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3:00 PM ET, December 10, 2007

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Albert R. Hunt / Bloomberg:
Tension in Hillaryland Grows as Plan Goes Awry: Albert R. Hunt  —  Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) — To appreciate Hillary Clinton's fundamental political problem, consider the 11 Democrats from Philadelphia who gathered last week to discuss the U.S. presidential race, almost all of whom would vote for her in a general election.
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CNN Political Ticker:
Clinton camp answers Oprah with Angelou
Discussion: The Swamp
Matt Apuzzo / Associated Press:
Libby to drop appeal in CIA leak case  —  WASHINGTON - Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is no longer appealing his conviction in the CIA leak case, a tacit recognition that continuing his legal fight might only make things worse.  —  Libby, the former chief of staff …
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White House:
Press Briefing by Dana Perino  —  MS. PERINO: Hello.  I have one quick statement.  Today is International Human Rights Day, and last week the President met with Syrian and Belarusian democracy activists.  And this morning Mrs. Bush held an event on Burma.
Discussion: First Draft
Fabiola Antezana / ABCNEWS:
Did Iceland Teen Call Secret White House Phone?  —  Icelandic Boy, 16, 'Wanted to ... Have a Chat, Invite Him to Iceland and See What He'd Say'  —  When Vífill Atlason, a 16-year-old high school student from Iceland, decided to call the White House, he could not imagine the kind of publicity it would bring.
ABCNEWS:
Victim: Gang-Rape Cover-Up by U.S., Halliburton/KBR  —  KBR Told Victim She Could Lose Her Job If She Sought Help After Being Raped, She Says  —  A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident.
Guardian:
The threat has not diminished  —  The intelligence is misguided - the danger that Iran will acquire nuclear weapons is real.  What's missing is the policy to address it  —  The recent United States national intelligence estimate (NIE), which reports that Iran once had a "nuclear weapons programme" …
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Mike McConnell / New York Times:
Help Me Spy on Al Qaeda  —  THE Protect America Act, enacted in August, has lived up to its name and objective: making the country safer while protecting the civil liberties of Americans.  Under this new law, we now have the speed and agility necessary to detect terrorist and other evolving national security threats.
Discussion: The Next Hurrah
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Chris Dodd / The Huffington Post:
Mike McConnell Is Flat Wrong
Discussion: DownWithTyranny!
Michael J. Totten:
After the Battle of Al-Fajr  —  FALLUJAH, IRAQ - Fallujah is known as the City of Mosques.  It is also a city of walls, and of war.  —  It was a quieter city than most after the initial invasion in 2003.  There was less looting than in Baghdad, and the mayor was pro-American.
M.J. Rosenberg / The Coffee House:
Rudy Self-Destructs on Russert  —  I have been watching Meet The Press since, I don't know, Estes Kefauver days and, I'm sad to say, Rudy Giuliani provided the worst performance I've ever seen by a major Presidential candidate.  —  Okay, I am not sad to say.  I am delighted.
Discussion: Cogitamus and Crooks and Liars
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court eases cocaine sentencing  —  The Supreme Court on Monday gave federal judges new authority to set sentences for crack cocaine crimes below the range of punishment set by federal guidelines — a major restoration of flexibility for trial judges in drug cases.
Mike Allen / The Politico:
GOP launches first attack invoking Hillary  —  The Republican Party has launched its first use of unflattering images of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) to motivate voters in two congressional special elections this week, marking the beginning of what could be a year-long barrage of ads …
Daily Mail:
Students stone police in Iran riot  —  Students defied a clampdown on protests in Iran yesterday by tearing down the gates of Tehran university.  —  They chanted slogans against President Ahmadinejad and carried placards saying "Live free or die", "No war, no fascism" and "Women must decide their fate, not the state."
Opinion Journal:
The Paygo Farce  —  Democrats admit it was all a big confidence game. … Well, as Emily Littela, the half-witted Gilder Radner character on Saturday Night Live, would have put it: "Never mind."  Last week Congressional Democrats formally renounced their ballyhooed budget pledge to offset …
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Chavez Tried Rigging Referendum Vote  —  Hugo Chavez suffered a narrow but humiliating loss at the polls last week for his referendum on changing the Venezuelan constitution into a roadmap for dictatorship.  His acknowledgment of the defeat gained him praise from world leaders for his commitment to democracy.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Henry Paulson's Priorities  —  By Bush administration standards, Henry Paulson, the Treasury secretary, is a good guy.  He isn't conspicuously incompetent; and he isn't trying to mislead us into war, justify torture or protect corrupt contractors.  —  But Mr. Paulson's actions reflect the priorities of the administration he serves.
 
 
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Eric Dondero / Front Page Magazine:
Cynthia McKinney '08  —  "The time for confrontation has come for me …
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Kos / Daily Kos:
AK-Sen, AL: Republican incumbents in serious danger
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Michelle Malkin:
The Spanish-language panderfest, sprinkled with Ron Paul's Blame …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
The independents  —  This mailer (.pdf) from the Emily's List …
Discussion: Spin Cycle
James L. / Swing State Project:
OH-05: GOP "Pissed Off" With Latta's Campaign
Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
WaPo's David Ignatius: Bush's Iran Intel Lie Is A "Non-Story"
Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
Pelosi: I Knew Very Very Little About Waterboarding Detainees
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Robert Novak / Human Events:
Romney and Religion  —  In delivering his long anticipated …
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AWOL military justice
The Corner:
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