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10:25 AM ET, January 14, 2009

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Bob Woodward / Washington Post:
Detainee Tortured, Says U.S. Official  —  Trial Overseer Cites ‘Abusive’ Methods Against 9/11 Suspect  —  The top Bush administration official in charge of deciding whether to bring Guantanamo Bay detainees to trial has concluded that the U.S. military tortured a Saudi national who allegedly planned …
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Peter Finn / Washington Post:
Evidence in Terror Cases Said to Be in Chaos
Discussion: the talking dog and Booman Tribune
Marc Ambinder:
Obama Dines With Conservative Opinion Leaders  —  It's true.  —  He motorcaded to a house in Maryland this evening, and if the press pool report is accurate, he is breaking bread with William Kristol and David Brooks.  (If Brooks and Kristol seem to be unusually briefed about Obama's thinking, you'll know why.)
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The Huffington Post:
Obama And Conservatives Break Bread At George Will's House  —  Barack Obama took the next big step in his Republican charm offensive on Tuesday night, when he dined with several of the nation's most prominent conservative pundits.  —  The president-elect arrived at the Chevy Chase, Md. …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Dinner with conservatives  —  The president-elect tonight is having dinner with some ideological adversaries: four of the most widely-read conservative columnists.  —  He's dining at the Chevy Chase home of Washington Post columnist George Will with the Post's Charles Krauthammer …
Jeffrey Goldberg / New York Times:
Why Israel Can't Make Peace With Hamas  —  IN the summer of 2006, at a moment when Hezbollah rockets were falling virtually without pause on northern Israel, Nizar Rayyan, husband of four, father of 12, scholar of Islam and unblushing executioner, confessed to me one of his frustrations.
Discussion: TigerHawk and Michael J. Totten
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Israel's Goals in Gaza?  —  I have only one question about Israel's military operation in Gaza: What is the goal?  Is it the education of Hamas or the eradication of Hamas?  I hope that it's the education of Hamas.  Let me explain why.  —  I was one of the few people who argued back in 2006 …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:   Tom Friedman offers a perfect definition of “terrorism”
Washington Post:
Treasury Nominee Accounts for Own Tax Errors  —  Timothy F. Geithner, the man tapped to lead the nation out of the greatest economic crisis in decades — and who would oversee the Internal Revenue Service — trekked to Capitol Hill yesterday to explain to senators how he made almost $43,000 worth of mistakes on his own tax returns.
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New York Times:
Banks in Need of Even More Bailout Money  —  WASHINGTON — Even before word came on Tuesday that Citigroup might split into pieces to shore up its finances, an unpleasant message was moving through Congress and President-elect Barack Obama's transition team: the banks need more taxpayer money.
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Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:
The Money-Changers  —  As Barack Obama looks back to Franklin …
Discussion: AmSpecBlog
Lee Keath / Associated Press:
Bin Laden urges jihad against Israel  —  CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden urged Muslims to launch a jihad against Israel and condemned Arab governments as allies of the Jewish state in a new message aimed at harnessing anger in the Mideast over the Gaza offensive.
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
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Manu Raju / The Politico:
Dems cool on Burris Senate seating  —  Roland Burris will take his seat in the U.S. Senate on Thursday, but he shouldn't expect a warm welcome.  Republicans are ready to portray Burris as a poster child for all that's wrong with the Democratic Party, and Democrats aren't sure that they want to back him if he runs for the seat in 2010.
Discussion: TalkLeft, TIME.com and MSNBC
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Roger Simon / The Politico:
In politics, does race trump gender?
Discussion: Pat Dollard
Toronto Star:
Canada votes alone for Israel  —  VIDEO: UN chief heads to Mideast  —  We're the only one of 47 nations on UN rights panel to refuse to condemn military offensive in Gaza  —  OTTAWA-Canada stood alone before a United Nations human rights council yesterday, the only one among 47 nations …
Discussion: The Corner and TigerHawk
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Campbell Clark / Globe and Mail:
CANADA VOTES AGAINST RESOLUTION
Discussion: Hot Air, Ezra Levant and Daimnation!
San Francisco Chronicle:
BART officer arrested on murder warrant in NY Day shooting  —  (01-14) 00:13 PST Oakland — The BART police officer who fatally shot an unarmed man on an Oakland train platform and then refused to explain his actions to investigators was arrested Tuesday in Nevada on suspicion of murder, authorities said.
Andy Barr / The Politico:
Poll finds low trust in feds  —  A majority of voters say their confidence in the federal government's ability is falling, according to a new Public Strategies Inc./Politico poll.  —  Sixty-two percent of respondents say their confidence in Washington has decreased over the past 12 months …
Discussion: Think Progress and TIME.com
Gateway Pundit:
Pentagon: 61 Gitmo Grads Returned to Terror  —  Former Gitmo detainee Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi recently exploded in Iraq.  —  Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi was released from Gitmo in November 2005.  —  The WaPo reported that Ajmi left a lengthy martyrdom audio recording before his death.
Discussion: Dr. Sanity and The Jawa Report
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Bush Presidency Closes With 34% Approval, 61% Disapproval  —  Three-quarters of Republicans approve of Bush, up slightly from recent months  — USA - Democrats - Government and Politics - Independents - Presidential Job Approval - Republicans - The Presidency - Americas - Northern America
Discussion: AMERICAblog News
Natasha Korecki / Chicago Sun Times:
Feds play candid camera with Gov. Blagojevich  —  Federal authorities used a video camera as part of their cache of tools to investigate Gov. Blagojevich in the final weeks of 2008 before his arrest, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.  —  The camera, which likely was remote-controlled …
Discussion: Hot Air and RedState
Julian Walker / Virginian-Pilot:
No drilling off Va.'s coast, says Democratic candidate  —  In the race to become the next governor, Brian Moran, a Democrat, broke ranks Tuesday with other candidates by vowing to fight all efforts to allow oil and natural gas drilling off the Virginia coast.
Discussion: Scorecard's Blogs
Betsy Rothstein / The Hill:
Bachmann's sudden transformation  —  Freshman members of Congress are supposed to be quiet, unobtrusive, deferential.  Michele Bachmann must have missed the memo.  —  At her first State of the Union address in 2007, the petite Minnesota GOP congresswoman with the sparkling blue eyes …
Discussion: Think Progress
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Clinton Pledges Tough Diplomacy and a Fast Start  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday deflected calls for greater limits on her husband's fund-raising, struck a sharper tone toward Israel on violence in the Middle East and emerged from a daylong confirmation hearing headed for swift approval as secretary of state.
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Tom Donnelly / Weekly Standard:
The Defense Stimulus  —  A key to American recovery and reinvestment.
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JD Johannes / Outside the Wire:
Joe the Plumber—Out of His Depth
Roxana Tiron / The Hill:
Recession may ground space flights
Jerusalem Post:
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