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Turdblossom Writes Letters

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Is this a letter to Dan Abrams? Because parts of it sure look like they'd be better suited addressed to Bob Novak.

Back to the Question of ABC's Sources

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A new article from the Guardian raises new questions about whether Myers was the source from the Principals Committee for ABC.

Conyers Calls Luskin's Bluff on Rove Testimony

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What do you know? Robert Luskin now claims he didn't promise to have Rove testify before Congress. That didn't take long.
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A Peek into the Torture Tape Investigation

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The CIA's response to a court order in the Hani Abdullah suit seems to suggest that John Durham believes some files pertinent to the torture tapes may have gotten destroyed by CIA's OIG.

Novak's Shield

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Funny how, when Novak makes an argument that hits close to home for him, he can write a column peopled for once with named sources.
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The ABC Debate: An Opportunity?

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As it happens, the two Pennsylvania voters I had visiting and I missed the debate last night. Thankfully. Though I've watched most of it at NYT. And I agree with the general consensus that the debate marks a low point in American journalism. Still, I wonder whether it can't be turned into a public good. I've argued for a long time that journalists need to clean up their own house, first, before they
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Lyglenson Lemorin and the Liberty Seven

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Is one of the original Liberty Seven still in detention even though the judge just declared a second mistrial in the case yesterday?

Family Recipes

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The real scandal of the McCain "recipe-gate" is that campaigns feel the need to invent a library of family recipes for potential first ladies in the first place.

Analogies for Yoo: The Merck Scandal

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The breaking scandal that Merck had many of its reports supporting Vioxx may offer the best analogy for the role
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Conyers to Mukasey: So You Did Spin Shamelessly, Didn't You?

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Conyers wants DOJ to admit that Mukasey was spinning wildly when he claims a revamped FISA could have prevented 9/11. And by demonstration that Mukasey was spinning wildly, he highlights that the Administration--not the House--has been negotiating in bad faith.
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Bush: The Country Is at War, Therefore We Do Not Torture

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In his apparent denials that we torture, Bush has basically stated that "Anything we do to the end of protecting the American people is within the law." Bush has really been parroting the Yoo Memo for years.
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The WaPo Did Not Scoop This Story in 2005

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The press still hasn't noticed that the President of the United States just admitted that he signed off on torture. The WaPo believes it has, but it appears to be unclear on the difference between Alberto Gonzales and George Bush.

A Tough Job Market for Discredited Bush Lawyers

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Why is it that all the top lawyers that have left the Bush Administration of late have such a tough time finding a job?

Bush to Raddatz: "So?"

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Bush took the opportunity of a Friday night news dump interview with Martha Raddatz to basically dismiss any concerns that the POTUS authorized torture.
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"The Game Is Over"

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Did Viktor Bout have any "game" besides simply getting rich? And if so, do the Russians think the game is not yet over?
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