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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 …
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Graham: CIA Gave Me False Information About Interrogation Briefings — In testimony that could bolster Speaker Nancy Pelosi's claim that the CIA misled her during briefings on detainee interrogations, former Senator Bob Graham insisted on Thursday that he too was kept in the dark about the use …
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JustOneMinute, New York Times, Liberty Street, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and James Fallows
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The Take: Pelosi's Comments Raise Interrogation Debate to New Level — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's extraordinary accusation that the Bush administration lied to Congress about the use of harsh interrogation techniques dramatically raised the stakes in the growing debate …
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The Note, The Hill, The Fix, San Francisco Chronicle, First Reading, Commentary, Washington Times, Craig Crawford's Trail Mix, Time, GayPatriot, Townhall.com and Instapundit
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The Torture Debate, Continued — This month, I wrote a column outlining two exceptions to the no-torture rule: the ticking time bomb scenario and its less extreme variant in which a high-value terrorist refuses to divulge crucial information that could save innocent lives.
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Prosecutors to Question Rove on U.S. Attorney Firings
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Think Progress, AMERICAblog News, Newsweek, Raw Story, Washington Monthly, The BRAD BLOG and MSNBC
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Can Pelosi Survive? — In a rambling press conference today …
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The Campaign Spot, The Moderate Voice, Capitol Briefing, Atlas Shrugs, Right Wing News, The Fix and GayPatriot
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Wicked Web Woven
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Jay Currie, Don Surber, The Note, The Atlantic Politics Channel and Top of the Ticket
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THE BRIAN LEHRER SHOW
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Daily Kos, ATTACKERMAN, The Washington Independent, Raw Story, Balloon Juice and Firedoglake
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Pelosi: CIA Lied to Me
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Washington Post, BitsBlog, The Strata-Sphere, Politics Daily, At-Largely, Scared Monkeys, Hot Air, Dean's World, Stop The ACLU, American Power, TPMMuckraker, George's Bottom Line, No Sheeples Here!, The Caucus, MoJo Blog Posts, The Corner, Gateway Pundit, Weekly Standard, Taylor Marsh, This ain't Hell …, Fox News, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Riehl World View, The Reaction, PunditGuy, Betsy's Page, The Daily Dish, BLACKFIVE, The Swamp, Balloon Juice, theblogprof, Glenn Thrush's Blog, Michelle Malkin, Political Punch and Townhall.com
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Obama Planning to Keep Tribunals for Detainees — WASHINGTON — President Obama has decided to keep the military commission system that his predecessor created to try suspected terrorists but will ask Congress to expand the rights of defendants to contest the charges against them, officials briefed on the plan said Thursday.
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DISSENTING JUSTICE, Patterico's Pontifications, Arkansas News, TalkLeft and Agence France Presse
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Obama to renew military tribunals — He had pledged during the presidential campaign to end the controversial trials of terrorism suspects. Human rights groups are outraged. — Reporting from Washington — The Obama administration will announce plans today to revive …
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Political Punch, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, The Washington Independent, Washington Times and ATTACKERMAN
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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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Power Line, Gateway Pundit, Jules Crittenden, Instapundit, Hot Air, Clusterstock, Betsy's Page, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Pajamas Media
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Trade Wars Launched With Ruses, End Runs — Outrage in Canada as U.S. Firms Sever Ties To Obey Stimulus Rules — Is this what the first trade war of the global economic crisis looks like? — Ordered by Congress to “buy American” when spending money from the $787 billion stimulus package …
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MoJo Blog Posts
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Mexican Data Say Migration to U.S. Has Plummeted — MEXICALI, Mexico — Census data from the Mexican government indicate an extraordinary decline in the number of Mexican immigrants going to the United States. — The recently released data show that about 226,000 fewer people emigrated …
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Treasury Agrees To Aid Insurers — The Treasury yesterday granted preliminary approval for some of the nation's largest insurance companies to receive capital infusions under the government's Troubled Assets Relief Program, Treasury spokesman Andrew Williams said.
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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.
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Dead People Get Stimulus Checks — MYFOXNY.COM - This week, thousands of people are getting stimulus checks in the mail. The problem is that a lot of them are dead. A Long Island woman was shocked when she checked the mail and received a letter from the U.S. Treasury — but it wasn't for her.
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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 …
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Leon Panetta's mission to stop Israel bombing Iranian nuclear plant — America's spy chief was sent on a secret mission to Israel to warn its leaders not to launch a surprise attack on Iran without notifying the US Administration. — As Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister …
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Taylor Marsh
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Health Care Leaders Say Obama Overstated Their Promise to Control Costs — WASHINGTON — Hospitals and insurance companies said Thursday that President Obama had substantially overstated their promise earlier this week to reduce the growth of health spending.
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Election 2009: New Jersey Governor — NJ Governor: Christie Leads Corzine by Nine — In his bid for re-election, New Jersey's Democratic Governor Jon Corzine trails Republican challenger Chris Christie by nine percentage points. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey …
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TigerHawk, Daily Kos, Commentary, MyDD, The Star-Ledger Editorial Page, TPMDC and Real Clear Politics
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Anti-tobacco crusader to CDC — I profiled Tom Frieden, the New York City health commissioner whom Obama has chosen to run the Centers for Disease Control for the New York Observer back in 2004. — He's a relentless, effective, and uncompromising character, a key figure in a smoking ban …
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Empire of Carbon — I have seen the future, and it won't work. — These should be hopeful times for environmentalists. Junk science no longer rules in Washington. President Obama has spoken forcefully about the need to take action on climate change; the people I talk to are increasingly optimistic …
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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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Governor not ready to sign gay marriage bill
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Think Progress
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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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FiveThirtyEight, Michelle Malkin, The Hill's Blog Briefing Room, The Washington Independent and TPMDC
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