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10:05 AM ET, November 29, 2010

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Omri Ceren / Mere Rhetoric:
Wikileaks - Anti-Israel Foreign Policy Experts Got Saudi Arabia, Other Arab Countries 100% Backward On Iran Attack  —  By  —  It didn't get nearly as much play as it should have, but Obama's June 2009 meeting with Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah ended with the monarch flying into a tirade …
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Pvictorwins / CBS New York:
King: WikiLeaks Release ‘Worse Than Military Attack’  —  WASHINGTON (AP/1010 WINS/WCBS 880) — Hundreds of thousands of State Department documents leaked Sunday revealed a hidden world of backstage international diplomacy, divulging candid comments from world leaders and detailing occasional …
New York Times:
Cables Obtained by WikiLeaks Shine Light Into Secret Diplomatic Channels  —  WASHINGTON — A cache of a quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables, most of them from the past three years, provides an unprecedented look at backroom bargaining by embassies around the world …
Scott / Power Line:
The Times then and now  —  The New York Times is participating in the dissemination of the stolen State Department cables that have been made available to it in one way or another via WikiLeaks.  My friend Steve Hayward recalls that only last year the New York Times ostentatiously declined …
Discussion: Right Wing News and EU Referendum
Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Guardian editor says they gave cables to the NY Times  —  New York Times editors said Sunday that although the paper's reporters had been digging through WikiLeaks trove of 250,000 State Department cables for “several weeks,” the online whistleblower wasn't the source of the documents.
David Leigh / Guardian:
How 250,000 US embassy cables were leaked  —  From a fake Lady Gaga CD to a thumb drive that is a pocket-sized bombshell - the biggest intelligence leak in history  —  An innocuous-looking memory stick, no longer than a couple of fingernails, came into the hands of a Guardian reporter earlier this year.
The Independent:
John Kampfner: Wikileaks shows up our media for their docility …
Discussion: Guardian and EU Referendum
Nick Allen / Telegraph:
Bradley Manning: The prime suspect of giving files to WikiLeaks
New York Times:
Around the World, Distress Over Iran
New York Times:
A Note to Readers: The Decision to Publish Diplomatic Documents
Simon Jenkins / Guardian:
WikiLeaks: The job of the media is not to protect the powerful from embarrassment
Chris Fenn / Guardian:
US embassy cables: browse the database
David Leigh / Guardian:
US cables leak sparks global diplomatic crisis
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Wikileaks servers under DOS attack ahead of diplomatic document dump …
Anita Gates / New York Times:
Leslie Nielsen, Actor, Dies at 84  —  Leslie Nielsen, the Canadian-born actor who in middle age tossed aside three decades of credibility in dramatic and romantic roles to make a new, far more successful career as a comic actor in films like “Airplane!” and the “Naked Gun” series, died on Sunday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was 84.
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Kimberly Nordyke / Hollywood Reporter:
Leslie Nielsen Dies at Age 84
Discussion: Pharyngula and Tuned In
Dan Snierson / EW.com:
Leslie Nielsen, ‘Airplane!’ and ‘Naked Gun’ star, dies at 84
Discussion: Rumproast
Associated Press:
Leslie Nielsen, Actor, Dies at 84
Stuart Tomlinson / Oregonian:
Portland bomb plot suspect felt betrayed by family, thought living in U.S. was sin  —  Mohamed Osman Mohamud was angry at his parents for keeping him from jihad and had thought about carrying out an operation, “something like Mumbai,” since he was 17.  On the two-year anniversary of the shooting …
Discussion: TalkLeft and ABCNEWS
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Los Angeles Times:
Mixed portraits of Oregon terrorism suspect
Discussion: Power Line and Oregonian
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Spanish Prisoner  —  The best thing about the Irish right now is that there are so few of them.  By itself, Ireland can't do all that much damage to Europe's prospects.  The same can be said of Greece and of Portugal, which is widely regarded as the next potential domino.  —  But then there's Spain.
Peg Tyre / New York Times:
A's for Good Behavior  —  A few years ago, teachers at Ellis Middle School in Austin, Minn., might have said that their top students were easy to identify: they completed their homework and handed it in on time; were rarely tardy; sat in the front of the class; wrote legibly; and jumped at the chance to do extra-credit assignments.
Richard Wolffe / Los Angeles Times:
Obama could learn from Bush  —  The president could solve his communications problem by studying how his predecessor did it.  —  The day before his party's shellacking in this month's elections, President Obama sat down with his economic team to examine the single most important issue for voters across the country: jobs.
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New York Post:
How the nanny president sees himself — and us
David Carr / New York Times:
A Media False Alarm Over the T.S.A.  —  If a squadron of mad scientists surrounded by supercomputers gathered in a laboratory to try to conjure a single news topic that would blow up large, they could not touch the T.S.A. pat-down story.  —  It began with a Drudge Report link to a video …
Kevin Conlon / CNN:
Leaked cable suggests American diplomats told to gather intelligence  —  (CNN) — A 2009 cable sent from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to American U.N. missions and embassies around the world ostensibly directed American diplomats to engage in intelligence-gathering.
Discussion: CANNONFIRE
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Mark Kirk / Chicago Tribune:
First priority?  Control federal spending  —  Today is my first day in the U.S. Senate.  With this honor comes a tremendous responsibility to accomplish much for our nation.  —  My top priority is turning our economy around.  In Congress, we had a vigorous debate about the trillion-dollar stimulus.
Discussion: CNN and The Politico
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Liberal Groups to Propose Routes to Smaller Deficit  —  WASHINGTON — As President Obama's fiscal commission faces a deadline this week for agreement on a plan to shrink the mounting national debt, liberal organizations will unveil debt-reduction proposals of their own in the next two days …
Matt Welch / Hit & Run:
Thomas L. Friedman: Nation-Building at Home Just as Crucial a Slogan Now as it Was 14 Columns Ago  —  Today's Thomas L. Friedman column is a familiar if distasteful brew of what-Americans-want ventriloquism and public policy by bumper sticker.  Sample: … And so on.
Deutsche Welle:
Swiss voters approve harsher deportation plan  —  Swiss voters have approved a far-right initiative to automatically expel foreign residents convicted of serious crimes, according to poll results.  —  Swiss national broadcaster SF1 said 52.9 percent of voters backed the initiative in Sunday's referendum …
 
 
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
American exceptionalism: an old idea and a new political battle
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The Huffington Post:
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Halimah Abdullah / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Blue Dog survivor blames Obama, Pelosi for losses
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King Abdullah / Guardian:
US embassy cables: Saudi king's advice for Barack Obama
Marin Cogan / The Politico:
Presidential historian curses, calls Americans ‘lazy and obese’