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Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Durbin Calls On Gingrich To Apologize For Attacking The CIA In 2007 — Last week, former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich called on Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to resign her current position as Speaker. He said that she “disqualified herself” over her comments that the CIA was “misleading” Congress.
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Durbin: ‘supermax’ Gitmo inmates — Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), the assistant majority leader, said Sunday on NBC's “Meet the Press” that he would accept Guantanamo detainees in his home state as long as they were held in super-maximum prisons, where inmates are held 23 hours a day in small cells with slits for windows.
Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Ridge takes aim at Limbaugh — (CNN) — Pennsylvania Republican Tom Ridge is taking direct aim at Rush Limbaugh, telling CNN's John King the conservative talk radio host can be “shrill” and uses language in a way “that offend very many.” — “Rush Limbaugh has an audience of 20 million people.
Clark Hoyt / New York Times:
The Writers Make News. Unfortunately. — IT has been a busy week or two for the ethics police — those within The Times trying to protect the paper's integrity, and those outside, ready to pounce on transgressions by Times journalists. — Thomas Friedman, the star columnist …
Louise Armitstead / Telegraph:
British banks revolt against Obama tax plan — British banks and stockbrokers may refuse to take on American clients if new international tax proposals outlined by President Obama are passed. — The decision, which would make it hard for Americans in London to open bank accounts and trade shares …
Matthew Alexander / The Huffington Post:
What's Not Said Is More Important Than What Is Said — As a senior interrogator in Iraq (and a former criminal investigator), there was a lesson I learned that served me well: there's more to be learned from what someone doesn't say than from what they do say.
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Crooks and Liars
Fareed Zakaria / Newsweek:
They May Not Want The Bomb — And other unexpected truths. … From the magazine issue dated Jun 1, 2009 — Everything you know about Iran is wrong, or at least more complicated than you think. Take the bomb. The regime wants to be a nuclear power but could well be happy …
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Some Obama Enemies Are Made Totally of Straw — WASHINGTON — Democrats often complained about President George W. Bush's frequent use of a rhetorical device as old as rhetoric itself: creating the illusion of refuting an opponent's argument by mischaracterizing it and then knocking down that mischaracterization.
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Detroit Free Press:
Watson paid pittance for taxes on ‘nonexistent’ Detroit house — Detroit City Councilwoman JoAnn Watson paid only $68 in property taxes this year because city records say her well-kept, brick Tudor-style home doesn't exist. Although the home has occupied its west-side plot since 1926 …
Washington Post:
U.S. Presses Israel to End Expansion of Settlements; Bush Pact Complicates Issue — Settlement Issue Is Complicated by Bush Agreement — The Obama administration is pressing the Israeli government to halt the expansion of Jewish settlements in Palestinian areas, U.S. and Israeli officials said …
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Ariel Leve / Times of London:
FBI ‘lured dimwits’ into terror plot — The arrest of petty crooks over a plan to target Jews has put the use of sting operations under fire — ON the steps of New York city hall on Friday, Michael Bloomberg, the mayor, praised the police officers and federal agents who helped disrupt …
Robert J. Samuelson / Newsweek:
Let Them Go Bankrupt, Soon — Solving Social Security and Medicare. — From the magazine issue dated Jun 1, 2009 — When the trustees of Social Security and Medicare recently reported on the economic outlook for these programs, the news coverage was universally glum. The recession had made everything worse.
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