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1:15 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  —  Back at the time this happened — Sept. 7, 2007, a date that should live in infamy — this struck us as quite odd indeed.  There were rumblings in the news that Osama bin Laden had made his first videotape in three years …
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
AL QAEDA GOES DARK  —  Eli Lake has the story of the day in today's New York Sun: "Qaeda goes dark after a U.S. slip."  Lake reports that the September 7 Osama bin Laden video (the one with the funny looking black beard) was picked up by Rita Katz's SITE Institute and provided to the National Counterterrorism Center:
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Today's Must Read
Discussion: CANNONFIRE
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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John Yoo / Opinion Journal:
The Real Clarence Thomas  —  His fidelity to the Constitution often leads to results liberals like.  —  Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas again finds himself in the crosshairs of liberals.  After 16 years of diligently avoiding the press, he has written a memoir, "My Grandfather's Son …
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court grants no new cases, turns down CIA case  —  The Supreme Court granted no new cases Tuesday and, in a major action, refused to reopen the question of the government's power to limit or scuttle lawsuits by claiming that "state secrets" have to be protected.
Discussion: ACLU, TalkLeft, Reuters, ACSBlog and The Heretik
Agence France Presse:
Top US court rejects damages claim by former CIA prisoner
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:   Political Parties, Under Challenge, Seem to Have Justices' Sympathy
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 …
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New York Times:
Democrats Seem Ready to Extend Wiretap Powers
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 …
Discussion: Pollster.com and Think Progress
Bill Summary / Think Progress:
Summary Of The RESTORE Act  —  RESTORE Act of 2007  —  The RESTORE ACT:  —  1. Clarifies that No Court Warrant is Required to Intercept Communications of Non-United States Persons When Both Ends of the Communications are Outside the United States.  —  2. Requires an Individualized Court Warrant …
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Faiz / Think Progress:
House introduces new FISA legislation.
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 …
Patrick Healy / The Caucus:
As Clinton's Lead Grows, Voter Q&A's Shrink  —  AMES, Iowa - As Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered her stump speech at a rally here on Monday night, Luke Gran stood among the throngs with his hand thrust in the air, eager for Mrs. Clinton to call on him to ask a question.  —  Mrs. Clinton never did.
Discussion: techPresident and QandO
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Michael Cooper / New York Times:
A Senate Star Sparkles Less on the Stump
Discussion: MSNBC and Wonkette
The Blotter:
Nixon on Thompson: 'Dumb' but 'Friendly'  —  Brian Ross and Avni Patel Report:  —  Fred Thompson has made much of his role 30 years ago as a young Senate lawyer helping to lead the investigation of the Watergate scandal and President Richard Nixon.  —  But a much different …
Brian Faughnan / Weekly Standard:
Mahmood: U R SO KEWL!!!!!  —  Who would have imagined that the march of technology would eventually force Mahmood Ahmadinejad to confront trolls on his blog.  Nevertheless, a lively debate has broken out among the commenters—you might even call it a flamewar.  —  There are the critics:
Irenep / Michael Yon:
Under Distant Stars  —  In his book, Gates of Fire, Steven Pressfield offers the following translation of the epitaph engraved on a commemorative stone placed on top of the burial mound of the Spartans at Thermopylae: … CSM James Pippin  —  He was shot; four months ago—nearly to the day …
 
 
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Commercial Appeal:
Davis, of 4th District, will run for governor
Redstate:
The Debates According to Fred
Discussion: Power Line and IMAO
Atrios / Eschaton:
A**holes  —  Mark Steyn: … Yah, I remember how we made this kid
Stanley Kurtz / The Corner:
Deterrence Lost?  —  In two previous posts, I've commented …
Discussion: Townhall.com and Daily Pundit
Brian Faughnan / Weekly Standard:
Netroots Doing the Work of the NRCC—A Continuing Saga
Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
GOP hits Hillary's 'baby bonds'
The Corner:
Fred Today  —  Thompson got an excellent send-up on The Today Show …
David Nather / CQPolitics.com:
Anti-War Movement Stuck in a Quagmire
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Ernesto Is Not A New Man  —  Hugo Chavez has decided to direct …
Jon Kalahar / WLBT-TV:
'Wall Street Journal' Questions Hayne's Ethics
Discussion: The Agitator and Reason
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Court Identifies Eleven Inaccuracies in Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth'
Elizabeth Ames Jones / Washington Post:
Energy Security 101  —  Americans burn 490 million gallons …
Frank Newport / Gallup Poll:
Giuliani Still on Top as Republicans Prepare to Debate in Michigan
Jane Gross / New York Times:
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