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F/R tip: Accused CIA leaker Mary McCarthy will reportedly be interviewed tonight at 10 pm EDT on WABC radio in NYC.
Info on the McCarthy backtrack here.

Strange twist (via Sac Bee):
Hamid Hayat, the 23-year-old Lodi man on trial for terrorist-related activities in Sacramento federal court, was found guilty Tuesday, just hours after a mistrial was declared in the related trial of his father, who was accused of lying to the FBI to cover up for his son.
Hayat was found guilty of [...]

Not good (via Sacramento Bee):
A mistrial was declared Tuesday in the federal terrorism trial of a Lodi man charged with lying to protect his son, who authorities say attended an al-Qaida training camp in Pakistan.
The announcement came one day after the jury told U.S. District Court Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. that it could not [...]

More info.
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Update: Bob Owens has an interesting take and frame analysis of the 34-minute tape. Read it.

Does this image bring back memories?

AP Photo/Los Angeles Herald Examiner, James Roark) (James Roark - AP)
It’s Chicago Cubs outfielder Rick Monday of the Chicago Cubs, who snatched an American flag at the Dodger Stadium Outfield in Los Angeles, on April 25, 1976 –in order to prevent the punks from burning it.
In honor of the [...]

What happens when Democrat and Republican Party elites hook up to undermine our immigration laws?

Over at Hot Air, the brilliant Doug TenNapel and the animation team at EEF Dot Com have offered us an exclusive cartoon short, “Ugly Baby,” that reveals the spawn of bipartisan collusion between the Cheap Labor and the Cheap Votes factions.
Use [...]

A follow-up on the Falun Gong protester who shouted down Chinese president Hu Jintao last week (via Breitbart/AP):
A woman who heckled Chinese President Hu Jintao on the White House lawn, said her protest was a spontaneous reaction to China’s suppression of the Falungong spiritual movement.
Wang Wenyi, 47, interrupted the elaborate welcome ceremony laid on [...]

Neil Cavuto takes Chuck Schumer to task over oil company-bashing:
I see Chuck Schumer wants to investigate the oil companies for price gouging. Why doesn’t he ask his fellow politicians to do the same about tax gouging?
After all, oil companies’ profit works out to nine cents a gallon. Taxes total more like 40 cents a gallon.
But [...]

I’ll be doing a phone-in to Fox & Friends in about 4 minutes to discuss the Bush administration’s continued “catch and release” policies for illegal aliens.
Tune in if you’re free!
Thanks to John O’Sullivan for the mention is his excellent piece, “The Crackdown that wasn’t” in today’s NYPost:
IT happened last Wednesday, and it was nicely [...]

Here’s the full text of an e-mail from Michigan State University engineering professor Indrek Wichman to the campus Muslim Students Association, which organized a protest against the Mohammed Cartoons in February (via the Detroit Free Press):
Dear Moslem Association: As a professor of Mechanical Engineering here at MSU I intened to protest your protest.
I am offended [...]

Check out Hot Air affilliate David Lunde’s new emblem for the CIA:

James Lewis at The American Thinker says, “Mary McCarthy makes four:”
Mary McCarthy is the fourth Clinton NSC member to assault the Bush White House. Ms. McCarthy, who was dismissed for leaking national security secrets to the press, is not the first Clintonite to undermine [...]

Allah Pundit fills you in on everything you ever needed or wanted to know about alleged CIA leaker Mary McCarthy.
Phew! Thanks for doing the job most Americans wouldn’t do, Allah.

Welcome to San Diego, Mexico.:

More photos from the Aztlan/Reconquista celebration this weekend here. (Hat tip: Monica - F/R)

John Hawkins is asking for your help.

Sorry for the outages this afternoon. Should be back up and running regularly soon. I miss you, too!

From Haaretz via Drudge:
Three explosions rocked the Egypt’s Sinai resort town of Dahab on Monday night, leaving at least 22 people dead and 150 wounded.
One blast hit a hotel, a second a restaurant and the third explosion rocked the resort town’s market area.
Dr. Said Essa, head of the Egyptian rescue forces in the region, said [...]

I’m excited to introduce you today to Hot Air–a conservative Internet broadcast network I founded with a team of multi-talented bloggers. (Press release here.)
Internet video is booming. Apple’s iTunes store has sold a gazillion videos since its debut. YouTube gets more traffic than the New York Times web site. And politically-oriented web video is on [...]

Over the weekend, I noted an effort by Latino artists to Spanglish-ize the National Anthem in a show of solidarity with illegal aliens.
It’s called “Nuestro Himno.”
I repeat my question: Who’s assimilating whom?
The New York Daily News’ David Hinckley expresses similar concerns:
Between the rockets’ red glare and the bombs bursting in air, America’s national anthem offers [...]

***update on nationality of alleged assailants here: Polish, not North African***
Via Gateway Pundit, there’s a huge outcry in Brussels over the murder of a Belgian student, who was allegedy killed by two North African Muslim thugs in a train station over a MP3 player, 80,000 protested in Brussels, Belgium.
80,000 people marching in the streets.
Paul Belien [...]

Another unbelievable, moonbatty story from academia. David Bernstein at The Volokh Conspiracy, linking to the Penn State Collegian, spotlights an anti-terrorism art exhibit being canceled at Penn State University:
For Penn State student Josh Stulman, years of hard work ended in disappointment yesterday when the university cancelled his upcoming art exhibit for violation of Penn State’s [...]

CNN reports:
Parts of audiotape purportedly from Osama bin Laden aired Sunday on an Arabic-language TV network in which the al Qaeda leader attacks the West for cutting off funds to the Palestinian Hamas-led government.
Al-Jazeera, which is based in Qatar, said the new tape is from bin Laden. CNN could not immediately confirm the tape’s authenticity.
The [...]

For all your latest Mary McCarthy updates, hit Flopping Aces, AJ Strata, The Belmont Club, Tom Maguire, Rick Moran, Thomas Joscelyn, Riehl World View, and Ace.
Ace points to an AP story on McCarthy getting fired…with a photograph of Lewis Libby:

Crikey. Here is McCarthy’s photo via Curt at Flopping Aces:

Gerard Van der Leun: Remembering the real [...]

I’m not going to be blogging much today–have been extra busy preparing to launch an exciting new project that I’ll let you know more about tomorrow.
I did want to express my deepest thanks to each and every one of the bloggers and readers who showed their support for this site this week. Thank you for [...]

The NEFA Foundation has video of a jihadist demonstration in NYC on April 17. Watch the hate here.
LGF and Steve Emerson at The Counterterrorism Blog have much more. Emerson recounts:
The Queens-based Islamic Thinkers Society (ITS) held a rally yesterday outside of the Israeli Consulate in Manhattan. Members of the Islamic Thinkers Society are easily identified [...]

Ace of Spades asks:
Did Mary McCarthy Approve Joe Wilson’s Trip to Niger?
Curt at Flopping Aces points to a F/R commenter, Timeout, noting some interesting portfolio overlap:
Mary McCarthy: … began her government service as an analyst, then manager, in CIA’s Directorate of Intelligence, holding positions in both African and Latin American analysis. [I think this was [...]

The Star-Spangled Banner meets reconquista…and has been renamed “Nuestro Himno” (via AP):
Mexican pop diva Gloria Trevi, Puerto Rican reggaeton star Don Omar and other Latino artists have recorded a bilingual version of the U.S. national anthem in a show of support for migrants in the United States.
The Latino-oriented record label Urban Box Office (UBO) said [...]

…if you are a Muslim in Britain. Via UK Times online (hat tip: reader Jody):
A BANGLADESHI woman who shook a baby boy so violently that he suffered brain damage walked free from court yesterday because a judge conceded that she did not know how to behave in the West.
Rahella Khanom, 24, caused the five-month-old boy [...]

***scroll for new updates, fresh info on McCarthy***
Fox News has the story.
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Update: NBC identifies the leaker as Mary McCarthy…
In a rare occurrence, the CIA fired an officer who acknowledged giving classified information to a reporter, NBC News learned Friday.
The officer flunked a polygraph exam before being fired on Thursday and is now under investigation [...]

Weekly steak dinners for wounded troops at Fran O’Brien’s restaurant Credit: Stars & Stripes
Tonight, the weekly free steak dinner for wounded vets takes place at Fran O’Brien’s, the D.C. restaurant on the verge of losing its lease from the Hilton Corporation. Milbloggers in town for the first Milblog conference will be there in full force [...]

This morning’s MSM suck-up watch spotlights Reuters’ rehabilitation of Teddy Kennedy. Here’s the headline of reporter (term used loosely) Thomas Ferraro’s slobbery piece:
At 74, U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy still roars
Let the obsequiousness begin:
At 74, Edward Kennedy still roars as one of America’s leading liberal voices, longest serving U.S. senators and most polarizing political figures.
While most [...]