M.J. Rosenberg: Hillary’s position on Jerusalem directly contradicts Bill’s.

Sen. Patrick Leahy appears ready to cave on his White House document demands.

More on the International Peace Operations Association and its founder, Doug Brooks, Blackwater’s man in Washington.

For a long time — years — many of you have asked: Why don’t you have full RSS feeds for the TPM sites? Having just the first few sentences really blows!

Well, since our operations are run almost exclusively by ad revenues. We just weren’t able to do that. Until now. We now have full feeds for TPM, TPMmuckraker, TPM Election Central, TPMCafe, and TPM Horse’s Mouth.

You can find them all here.

Obey Iraq withdrawal proposals roil House leadership.

Greg Sargent has the details.

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Thompson: We could barely win wars without Rush.

Following the car bomb attack today in Baghdad on the Polish ambassador:

U.S. authorities confiscated an AP Television News videotape that contained scenes of the wounded being evacuated. U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Scott Bleichwehl told the AP the government of Iraq had made it illegal to photograph or videotape the aftermath of bombings or other attacks.

Catholic Archbishop says no communion for Giuliani.

You see the post below about US military authorities in Iraq confiscating news footage that the AP took at today’s bombing in Baghdad. According to a US military spokesman, they were enforcing a new Iraqi law banning photographs or news footage of terrorist attacks.

My question is, How did the US military get in the position of enforcing that law?