memeorandum: Senate Intelligence Panel Seeks CIA Nominee's Withdrawal (Joby Warrick/Washington Post)

12:30 PM ET, September 13, 2007

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TIMES GIVES LEFTIES A HEFTY DISCOUNT FOR 'BETRAY US' AD — The New York Times dramatically slashed its normal rates for a full-page advertisement for MoveOn.org's ad questioning the integrity of Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq. — Headlined "Cooking the Books …

Discussion: Weekly Standard, Heading Right, NewsBusters.org, Hot Air, Outside The Beltway, Washington Times, baldilocks, QandO, Jules Crittenden, Sweetness & Light and Sister Toldjah

New York Post:

SEN. CLINTON'S SLUR — Sen. Hillary Clinton yesterday found herself positioned firmly to the left of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi regarding that disgusting New York Times/MoveOn "General Betray Us" attack on Gen. David Petraeus' integrity. — That's not an enviable position for a woman who's trying …

Discussion: Wake up America, No More Mister Nice Blog, Political Radar, Blue Crab Boulevard and Gateway Pundit

Zzaki / Political Punch:

Does Ideology Matter in NYT ads? — After I reported earlier in the week on the controversy surrounding the MoveOn.org ad in the New York Times (LINK), some conservative bloggers seized upon my reporting that MoveOn.org claims to have paid about $65,000 for the full-page ad.

Discussion: Confederate Yankee, Greatscat!, The Moderate Voice and Kiko's House

Washington Post:

Petraeus Returns to War That Is Now His Own — He sat absolutely still as members of Congress discussed his credibility and patriotism. His face did not twitch. He did not nod or frown or smile. Not a single muscle moved. He was as impassive as a boot-camp recruit resisting a drill sergeant's provocations.

Discussion: SWJ Blog, Brian Beutler and Outside The Beltway

Patrick Cockburn / The Independent:
President Petraeus? Iraqi official recalls the day US general revealed ambition

Discussion: IPS Inter Press Service, AMERICAblog, Reason Magazine, Corrente, Democrats.com, The Strata-Sphere, Brendan Nyhan, Left in the West, Brilliant at Breakfast, Talking Points Memo, unbossed.com and Mercury Rising

Ryan Grim / The Politico:
'Betray Us' ad unites GOP, distracts Dems

Discussion: The Mahablog

National / Homeland Security National Terror Alert:

Camouflaged Man Armed With A Loaded AK-47 Arrested In Dearborn Park — A 26-year-old Dearborn resident, Houssein Zorkot, was arraigned in 19th District Court Tuesday on several felony charges, including carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent. — Zorkot, a third-year medical student …

Discussion: Atlas Shrugs, Op For, Gateway Pundit and UrbanGrounds

Dearborn Press and Guide-Heritage …:

Man with AK-47 assault rifle arrested after leaving Dearborn's Hemlock Park — DEARBORN - Houssein Zorkot, a 26-year-old Dearborn resident, was arraigned Tuesday in 19th District Court on multiple felony charges, including carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent — a five-year felony.

Discussion: Little Green Footballs, The Jawa Report, Sweetness & Light, Jihad Watch and Sister Toldjah

Rusty / The Jawa Report:
Michigan "Sniper" is a Shia Blogger UPDATE: The Start of My Personal Jihad

Discussion: Hot Air

ABCNEWS:

Top Sunni Sheik Killed in IED Attack — Sunni Sheik Leading Revolt Against al Qaeda in Iraq Killed in IED Attack — The Sunni sheik cooperating with the United States against al Qaeda in Iraq was killed in an improvised explosive device attack near his house in Anbar province.

Discussion: Think Progress

Washington Post:
Sheik Risha Killed in Bomb Attack in Iraq

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, Three Wise Men and Middle Earth Journal

Sameer N. Yacoub / Associated Press:
Bomb kills Iraqi sheik who met with Bush

Discussion: Washington Monthly, The Long War Journal, Corrente, Comments From Left Field, Prairie Weather, Publius Pundit and Outside The Beltway

Abu Aardvark:
Abu Risha murdered

Discussion: Daily Kos, American Footprints, TPMmuckraker and Talking Points Memo

Robert Vamosi / CNET News.com:

Researcher: Bin Laden's beard is real, video is not — On the Friday before the sixth anniversary of 9/11, Osama bin Laden appeared in a new video, his first since prior to the U.S. presidential elections in 2004. In analyzing the video, Neal Krawetz of Hactor Factor, an expert on digital image forensics …

Discussion: Donklephant, Secure Computing, Balloon Juice, QandO and Daimnation!

Newsweek:

Spy Master Admits Error — Intel czar Mike McConnell told Congress a new law helped bring down a terror plot. The facts say otherwise. — In a new embarrassment for the Bush administration top spymaster, Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell is withdrawing an assertion …

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report, The Gun Toting Liberal™, Think Progress, The Strata-Sphere, The BLT, The Next Hurrah, Cliff Schecter, Brian Beutler, The Democratic Daily and The Gavel

Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
McConnell Retracts Dubious FISA Claim

Discussion: Los Angeles Times and The Atlantic Online

George Will / Real Clear Politics:

Is a Fred Thompson Campaign Necessary? — Fred Thompson's plunge into the presidential pool — more belly-flop than swan dive — was the strangest product launch since that of New Coke in 1985. Then the question was: Is this product necessary? A similar question stumped Thompson the day he plunged.

Discussion: The Corner, TIME, Shakespeare's Sister, PoliPundit.com, Betsy's Page and Daily Pundit

Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:
Help Not Wanted — Almost immediately following the launch …

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report, Althouse, Wonkette and Los Angeles Times

Think Progress:

Boehner: Troop deaths in Iraq are 'a small price.' — In an interview on CNN today, Wolf Blitzer asked House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) about "the Americans who are killed every month" in Iraq and "how much longer" the "military commitment is going to require?"

Discussion: Outside The Beltway, Daily Kos and BuzzFlash.org

John Kerry / The Huffington Post:
Boehner's "Small Price"

Discussion: TIME: Swampland and The Carpetbagger Report

James Glanz / New York Times:

Compromise on Oil Law in Iraq Seems to Be Collapsing — A carefully constructed compromise on a draft law governing Iraq's rich oil fields, agreed to in February after months of arduous talks among Iraqi political groups, appears to have collapsed. The apparent breakdown comes just as Congress …

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, The Newshoggers, The Swamp, Three Wise Men, Talking Points Memo, Comments From Left Field, QandO, About.com U.S. Politics, The Next Hurrah, The Carpetbagger Report, The Moderate Voice, PoliBlog (TM), Daily Kos, Obsidian Wings and Needlenose

New York Times:

Limited Pullout Is Middle Way on Iraq, Bush Will Say — When top Democratic leaders visited him at the White House this week, President Bush told them he wanted to "find common ground" on Iraq. But when the president said he planned to "start doing some redeployment," the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, cut him off.

Discussion: Think Progress, The Swamp, Yeas & Nays, Brilliant at Breakfast, All Spin Zone, On Deadline, Lawyers, Guns and Money and Brian Beutler

Washington Post:
Democrats Push Toward Middle On Iraq Policy

Discussion: Chicago Tribune, Obsidian Wings, Daily Kos, Burnt Orange Report, MyDD, Left in the West, Prairie Weather, democracyarsenal.org, The Glittering Eye, MSNBC and The Huffington Post

Richard Miniter:

BERGER'S COMEBACK — As many of you know, Clinton's National Security Advisor Sandy Berger and I no longer get along. — Once a cordial and helpful source, Berger turned on me in January 2002 when the first installment of a Sunday Times (U.K.) series that I co-wrote appeared.

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, Right Wing Nut House, Betsy's Page, Right Wing News, Weekly Standard, Riehl World View, Roger L. Simon and Daily Pundit

Beldar / beldar.blogs.com:
Do you care if national security criminal Sandy Berger is re-embraced …

Discussion: Wizbang and Outside The Beltway

Joby Warrick / Washington Post:

Senate Intelligence Panel Seeks CIA Nominee's Withdrawal — Members of the Senate intelligence committee have requested the withdrawal of the Bush administration's choice for CIA general counsel, acknowledging that John Rizzo's nomination has stalled because of concerns about his views on the treatment of terrorism suspects.

Discussion: TPMmuckraker, Think Progress and MoJoBlog