:
Bush and Libby  —  The commutation is a profile in non-courage.  —  President Bush's commutation late yesterday afternoon of the prison sentence of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby will at least spare his former aide from 2 1/2 years in prison.  But by failing to issue a full pardon …
Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
A Decision Made Largely Alone  —  President Bush limited his deliberations over commuting the prison term of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby to a few close aides, opting not to consult with the Justice Department and rebuffing efforts by friends to lobby on Libby's behalf, administration officials and people close to Bush said yesterday.
New York Times:
Soft on Crime  —  When he was running for president, George W. Bush loved to contrast his law-abiding morality with that of President Clinton, who was charged with perjury and acquitted.  For Mr. Bush, the candidate, "politics, after a time of tarnished ideals, can be higher and better."
Discussion: Wonkette
New York Times:
Bush Spares Libby From 30-Month Prison Term  —  President Bush spared I. Lewis Libby Jr. from prison Monday, commuting his two-and-a-half-year sentence while leaving intact his conviction for perjury and obstruction of justice in the C.I.A. leak case.  —  Mr. Bush's action …
Washington Post:
Too Much Mercy  —  IN COMMUTING I. Lewis Libby's prison sentence yesterday, President Bush took the advice of, among others, William Otis, a former federal prosecutor who wrote on the opposite page last month that Mr. Libby should neither be pardoned nor sent to prison.
Discussion: Sadly, No!
Emptywheel / The Next Hurrah:
Fitz Speaks  —  Via email from his spokesperson:
Discussion: NO QUARTER and DownWithTyranny!
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:
Libby & Wilson  —  On the merits I think Bush probably got it about right.
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
White House:
Statement by the President  —  The United States Court of Appeals …
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
For Bush, Action in Libby Case Was a Test of Will
Discussion: ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Bush spares Libby from jail
Digby / Hullabaloo:
"A Man Like This"  —  I don't know about you, but I was quite moved …
Discussion: Firedoglake and Street Prophets
Tom Brune / Newsday:
Bush commutes sentence for Libby
Discussion: The Liberal Avenger
The Independent:
Terror plot hatched in British hospitals  —  A suspected secret cell of foreign militants, believed to be linked to al-Qa'ida and using British hospitals as cover, are being questioned over the terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow.  —  Five of the eight people under arrest last night are said to be doctors.
RELATED:
Telegraph:
Seven doctors held over al-Qa'eda bomb plot  —  The suspected al-Qa'eda terrorists behind the attempted car bomb attacks on Britain were almost all foreign doctors working in the NHS, it can be disclosed today.  —  It comes as an eighth person - also a doctor - was arrested in Australia …
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:   Uncowed in London  —  LONDON — "Yes, the Piccadilly line …
CBS News:
Al Qaeda In Iraq Behind U.K. Bomb Plot?  —  Sources Tell CBS News Suspects Recruited By Leader Of Terror Group's Iraq Branch  —  (CBS/AP) British intelligence services increasingly believe that the failed car bombings in London and Glasgow bare the fingerprints of al Qaeda in Iraq, CBS News has learned.
Discussion: Yourish.com and Hot Air
RELATED:
New York Times:
U.S. Says Iran Helped Iraqis Kill Five G.I.'s  —  Agents of Iran helped plan a January raid in Shiite holy city of Karbala in Iraq in which five American soldiers were killed by Islamic militants, an American military spokesman said Monday.  The charge was the most specific allegation …
Susie / Suburban Guerrilla:
James Capozzola, 1962-2007  —  Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,  —  Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,  —  Silence the pianos and with muffled drum  —  Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.  — "Funeral Blues," W.H. Auden.  —  My friend Jim died this evening.
New York Times:
Short on Money, McCain Campaign Dismisses Dozens  —  The presidential campaign of Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican who once seemed poised to be his party's nominee in 2008, acknowledged yesterday that it was in a political and financial crisis as a drop in fund-raising forced …
RELATED:
Bill Schneider / CNN:   Where does McCain go from here?  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) …
Byron Dziva / Telegraph:
Mugabe's 'inflation police' raid shopkeepers  —  Plain-clothes police sought to enforce Zimbabwe's new price controls by raiding shops yesterday as President Robert Mugabe's regime waged a desperate struggle against soaring inflation.  —  They roughed up shop owners and staff and arrested 20 businessmen.
Discussion: QandO and GINA COBB
Tom Hester Jr / Associated Press:
N.J. Confiscates 4 Tons of Pa. Fireworks  —  Amid continued fretting about a Pennsylvania law that allows New Jersey residents to buy fireworks that are illegal in the Garden State, New Jersey state police have confiscated nearly 8,000 pounds of fireworks ahead of Independence Day.
Kana Inagaki / Associated Press:
Japan's defense minister quits over A-bomb gaffe  —  TOKYO — Japan's defense minister resigned under an avalanche of criticism today for suggesting that the United States was justified in dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki because the attacks saved Japan from a Soviet invasion.
Discussion: Jules Crittenden
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 9:45 AM ET, July 3, 2007.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Jackie Kucinich / The Hill:
House Republicans vow to take the offensive on immigration
Bloomberg:
Pakistani Policeman Killed in Red Mosque Gun Battle
Reuters:
Price of machetes drops after elections
Discussion: Tim Worstall
Lambert / Corrente:
Can you tell me if what I've got is the real White House phonebook …
Thomas Catan / Times of London:
Spanish tourists killed as suicide bomber strikes in Yemen
 Earlier Items: 
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
A Local Lesson That Democrats Fail
Greg Pierce / Washington Times:
Inside Politics
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
David Barboza / New York Times:
A Slippery, Writhing Trade Dispute
In From the Cold:
The Next "Spectacular"  —  In the wake of last Friday's foiled …
Discussion: The Belmont Club
 

 
From Techmeme:

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus surpassed OpenAI's GPT-4 for the first time on Chatbot Arena, a crowdsourced leaderboard used by AI researchers for LLM evaluations

Rebekah Valentine / IGN:
Take-Two acquires Borderlands developer Gearbox Entertainment from the Embracer Group for $460M in stock; the deal is expected to close by the end of June 2024

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Oregon's governor signs the first US right-to-repair law that bans manufacturers from using “parts pairing” to dictate what replacement components can be used

 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page