Daily Briefing: 'Happy To Be Fighting Back'
•Democrats threaten to filibuster against the extension of the Patriot Act.Feingold(D-Wis.): "This is worth the fight." [ NYT , WSJ , USAT ]
•The CIA has secret Counterterrorist Intelligence Centers in more than two dozen countries; new emphasis on cooperation with intel agencies of other countries. [ WP ]
•22 Republicans join Democrats to defeat GOP spending plan; "stunned" Republican leaders, left scrambling, pass "softened" bill hours later along party lines, 217 to 215. [ WP , NYT , WSJ , LAT ]
•Administration's response to its critics stems from 2004 campaign tactics;Bushsaid to be "happy to be fighting back." [ WP , LAT ]
•Who wasBob Woodward's source? Executive editor of the Washington Post: "[I]f the information is found independent of our source relationship, sure we'll print it." [ WSJ , NYT , NYT ]
•Rep.John Murtha(D-Penn.), a Vietnam veteran, tearfully calls for the immediate withdrawal of forces from Iraq; 13 service members from his district have died in Iraq.Murtha: "Our military has done everything that has been asked of them. It is time to bring them home." [ WP , NYT , WSJ , LAT , USAT ]
• Bush, in South Korea, says a North Korea with nuclear weapons "will not be tolerated"; trip is overshadowed by criticism of Iraq war. [ NYT , WSJ , USAT ]
• Bush's meeting withPutin"was choreographed to minimize the potential for another display of the tensions that now color their relationship." [ USAT ]
•Advocacy ads aboutAlitohit the airwaves. [ WP , NYT ]
•Americans are feeling more isolationist, less unilateralist, according to Pew study. [ NYT ]
•Senate Indian Affairs Committee digs into friend ofJack Abramoff. [ WP , LAT ]