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9:25 AM ET, July 31, 2007

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Anchorage Daily News:
FBI, IRS searching Stevens' Girdwood house  —  Federal law enforcement agents are currently searching the Girdwood home of Alaska U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens.  —  "All I can say is that agents from the FBI and IRS are currently conducting a search at that residence," said Dave Heller …
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Dan Eggen Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Alaska Senator's Home Is Raided  —  Stevens Scrutinized In a Wide Inquiry Into Corruption in the State  —  Agents from the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service raided the Alaska home of Sen. Ted Stevens (R) yesterday as part of a broad federal investigation of political corruption in the state …
R.A. Dillon / Fairbanks Daily News-Miner:
Young feeling heat on the Hill
Discussion: DownWithTyranny!
CNN:
FBI searches Sen. Stevens' home
Discussion: Shakespeare's Sister
Associated Press:
FBI, IRS agents raid U.S. senator's home
Discussion: scott thomas-dot-us and Truthdig
Elana Schor / The Hill:
FBI raids Sen. Stevens's Alaska home
Discussion: New York Times
Fox News:   Sen. Ted Stevens' Renovated Home Searched by FBI, IRS
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Short of Perjury  —  I find myself in an unaccustomed and unexpected position: defending Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.  —  Gonzales fans, if there are Gonzales fans left, except for the only fan who counts: Don't take any comfort from my assessment.  —  In his Senate testimony last week …
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The Hill:
Specter: Administration has 18 hours to clarify Gonzales testimony on wiretapping  —  The Senate Judiciary Committee's ranking Republican, Arlen Specter (Pa.), emerged from a crucial Monday briefing and gave the Bush administration 18 hours to resolve the controversy over apparent contradictions …
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
IMPEACH GONZALES?  —  From NBC's Mike Viqueira
Deacon / Power Line:
DEFENDING ALBERTO GONZALES — WHY WE BOTHER
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Patterico's Pontifications:
Wonkette: We Wish John Roberts Would Die  —  Wonkette: … B-b-but . . . I thought hate speech was a problem only on prominent righty blogs — not prominent lefty blogs.  Didn't Rick Ellensburg say so?  —  (Thanks to Michael E.)
Ken Layne / Wonkette:
Rumors On The Internets: Let the Sunshine In
Washington Post:
Chief Justice Suffers Seizure
Discussion: At-Largely
Associated Press:
Ellison returns from trip to Iraq  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Keith Ellison made a weekend trip to Iraq, where a pair of sheiks urged Congress' only Muslim lawmaker to help in countering al-Qaeda's vision of Islam.  —  Ellison, D-Minn., said he met in Ramadi in Anbar province with the two sheiks …
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Ellison: Progress Is Being Made  —  When Michael O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack of the Brookings Institution wrote in yesterday's New York Times that Congress should give General David Petraeus more time in Iraq to expand on the progress he has already made since the beginning of the surge …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:   Liberal, Democrat, Muslim Congressman Begged To Fight al-Qaeda
Washington Post:
Clyburn: Positive Report by Petraeus Could Split House Democrats on War  —  House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said Monday that a strongly positive report on progress on Iraq by Army Gen. David Petraeus likely would split Democrats in the House and impede his party's efforts to press for a timetable to end the war.
hughhewitt.townhall.com:
New York Times Pulitzer Prize winner John Burns on Iraq, Iran and how the surge is working.  —  The Hugh Hewitt Show  —  HH: Pleased to welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show John Burns of the New York Times.  Mr. Burns, welcome, it's been about six months since we spoke, and I gather you're in Baghdad today?
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Matt / Think Progress:
Cheney Says He Is A 'Unique Creature,' Refuses To Say He Is Part Of Executive Branch  —  In June, House investigators revealed that Vice President Dick Cheney had exempted his office from an executive order order designed to safeguard classified national security information by claiming …
Manu Raju / The Hill:
Lieberman escalates attack on Iraq critics  —  Ever since Connecticut Democrats refused to back him for a fourth term in Congress, Joe Lieberman has been burnishing his independent credentials in the narrowly divided Senate while becoming increasingly critical of the Democratic Party on the war in Iraq.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Michael Chapman / CNSNews:
'Cool' Icon Che Guevara Was a Murderous Thug, Author Says  —  (Editor's Note: In the first of a two-part interview, Cybercast News Service speaks to Humberto Fontova, author of the new book, "Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him.")
Michael Yon:
Bread and a Circus, Part I of II  —  [Note: Before we begin, a huge congratulations to Iraq for winning the Asian Cup in soccer.  As an American, I felt a sense of jubilation when Iraq took the title.  I have temporarily left Iraq, for my only "break" this year, and am in Singapore.
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Ron Paul: Let bounty hunters get bin Laden  —  It didn't go anywhere in the tense days after the 9/11 attacks, but Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), who is running a longshot bid for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination, has re-introduced his proposal to authorize President Bush to commission private citizens …
 
 
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MSNBC:
'Untouchable' corruption in Iraq ministries
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Cleric's death opens up power struggle in Iran
Discussion: Ezra Klein and The Newshoggers
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William M. Arkin / Washington Post:
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The Corner:
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This Is London:
IF I GO BACK TO IRAQ ANYBODY COULD KILL ME, SAYS HERO FOOTBALL CAPTAIN
Dan Froomkin / Washington Post:
Bush's New Poodle?  —  Anyone who expected the new British …
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