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Sources: Top Bush Advisors Approved ‘Enhanced Interrogation’ — Detailed Discussions Were Held About Techniques to Use on al Qaeda Suspects — By JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG, HOWARD L. ROSENBERG and ARIANE de VOGUE — In dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House …
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Marc Ambinder:
War Crimes — A provocative headline, I know, perhaps needlessly so, but it remains one of those hidden secrets in Washington that a Democratic Justice Department is going to be very interested in figuring out whether there's a case to be made that senior Bush Administration officials were guilty of war crimes.
Steyn Online:
Hey, why bother with a trial? — As revealed here a few weeks ago, the investigative unit of the Ontario “Human Rights” Commission recommended to the Commissioners that they not proceed against Maclean's for having the temerity to publish an excerpt from my book.
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Commission Issues Statement on Decision in Maclean's Cases — The Ontario Human Rights Commission has decided not to proceed with complaints filed against Maclean's magazine related to its publication of an article “The future belongs to Islam.” The complainants alleged that the content …
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Overlawyered
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Elton John: ‘To hell with them’ — There's a real crowd at Radio City, complete with scalpers, and lines around the block for Elton John and the Clintons. — Toward the back of one line: Frank Luntz, Lanny Davis, and Doug Schoen. ("I used to be in business with Mark Penn," Schoen joked.)
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New York Times:
Iraq's Military Seen as Lagging — WASHINGTON — The recommendation by the top American commander in Iraq to suspend troop reductions reflects a bleak assessment that Iraqi forces remain unprepared to take over the mission of securing their own nation, senior administration and military officials said Wednesday.
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Washington Post:
Bush to Cut Army Tours to 12 Months — President Supports Suspending Pullout Of Forces in Iraq — President Bush plans to announce today that he will cut Army combat tours in Iraq from 15 months to 12 months, returning rotations to where they were before last year's troop buildup in an effort …
Cathryn Khalil / KLTV-TV:
Athens School ‘Attack’ Proven To Be False, Girl To Be Charged — There are major new developments today in the case of a supposed beating of a student from Athens Middle School. — Charges are being filed against 13 year old Melanie Bowers by Athens ISD through the Henderson County District …
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Roger Simon / The Politico:
McCain not yet golden in California — Here are four things you need to know about John McCain and California: — 1. If McCain wins California in November, he almost certainly will become the next president of the United States. — The Democratic nominee would find it extremely difficult …
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Matthew Yglesias:
Pew on the Middle Class — This is a pretty striking trend. Politically, it's a bit tricky since the salient trend is the dramatic narrowing of the better/worse gap, but the betters still outnumber the worses. You want to tap into the sentiments of the growing “worse” bloc …
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Rebecca Dana / Wall Street Journal:
CBS News, Katie Couric Are Likely to Part Ways — Barring a Change, Departure Could Follow the Election; — A Successor to Larry King? — After two years of record-low ratings, both CBS News executives and people close to Katie Couric say that the “CBS Evening News” …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Former President Carter to Meet With Hamas Chief — Former president Jimmy Carter plans to meet next week in Damascus with Khaled Meshal, the head of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, in a direct rebuke of the Bush administration's campaign to isolate it.
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Ed OKeefe / Political Radar:
As Chicago Bids for Games, Obama Ducks Olympics Criticism — ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: Barack Obama doesn't seem to want to talk about the Olympics or Senator Clinton's call for a boycott of the opening ceremonies on August 8, 2008. — At a town hall in Malvern, Pennsylvania …
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Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Gay press frustrated by Obama approach — Mark Segal didn't want to wait. After weeks of requests to interview Barack Obama, the publisher of the Philadelphia Gay News concluded the senator's aides may never make him available. — So even as the Obama campaign held out the possibility …
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Shakesville
Southern Political Report:
New InsiderAdvantage Poll — Latest InsiderAdvantage Poll Pennsylvania Primary: Clinton 48%, Obama 38% — A new InsiderAdvantage/Majority Opinion poll shows Sen. Hillary Clinton regaining some ground she'd previously lost to Sen. Barack Obama in the Pennsylvania Democratic presidential primary race.
New York Times:
Foreign Policy: 2 Camps Seek McCain's Ear — WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain has long made his decades of experience in foreign policy and national security the centerpiece of his political identity, and suggests he would bring to the White House a fully formed view of the world.
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