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WASHINGTON - A House panel on Wednesday approved subpoenas for President Bush's political adviser, Karl Rove and other top White House aides, setting up a constitutional showdown over the firings of eight federal prosecutors. Steve Bradenton Cartoons
The WorldOfficial: Iraqi Govt, insurgents talking
BAGHDAD - The government has been indirectly talking to several Sunni insurgent groups over the past three months in a bid to persuade them to lay down their arms and join the political process, a senior government official said Thursday.
Iran warns of 'illegal' steps over nukes
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's top leader warned Wednesday his country will pursue "illegal actions" if the U.N. Security Council insists it halt uranium enrichment, an apparent reference to nuclear activities outside international regulations.
Death toll in Pakistan fighting at 135
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The death toll from four days of fierce fighting between local and foreign militants in a remote Pakistani border region has risen to about 135, three security officials said Thursday.
North Koreas nuclear envoy leaves talks
BEIJING - North Korean chief nuclear envoy Kim Kye Gwan went to Beijing's airport Thursday for a flight home after a breakdown in talks on disarming Pyongyang's nuclear program. The NationBush, Congress at odds over subpoenas
WASHINGTON -- In forbidding his top aides to testify publicly and under oath on the controversial firings of eight federal prosecutors, President Bush faces a potential legal battle with Congress that he may not be able to win, experts say, making a compromise more likely.
To Bush, it doesn’t matter whether he can win eventually. All he needs to do is delay for 22 months. An easy task, considering how slowly the courts move. —Caro
Appeals court reverses conviction in phone-jamming case
A federal appeals court on Wednesday reversed the conviction and sentence of James Tobin, a former Republican National Committee official who was sentenced to 10 months in prison for his role in an Election Day 2002 phone-jamming plot against New Hampshire Democrats.
Republicans have been working for years to politicize the judiciary. It fits in very well with their attempts to politicize the Justice Department. —Caro
New Hampshire Dems Want Congress to Review Phone-Jamming
New Hampshire Democrats want Congress to investigate a Republican phone-jamming scheme on Election Day 2002… Tobin was not indicted until December 2004, a month after Bush won re-election. Allegations of his involvement in the scheme led him to resign his post with Bush's campaign a month before the election.
Senator eyes another attorney departure
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Tuesday she wants answers about the departure of the former U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, who resigned last October before the Justice Department's dismissal of eight other U.S. attorneys sparked controversy… About five months before Yang's departure, her office had opened an investigation into ties between Rep. Jerry Lewis, R-Calif., and a lobbyist… The Lewis case is connected to the corruption investigation in San Diego that began with the 2005 conviction of former GOP Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, who is serving jail time for bribery. Former U.S. Attorney Carol Lam in San Diego, who was among those dismissed last year, was prosecuting that case. Media
In a March 21 New York Times article about former Vice President Al Gore's scheduled testimony before several congressional committees on the issue of climate change, reporters Mark Leibovich and Patrick Healy called Gore's return to Capitol Hill "akin to a recovering alcoholic returning to a neighborhood bar" and asserted: "His hair is slicked back in a way that accentuates the new fullness of his face." Healy also wrote: "The prospect of another Gore campaign provides grist for critics to impugn his motives."
Ignoring his own media criticism, Politico's Harris blamed Gore for 2000 election loss[/b>
In a March 20 column, Politico Editor-in-Chief John Harris blamed former Vice President Al Gore for his loss in the 2000 election: "A more poised, focused and self-confident campaign surely would have won the election and not just the popular vote in 2000. As the chosen leader of his party, Gore had a responsibility to wage that campaign." But Harris did not mention the treatment Gore received in 2000 from the "Freak Show" media -- a term Harris and ABC News political director Mark Halperin coined in The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008 (Random House, 2006) and identified as a factor in the 2000 election. As Harris and Halperin noted in the book, the media in 2000 "exerted intense destructive pressure on Gore," seizing on Gore's "petty frailties" and making them his "defining" characteristics while downplaying Gore's "substantial strengths as a man and politician."
Paging Rose Mary Woods: '18-Day Gap' in Release of Latest Emails in 'AttorneyGate'
Mike Allen wrote for The Politico, "In DOJ documents that were publicly posted by the House Judiciary Committee, there is a gap from mid-November to early December in e-mails and other memos… The blog Talking Points Memo, which has followed this scandal closest for the longest time, did the math and found out that the gap is 18 days, and promptly compared it to the "18 1/2 minute gap" from Watergate -- when a key part of a Nixon tape suddenly went blank.
Morris assumed voter fraud as fact in claiming that U.S. attorneys were fired "because they wouldn't prosecute" it
Dick Morris asserted that the Bush administration fired eight U.S. attorneys "because they wouldn't prosecute voter fraud and other crimes." In fact, two of the fired prosecutors have said that they investigated such allegations, but found insufficient evidence to warrant prosecution or a grand-jury investigation.
Technology & Science
The Size of a Paperback and Most of the Functions of a Real PC
Hoping to put a PC in every purse, Samsung has upgraded its Q1 line of tiny 1.7-pound portable computers.
Moore's Law hits physics in memory chips
(M)akers of memory chips are looking ahead to a day, not too far off, when technology based on silicon bumps up against the laws of physics and memory can't be made any smaller, with implications for gadgets like MP3 players and digital cameras.
Getting beyond binary representation could be a way around the limits. —Caro
Brain Injury Said to Affect Moral Choices
The findings show that humans’ native revulsion to hurting others relies on a part of neural anatomy.
To avoid colon cancer, eat more fruit, study finds
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People who eat a diet high in fruit and low in meat reduce their risk of developing colon cancer, researchers reported on Wednesday.
Environment
Gore implores Congress to save planet
WASHINGTON - Al Gore made an emotional return to Congress Wednesday to plead with lawmakers to fight global warming with moral courage while revealing nothing about whether he'll join the 2008 presidential race.
IBM vows 7 pct. cut in greenhouse gases
ARMONK, N.Y. - IBM Corp. is pledging that by 2012, it will have reduced its greenhouse gas footprint by 7 percent since 2005, primarily through energy conservation.
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