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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
CIA director says Pelosi received the truth — CIA Director Leon Panetta challenged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's accusations that the agency lied to her, writing a memo to his agents saying she received nothing but the truth. — Panetta said that “ultimately, it is up to Congress to evaluate …
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Lindsey Ellerson / The Note:
Gingrich: Pelosi ‘Lied,’ ‘Despicable,’ ‘Dishonest,’ ‘Vicious,’ ‘Trivial’ — ABC News' Rick Klein reports: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich today offered a blistering critique of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's handling of oversight on harsh interrogation tactics, in a major escalation of partisan attacks being aimed at Pelosi.
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Martin Kady II / The Politico:
Panetta to CIA: We told Pelosi the truth — CIA Director Leon Panetta just sent a stern message to his employees defending the agency against Speaker Nancy Pelosi's criticisms. — His message: We didn't mislead Congress; stay focused on your job. — Panetta's note was sent to reporters via the CIA press office.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
REPORTERS GETTIN' PLAYED — Everybody's talking about Nancy Pelosi's press conference yesterday. I'm listening to Republicans on cable yapping about this contradiction or that contradiction. But what I've seen very little attention to is the fact that Pelosi had an answer that really answers …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
WHERE ARE JIM WRIGHT AND TOM FOLEY?.... One of the big political stories of the day, apparently, is Newt Gingrich's blind-rage attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. I mentioed it earlier, in large part because a) I find it hilarious that Republicans have let a disgraced former Speaker become …
Robert Gehrke / Salt Lake Tribune:
Huntsman to accept ambassadorship to China — Announcement Saturday » Gary Herbert to become Utah governor — Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. will resign from office to accept a nomination to become the ambassador to China. — Sources tell The Salt Lake Tribune that an announcement is scheduled for Saturday.
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Huntsman chosen ambassador to China — President Barack Obama plans to name Utah Gov. Jon M. Huntsman Jr., a rapidly rising star in the Republican Party, as ambassador to China, a senior administration official said. — The move is freighted with political intrigue.
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Josh Kraushaar / Scorecard's Blog:
The Arkansas lineup — On paper, Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) looks like she could be facing a tough re-election campaign in a state that gave John McCain a 20-point margin of victory. — And a new poll, commissioned by the Arkansas Republican party, suggests that Lincoln is vulnerable.
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Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
REVIVING THE MILITARY COMMISSIONS. — Obama's decision to revive the military commissions is a contradiction of his campaign promise to abolish the military commissions. The AP reports that only 20 of the 241 detainees at Guantanamo will be tried under military commissions.
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USA Today:
Al Gore joins Cheney-Obama feud — In a CNN interview this morning, former Vice President Gore got involved in the political feud over his successor Dick Cheney. — Gore said he wished Cheney would have given President Obama more time in office before criticizing national security policy.
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Newt Gingrich / Washington Examiner:
Lets NOT meet the Uighurs — President Obama has heeded his generals and decided not to release more photos of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, and good for him. Now he needs to put our national security ahead of politics once again and reverse his dangerous decision to release trained …
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
More Americans “Pro-Life” Than “Pro-Choice” for First Time — Also, fewer think abortion should be legal “under any circumstances” — PRINCETON, NJ — A new Gallup Poll, conducted May 7-10, finds 51% of Americans calling themselves “pro-life” on the issue of abortion and 42% “pro-choice.”
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Alex Spillius / Telegraph:
New ‘prisoner abuse’ photographs emerge despite US bid to block publication — Graphic photographs of alleged prisoner abuse, thought to be among up to 2,000 images Barack Obama is trying to prevent from being released, emerged yesterday. — The shocking images of inmates in Iraq …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Feckless Bloggers Evaluate Sonia Sotomayor By Reading Her Opinions — Tom Goldstein at SCOTUSBlog reminds us why we need real journalists instead of amateur bloggers: … What follows is some kind of nutjob effort to summarize her opinions in the most important civil litigation she's been involved with.
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Mike Lillis / The Washington Independent:
Coal, Electric Industries Big Winners in Climate Bill Deal — Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) (WDCpix) — Even as House Democrats are celebrating their deal with conservative-leaning colleagues on climate change legislation, the real winners under the compromise …
Nick Bunkley / New York Times:
G.M. Notifying 1,100 Dealers That They Will Be Dropped — DETROIT — General Motors is telling about 1,100 dealers on Friday that they will lose their franchises by late next year. — Unlike Chrysler, which on Thursday released a list of 789 dealers that it was cutting loose …
Michael Riley / Denver Post:
Dems red-faced over veteran imposter — Democrats are incensed over how a man duped the party and veterans during the '08 campaign. — WASHINGTON — Rick Strandlof, executive director of the Colorado Veterans Alliance and the man most colleagues knew as Rick Duncan, was front and center during …
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Pelosi Accuses CIA of Lying, the NYT Reports . . . on Page A-18 — When the speaker of the House accuses the CIA of deliberately lying to her, you'd think most respectable newspapers would put that story on Page One. And you'd be right. Mike Allen notes that the Washington Post …
Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:
Yes, Nancy, There Really Is a God Nemesis — There is an odd sense among Democrats that nemesis simply does not exist. A once-vein-bulging Al Gore who barnstormed the country slurring President Bush by calling him a liar now seems baffled about the precedent he set of a vice president …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Familiar Obama Phrase Being Groomed as a Slogan — WASHINGTON — President Obama told doctors and insurers on Monday that revamping health care would “lay a new foundation for our economy.” He told graduating college students on Wednesday that “we need to build a new foundation.”
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