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11:25 AM ET, April 8, 2008

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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Congress To Hear Of Gains In Iraq  —  Petraeus, Crocker To Face Impatient Lawmakers  —  In a reprise of their testimony last September, Army Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker plan to tell Congress today and tomorrow that security has improved in Iraq and that the government …
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Seumas Milne / Guardian:
Secret US plan for military future in Iraq  —  A confidential draft agreement covering the future of US forces in Iraq, passed to the Guardian, shows that provision is being made for an open-ended military presence in the country.  —  The draft strategic framework agreement between the US …
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Testimony by General Will Test Candidates for President  —  WASHINGTON — Three presidential candidates and two very different views of Iraq will be on full display on Tuesday as Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top American commander in Baghdad, testifies before the Senate in a marathon session of war and White House ambitions.
CNN:
Petraeus will stick to his guns, aide says
Discussion: The Page
Shaun Mullen / The Moderate Voice:   Wanted & Found: An Iraq War Bogeyman
Gateway Pundit:
The Gratitude Campaign— Pass It On
Discussion: Dr. Melissa Clouthier
John Bresnahan / The Crypt's Blogs:
Protesters line up for Petraeus-Crocker appearance at Senate Armed Services panel
Discussion: The Swamp
Associated Press:
A top-level Iraqi body calls for immediate disbanding of militias
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
Jules Crittenden:
“Failure of Leadership”
Discussion: The Swamp and Wake up America
Cernig / Newshoggers.com:
It's Going To Be A Busy Anniversary
Discussion: The Opinionator and Reuters
New York Times:
Shift at Top May Mean Shift in Tone for Clinton  —  WASHINGTON — “This isn't exactly what I was planning on when I woke up this morning,” Geoff Garin e-mailed Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton after a hasty weekend shake-up left him atop her campaign's strategy team.  —  Mrs. Clinton answered his dry humor in kind.
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Hillary Clinton / CNN:
Clinton says Penn controversy won't be damaging
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
The Errors Haunting Clinton
Discussion: Washington Wire, Salon and Newsweek
Martha Raddatz / ABCNEWS:
Surprising Political Endorsements By U.S. Troops  —  American Soldiers Speak Out About Their Presidential Endorsements  —  ABC's Martha Raddatz asked American soldiers in Iraq what issues are most important to them when looking at the presidential candidates.
Christopher Lee / Washington Post:
Cheney Could Keep Security Detail  —  Secret Service Calls 6-Month Extension Prudent, Probable  —  The man code-named “Angler” by the Secret Service will probably continue to receive the agency's protection long after he leaves office next year.  —  The Secret Service is preparing …
Discussion: Firedoglake
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Think Progress:
ThinkFast: April 8, 2008  —  Aides say in today's testimony …
Discussion: The Hill and MotherJones.com
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
FBI Data Transfers Via Telecoms Questioned  —  When FBI investigators probing New York prostitution rings, Boston organized crime or potential terrorist plots anywhere want access to a suspect's telephone contacts, technicians at a telecommunications carrier served with a government order can …
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Iraq War Attitudes Politically Polarized  —  Republicans generally favor the war; Democrats oppose it  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Republicans reject the idea of a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, by a better than 2-to-1 margin, 65% to 32%.  Democrats show an even greater margin …
Discussion: Salon and American Power
Matt Lewis / The Politico:
Perkins, Toomey for Senate?  —  While most political observers are focused on the protracted Democratic primary fight between the senator from the state of New York and the senator from the state of Hope, rumors have been swirling in conservative circles that two of the movement's …
Discussion: American Spectator
Jackie Kucinich / The Hill:
Housing, foreclosures notably absent in House GOP recess kits  —  House Republican leaders did not mention mortgage foreclosures or the word “housing” in materials given to their members before the March recess.  —  The 21-page document distributed on March 13 addressed economic concerns ranging …
Discussion: MoJoBlog
Washington Post:
The Sin of Speaking Truth  —  YET ANOTHER Democratic adviser is in trouble for having more common sense that his candidate — or at least, more than his candidate has the courage to admit having.  —  First there was Austan Goolsbee, Sen. Barack Obama's economic adviser …
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Obama Is No King  —  TODAY, THE NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS PULPIT IS LARGELY OCCUPIED BY SECOND-RATE SHAKEDOWN ARTISTS.  —  When Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered, I was 19 years old and fancifully considered myself to be far to the left of him.  Notwithstanding that, he felt …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Obama Vs. Rice  —  Given this speculation, an interesting dialogue on tyranny and terror and military action in the Senate in January 2005 between Condi and Barack.  Dug up by Jed Lewison.  I take Rice's points, and made some of them myself.  But there seems little doubt whose judgment looks sounder in retrospect.
Discussion: The RBC and The Jed Report
Neela Banerjee / New York Times:
For McCain, Little Talk of a Controversial Endorsement  —  When Senator John McCain won the endorsement of the Rev. John C. Hagee in February, his campaign hoped it would shore up his conservative credentials among evangelicals and build enthusiasm among a voting bloc that would be critical for him in November.
 
 
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Times of London:
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Jan Hoffman / New York Times:
Young Obama Backers Twist Parents' Arms
Scott Horton / Harper's:
A Tale of Three Lawyers
Discussion: Salon
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Report: U.S.-Israeli study of airstrike on Syrian nuke facility …
Greg Ip / Wall Street Journal:
His Legacy Tarnished, Greenspan Goes on Defensive
Discussion: The American Mind
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What do my colleagues think?  —  One of the regular commenters …
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Ezra Levant:
Too corrupt for the real police, just right for the CHRC
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Richelieu / Weekly Standard Blog:
Why Rice Will Not Be VP  —  This Condi for Veep hype is political madness.
David Brooks / New York Times:
A Network of Truces  —  The U.S. brought no shortage …
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Obama's pastor Jeremiah Wright: Former Muslim
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