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10:10 PM ET, May 14, 2009

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Caitlin Taylor / The Note:
Pelosi: CIA Lied to Me  —  ABC News' Rick Klein reports:  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today accused intelligence officials of giving her “inaccurate and incomplete information” on the use of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics by the Bush administration …
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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Obama Administration to Cheney: Request Denied  —  The Obama administration has turned down former Vice President Dick Cheney's request for the declassification of two CIA reports on the effectiveness of the Agency's detainee program, THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned.
Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
The Truth About Richard Bruce Cheney  —  This is a guest post exclusive to The Washington Note by Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson, who is former chief of staff of the Department of State during the term of Secretary of State Colin Powell.  Lawrence Wilkerson is also Pamela Harriman Visiting Professor at the College of William & Mary.
Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
Hoyer questions Pelosi's CIA charge UPDATED  —  House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) isn't exactly rushing to support Nancy Pelosi's claim she was “misled” by CIA officials during a 2002 intel briefing on waterboarding.  —  Hoyer — a polished floor debater — was drawn into an extended exchange …
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Eric Zimmermann / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:
Lieberman ‘totally disagrees’ with Pelosi  —  Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said today that he “totally disagrees” with Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) assertion that the CIA regularly misleads Congress.  —  “No, on that specific point I totally disagree,” Lieberman told MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell.
Manu Raju / The Politico:
Dems: CIA may have broken law  —  Democrats on the House intelligence committee said Thursday that CIA officers broke the law in 2002 if they told Nancy Pelosi then that they had not yet engaged in waterboarding.  —  “If they make a false report, absolutely it's illegal,” said Adam Schiff …
The Caucus:
Pelosi Acknowledges She Was Told of Waterboarding in 2003  —  Under fire from Republicans for what she knew about harsh questioning of terror detainees, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday acknowledged that she had learned in 2003 that the C.I.A. had subjected suspects to waterboarding …
The Huffington Post:
Graham: CIA Gave Me False Information About Interrogation Briefings
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Pelosi to CIA: I double-dog dare you to leak again
WNYC:
THE BRIAN LEHRER SHOW
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Bigger Than the Both of Us
Media Matters Action Network:
Rep. Boehner: Now and Then … JOHN BOEHNER NOW
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Nancy Pelosi: CIA lied; Boehner: Who?
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Pelosi goes nuclear on CIA over torture as Cheney's memo request is denied
Discussion: Stop The ACLU
Jason / The Tolbert Report:
Sen. Kim Hendren: Without a Teleprompter!  (UPDATE - Schumer “Apology accepted.")  —  The talk in conservative circles this week has been about Sen. Kim Hendren's appearance last week at the Pulaski County Republican Committee meeting.  Several Republicans on hand were live twittering …
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Josh Kraushaar / Scorecard's Blog:   A walking gaffe machine in Arkansas
governor.nh.gov:
Gov. Lynch Statement Regarding Same-Sex Marriage Legislation  —  CONCORD - Gov. John Lynch released the following statement today regarding same-sex legislation in New Hampshire:  —  “The gay marriage debate in New Hampshire has been filled with passion and emotion on all sides.
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Tom Fahey / UnionLeader.com:
Governor not ready to sign gay marriage bill
Discussion: Think Progress
Associated Press:
Specter raises hopes for deal on major labor bill  —  WASHINGTON - Sen. Arlen Specter said Thursday the “prospects are pretty good” for a compromise on legislation making it easier for workers to form unions.  —  Specter had come out against the bill in March, disappointing labor leaders.
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Josh Kraushaar / Scorecard's Blog:
Torsella dropping out of Pa. Senate race
Bloomberg:
Obama Says U.S. Long-Term Debt Load ‘Unsustainable’  —  President Barack Obama, calling current deficit spending “unsustainable,” warned of skyrocketing interest rates for consumers if the U.S. continues to finance government by borrowing from other countries.
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Bob Sullivan / MSNBC:
College grad: 'I wish I'd gone to prison instead'
Discussion: Associated Press and Joanne Jacobs
Carrie Johnson / Washington Post:
Prosecutors to Question Rove on U.S. Attorney Firings  —  Former top White House official Karl Rove will be interviewed tomorrow as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into the firing of U.S. attorneys during the Bush administration, according to two sources familiar with the appointment.
Edmund L. Andrews / New York Times:
My Personal Credit Crisis  —  If there was anybody who should have avoided the mortgage catastrophe, it was I. As an economics reporter for The New York Times, I have been the paper's chief eyes and ears on the Federal Reserve for the past six years.  I watched Alan Greenspan and his successor, Ben S. Bernanke, at close range.
Discussion: Clusterstock
Dailyfile:
Meltdown With Keith Olbermann!  [Exclusive]  —  If you regularly tune in to Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC, you may remember that Olbermann was mysteriously absent from the show for three days at the end of April.  But Olbermann didn't just “have the night off,” as David Shuster …
Gary Fields / Wall Street Journal:
White House Czar Calls for End to ‘War on Drugs’  —  Kerlikowske Says Analogy Is Counterproductive; Shift Aligns With Administration Preference for Treatment Over Incarceration  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration's new drug czar says he wants to banish the idea that the U.S. is fighting …
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Jacob Sullum / Reason:
Drug Czar Calls for End to War on Drugs
Richard Dunham / Texas on the Potomac:
Cornyn's guess?  Hutchison to resign “this fall sometime”  —  Texas Sen. John Cornyn is the state's junior senator — and he wants to remain the junior senator for a couple more years.  —  But that doesn't seem likely.  Senior Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison is preparing to run for governor …
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Scouts Train to Fight Terrorists, and More  —  IMPERIAL, Calif. — Ten minutes into arrant mayhem in this town near the Mexican border, and the gunman, a disgruntled Iraq war veteran, has already taken out two people, one slumped in his desk, the other covered in blood on the floor.
George F. Will / Washington Post:
The Obama Administration's Economic Lawlessness  —  Anyone, said T.S. Eliot, could carve a goose, were it not for the bones.  And anyone could govern as boldly as his whims decreed, were it not for the skeletal structure that keeps civil society civil — the rule of law.  The Obama administration is bold.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
On Abortion, Obama Is Drawn Into Debate He Had Hoped to Avoid  —  WASHINGTON — In nearly four months in office, President Obama has pursued a careful two-pronged strategy on abortion, enacting policies that secure a woman's right to the procedure, while vowing to move beyond the culture wars …
US News:
Miss California on Cable News: Fox & Friends Gives Carrie Prejean Her Chance  —  Miss California and Miss USA runner-up, Carrie Prejean, tossed around in the battle over gay marriage, will be a one-day guest host for Fox News Channel's popular morning show Fox & Friends, Whispers learns.
 
 
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