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9:30 AM ET, December 11, 2007

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New York Times:
Destruction of C.I.A. Tapes Cleared by Lawyers  —  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 …
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Washington Post:
Waterboarding Recounted  —  Ex-CIA Officer Says It 'Probably Saved Lives' but Is Torture  —  A former CIA officer who participated in the capture and questioning of the first al-Qaeda terrorist suspect to be waterboarded said yesterday that the harsh technique provided an intelligence breakthrough that …
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:   This Will Ruin Ted Kennedy's Day
ABCNEWS:
Coming in From the Cold: CIA Spy Calls Waterboarding Necessary But Torture
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
TWO STORIES....After the United States captured al-Qaeda operative …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
WHO KNEW?....A "former senior intelligence official with direct knowledge …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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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Washington Post:
Gunman Planned to Kill More, Officials Say
Ron Claiborne / ABCNEWS:
Analysis: How McCain Could Still Win  —  Political Watchers Say John McCain May Be Down, but a Comeback Is Possible  —  A year ago, he was the odds-on favorite to be the Republican presidential nominee in 2008.  Today, he's considered a long shot.  —  His campaign has rebounded …
Discussion: The Hill
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Postwar Election
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Byron York / The Corner:
McCain Attacks Romney's Attack on Huckabee
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
House Democrats Pull Budget Offer  —  The GOP Is Negotiating In Bad Faith, Obey Says  —  A Democratic deal to give President Bush some war funding in exchange for additional domestic spending appeared to collapse last night after House Appropriations Committee Chairman David R. Obey (D-Wis.) …
Wall Street Journal:
Group Says Iran Resumed Weapon Program  —  The Iranian opposition group that first exposed Iran's nuclear-fuel program said a U.S. intelligence analysis is correct that Tehran shut down its weaponization program in 2003, but claims that the program was relocated and restarted in 2004.
Barry Hertz / network.nationalpost.com:
Teen girl in critical condition after alleged dispute over hijab  —  A 16-year-old girl is in critical condition after being choked by a man believed to be her father, apparently after a dispute with her family over her refusal to wear the hijab, the Islamic headscarf worn by some Muslim women.
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 …
New York Times:
Poll Finds G.O.P. Field Isn't Touching Voters  —  Three weeks before the Iowa caucuses, Republican 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 whom to support, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
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Basem Wasef / Popular Mechanics:
2008 Lamborghini Reventón: Video Test Drive  —  It's named after a deadly bull,  —  looks like something dreamed up by a skunkworks team at Area 51 and boasts the formidable pricetag of $1.4 million.  The Reventon is the rarest, most extreme modern Lamborghini to date.
Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Obama, Under the Clinton Microscope  —  DES MOINES - Presidential campaigns have unlimited appetites for information about their rivals.  They track their whereabouts, they study their records and they obsessively follow nearly every movement.  By this point in the race, though …
Discussion: Wizbang
Sean Olender / San Francisco Chronicle:
MORTGAGE MELTDOWN  —  Interest rate 'freeze' - the real story is fraud  —  Bankers pay lip service to families while scurrying to avert suits, prison  —  New proposals to ease our great mortgage meltdown keep rolling in.  First the Treasury Department urged the creation of a new fund …
CNN:
Algeria bomb blasts 'kill 47'  —  (CNN) — Two car bombs ripped through the Algerian capital Tuesday, reportedly killing at least 47 people in what appeared to be targeted attacks on government and United Nations buildings.  —  One explosion occurred outside the constitutional court …
Discussion: PrairiePundit
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Abolish the CIA  —  DESTROYING THE INTERROGATION TAPES AMOUNTS TO MUTINY AND TREASON.  —  It seems flabbergastingly improbable that President George W. Bush learned of the National Intelligence Estimate concerning Iranian nuclear ambitions only a few days before the rest of us did …
Hadley Arkes / Claremont Institute:
A Very Claremont Christmas  —  There's nothing quite like a good book for ensuring the merriest yule cheer and a happy new year.  Here are a few picks from friends and colleagues of the Claremont Institute...  Edward Ney Professor of Jurisprudence, Amherst College
Discussion: The Corner and Power Line
 
 
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Carla Marinucci / San Francisco Chronicle:
Giuliani has advice for S.F. on dealing with the homeless
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Joe Howry / VenturaCountyStar.com:
Justice for Judge Gutierrez?
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Phil Izzo / Wall Street Journal:
Economists Say Recession Risk Is Climbing
Discussion: On Deadline
David Freddoso / National Review Online:
Convention Wisdom  —  The common wisdom offered two possible outcomes …
Discussion: Weekly Standard and eyeon08.com
Scott Whitlock / NewsBusters.org:
ABC's Sam Donaldson: Evangelicals Long For a 'Christian Theocracy'
Discussion: Right Wing News and The Sundries Shack
Jessica Mintz / Associated Press:
Mortgage Crisis Forces Big Cuts at WaMu
Discussion: Mish's Global Economic …
ABCNEWS:
John Stossel's Web Page
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Andrew McCarthy / Weekly Standard:
Due Process for Jihadists?
Discussion: The Tank, PrairiePundit and The Heretik
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Reuters:
New Jersey moves closer to ending death penalty
Discussion: The World Wide Rant and SteveAudio
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Justices Reinforce Leeway on Sentences
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Bill Roggio / The Long War Journal:
Suicide attack at Pakistani nuclear weapons complex
Discussion: Agence France Presse
Mark Halperin / The Page:
Halperin's Take on Huckabee
Discussion: The New Republic, Jonathan Martin's Blogs and Eunomia
Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
Pundits Lavish Tons Of Attention On Rudy's "Cackle"
Discussion: Political Machine and No More Mister Nice Blog
Bloomberg:
Giuliani Firm, Utilities Team Up to Fight Renewable-Energy Plan
Discussion: Gristmill, Energy Smart, Raising Kaine, Think Progress and MSNBC
David Wooding / The Sun:
Happy Xmas, your war is over!
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