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Sarah Palin / Facebook:
Serious Questions about the Obama Administration's Incompetence in the Wikileaks Fiasco  —  We all applaud the successful thwarting of the Christmas-Tree Bomber and hope our government continues to do all it can to keep us safe.  However, the latest round of publications …
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blogs.forbes.com:
Andy Greenberg  —  When will WikiLeaks return to its older model of more frequent leaks of smaller amounts of material?  —  If you look at the average number of documents we're releasing, we're vastly exceeding what we did last year.  These are huge datasets.  So it's actually very efficient for us to do that.
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Sarah Palin blasts Obama administration for WikiLeaks ‘fiasco’  —  Sarah Palin says the U.S. government's inability to stop the latest WikiLeaks release is all President Barack Obama's fault.  —  Sunday's document dump of classified State Department cables is the result of the …
DEBKAFile:
Nuclear scientist killed in Tehran was Iran's top Stuxnet expert  —  World Exclusive from DEBKAfile's intelligence sources:  —  Prof. Majid Shahriari, who died when his car was attacked in North Tehran Monday, Nov. 29, headed the team Iran established for combating the Stuxnet virus rampaging through its nuclear and military networks.
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Laura Rozen / The Politico:
Iran a focal point of documents
Ben Birnbaum / Washington Times:
Ahmadinejad: U.S. orchestrated WikiLeaks release
Discussion: The Atlantic Online and FrumForum
Daily Mail:
Iranian nuclear scientist killed and another wounded in separate bomb attacks
Discussion: Hot Air and Daled Amos
Thomas Erdbrink / Washington Post:
Iranian nuclear scientist killed, another injured in Tehran bombings
Discussion: PostPartisan, Threat Level and Gawker
Reuters:
WikiLeaks plans to release a U.S. bank's documents  —  (Reuters) - The founder of whistle-blower website WikiLeaks plans to release tens of thousands of internal documents from a major U.S. bank early next year, Forbes Magazine reported on Monday.  —  Julian Assange declined in an interview …
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Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
An Interview With WikiLeaks' Julian Assange  —  Admire him or revile him, WikiLeaks' Julian Assange is the prophet of a coming age of involuntary transparency, the leader of an organization devoted to divulging the world's secrets using technology unimagined a generation ago.
Washington Post:
WikiLeaks founder could be charged under Espionage Act  —  Federal authorities are investigating whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange violated criminal laws in the group's release of government documents, including possible charges under the Espionage Act, sources familiar with the inquiry said Monday.
Discussion: The Other McCain
Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Wants To Spill Your Corporate Secrets
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Amid Deficit Fears, Obama Freezes Pay  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama on Monday announced a two-year pay freeze for civilian federal workers as he sought to address concerns over high annual deficits and appealed to Republicans to find a common approach to restoring the nation's economic and fiscal health.
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Everyone Hates Obama's Pay Freeze Plan... Except Republicans  —  The early reviews of President Obama's plan to freeze federal worker pay are in — and it gets a resounding “F” from just about everybody outside of GOP leadership.  —  Michael Linden, a budget expert at the liberal Center …
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Obama's Federal Worker Pay Freeze Was Blasted By Democrats Months Ago
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Netflix Partner Says Comcast ‘Toll’ Threatens Online Video Delivery  —  Level 3 Communications, a central partner in the Netflix online movie service, accused Comcast on Monday of charging a new fee that puts Internet video companies at a competitive disadvantage.
Simon Tisdall / Guardian:
China ‘ready to abandon North Korea’  —  Leaked dispatches show Beijing is frustrated with military actions of ‘spoiled child’ and increasingly favours reunified Korea  —  China has signalled its readiness to accept Korean reunification and is privately distancing itself from the North Korean regime …
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New York Times:
U.S. and South Korea Balk at Talks With North
Discussion: Guardian and FrumForum
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
In Which I Become a Conservative  —  Ross Douthat, an Atlantic alumnus, contends in the NY Times that the recent controversy over “enhanced” TSA procedures illustrates the dominance of partisan reflex in today's politics.  Liberals complained about excessive state power when Bush and Cheney were in charge …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
A Witness Lies, the Court Shrugs and Veterans Are Outraged  —  Elven J. Swisher wore a replica of a Purple Heart on the witness stand when he testified that the defendant had tried to hire him to kill three federal officials.  —  Asked about the medal, Mr. Swisher pulled a document …
Penny Starr / CNSNews:
Smithsonian Christmas-Season Exhibit Features Ant-Covered Jesus, Naked Brothers Kissing, Genitalia, and Ellen DeGeneres Grabbing Her Breasts  —  WARNING: This story contains graphic photographs of items on display in an exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery.
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Americans not impressed with Bloomberg  —  Massive amounts of attention have been given over the last few years to a possible Michael Bloomberg Presidential run in 2012.  And a new PPP poll finds that he is indeed a unifier- Democrats, Republicans, and independents all don't like him.
Discussion: Hot Air and Gothamist
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Palin not seen as electable
CNN:
Justices turn aside another challenge over Obama's citizenship  —  Washington (CNN) — The Supreme Court has again cast aside an appeal that raised doubts about President Barack Obama's U.S. citizenship, a grass-roots legal issue that has gained little legal or political footing, but continues to persist in the courts.
Jon Bershad / Mediaite:
Why Nothing Gets Done?  Sen. Harry Reid Tells A 5-Minute College Football Story On Senate Floor  —  This weekend, the University of Nevada won a big upset against Boise State.  It was an exciting upset and a great game between conference rivals.  Why am I discussing this here and not over at SportsGrid?
Discussion: Breitbart.tv and Hot Air
James C. McKinley Jr / New York Times:
Judge Blocks Oklahoma's Ban on Using Shariah Law in Court  —  HOUSTON — An Oklahoma constitutional amendment aimed at stopping the use of Islamic law in its courts was dealt a serious blow on Monday when a federal judge temporarily blocked the state from putting it into effect.
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs
Directorblue / Doug Ross:
Say, About That Old ‘Bush Lied’ Trope, Looks Like Wikileaks Proved Obama Repeatedly Lied About Middle East Policy  —  Runner-up headline: Obama lied, diplomacy died  —  Anyone remember that exactly one year ago President Obama's original deadline for Iran expired?
Discussion: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
WikiLeaked: John Kerry calls for Israel to cede Golan Heights and East Jerusalem  —  On a February trip to the Middle East, Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry (D-MA) told Qatari leaders that the Golan Heights should be returned to Syria, that a Palestinian capital …
Debra J. Saunders / Townhall.com:
You Can Stop Paying for Al Gore's Mistake  —  In Greece earlier this month, Al Gore made a startling admission: “First-generation ethanol, I think, was a mistake.”  Unfortunately, Americans have Gore to thank for ethanol subsidies.  In 1994, then-Vice President Gore ended a 50-50 tie …
Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
Sen. Joe Lieberman: Fox News ‘Is My Favorite,’ ‘Anything Rupert Murdoch Owns’  —  This morning, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) took to Don Imus's radio show to discuss the Wikileaks story.  Lieberman did little to dissuade his critics on the left when he declared that his favorite television channels are …
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Raw Story
 
 
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CNN:
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
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Marc Caputo / St. Petersburg Times:
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Judges for Prop. 8 hearing
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The Starr Report Of American Foreign Policy?
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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Liberal groups blast Obama pay-freeze proposal, release alternative plan
 

 
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