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Carrie Johnson / Washington Post:
Holder to Appoint Prosecutor to Investigate CIA Terror Interrogations — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has decided to appoint a prosecutor to examine nearly a dozen cases in which CIA interrogators and contractors may have violated anti-torture laws and other statutes …
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Obama White House v. CIA; Panetta Threatened to Quit — Tensions Lead to CIA Director's “Screaming Match” at the White House — A “profanity-laced screaming match” at the White House involving CIA Director Leon Panetta, and the expected release today of another damning internal investigation …
Spencer Ackerman / The Washington Independent:
Obtained: The CIA Documents Dick Cheney Says Vindicate Torture — We've obtained and scanned in the two CIA documents that former Vice President Dick Cheney claims justify his longstanding arguments that torture was an effective interrogation and counterterrorism tool. As you read them, consider this post as well.
Spencer Ackerman / The Washington Independent:
The 2004 CIA Inspector General Report on Torture — Classified for years — and still heavily redacted — here is former CIA Inspector General John Helgerson's 2004 report into the CIA's Bush-era interrogations operations. The ACLU sued to obtain the controversial report …
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Cheney Statement on CIA Documents/Investigation — Former Vice President Dick Cheney gave The Weekly Standard a statement Monday night about the CIA documents and the coming Justice Department investigation.
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CIA Releases Documents Fmr. Vice President Cheney Requested Be Made Public — Now Public: Memos That Cheney Says Demonstrate Harsh Interrogation Tactics Worked to Thwart Terrorism — The CIA released the documents today that former Vice President Dick Cheney requested earlier this year …
David Johnston / New York Times:
C.I.A. Abuse Cases Detailed in Report on Detainees — WASHINGTON - Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. named a veteran federal prosecutor to examine abuse of prisoners held by the Central Intelligence Agency, government officials said on Monday, as officials released a C.I.A. inspector general's report …
Leon E. Panetta / Fox News:
RAW DATA: Panetta Letter to CIA Staff on Release of Interrogation Report
RAW DATA: Panetta Letter to CIA Staff on Release of Interrogation Report
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Daphne Eviatar / The Washington Independent:
CIA Inspector General Report Implicates DOJ Lawyers Again
CIA Inspector General Report Implicates DOJ Lawyers Again
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Spencer Ackerman / The Washington Independent:
CIA Withheld Medical Information From the Justice Department …
CIA Withheld Medical Information From the Justice Department …
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
CIA Will Release Torture Docs Cheney Requested; Will Also Release …
CIA Will Release Torture Docs Cheney Requested; Will Also Release …
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David Wessel / Wall Street Journal:
Obama to Reappoint Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke — President Barack Obama will announce Tuesday that he is nominating Ben Bernanke for a second four-year term as chairman of the Federal Reserve, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said. — Mr. Emanuel said Mr. Obama will make the announcement from Martha's Vineyard Tuesday.
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Vaughn Ververs / The Politico:
Obama to reappoint Fed Chair Bernanke — President Barack Obama will announce plans to nominate Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to a second term Tuesday morning, a White House official tells POLITICO. — The president will take time out of his summer vacation on Martha's Vineyard …
Edmund L. Andrews / New York Times:
Obama to Nominate Bernanke to 2nd Term at Fed
Obama to Nominate Bernanke to 2nd Term at Fed
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Matthew Vadum / American Spectator:
Obama's Plan to Desecrate 9/11 — The Obama White House is behind a cynical, coldly calculated political effort to erase the meaning of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks from the American psyche and convert Sept. 11 into a day of leftist celebration and statist idolatry.
Matea Gold / Show Tracker:
UPDATED: Glenn Beck goes after Color of Change co-founder Van Jones — Glenn Beck used his popular Fox News show this afternoon to attack the background of Van Jones, a White House environmental advisor who co-founded an African American political advocacy group that organized an advertising boycott of his program.
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Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
Franks: ‘Ridiculous’ O won't produce long-form certificate — Bethany Haley, a spokeswoman for Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), called us earlier today to say that her boss wasn't considering a birther lawsuit against President Obama because of recent legal rulings tossing out similar suits.
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The Huffington Post:
Baucus Declares That He Wants “A Public Option, Too” — Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) confirmed this past week that he personally supports a public option for insurance coverage, even as the committee he heads is poised to produce health care legislation that lacks a government-administered plan.
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Heidi Przybyla / Bloomberg:
Obama Considers Bypassing Republicans on Health Care
Obama Considers Bypassing Republicans on Health Care
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Michael C. Moynihan / Reason:
Oberleutnant Beck ist Arguing With Ze Idiots! — Barnes & Noble has posted the cover of Glenn Beck's forthcoming book, Arguing With Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government, which appears to show the weepy cable yapper striking his best Werner Klemperer pose and, for some unexplained reason …
Ben Armbruster / Think Progress:
Steele Agrees That Boehner And GOP Leadership Are ‘An Absolute Freakin’ Joke' — Earlier this year, RNC chair Michael Steele dismissed Rush Limbaugh as an “entertainer” whose “thing” is “incendiary” and “ugly.” Steele later apologized to Limbaugh after enormous conservative backlash.
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Michael S. Steele / Washington Post:
GOP Would Protect Health Care for Seniors
GOP Would Protect Health Care for Seniors
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David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:
Now the Birthers are demanding to know: Was Obama circumcised? — The General digs up the, ah, hot tip: … Anyone remember how Republicans wound up obsessing over Bill Clinton's Johnson, ad nauseam, even on TV? I remember Ann Coulter speculating over Paula Jones' claims about the shape …
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Fouad Ajami / Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Summer of Discontent — The politics of charisma is so Third World. Americans were never going to buy into it for long. — Printer — Friendly — So we are to have a French health-care system without a French tradition of political protest.
David Freddoso / Washington Examiner:
UPDATED: Obama's VA pulls so-called ‘Death Book’ from website — Jim Towey wrote last week in the Wall Street Journal that Obama's Veterans' Affairs department had revived a controversial and previously discontinued 53-page pamphlet on end-of-life issues for wounded soldiers.
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Feingold to Obama: Announce Withdrawal Timetable from Afghanistan — ABC News' David Chalian Reports: — The Obama administration has been keenly aware of discontent among many in its liberal base with regard to its Afghanistan policy and an expected request for additional troops following …
Dana Goldstein / American Prospect:
AMERICAN JEWISH PHILANTHROPIST USES THE “A” WORD. — This is relatively huge: Jewish uber-philanthropist Edgar Bronfman — one of the main funders behind the Birthright Israel program, which sends young American Jews to Israel to develop their Zionist sympathies — has come out in the Huffington Post …