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Congress Knew About the Interrogations — Obama should release the memo on the attacks prevented. — Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair got it right last week when he noted how easy it is to condemn the enhanced interrogation program “on a bright sunny day in April 2009.”
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At Core of Detainee Fight: Did Methods Stop Attacks? — WASHINGTON — Even the most exacting truth commission may have a hard time determining for certain whether brutal interrogations conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency helped keep the country safe.
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Commentary: Obama waffled on torture, looks weak — Editor's note: Ed Rollins, a senior political contributor for CNN, was political director for President Ronald Reagan and chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee. — NEW YORK (CNN) — Like so many politicians I have known …
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Shepard Smith Uncensored: “We Are America, We Do Not F**king Torture!” (VIDEO) — Update: scroll down for Smith's uncensored comments — Fox News viewers witnessed a rather incredible scene on Wednesday as anchor Shepard Smith and Fox contributor Judith Miller (of CIA leak infamy) …
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Glenn Thrush's Blog, The Daily Dish, The Huffington Post, The Moderate Voice and Emptywheel
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Drama at GE shareholders meeting — ‘Open hostility’ toward execs over MSNBC's ‘leftward tilt’ — Things got testy Wednesday at the GE shareholders meeting courtesy of several complaints about political bias at its media division, NBC Universal. — Just don't expect to see the fireworks …
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Lewis Testifies U.S. Urged Silence on Deal — Bank of America Chief Says Bernanke, Paulson Barred Disclosure of Merrill Woes Because of Fears for Financial System — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and then-Treasury Department chief Henry Paulson pressured Bank of America Corp …
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Obama's Budget Satire — Monday morning the government braced for austerity, as the government understands that. Having sent Congress a $3.5 trillion budget, the president signaled in advance — perhaps so his Cabinet members could steel themselves for the new asceticism …
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Tarheel Fascism — 6 people, presumably students, have been arrested protesting Virgil Goode's speech against illegal immigration at UNC-Chapel Hill. They seem to be every bit as tolerant as the Carolina blue fascists that violently ended Tom Tancredo's attempted speech last week.
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Daily Tar Heel, Michelle Malkin, The Other McCain, The League of Ordinary … and American Power
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Was Freddie pressured to toe Obama line? — Both the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal are reporting that Freddie Mac's Chief Financial Officer, David Kellermann, who was found dead Wednesday in an apparent suicide, was involved in recent months in a heated dispute with Freddie's regulator …
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NELL HUSBANDS MARTIN COULTER — A lot of people claim to be my No. 1 fan — God bless them — but my true No. 1 fan left this world last week. My mother quietly stopped breathing last Tuesday, as she slept peacefully, holding my hand. — She was the biggest fan of all of us — Father, me and my brothers John and Jim.
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William K. Wolfrum Chronicles
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Pelosi Tells of a Briefing by Officials on Harman — WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi acknowledged for the first time on Wednesday that she had been briefed by the Bush administration “maybe three years ago” that Representative Jane Harman, Democrat of California, had been picked …
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Serving Under the Army's Most Ruthless Soldier — Blogs and Stories — When Scott Beauchamp first described misconduct by American soldiers in Baghdad, the political right accused him of lying. Last week, one of the soldiers who denounced him became the highest-ranking service member to be found guilty of murder in the Iraq war.
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The Hill's Blog Briefing Room
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Some Immigrants Who Lose Freedom Face Loss of Custody — CARTHAGE, Mo. — When immigration agents raided a poultry processing plant near here two years ago, they had no idea a little American boy named Carlos would be swept up in the operation. — One of the 136 illegal immigrants detained …
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AP Poll: Americans high on Obama, direction of US — Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition — WASHINGTON - For the first time in years, more Americans than not say the country is headed in the right direction, a sign that Barack Obama has used the first 100 days …
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FDA to allow morning-after pill over the counter for 17-year-olds — WASHINGTON (CNN) — The “morning-after pill” will be available without a prescription to women 17 and older, the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday. The minimum age has been 18.
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Hillary Clinton: US will organise ‘crippling’ Iran sanctions if diplomacy fails — Hillary Clinton today vigorously defended President Obama's recent overtures to Iran, insisting that the US would be in a better position to organise “crippling” international sanctions should diplomacy fail.
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Right Wing News
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The President's Apology Tour — Great leaders aren't defined by consensus. — President Barack Obama has finished the second leg of his international confession tour. In less than 100 days, he has apologized on three continents for what he views as the sins of America and his predecessors.
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Federal Program to Boost Private Lending Struggles to Get Money to Consumers — In its first two months, the government's signature initiative to support consumer lending has fallen well short of expectations, deploying only a fraction of the amount officials had hoped to extend to stimulate auto loans …
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Conservative reps. want Napolitano out — House Republicans are calling on Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to step down or be fired in the wake of a controversial department memo that has sparked indignant battle cries from conservatives and some veterans.
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The Case for a Federalism Amendment — How the Tea Partiers can make Washington pay attention. — In response to an unprecedented expansion of federal power, citizens have held hundreds of “tea party” rallies around the country, and various states are considering “sovereignty resolutions” …
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Want to Prosecute the Lawyers? Cite Ministries — Not the Justice Case — Scholars who believe that the individuals who wrote the OLC memos authorizing torture should be criminally prosecuted — as I do — normally cite the Justice Case, decided by the Nuremberg Military Tribunal (NMT) …
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Salon
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Fidel Castro calls Obama ‘conceited’ — “Comrade Fidel” was quick to dash the president's optimism about easy rapprochement with Cuba, saying in a communique Tuesday that Obama misunderstood his brother Raul at the Summit of the Americas. … Multiple smackdowns and a first-name basis with ABC's Jake Tapper!
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Rep. Joe Barton: I ‘Stumped’ Nobel Prize Winning Scientist — Oh the (rare, but occasionally exceptional) joys of Twitter. Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX)—the ranking member on the House Energy & Commerce Committee—says (tweets?) “I seemed [sic] to have baffled the Energy Sec with basic question - Where does oil come from?”
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Washington Monthly