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Security of White House hopefuls' passport files breached
The security of the passport files of the three remaining presidential candidates was breached, the State Department admitted Friday.(close)Related info:
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- 03/21/2008
- 03/22/2008
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Rice Apologizes For Breach of Passport Data (3/22/2008) 
Obama passport files violated; 2 workers at State fired; 1 rebuked (3/21/2008) 
State Department Official: Clinton and McCain Passport Files Breached (3/21/2008) 
State Dept. Official Who Searched Clinton's Passport Files Resigns (3/21/2008) - Additional stories related by date and content:
- Two Fired for Viewing Obama Passport File (3/21/2008)
Story behind the story: The Clinton myth
Her campaign rests increasingly on a game of make-believe. See also: Can Clinton win popular vote and superdelegates?
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- 03/21/2008
- 03/22/2008
- Rank of all stories in past 30 days:
- # 44
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Story behind the story: The Clinton myth (3/22/2008) 
Clinton counts on superdelegates (2/14/2008)
U.S. Pushed Allies on Iraq, Diplomat Writes
UNITED NATIONS -- In the months leading up to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration threatened trade reprisals against friendly countries who withheld their support, spied on its allies, and pressed for the recall of U.N. envoys that resisted U.S. pressure to endorse the war, acc...
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- 03/22/2008
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Here is the "moral authority" of the U.S. under the Bush administration (9/19/2006)
Fox’s Chris Wallace Takes Fox And Friends ‘To Task’ For ‘Two Hours Of Obama Bashing’
On Fox and Friends this morning, hosts Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade, and Gretchen Carlson spent multiple segments sensationalizing a comment Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) made yesterday, in which he referred to his grandmother as “a typical white person” in some of her racial reactions. Obama made the comment while discussing his recent speech on race relations in America on a Philadelphia radio show.(close)Related info:
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- 03/21/2008
- 03/22/2008
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Obama Smeared As Former ‘Madrassa’ Student, Possible Covert Muslim Extremist (1/20/2007) - Petraeus: Escalation Not Done By September, 50-Year Iraq Presence A ‘Realistic Assessment’ (6/18/2007)
- CNN Debunks False Obama ‘Madrassa’ Smear (1/23/2007)
- True ‘Fair And Balanced’ Coverage: Wallace Calls Out Feith For Lying On Fox News (2/19/2007)
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- Mayhem At Fox News: Anchor Walks Off Set, Wallace Rails Network For "Obama-Bashing" (3/22/2008)
- First a Tense Talk With Clinton, Then Richardson Backs Obama (3/22/2008)
- McCain Aide Suspended For Pushing Racially-Charged Obama-Wright Video (3/21/2008)
First a Tense Talk With Clinton, Then Richardson Backs Obama
Gov. Bill Richardson urged Democrats to unite behind Senator Barack Obama to move the nation beyond its racial and partisan divide.(close)Related info:
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- 03/22/2008
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NM Gov. Bill Richardson endorsing Obama (3/21/2008) - Richardson Endorses Obama (3/21/2008)
- Richardson's Choice (1/29/2008)
- Is Obama a Plan B for Richardson Voters? (1/4/2008)
White House: Computer hard drives tossed
Older White House computer hard drives have been destroyed, the White House disclosed to a federal court Friday in a controversy over millions of possibly missing e-mails from 2003 to 2005.(close)Related info:
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- 03/22/2008
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White House: Millions of e-mails may be missing (4/14/2007) - Bush Admin. admits to destroying e-mails from start of Iraq War, Leak of Valerie Wilson's name and DOJ investigation of leak (1/16/2008)
Head of Rove Inquiry in Hot Seat Himself (11/28/2007) - GOP Halts Effort to Retrieve White House E-Mails (2/27/2008)
Hillary's Balkan Adventures, Part II
Greeting ceremony, Tuzla military airport, Bosnia, March 25, 1996. "I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base." --Hillary Clinton, speech at George Washington University, March 17, 2008. Hillary Clinton has been regaling supporters on the campaign trail with hair-raising tales of a trip she made to Bosnia in March 1996. In her retelling, she was sent to places that her husband, President Clinton, could not go because they were "too dangerous."
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- 03/22/2008
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- Sinbad Unloads on Hillary Clinton (3/11/2008)
Was the Hillary Clinton 3 AM White House "Red Phone" Ad "Xeroxed" from You Tube and a 1984 Mondale Ad? (3/3/2008) - Ohio (OH) Poll * March 3, 2008 * Clinton Leads Obama By 4 Point (3/3/2008)
Romney fields questions on King (12/20/2007)
Another Angry Black Preacher
Is Rev. Jeremiah Wright as far outside the African American mainstream as many of us would like to think?
Mayhem At Fox News: Anchor Walks Off Set, Wallace Rails Network For "Obama-Bashing"
Fox News' very own anchors are speaking out — and walking off — over what they perceive to be "Obama-bashing" on their network.
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- 03/22/2008
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- Hagee, in 'NYT' This Sunday, Says McCain Sought His Endorsement (3/21/2008)
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- Fox’s Chris Wallace Takes Fox And Friends ‘To Task’ For ‘Two Hours Of Obama Bashing’ (3/21/2008)
Gunman sent message to NBC News (4/18/2007)
Hopes for Wireless Cities Fade as Internet Providers Pull Out
Plans for municipal Wi-Fi grids have been tripped up by unrealistic ambitions and technological glitches.Bush erroneously says Iran announced desire for nuclear weapons
WASHINGTON — President Bush contended that Iran has "declared they want a nuclear weapon to destroy people" and that the Islamic Republic could be hiding a secret program.
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- 03/21/2008
- 03/22/2008
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- US warns Iran over Iraq, nuclear program (8/29/2007)
- NIE: Iran ‘Halted’ Nuclear Weapons Program In 2003, Unlikely To Develop A Weapon In This Decade (12/4/2007)
Defining World Wars Down (10/17/2007) - IAEA: U.S. report on Iran 'dishonest' - Yahoo! News (9/15/2006)
Story behind the story: The Clinton myth
One big fact has largely been lost in the recent coverage of the Democratic presidential race: Hillary Rodham Clinton has virtually no chance of winning. Her own campaign acknowledges there is no way that she will finish ahead in pledged delegates. That means the only way she wins is if Democratic superdelegates are ready to risk a backlash of historic proportions from the party’s most reliable constituency.
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- 03/22/2008
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Story behind the story: The Clinton myth (3/21/2008) - Clinton counts on superdelegates (2/14/2008)
- You all voted for Obama, but the Superdelegates put Hillary in the lead (2/6/2008)
Jennifer Nix: The Campaign of Magical Thinking (3/3/2008) - Additional stories related by date and content:
- Hillary's Balkan Adventures, Part II (3/22/2008)
80,000 Angry Men. Is the US Surge collapsing?
GuardianFilms investigates how thousands of Iraqis employed at $10 a day by the US to take on al-Qaida are threatening to go on strike because they say they have been used by the 'Americans to do their…
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- 03/22/2008
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Sunni militia strike could derail US strategy against al-Qaida (3/21/2008)
CBS Poll: Good Reviews For Obama Speech, But Problems For Democratic Candidate Remain As Fewer Think He Could Unite The Country
Sen. Barack Obama's speech on race has received largely positive reviews, according to a new CBS News poll. But the percentage of voters who think Obama would unite the country as president has dropped.
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- 03/22/2008
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- Obama Says He Can Unite U.S. 'More Effectively' Than Clinton (8/15/2007)
- Divided They Run (2/6/2008)
- Texas poll shows dead heat among Dems (2/18/2008)
- Poll Shows Obama Is Seen as More Likely to Beat McCain (2/25/2008)
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- First a Tense Talk With Clinton, Then Richardson Backs Obama (3/22/2008)
Coping With Loss, Military Kin Also Struggle With a Windfall
Some relatives of service members killed in war take death benefits as an affront, while others are thrown off balance by a sudden infusion of $500,000.2 fired in passport case with Va. firm
The Associated Press has learned that the two contractors fired for snooping into Barack Obama's passport records worked for a Virginia-based company called Stanley Inc.(close)Related info:
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- 03/21/2008
- 03/22/2008
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- 2 fired over Obama passport breach (3/21/2008)
- Obama passport files violated; 2 workers at State fired; 1 rebuked (3/21/2008)
- Two Fired for Viewing Obama Passport File (3/21/2008)
Obama’s Passport file was breached! Two firings at the State Dept. UPDATED (3/21/2008)
Clinton’s February F.E.C. Filings
Despite a strong month of fund-raising in February in which she brought in $35 million, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton finished the month essentially in the red.
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- 03/22/2008
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- Clinton Raises in 3rd Quarter (10/2/2007)
- Plouffe Memo: We're The Giants, Baby (2/4/2008)
- DUMB SPIN. (2/29/2008)
My Iraq War Retrospective
I see that Andrew Sullivan was asked to list what he got wrong about Iraq for the five year anniversary of the invasion, and since I was as big a war booster as anyone, I thought I would list what I got wrong: Everything. And I don’t say that to provide people with an easy way to beat up on me, but I do sort of have to face facts. I was wrong about everything. I was wrong about the Doctrine of Pre-emptive warfare. I was wrong about Iraq possessing WMD. I was wrong about Scott Ritter and the inspections. I was wrong about the UN involvement in weapons inspections. I was wrong about the containment sanctions.
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- 03/22/2008
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Senator Harry Reid, Majority Leader (4/20/2007) - The Imperial Presidency (1/14/2007)
Hillary: I wasn't wrong on Iraq (2/18/2007) - Kill Them All (7/11/2006)
Henley Everywhere 2008alt.
The following appeared this week in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate and The New Yorker in a parallel universe . . . How I Got It Right: Looking Back at a Time of Justified Opposition to a Mad, Violent Enterprise So many publications have expressed such overwhelming interest in the perspectives of those of us who opposed the Iraq War when it had a chance of doing good that I have had to permit mutliple publication of this article in most of the nation’s elite media venues - collecting, I am almost embarrassed to admit, a separate fee from each.
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- 03/22/2008
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- Gen. Batiste’s Op-Ed That The WSJ And The Washington Times Didn’t Want You To See (8/23/2007)
Since U Been Gone, I Can Bomb For The First Time (3/11/2008) 
LAMONT-LIEBERMAN DEBATE - RAPID VIDEOS (7/7/2006) - Zakaria: Rumsfeld ‘Seems In A Parallel Universe and Slightly Deranged’ (7/31/2006)
Sunni militia strike could derail US strategy against al-Qaida
Fighters accuse the US military of using them to clear al-Qaida militants from dangerous areas and then abandoning them
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- 03/21/2008
- 03/22/2008
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- 80,000 Angry Men. Is the US Surge collapsing? (3/22/2008)