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 [The Hotline's Blogometer] 10/28: Season's Greetings: Then on 10/27, Rush Limbaugh read the report live on his radio show, starting: "This is from Editor and Publisher, which is a left-wing website that chronicles the great left-wing work of the media..." Petrelis follows up, defending E&P from accusations of partisanship, adding: "I'm happy he's giving attention to the fact that McManus made a donation to Bush/Cheney last year. You can be sure that if McManus had instead donated to the Democratic loser from Boston, Rush's lips would be flapping nonstop about his political leanings and that doom awaits CBS News."

 [BlondeSense] Can We Open the Fitzmas Presents Yet?: "Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald signaled Thursday he might simply keep Rove under investigation, according to a person familiar with recent developments in the case who requested anonymity because of its sensitivity. That would spare Rove bad news Friday when the grand jury that has heard the case for two years is set to expire.

 [Aquarian Conspirators: ALERTS, NEWS, COMMENTARY, and the occasional Rant] FW: NEWS DISSECTOR: TRICK OR TREAT MAY BE EARLY THIS YEAR: The federal statute making it a criminal penalty to knowingly divulge the identity of anyone working undercover for the Central Intelligence Agency was not enacted in a vacuum. In the early 1970s, in part as a result of the radicalization of individuals and groups over the Vietnam War, a former CIA employee named Philip Agee wrote a book revealing the identities of several dozen CIA employees, many under deep cover and some including agency station chiefs in foreign capitals.”

 [SharonCobb] Huffington and Maher To A terrific Job Of Explaining The Debt Of The Problems With PlameGate: Libby is being charged with committing a crime during the course of an investigaion, but the only problem is that there was no actual crime being investigated. As a fair minded individual, do you believe that it is right to proceed with an ivestigation, even though the prosecutor knows that no crime was committed, just so that you can maybe catch somebody in an inconsistency?

[HongPong.com] White House refused to fork over docs to Senate indicating they spoofed Iraq intelligence; Iraq schemers sold Zarqawi lies to U: The Intelligence Committee at the time was trying to determine whether the CIA and other intelligence agencies provided faulty or erroneous intelligence on Iraq to President Bush and other government officials. But the committee deferred the much more politically sensitive issue as to whether the president and the vice president themselves, or other administration officials, misrepresented intelligence information to bolster the case to go to war.

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 [Dailywarnews.blogspot.com] Today in Iraq: While promoting IOC control of the fields, the authors take care to warn the Iraqi government against attempting to squeeze IOC profits: "Countries that do not offer risk-adjusted rates of return equal to or above other nations will be unlikely to achieve significant levels of investment, regardless of the richness of their geology." Indeed, to outbid other nations for Big Oil's favor will require Iraq to turn over quite a large share of profits, especially when competing against countries such as Azerbaijan that have given away the store. The Azeri government, notes the report, has "been able to partially overcome their risk profile and attract billions of dollars of investment by offering a contractual balance of commercial interests within the risk contract." This refers to the fact that Azerbaijan, despite its poor oil quality and poor location, drew in the IOCs via scandalous splits of revenue allowed by the nation's corrupt government.

 [Washingtonpost.com] White House Briefing News on President George W Bush and the ...: * Douglas Jehl writes in the New York Times: "A two-year inquiry by the Federal Bureau of Investigation has yet to uncover the origin of forged documents that formed a basis for sending an envoy on a fact-finding trip to Niger, a mission that eventually exploded into the C.I.A. leak inquiry, law enforcement and intelligence officials say."

[Leiterreports.typepad.com] Leiter Reports: In addition to having a stimulating visit to the Moral Sciences Club at Cambridge University yesterday (with warm thanks to my hosts, Ben Colburn and Hallvard Lillehammer, and to all the philosophers and students who turned out for the talk--nothing like a talk on Nietzsche to produce a standing-room only crowd!), I also had the opportunity to browse one of my favorite bookstores, the Cambridge University Press bookshop near St.

 [Andrewsullivan.com] www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish: If someone had told me three years ago that by October 2005, Saddam Hussein's murderous tyranny would be over for ever, that Iraq would have a new constitution that emerged from a democratic process and that it will soon have a democratically elected parliament and government, I would have been thrilled. If I were further told that the inevitably embittered Sunni Arab minority had decided to throw itself into democratic politics to amend the constitution and protect its interests in a future Iraq, I would be amazed by how swiftly democratic habits can take root in a post-totalitarian country.

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