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10:40 AM ET, July 26, 2007

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Senator May Seek Gonzales Perjury Probe — Leahy Sets Deadline For Revised Testimony — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy threatened yesterday to request a perjury investigation of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, as Democrats said an intelligence official's statement …

Discussion: TPMmuckraker, The Carpetbagger Report, The Anonymous Liberal, Macsmind, Corrente, Outside The Beltway, Daily Kos, Watching Those We Chose and The Democratic Daily

Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press:

Documents contradict Gonzales' testimony — WASHINGTON - Documents show that eight congressional leaders were briefed about the Bush administration's terrorist surveillance program on the eve of its expiration in 2004, contradicting sworn Senate testimony this week by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

Discussion: Salon, Media Matters for America, Bark Bark Woof Woof, Shakespeare's Sister, Hullabaloo, Balkinization, TPMCafe blogs, Comments From Left Field, Taylor Marsh and Think Progress

New York Times:

Defying the Imperial Presidency — The House Judiciary Committee did its duty yesterday, voting to cite Harriet Miers, the former White House counsel, and Joshua Bolten, the White House chief of staff, for contempt. The Bush administration has been acting lawlessly in refusing to hand …

Discussion: CANNONFIRE, Norwegianity, Prairie Weather and Sirotablog

Washington Post:

War Crimes and the White House — The Dishonor in a Tortured New 'Interpretation' of the Geneva Conventions — One of us was appointed commandant of the Marine Corps by President Ronald Reagan; the other served as a lawyer in the Reagan White House and has vigorously defended the constitutionality …

Discussion: Firedoglake, Daily Kos and The Sideshow

Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Omerta — YouTube of Bill Moyers and Jon Stewart discussing …

Discussion: Crooks and Liars

Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Did Gonzo Lie? — Alberto Gonzales performed poorly as a witness …

Discussion: Redstate

Think Progress:
AP Reveals New Document Demonstrating 'Clear Case' Of Gonzales Perjury …

Discussion: rubber hose, Sadly, No!, Brilliant at Breakfast, Washington Monthly and Bloomberg

Hindrocket / Power Line: LEAKING AGAINST GONZALES — Paul writes below about Alberto …

Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
Countdown: Leahy Doesn't Buy White House Lies

Discussion: The Sideshow

John Solomon / Washington Post:

No Easy Verdict on Thompson The Lawyer — Cases Indicate Willingness to Defy GOP Orthodoxy — Before he was elected as a tough-on-crime U.S. senator from Tennessee or played a New York prosecutor on TV's "Law and Order," Fred Dalton Thompson worked as a lawyer who argued …

Discussion: Time, race42008.com and Ian Schwartz

Jonathan Martin / The Politico:

Newt flirts with Thompson — Newt Gingrich's long, slow striptease over whether he will seek the presidency in 2008 looks like it might come to an unexpected conclusion: a date with Fred Thompson. — Publicly, Gingrich has been sending signals making clear that a presidential candidacy for him is becoming less likely.

Discussion: The Newshoggers, Debbie Schlussel, MSNBC, Hot Air, The Reaction, National Review, race42008.com, Blogs For Fred Thompson and Carry on America

Mark Murray / MSNBC:
Fred, interrupted — From NBC's Carrie Dann

Discussion: Fox News, Blogs For Fred Thompson, IMAO, Hot Air, race42008.com and Boston Globe

The New Republic:

A STATEMENT FROM SCOTT THOMAS BEAUCHAMP: — As we've noted in this space, some have questioned details that appeared in the Diarist "Shock Troops," published under the pseudonym Scott Thomas. According to Major Kirk Luedeke, a public affairs officer at Forward Operating Base Falcon …

Discussion: Hot Air, The Atlantic Online, Gateway Pundit, QandO and mediabistro.com

The Big Trunk / Power Line:

SCOTT THOMAS SPEAKS — "The editors" of the New Republic have posted a statement from the soldier formerly known as Scott Thomas — he now identifies himself as Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp — with this preface: … Scott Thomas Beauchamp writes:

Discussion: BLACKFIVE, ABCNEWS, Outside the Wire, Townhall.com and michellemalkin.com

Jackie Calmes / Wall Street Journal:

McCain's Media Team Resigns, Futher Shaking Up Campaign — WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain's well-known media team has resigned, an indication that his campaign shake-up is continuing to backfire and imperiling the Arizona Republican's presidential candidacy.

Discussion: Boston Globe, CNN, Shakespeare's Sister, Comments From Left Field and TIME

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

As regular readers... IMPEACHMENT? — As regular readers of this site know, I've always been against the movement to impeach President Bush. I take this position not because he hasn't done plenty to merit it. My reasons are practical. Minor reasons are that it's late in the president's term …

Discussion: Suburban Guerrilla, The Atlantic Online, Bark Bark Woof Woof, The Next Hurrah, Liberal Values, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES, Fact-esque, TalkLeft, The Carpetbagger Report, Liberty Street, Whiskey Fire and Obsidian Wings

Karl / Press Esc:

US Senators call for universal Internet filtering — Submitted by Adam Thomas on Wed, 2007-07-25 20:47. - Americas - Tech - United States - News — US senators today made a bipartisan call for the universal implementation of filtering and monitoring technologies on the Internet in order …

Discussion: The Newshoggers, Captain's Quarters, Comments From Left Field and Centerfield

Dan Elliott / Associated Press:

Fired Colo. professor sues university — DENVER - A professor who was fired after comparing some Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi sued the school Wednesday, saying officials retaliated against him for exercising his right to free speech. — Ward Churchill was ousted by the University …

Discussion: Sister Toldjah and USS Neverdock

Rocky Mountain News:
Regents do their duty — Churchill firing only responsible course, given the evidence

Discussion: Power Line

Michael Cieply / New York Times:

While Real Bullets Fly, Movies Bring War Home — LOS ANGELES, July 25 — On a night four years ago, five soldiers back from three months in Iraq went drinking at a Hooters restaurant and a topless bar near Fort Benning, Ga. — Before the night was over, one of them, Specialist Richard R. Davis …

Discussion: MSNBC, NewsBusters.org, Op For, The Democratic Daily, Winds of Change.NET, The Jawa Report and Right Wing News

John Bresnahan / The Politico:

Waxman seeks RNC e-mails from White House Counsel Fielding — House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) wants White House Counsel Fred Fielding to turn over any e-mails his office has from White House aides on Republican National Committee accounts.

Discussion: TPMmuckraker

Thomas P. M. Barnett / US News:

Managing China's Ascent — Realists insist the U.S. and China are slated for military conflict in the decades ahead. America cannot peacefully accommodate China's rise because it subverts our role as the world's lone superpower. — Let me offer a different vision.

Discussion: Outside The Beltway

Bill Koenig / Bloomberg:

Ford Has Surprise $750 Million Profit, Ending Losses — Ford Motor Co., the second-biggest U.S. automaker, surprised investors with its first quarterly profit in two years, earning $750 million from the sale of Aston Martin and reduced spending on pensions and warranties.

Discussion: PoliPundit.com