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7:15 AM ET, July 26, 2010

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New York Times:
Pakistan Spy Service Aids Insurgents, Reports Assert  —  Americans fighting the war in Afghanistan have long harbored strong suspicions that Pakistan's military spy service has guided the Afghan insurgency with a hidden hand, even as Pakistan receives more than $1 billion a year from Washington …
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New York Times:
Inside the Fog of War: Reports From the Ground in Afghanistan  —  This article was written and reported by C.J. Chivers, Carlotta Gall, Andrew W. Lehren, Mark Mazzetti, Jane Perlez, and Eric Schmitt, with contributions from Jacob Harris and Alan McLean.
Guardian:
Massive leak of secret files exposes the real war in Afghanistan  —  • Hundreds of civilians killed by coalition troops  —  • Covert unit hunts leaders for ‘kill or capture’  —  • Steep rise in Taliban bomb attacks on Nato  —  • Read the Guardian's full war logs investigation
Mike Allen / The Politico:
W.H. condemns ‘irresponsible’ leaks, dismisses stories  —  The White House responded swiftly and sharply to publication Sunday evening of more than 91,000 secret documents painting a bleak picture of the Afghanistan war, calling the leak “irresponsible” and saying that the source …
Spencer Ackerman / Danger Room:
WikiLeaks Drops 90,000 War Docs; Fingers Pakistan as Insurgent Ally  —  Turns out “Collateral Murder” was just a warmup.  WikiLeaks just published a trove of over 90,000 mostly-classified U.S. military documents that details a strengthening Afghan insurgency with deep ties to Pakistani intelligence.
New York Times:
Piecing Together the Reports, and Deciding What to Publish  —  The articles published today are based on thousands of United States military incident and intelligence reports — records of engagements, mishaps, intelligence on enemy activity and other events from the war in Afghanistan — that were made public on Sunday on the Internet.
David Leigh / Guardian:
Afghanistan war logs: Secret CIA paramilitaries' role in civilian deaths
Discussion: South Asia
msnbc.com:   White House: Afghan war leaks put lives ‘at risk’
Siun / Firedoglake:
Wikileaks' Release of Secret Afghan War Archives
Declan Walsh / Guardian:
Afghanistan war logs: White House attacks Pakistan over Taliban aid
Discussion: Hot Air and Jay Currie
Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
Jones lashes out at Wikileaks for putting lives at risk with Afghanistan files
Discussion: Guardian and Ben Smith's Blog
Alana Goodman / NewsBusters.org:
Oliver Stone: ‘Jewish-Dominated Media’ Prevents Hitler from Being Portrayed ‘in Context’  —  Director Oliver Stone belittled the Holocaust during a shocking interview with the Sunday Times today, claiming that America's focus on the Jewish massacre was a product of the “Jewish domination of the media.”
Mike Allen / The Politico:
W.H. deploys operatives to Fla. to boost spill response — BP negotiates Hayward exit - Donna Brazile, Maureen Dowd: Obama needs more outreach — Matt Miller gift to groomsmen: Johnny Cash cufflinks  —  Good Sunday morning.  THE SHOWS, on FAST FORWARD:  —  ANDREW BREITBART is referred …
Discussion: Main Justice
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Fox News:
Gingrich for President? Former DNC Chairman Gives His Approval
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
TheAustralian:
White House backed release of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi  —  THE US government secretly advised Scottish ministers it would be “far preferable” to free the Lockerbie bomber than jail him in Libya.  —  Correspondence obtained by The Sunday Times reveals the Obama administration …
Alexander Marlow / Big Government:
Shirley Silenced: Sherrod Shut Out of Sunday Talk-shows  —  She was likened to a modern day Rosa Parks or Nelson Mandela, but the former Ag official, according to the Washington Post, was not interviewed on a single major Sunday morning talk-show following a week that can only be described as a Shirley Sherrod media frenzy.
CNN:
CNN RELIABLE SOURCES  —  Did Media Jump the Gun on Shirley Sherrod Story?  ; Vast Left- Wing Conspiracy?  ; Race and the Media  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.  —  HOWARD KURTZ, HOST: Let's face it.  Nobody looked good in the firing of Shirley Sherrod.
Tim Graham / NewsBusters.org:
Daily Kos: Take Legal Action to ‘End Organized, Institutionalized Religion’  —  For all the daily talk on the Daily Kos that conservatives are dictatorial, their cast of bloggers isn't without grand designs for social control.  Take this post: “Time to begin working for the death of religion (a rant).”
Discussion: iOwnTheWorld.com
Little Green Footballs:
Depressingly Familiar Tactic Watch  —  By now, you can predict right wing tactics almost to the letter.  Whenever Fox News, a Tea Party group, or a Congressman from Texas is caught saying or doing something stupid, misogynist, racist, or kinky, the tactic is: pick out an irrelevant or minor point …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and Tim Blair
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