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3:35 AM ET, December 11, 2007

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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 …
Discussion: Sadly, No!, TBogg, KUSA-TV and Right Voices
Tom McGhee / Denver Post:
Church gunman "hated Christians"  —  Police describe a chaotic life and death scene with smoke bombs going off outside the New Life Church moments before Matthew Murray began firing killing two and wounding others Sunday.  —  Forensic evidence from the shooting matches that found at Arvada's Youth …
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:
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
CIA Interrogator Tells ABC He Supervised 'Necessary' Torture of Abu Zubaydah
Discussion: Majikthise
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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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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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.
Discussion: Redstate and The Atlantic Online
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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 …
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."
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.
Discussion: Say Anything and UrbanGrounds
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Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Obama, Under the Clinton Microscope
Discussion: Wizbang
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.
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 …
Josh Kraushaar / The Politico:
NRCC props up its pummeled Ohio candidate  —  Republicans are facing a surprisingly fierce fight in a Tuesday special election to hold on to a conservative northwestern Ohio seat that has been under the party's control for the past 70 years.  —  The GOP expects to win another special election set …
David Wooding / The Sun:
Happy Xmas, your war is over!  —  GORDON Brown yesterday delivered a stirring festive message to Our Boys in Iraq: "Happy Christmas - war is over."  —  The PM was cheered as he praised UK troops and revealed combat operations in Basra will end "within two weeks".
 
 
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Bloomberg:
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Generational warfare
Robert Verkaik / The Independent:
CIA photos 'show UK Guantanamo detainee was tortured'
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Pastordan / Street Prophets:
One More Reason Not To Trust "The Religious Left"
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Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

 
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