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Time:
How Reliable Is Brown's Resume?  —  A TIME investigation reveals discrepancies in the FEMA chief's official biographies … When President Bush nominated Michael Brown to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in 2003, Brown's boss at the time, Joe Allbaugh, declared …
New York Times:
Political Issues Snarled Plans for Troop Aid  —  WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 - As New Orleans descended into chaos last week and Louisiana's governor asked for 40,000 soldiers, President Bush's senior advisers debated whether the president should speed the arrival of active-duty troops by seizing control …
Adam Entous / Reuters:
CIA leak probe may be nearing end game: lawyers  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York Times reporter Judith Miller, locked up for refusing to reveal who told her a covert CIA operative's name in a probe that may be nearing a conclusion, works part time at the jail laundry helping clean fellow inmates' green jumpsuits and dirty linens.
Discussion: JustOneMinute
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Arianna Huffington / huffingtonpost.com:
The Judy File: Is Miller Getting Ready to Sing?  —  This just in: Judy Miller's principled, absolute stand is crumbling.  —  Buried in the middle of this afternoon's Reuters story on Miller, her lawyer, Floyd Abrams, offers up a bombshell: Miller is looking for an out.
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Leaders Lacking Disaster Experience  —  Five of eight top Federal Emergency Management Agency officials came to their posts with virtually no experience in handling disasters and now lead an agency whose ranks of seasoned crisis managers have thinned dramatically since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Reuters:
Bush lifts wage rules for Katrina  —  President signs executive order allowing contractors to pay below prevailing wage in affected areas.  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush issued an executive order Thursday allowing federal contractors rebuilding in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to pay below the prevailing wage.
Juliette Kayyem / tpmcafe.com:
America Abroad  —  42 Minutes of Shame  —  All of this time about where FEMA should be, whether it should or shouldn't be part of the Department of Homeland Security or an independent agency.  Well, I just finished reading the confirmation hearings for Mike Brown's appointment to be Deputy Director of FEMA …
Thomas Lipscomb / Tech Central Station:
The Machine Stops  —  As Lake Ponchatrain's waters began to drown his city, New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin had the colossal nerve to shout indignantly "Get off your asses, and let's do something" — and then continued doing nothing himself, but add to the deluge by bursting into tears.
Discussion: QandO and EconLog
frc.org:
F-Troop  —  There was a television show in the 1960's called F-Troop about an incompetent band of post-Civil War troops stationed at Fort Courage, somewhere west of the Missouri.  Having been forced to deal with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and other government bureaus these last few days …
Opinion Journal:
Oil for Food as Usual  —  The U.N.'s worst critics couldn't invent what the Volcker report shows.  —  "The scandal, quote, unquote, is, in my view, nonsense."  Thus did Denis Halliday, a former United Nations Assistant Secretary General, opine in November 2004 on the U.N.'s Oil for Food program.
Discussion: Power Line and Betsy's Page
Richard W. Stevenson / New York Times:
Leader Who Rose in 9/11 Slips in Wake of Storm  —  WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 - Nine days after the United States was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, President Bush stood before a joint session of Congress and rallied the nation to a new mission.  —  On Thursday, nine days after it became apparent …
Discussion: PoliBlog and Taegan Goddard's …
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Where to Point the Fingers  —  In less enlightened times there was no catastrophe independent of human agency.  When the plague or some other natural disaster struck, witches were burned, Jews were massacred and all felt better (except the witches and Jews).
Discussion: Mark in Mexico and Dr. Sanity

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Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Partisan Rancor Accompanies Passage of Disaster Aid Bill
The MinuteMan / JustOneMinute:
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RedState.org:
No On Gonzales  —  "Estrada is possible, but not probable."
Jay Rosen / PressThink:
From Deference to Outrage: Katrina and the Press
turnto10.com:
Laffey Enters Senate Race Against Chafee
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
White House:
Press Briefing by Scott McClellan
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
This just seems amazingly misguided.  And I don't understand …
Discussion: Bradford Plumer and MoJo Blog
Michael Grunwald / Washington Post:
Money Flowed to Questionable Projects
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Discussion: Hugh Hewitt

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Peter Savodnik / The Hill:
With Rove heading to N.D., GOP hopes Hoeven can be coaxed into Senate race
National Review:
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