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Thomas Hendrick / TheDenverChannel.com:
Security Guard: 'God Guided Me And Protected Me' — Jeanne Assam Stopped Gunman At New Life Church — COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Jeanne Assam appeared before the news media for the first time Monday and said she "did not think for a minute to run away" when a gunman entered the New Life Church …
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
SPEAKING OF HATE CRIMES... The man who shot up a training center for missionaries and a church in suburban Denver, killing four people and wounding a number of others, has been identified: … It is perhaps worth noting that the toll in Sunday's shootings exceeded the combined total in all …
CNN:
Source: One gunman responsible for Colorado shootings — COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (CNN) — The shooter at both a missionary center and a church Sunday in Colorado was a man who once worked on a mission with the center, a source familiar with the events said Monday.
Kieran Nicholson / Denver Post:
Vet lauds female guard who felled gunman
Vet lauds female guard who felled gunman
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Patterico's Pontifications
ABCNEWS:
Coming in From the Cold: CIA Spy Calls Waterboarding Necessary But Torture — Former Agent Says the Enhanced Technique Was Used on Al Qaeda Chief Abu Zubaydah — A leader of the CIA team that captured and interrogated the first major al Qaeda figure, Abu Zubaydah, says subjecting him to waterboarding was torture but necessary.
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
TWO STORIES....After the United States captured al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah in the weeks after 9/11, the CIA tortured him in an effort to get him to talk. Here's how Ron Suskind described what happened, starting with what CIA investigators found in Zubaydah's diary:
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Hullabaloo
Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
CIA Interrogator Tells ABC He Supervised 'Necessary' Torture of Abu Zubaydah — Paging Michael Mukasey. The leader of the CIA interrogation team that handled Abu Zubaydah, head of al-Qaeda's military committee, says he had Abu Zubaydah waterboarded — which was torture, and, he says, necessary to prevent "maybe dozens of attacks."
ABCNEWS:
Victim: Gang-Rape Cover-Up by U.S., Halliburton/KBR — KBR Told Victim She Could Lose Her Job If She Sought Help After Being Raped, She Says — A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident.
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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report:
The Perfect Victim Meets the Perfect Villains — I know I'm going to take a lot of heat for this, but this story just sound so.... well.... er ... far-fetched. — Not the rape part—rape happens all the time (gang rapes, not so much, but occasionally). Not the cover up part—cover ups happen all the time.
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Redstate, Flopping Aces, The World Wide Rant, Shakespeare's Sister, Think Progress, Greatscat!, Balloon Juice and The Newshoggers
New York Times:
G.O.P. Voters Are Uninspired by Candidates — Three weeks before the Iowa caucuses, Republicans voters across the country appear uninspired by their field of presidential candidates, with a vast majority saying they have not made a final decision about who to support, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.
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Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
New poll shows big shake-up in GOP race — DES MOINES, Iowa (CNN) — Mike Huckabee's dramatic jump in the polls is going nationwide. The former Arkansas governor is in a virtual tie with Republican presidential front-runner Rudy Giuliani in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation national poll out Monday.
Dalia Sussman / The Caucus:
New NYTimes/CBS Poll: Explain, Don't Attack
New NYTimes/CBS Poll: Explain, Don't Attack
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The Atlantic Online, rubber hose, Taylor Marsh, CNN Political Ticker and TPM Election Central
Michael Fechter / Articles by the Investigative …:
EXCLUSIVE IPT INVESTIGATION UNCOVERS HLF JURY ROOM BULLYING — DALLAS - She felt the men were guilty and tried to explain why to the 11 other jurors. When she finished, one juror spoke up in an angry tone. — "If you're going by the evidence in this room," she recalls him snapping, "then you need to go home."
Byron York / The Corner:
McCain Attacks Romney's Attack on Huckabee — Here's an interesting one. The Romney campaign is set to release the first negative ad of the season in Iowa tomorrow - an attack on Mike Huckabee on the immigration issue. Huckabee will certainly respond - and now, he has help from another candidate, John McCain.
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Mike Glover / Associated Press:
Clinton says Hillary was always the one — AMES, Iowa - Campaigning for his wife, former President Clinton says that when they were starting out he was so struck by her intellect and ability he once suggested she should just dump him and jump into her own political career.
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Albert R. Hunt / Bloomberg:
Tension in Hillaryland Grows as Plan Goes Awry: Albert R. Hunt
Tension in Hillaryland Grows as Plan Goes Awry: Albert R. Hunt
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Chris Bowers / Open Left:
What Really Bothers Me About Obama (Updated) — Barack Obama is simultaneously the best and worst Democratic candidate for new progressive media and new progressive institutions. Where his campaign is good, it is very good in this area, especially around media policy and earning support from users of new media.
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Obama Campaign Denies Collecting "Oppo Research" On Progressive Bloggers
Obama Campaign Denies Collecting "Oppo Research" On Progressive Bloggers
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Open Left
CNN Political Ticker:
Gore: I'd only consider White House bid — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former Vice President Al Gore denied again that there were any campaign plans in his immediate future, but told CNN Monday that he hadn't "ruled out getting back into the political process at some point" — and that if he did return …
MotherJones.com:
Huckabee Hides His Full Gospel? — WASHINGTON DISPATCH: Is Mike Huckabee the presidential candidate shunning Mike Huckabee the preacher? Before entering politics, he was a pastor at two Baptist churches. Now his campaign tells Mother Jones it won't make his sermons available to the media and the public.
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Hot Air, Think Progress, The Atlantic Online, David Corn, TalkLeft, Riehl World View and Shakespeare's Sister
Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
Pundits Lavish Tons Of Attention On Rudy's "Cackle" — Okay, admittedly, that hasn't happened yet. But surely it will, right? — After all, every pundit in town surely watched Rudy Giuliani's interview yesterday on Meet the Press. If you saw it, you couldn't help but notice that Rudy giggled …
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Political Machine
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New York Times:
Lawyers Cleared Destroying Tapes — Lawyers within the clandestine branch of the Central Intelligence Agency gave written approval in advance to the destruction in 2005 of hundreds of hours of videotapes documenting interrogations of two lieutenants from Al Qaeda, according …