thehill.com - 4/2/2009
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The Justice Department’s stunning decision to drop all charges against former Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) had GOP senators hailing the news as a vindication while government watchdogs fretted over the impact on other corruption cases against public officials. “I’m overjoyed,” crowed Sen. Orrin ...
adn.com - 4/3/2009
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adn.com —
WASHINGTON -- The head of the Alaska Republican
Party today called on Sen. Mark Begich to step...
down from the U.S. Senate, saying that the state's voters would have re-elected former Sen. Ted Stevens had they known the U.S Department of Justice would ...
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Palin, Ruedrich call for Begich resignation
newsminer.com - 4/2/2009
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newsminer.com —
JUNEAU — Gov. Sarah Palin on Thursday echoed
a call from the Alaska Republican Party for U.S....
Sen. Mark Begich to resign after the Justice Department asked a judge to toss out corruption charges against former Sen. Ted Stevens. “I absolutely agree,” ...
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newsminer.com • Palin joins call for new Senate ...
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 4/3/2009
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politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com —
Will Sarah Palin face a primary challenge from
Ted Stevens in 2010? WASHINGTON (CNN) – Now that...
the corruption case against former Sen. Ted Stevens has been dropped, Alaska Rep. Don Young wants Stevens to run for governor — a move that ...
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Ted Stevens should run against Palin, Alaska Republican says
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Beltway Establishment's Misplaced Orgy Of Stevens Sympathy
TPMMuckraker —
... As Melanie Sloan of Citiziens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington put it, according to The Hill's paraphrase: "Holder's decision in no way should be viewed as a vindication of Stevens but rather as an indictment of the Justice Department's inability to do one of its most important jobs." ...
Hullabaloo —
... publications," without being challenged or balanced with a statement of the plain fact that nothing in the dismissal of the suits admits Stevens' innocence. ...
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huffingtonpost.com 2/5/2009 — TED.
For twenty-five years folks have gathered at an event called TED, short for Technology, Entertainment and Design. TED has always been an eclectic group of thinkers, makers, and doers.
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SCOTT HORTON—Justice on Stevens
harpers.org 4/2/2009 — Attorney General Eric Holder has decided that the Justice Department should abandon the corruption conviction secured against former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens. The bombshell decision has nothing to do with the merits of the case against Stevens–it ...
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adn.com 10/30/2008 — Sen. Ted Stevens returned to Alaska on Wednesday for the first time since his conviction, telling a crowd of supporters he made a mistake but is not a criminal and needs their help to save his re-election.
Beltway Establishment's Misplaced Orgy Of Stevens Sympathy
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com 4/2/2009 — We told you yesterday about Chris Matthews' flub on the Ted Stevens news -- telling viewers that the decision by Justice to drop the charges, thanks to prosecutorial misconduct, means that "the charges should never have been brought."
But it ...
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huffingtonpost.com 10/27/2008 — WASHINGTON — Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens was convicted of seven corruption charges Monday in a trial that tainted the 40-year Senate career of Alaska's political patriarch.
The verdict, coming just days before Election Day, adds further ...
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