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Cheney Calls For More CIA Reports To Be Declassified — “One of the things that I find a little bit disturbing about this recent disclosure is they put out the legal memos, the memos that the CIA got from the Office of Legal Counsel, but they didn't put out the memos that showed the success of the effort.
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Obama Urges C.I.A. Not to Be Discouraged by Memos — WASHINGTON — Pressure mounted on President Obama on Monday for more thorough investigation into harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects under the Bush administration, even as he tried to reassure the Central Intelligence Agency …
Martina Stewart / CNN:
Cheney: 'I don't think we've got much to apologize for' — WASHINGTON (CNN) - The former vice president Dick Cheney is slamming President Obama's efforts to set a new tone for relations with the U.S. on the world stage. — “I guess I've been concerned the way that we've been presented overseas …
The Politico:
Cheney v. Obama on torture — Former Vice President Dick Cheney last month formally asked the Central Intelligence Agency to de-classify top secret documents he believes show harsh interrogation techniques such as waterboarding helped prevent terrorist attacks against U.S. targets, according to source familiar with the effort.
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Fox News:
Cheney Calls for Release of Memos Showing Results of Interrogation Efforts — Former Vice President Cheney says he knows how successful the interrogation techniques were in collecting intelligence for the United States and wants that information to be released to the public …
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:With interrogation docs out, Cheney asks Obama to now release …
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Huma Khan / Political Punch:
Today's Qs for O's WH - 4/20/2009 — I interjected in an exchange between White House press secretary Robert Gibbs and another reporter today, so I've included their exchange (with my interruption) as well as my own. — JENNIFER LOVEN, AP: The $100 million target figure that the president talked …
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Associated Press:SPIN METER: Saving federal money the easy way
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:Gibbs: Obama's tiny, tiny budget cut is big money where I'm from
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New York Times:
Lawmaker Is Said to Have Agreed to Aid Lobbyists — WASHINGTON — One of the leading House Democrats on intelligence matters was overheard on telephone calls intercepted by the National Security Agency agreeing to seek lenient treatment from the Bush administration for two pro-Israel lobbyists …
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Miss California Sparks Furor With Gay Marriage Comments on Miss USA Telecast — Miss North Carolina Kristen Dalton was crowned Miss USA on Sunday, but the big story to come out of the normally politics-free telecast was Miss California's comments regarding gay marriage.
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Second Amendment extended — The Constitution's protection of an individual right to have guns for personal use restricts the powers of state and local government as much as it does those of the federal government, the Ninth Circuit Court ruled Monday. The opinion by the three-judge panel can be found here.
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Ilya Shapiro / Cato @ Liberty:Yes, California, There Is an Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms
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Wall Street Journal:
Computer Spies Breach Fighter-Jet Project — WASHINGTON — Computer spies have broken into the Pentagon's $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter project — the Defense Department's costliest weapons program ever — according to current and former government officials familiar with the attacks.
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Satyam Khanna / Think Progress:
History Professor Gingrich Falsely Claims U.S. Presidents Don't ‘Smile And Greet’ Russian Leaders — Yesterday, President Obama shook hands and briefly chatted with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, explaining in a press conference afterwards that he was trying to move towards a “more constructive” …
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Lindsey Ellerson / Political Punch:
President Beefcake? D.C. magazine to feature shirtless Obama on cover — ABC News' Karen Travers and Jake Tapper report: — In the throes of an economic crisis and two wars, does the nation want more headlines about a “Pec-tacular” “Buff Bam”? — President Obama appears shirtless …
Sharyl Attkisson / CBS News:
Murtha's Defense Earmarks Draw Questions — CBS Evening News: FBI Investigates Those Close To Powerful Lawmaker — (CBS) Spring in Washington is “earmark season” - a busy time for Congressman John Murtha. — “That's my business,” Murtha said. “I've been in it for 35 years.”
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Frank Jordans / Associated Press:
Iran's president slams Israel, sparks Western walkout, clown protest at UN conference — GENEVA (AP) — Dozens of Western diplomats walked out of a U.N. conference and a pair of rainbow-wigged protesters threw clown noses at Iran's president Monday when the hard-line leader called Israel the “most cruel and repressive racist regime.”
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Ron Howard / The Huffington Post:
Angels & Demons: It's A Thriller, Not A Crusade — William Donohue of the Catholic League is on a mission. Whether it is a “mission from God,” as the Blues Brothers would say, only God knows, but the goal of his mission is clear: to paint me and the movie I directed, Angels & Demons, as anti-Catholic.
Gort / Gort42:
Corey O'Brien for Congress? — A few weeks ago I was contacted by an outfit called Accountability Now who wanted to know if I knew of someone that would be willing to take on Congressman Paul Kanjorski in the Democratic primary next time out. I told them I thought it would be a suicide mission …
Deborah Solomon / Wall Street Journal:
Geithner Weighs Bank Repayments — WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner indicated that the health of individual banks won't be the sole criterion for whether financial firms will be allowed to repay bailout funds, a position that might complicate their efforts to give back the cash.
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