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If you think about Harriett Miers, of course her nomination's absurd! But the President didn't say he thought about this selection, he said this: President Bush: "I know her heart."
Files: Bridgeview used car salesman Muhammad Salah reca lls being beaten, housed in a "refrigerator cell" and threatened with ra pe by Israeli soldiers until he admitted to bankrolling overseas terrori sts, according to a new filing in US District Court. In an odd twist, the interrogation was witnessed by embattled New York Ti mes reporter Judith Miller, and defense attorneys suggested Monday the b est way for the US government to prove its case -- and prove Salah was n't abused -- is to call the controversial journalist to the witness sta nd....
jpg George Clooney c hallenges Bill O'Reilly On Charlie Rose, George was talking about the Daily Show, Fitzgerald and a few other topics when he threw down the glove and demanded a duel with Bill. Rose: Bill calls me up and I told Clooney-neutral ground-Charlie Rose...
Larry Johnson: Had lunch today with a person who has a direct tie to one of the folks facing indictment in the Plame affair. There are 22 fi les that Fitzgerald is looking at for potential indictment . These inclu de Stephen Hadley, Karl Rove, Lewis Libby, Dick Cheney, and Mary Matalin (there are others of course).
Cohen: "A clarification: A number of readers, some of them for merly of the CIA, got the impression from my last column that I don't co nsider the outing of a covert employee a serious matter.
Think Progress notes: "The alleged crime involves the outing of Valerie Plame, a CIA operativ e Not nice, but it was what Washington does day in and day outThis is ra rely considered a crime."
Bull Moose knows what is about to happen to Fitzgerald if indictm ents come down: "Fitzgerald will become the anti-Ken Starr to the right -----The conserv ative standard is clear - when a Democratic President is the target it i s about the "rule of law" and when the "victim" is a Republican it is ab out the "criminalization of politics."
ABBs has the transcripts and some thoughts: "Corddry instead und erstood that Thursday's events were merely the latest episode in the dra ma he and other Washington "correspondents" have come to love, The White House....
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