Attorney General Alberto Gonzales must quickly clarify apparent contradictions in his testimony about warrantless spying or risk a possible perjury investigation, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said yesterday. "This is going to have a devastating effect on law enforcement throughout the country if it's not cleared up," said Senator Patrick Leahy, Democrat of Vermont. "If he doesn't correct it, then I think that there are so many errors in there that the pressure will lead very, very heavily to whether it's a special prosecutor, a special counsel, efforts within the Congress."
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/07/30/leahy_presses_gonzales_to_clarify_testimony_about_spying/Gonzales's Truthfulness Long Disputed. Claims of Misstatements to Shield Bush Stretch Back a Decade.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/29/AR2007072901327.htmlCountdown w/ Keith Olbermann broadcasts LIVE at 8 pm et, and the count is never complete without you. Join us.
Iraq's parliament adjourned Monday for an August recess without receiving from the government a series of U.S.-backed draft laws designed to enhance national unity. Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani closed the three hour session without a quorum present and declared it would not resume work until Sept. 4. Legislators blamed the government of Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for failing to construct compromise versions of the key pieces of legislation such as the so-called oil law, designed to ensure a fair distribution of Iraq's considerable oil wealth.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20037290/At Camp David, Bush and Brown seek rapport. New British prime minister discussed Iraq, Darfur and trade. The timing comes as the two men head in different political directions. Brown took power just a month ago, with strong early marks for his response to terror threats and catastrophic flooding at home. He faces the tricky task of helping Bush tackle world crises without getting too closely aligned with a U.S. leader scorned in Britain.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20015571/A key aide says Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's relations with Gen. David Petraeus are so poor the Iraqi leader may ask Washington to withdraw the overall U.S. commander from his Baghdad post. Iraq's foreign minister calls the relationship "difficult." Petraeus, who says their ties are "very good," acknowledges expressing his "full range of emotions" at times with al-Maliki. U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker, who meets with both at least weekly, concedes "sometimes there are sporty exchanges."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/countries/iraq.html?nav=elNews Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch is "highly unlikely" to proceed with a $5 billion bid for Dow Jones & Co. Inc. based on the level of approval the offer has received from Dow Jones' controlling shareholders, a News Corp. spokesman said on Monday.
http://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=mergersNews&storyID=2007-07-30T162747Z_01_WEN9849_RTRIDST_0_DOWJONES-MURDOCH-URGENT.XMLTalk show host Tom Snyder, whose smoke-filled interviews were a staple of late night television and an inspiration for Dan Ackroyd on "Saturday Night Live", has died after a struggle with leukemia. He was 71. Snyder died Sunday in San Francisco from complications associated with leukemia. Known for his improvised, casual style and robust laughter, Snyder conducted a number of memorable interviews as host of NBC's "The Tomorrow Show." Among his guests were John Lennon, Charles Manson and Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20035424/Master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, one of the greatest artists in cinema history, died Monday at his home on an island off the coast of Sweden. He was 89.
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