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3:25 PM ET, October 9, 2007

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Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
Leak Severed a Link to Al-Qaeda's Secrets  —  Firm Says Administration's Handling of Video Ruined Its Spying Efforts  —  A small private intelligence company that monitors Islamic terrorist groups obtained a new Osama bin Laden video ahead of its official release last month …
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Rusty / The Jawa Report:
Uh, About that "Leak" That Burned Our al Qaeda Intel  —  I know what the NY Sun and Washington Post are saying about a major source of intel being burned by a leak, but it just isn't so.  Rita Katz and the SITE Institute do a great job, but attributing the interception of this video to them is just false.
Eli Lake / New York Sun:
Qaeda Goes Dark After a U.S. Slip  —  Enemy Vanishes From Its Web Sites  —  WASHINGTON — Al Qaeda's Internet communications system has suddenly gone dark to American intelligence after the leak of Osama bin Laden's September 11 speech inadvertently disclosed the fact that we had penetrated the enemy's system.
Will / Attytood:
Betrayal: How Bush's Iraq politics ruined our spying on bin Laden
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Today's Must Read
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
What Is Wrong With You?!?  —  The difference between the far right wing and the far left wing: the far right will do anything — anything — so long as the ends justifies the means.  The far left folks have ethical boundaries that they try very hard not to cross: things like attacking …
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Faiz / Think Progress:
Rush Smears 12-Yr Old: 'They Filled His Head With Lies Just As They Have Some Of These Soldiers'  —  Yesterday, ThinkProgress noted the right wing has been orchestrating a coordinated effort to smear a 12 year old recipient of SCHIP.  These conservatives have been propagating baseless "facts" …
Jamie Holly / Crooks and Liars:
Graeme Frost: What Would You Do If This Was Snooping Around Your House?  (Updated)  —  Play (3220) Here's an old Daily Show Clip with Malkinite...  (small file WMP only)  —  The wingnuts have been in full force attack against the family of Graeme Frost, the twelve year old boy that gave …
Associated Press:
Court nixes suit claiming CIA torture  —  Justices throw out German's challenge to alleged abduction by U.S. agents  —  WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday terminated a lawsuit from a man who claims he was abducted and tortured by the CIA, effectively endorsing Bush administration arguments …
Discussion: Macsmind
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court grants no new cases, turns down CIA case
Discussion: Reuters, TalkLeft, ACSBlog and The Heretik
Patrick / mediabistro.com:
Matthews on Matthews  —  On today's "Morning Joe," Joe Scarborough asked Chris Matthews if Republican candidates would try to get a "cheap applause line" tonight by pointing to his recent controversial comments.  —  Said Matthews:  —  I've been thinking about that....It's not my stage tonight.
Newsday:
British pullout in Iraq leaves Basra in chaos  —  BY TIMOTHY M. PHELPS.timothy.phelps@newsday.com; This story was supplemented with wire reports.  —  WASHINGTON - The British troop pullout from Iraq announced yesterday leaves Basra, Iraq's second largest and most strategically important city …
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Peter Baker / The Trail:
Bartlett on the GOP Field: A Hick, a "Dud" and a "Flip-Flopper"  —  Dan Bartlett, formerly one of the closest advisers to President Bush, has been offering a tough analysis of the GOP field.  (White House Photo Office).  —  One of President Bush's closest advisers has a brutally candid analysis …
Discussion: CNN Political Ticker
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Giuliani law firm sued by high profile Texan  —  A prominent Texas Republican has sued Rudy Giuliani's law firm and a close friend and partner of Giuliani's, Kenneth Caruso, alleging that Caruso, the firm and others "schemed and conspired to steal $10 million."
Lydia Saad / Gallup Poll:
Bush's Approval Rating Returns to Low 30s  —  Matches his average rating since July  —  PRINCETON, NJ — According to a new Gallup Poll, conducted Oct. 4-7, 2007, President George W. Bush's job approval rating from the American public is an anemic 32%.  That is slightly below his previous reading …
Salon:
Greenwald takes a closer look at FISA revisions  —  What FISA capitulations are Democrats planning next?  —  An article in this morning's NYT reports what many have long been expecting — that Congressional Democrats are ready to capitulate to the White House again on warrantless eavesdropping …
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
DoJ Vote Chief Argues Voter ID Laws Discriminate against Whites  —  When Justice Department lawyers and analysts found in 2005 that a Georgia law requiring voters to have photo ID would disproportionately discriminate against African-Americans, they were overruled by John Tanner …
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Court Identifies Eleven Inaccuracies in Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth'  —  Here's something American media are virtually guaranteed to not report: a British court has determined that Al Gore's schlockumentary "An Inconvenient Truth" contains at least eleven material falsehoods.
John Tierney / New York Times:
Diet and Fat: A Severe Case of Mistaken Consensus  —  In 1988, the surgeon general, C. Everett Koop, proclaimed ice cream to a be public-health menace right up there with cigarettes.  Alluding to his office's famous 1964 report on the perils of smoking, Dr. Koop announced that the American diet …
Little Green Footballs:
Phony 'Satirical' Anti-Muslim Posters Circulated at GWU  —  At George Washington University, another outrageous action by the Saudi-funded radical Islamic front group calling itself the Muslim Student Association, as they circulate flyers purporting to be from a conservative campus group …
 
 
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New York Times:
The Public's Right to Know  —  Efforts to enact a federal shield law …
Discussion: Martini Revolution
Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
Pundits Lower Expectations For Thompson: If He "Doesn't Drool" …
Rusty / The Jawa Report:
Thanks UT, Now I'm Even Getting Instapundit in the Mail!
Confederate Yankee:
The New Republic Re-Interviewed Beauchamp... Over a Month Ago
Jonathan Chait / New York Times:
Captives of the Supply Side
Atrios / Eschaton:
Fake News Event of the Day
Discussion: Ezra Klein and Brian Beutler
James G. Neuger / Bloomberg:
NATO Staggers in Afghanistan as Some Can't Fight On
Commercial Appeal:
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