The Mini-Note

— -- April 13, 2007

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MUST-READS:

Missing White House E-mails:

Washington Post's Michael Abramowitz: "Rove E-Mail Sought by Congress May Be Missing: RNC Took Away His Access to Delete Files in 2005"LINK

Boston Globe's Michael Kranish "Subpoenas vowed over 'lost' e-mails"LINK

Los Angeles Times' Tom Hamburger and Richard A. Serrano: "Controversy escalates over missing e-mails"LINK

New York Times' Sheryl Gay Stolberg: "Missing E-Mail May Be Related to Prosecutors"LINK

Corzine Crash:

New York Times' David Kocieniewski and David Chen: "New Jersey Governor Is Injured in Car Crash" LINK

Imus Crash:

Los Angeles Times: Peter Wallsten: "Democratic politicians lose a soapbox with Imus"LINK

John Warner raises $500:

Washington Post's Tim Craig: "Warner's Fundraising Raises Eyebrows" LINK

Politco: "John Warner Raises Only $500 in First Quarter of '07" LINK

2008: Republicans:

New York Post's Kenneth Bazinet: "GOP sets a place for Rice: '08 Republican ticket needs Condi-ment to be palatable enough to win, group sez"LINK

2008: Republicans: McCain:

Star Ledger's John Farmer: "McCain embodies the national quandary on Iraq"LINK

Herald Wire Services: "Dems take aim at McCain"LINK

2008: Republicans: Giuliani:

Associated Press' Liz Sidoti: "Scrutiny Finds its Way to Giuliani" LINK