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4:40 PM ET, July 5, 2008

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Israel Insider:
Blogger admits Hawaii birth certificate forgery, subverting Obama claims  —  Posted on Photobucket and in comments attached to the Daily Kos blog post where the purported Obama birth certificate appears  —  Jay McKinnon, a self-described Department of Homeland Security-trained document specialist …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The political establishment and telecom immunity — why it matters  —  Nancy Soderberg was deputy national security advisor and an ambassador to the United Nations in the Clinton administration.  Today, she has an Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times defending the FISA bill and telecom amnesty.
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Nancy Soderberg / Los Angeles Times:   A good-enough spy law
Spiegel Online:
Obama Refines Plans for Germany Trip  —  Barack Obama's planned European tour might make a major whistlestop in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.  The candidate's schedule isn't set, but a Berlin appearance before the end of July looks likely.  —  Plans for a visit by Barack Obama …
Discussion: Lynn Sweet and TIME.com
David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:
Wesley Clark ‘moving on’  —  Four days after his controversial “Face the Nation” appearance, retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark is taking a break from the presidential campaign — but many Democratic insiders think he has already been crossed off the list of Barack Obama's potential running mates.
Discussion: Hot Air and JammieWearingFool
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Mike Tackett / The Swamp:   ‘Patriot Games’ of the wrong kind
Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
Inside Mugabe's Violent Crackdown  —  Notes, Witnesses Detail How Campaign Was Conceived and Executed by Leader, Aides  —  HARARE, Zimbabwe — President Robert Mugabe summoned his top security officials to a government training center near his rural home in central Zimbabwe on the afternoon of March 30.
Discussion: On Deadline
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Michael Luo / The Caucus:
Obama and Clinton to Work Hard for the Money  —  Fresh from their love-in at Unity, Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton will collect cash together for his campaign and the Democratic National Committee in New York City next week.  —  Mr. Obama, who is in the midst of a spree …
Discussion: TIME.com and The Democratic Daily
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Associated Press:   Obama, Clinton to hold joint fundraisers in NY
Faiz / Think Progress:
FLASHBACK: Ten Years Ago, Bin Laden Demanded Barrel Of Oil Should Cost $144  —  FLASHBACK: Ten Years Ago, Bin Laden Demanded Barrel Of Oil Should Cost $144  —  In a 1998 interview, Osama bin Laden — the terrorist organizer of 9/11 who still roams free — listed as one of his many grievances …
Discussion: Reuters and Matthew Yglesias
Leslie Wayne / New York Times:
Rising Convention Costs and Delays Worry Democrats  —  For all Senator Barack Obama's success raising money and generating excitement among voters, he faces a daunting challenge as he prepares to claim the nomination in August: a Democratic convention effort marred by costly setbacks and embarrassing delays.
Discussion: TIME.com
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
McCain Battles a Nemesis, the Teleprompter  —  LAS VEGAS —Senator John McCain was performing relatively smoothly as he unveiled his energy plan.  —  He managed to limit the mechanical hand chops and weirdly timed smiles that can often punctuate his speeches.
Discussion: TIME.com
Matthew Yglesias:
The Helms Legacy  —  One fascinating thing about the death of Jesse Helms is the conservative reaction.  One might expect that Helms' death would prompt from conservatives the sorts of things that I might say if, say, Al Sharpton died — that he and I had some overlapping beliefs and I don't regard …
Discussion: The New Republic and The Corner
Allan Hall / Daily Mail:
Man rips head off Hitler waxwork at Berlin's Madame Tussauds  —  A man has torn the head from a controversial waxwork figure of Adolf Hitler on the opening day of Berlin's Madame Tussauds museum today.  —  A police spokesman said that the man, 41, had ripped off the head in protest at the exhibit.
Mike Allen / The Politico:
McCain to get air cover from vets  —  For the first time, the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is about to get a substantial hand from advertisements by an outside group.  —  Conservative and Republican groups have been largely quiet, leaving McCain heavily outmatched …
Discussion: The Caucus
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Simon Romero / New York Times:
Colombia Releases Video of Jungle Rescue  —  BOGOTÁ, Colombia — The captives emerged from a coca field looking confused, despondent even, as the rebels tied plastic handcuffs on their wrists before putting them on a helicopter in a video released here on Friday of the rescue this week of 15 hostages in the Colombian jungle.
 
 
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