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Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
C.I.A. Destroyed Tapes of Interrogations  —  The Central Intelligence Agency in 2005 destroyed at least two videotapes documenting the interrogation of two Al Qaeda operatives in the agency's custody, a step it took in the midst of Congressional and legal scrutiny about the C.I.A's secret detention program …
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
This Is A Banana Republic  —  What defines such a republic?  How about an executive that ignores the rule of law, commits war-crimes and then destroys the actual evidence?  Today's bombshell is that the CIA has done just that with respect to tapes made recording the torture of enemy combatants.
Discussion: The Newshoggers and Angry Bear
Washington Post:
CIA Destroyed Videos Showing Interrogations  —  The CIA made videotapes in 2002 of its officers administering harsh interrogation techniques to two al-Qaeda suspects but destroyed the tapes three years later, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said yesterday.  —  Captured on tape were interrogations …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Pamela Hess / wtopnews.com:
Hayden Says CIA Videotapes Destroyed
Discussion: The Blotter and Emptywheel
Marty Lederman / Balkinization:
Where's Rose Mary Woods When You Need Her?
NY Daily News:
Judith Nathan got security earlier  —  Judith Nathan got taxpayer-funded chauffeur services from the NYPD earlier than previously disclosed - even before her affair with then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani was revealed, witnesses and sources tell the Daily News.  —  "It went on for months before the affair …
Discussion: The Caucus and Betsy's Page
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Nicholas Wapshott / New York Sun:   Sliding Poll Numbers Force Giuliani To Retool His Campaign
Washington Post:
Review of Iran Intelligence to Be Sought  —  As Conservatives Reject New NIE, Republican Senators to Urge Congressional Panel  —  Senate Republicans are planning to call for a congressional commission to investigate the conclusions of the new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran …
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Little Green Footballs:
Video: Max Boot on Saudi Arabia, NIE
Discussion: Weekly Standard
David Lightman / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Candidate Ron Paul's devotees a mixed bag  —  WASHINGTON — If Ron Paul's supporters got together for a family portrait, it would be one of those pictures in which no one seems to resemble anyone else.  —  "You have old-school Republicans, the conservatives who backed Barry Goldwater (in 1964).
Discussion: The Swamp and Prairie Weather
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White House:
Fact Sheet: Helping American Families Keep Their Homes  —  President Bush Announces Private-Sector Plan To Help Struggling Homeowners, Calls On Congress To Join Administration In Acting  —  Today, President Bush outlined steps the Administration is taking to help American homeowners and called …
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Richard Simon / Los Angeles Times:
House passes a sweeping energy bill  —  Fuel efficiency would increase and alternative sources would expand.  The measure faces a tough road in the Senate.  —  WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday approved the biggest increase in vehicle fuel-economy standards since gasoline cost less …
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San Francisco Chronicle:
SF radio personality Bernie Ward indicted on child porn charges  —  (12-06) 15:29 PST San Francisco - —  Bernie Ward, a popular liberal San Francisco radio talk show host and former Catholic priest, has been indicted on federal child pornography charges, authorities said today.
Bloomberg:
Hot Air Emitted by Climate Summit Equals 20,000 Cars  —  Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) — Government officials and activists flying to Bali, Indonesia, for the United Nations meeting on climate change will cause as much pollution as 20,000 cars in a year.  —  The delegates each will produce …
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
I HEARD NEAL BOORTZ holding forth on the Omaha mall shooting this morning on the way to work, and I realized I haven't posted on it.  I don't really have anything to say that I haven't said before.  But it's worth noting — since apparently most of the media reports haven't — that this was another mass shooting in a "gun-free" zone.
Alec Klein / Washington Post:
The Army's $200 Billion Makeover  —  March to Modernize Proves Ambitious and Controversial  —  EL PASO — A $200 billion plan to remake the largest war machine in history unfolds in one small way on a quiet country road in the Chihuahuan Desert.  —  Jack Hensley, one of a legion of contractors …
Warren P. Strobel / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
State Dept. retains manager of troubled embassy project  —  WASHINGTON — A State Department project manager banished from Iraq by the U.S. ambassador and under scrutiny by the Justice Department continues to oversee the construction of the much-delayed new American embassy in Baghdad from nearby Kuwait …
Discussion: Paul Krugman
 
 
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