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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
King on Holder: 'You wonder which side they're on' — A “furious” Rep. Peter King, the hawkish, maverick Long Island Republican, blasted a “disgraceful” Eric Holder for opening an investigation of CIA interrogators and chided his own party for what he described as a weak response to the move in an interview just now with POLITICO.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
What every American should be made to learn about the IG Torture Report — (updated below - Update II - Update III) — I wrote earlier today about Eric Holder's decision to “review” whether criminal prosecutions are warranted in connection with the torture of Terrorism suspects …
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Spencer Ackerman / The Washington Independent:
CIA Documents Provide Little Cover for Cheney Claims — Former Vice President Dick Cheney (Associated Press) — For months, former Vice President Dick Cheney has said that two documents prepared by the CIA, one from 2004 and the other from 2005, would refute critics of the Bush administration's torture program.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
CNN Gets Snookered By Cheney's Masterful Obfuscation — I've noted this before, but Dick Cheney is as masterful as any Washington hand at using precise languate to obfuscate. And today the old master completely had his way with poor, hapless CNN. — Look at how CNN is now reporting Cheney's claims of vindication today:
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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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
CIA docs: EITs worked
CIA docs: EITs worked
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Matt Corley / Think Progress:
Comparing Obama to ‘Hitler,’ Grassley constituent says he'd ‘take a gun to Washington’ if crowd supported him. — Earlier this month, police detained a man at a health care town hall meeting held by Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) because he was carrying a sign declaring “Death to Obama” and “Death to Michelle and her two stupid kids.”
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Ian Schmit / Messenger News:
Tempers flare at Grassley meeting — POCAHONTAS - President Barack Obama is a fascist. — This and other assertions flew through an emotionally-charged town hall meeting conducted by Sen. Chuck Grassley Monday in Pocahontas. — “The president of the United States, that's who you should be concerned about.
Faiz Shakir / Think Progress:
Angry right boos John McCain for stating that Obama ‘respects the Constitution of the United States.’ — Today in a town hall forum in Arizona, an elderly woman asked Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) whether President Obama knows “that we still live under a Constitution.”
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Bloomberg:
Obama Increases 2010 Deficit Forecast 19% to $1.50 Trillion — Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) — U.S. unemployment will surge to 10 percent this year and the budget deficit will widen to $1.5 trillion next year, reflecting a “deeper recession” than previously expected, White House budget chief Peter Orszag said.
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Michael Lynch / New York Times:
‘Peak Oil’ Is a Waste of Energy — REMEMBER “peak oil”? It's the theory that geological scarcity will at some point make it impossible for global petroleum production to avoid falling, heralding the end of the oil age and, potentially, economic catastrophe.
Chris Harris / Media Matters Action Network:
Sen. Grassley On Health Care: “I Don't Think It's Going To Be Possible To Work It Out With The Administration” … ALL OVER THE BALL PARK — During a conference call with Iowa reporters, Sen. Chuck Grassley was asked: … Grassley's response is almost incomprehensible: … You read that right.
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Bloomberg:
Nemazee Is Arrested in $74 Million Citibank Fraud — Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) — Hassan Nemazee, chairman of Nemazee Capital Corp. and a fundraiser for President Obama and Hillary Clinton, was arrested on charges that he tricked Citigroup Inc. into lending him as much as $74 million using phony documents.
Zaid Jilani / Think Progress:
Coburn tells weeping victim of broken health care system that government isn't the solution. — Yesterday CNN's Rick Sanchez aired a segment from a health care town hall where a weeping constituent explained to Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) that her husband's health insurer refuses to cover his treatment for a traumatic brain injury.
Jared Allen / The Hill:
Dems increase talk of moving healthcare without GOP — A leading House Democrat on Monday said Democrats are prepared to pass healthcare reform without Republican support, echoing comments made over the weekend by a leading Senate Democrat. — “I think that at some point everyone's …
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Kevin Sack / New York Times:
Calm, but Moved to Be Heard on Health Care — MONTEZUMA, Ga. — Until Thursday evening, nothing in Bob Collier's 62 years had stirred in him the slightest desire to take a stand — about anything — in public. — He skipped the antiwar protests of his college years, took a job …
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Founding Bloggers:
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Political Terrorism In The Heartland - Inside the Quincy Tea Party Cell — Recently, Founding Bloggers was tipped off to the existence of a regional “political terrorist” cell calling itself the Quincy Tea Party. — When we learned that this group of Tea Party fundamentalists …
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American Power
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner on National Review Online:
Will There Be Outrage? — By: Jonah Goldberg — I haven't read the IG report yet, I've just seen a few write ups and excerpts around here and other places. Without getting into the substance of the controversy, I'm doubting that there will be a lot of popular outrage over any of the allegations of abuse.
Danny Hakim / New York Times:
Giuliani, Seeing Opening, Mulls a Governor Bid — ALBANY — Nineteen months after ending his disastrous run for the presidency, Rudolph W. Giuliani is clearing a path for a possible race for governor in 2010, believing public anger at an ineffectual Albany and unease over the economy …
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Paul Demko / Minnesota Independent:
Bachmann: Prayer and fasting will help defeat health care reform — On Wednesday Rep. Michele Bachmann was part of a star-studded “teletownhall” meeting to discuss health-care reform. The event, billed “Keeping Faith with the Unborn,” was sponsored by the Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-abortion advocacy group.
Laura Crimaldi / Boston Herald:
Cons cash in on stimulus money — Federal economic stimulus cash was handed out to cons behind bars in Bay State prisons after a bureaucratic snafu resulted in $250 checks being sent to some inmates - and now red-faced feds want it back. — “Taxpayers already believe the inmates are running …
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Jamie Satterfield / Knoxville News-Sentinel:
Torture-slaying trial, Day 8: Cobbins guilty; jurors to consider death penalty — The jury will now consider the death penalty in the Channon Christian, Chris Newsom torture slayings. — KNOXVILLE - Jurors this morning convicted Letalvis Cobbins of first-degree murder in the torture-slaying …
Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution:
Were the bailouts a good idea? — Following the renomination of Bernanke, it is worth revisiting this question. Here is a recent report: — With the FTSE World Banks index up 130 per cent since its lows of early March, the paper losses that governments in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany are sitting on have also shrunk.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
STEELE REDISCOVERS HIS OPPOSITION TO MEDICARE.... I really don't understand how Michael Steele is in a position to head a major political party. — Yesterday, the confused RNC chairman wrote an op-ed insisting that Democrats are trying to undermine Medicare.
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John Stossel / John Stossel's Take:
Every Critic a Racist — During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama's supporters promised that his election would allow America to “transcend race.” Among the headlines: — The Boston Globe: “Obama shows an ability to transcend race” — The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “Obama's success suggests we can transcend race”
John O'Connor / The State:
House GOP eyes Sanford's future — Lawmakers will discuss impeachment at beach meeting — House Republicans will discuss whether to impeach Gov. Mark Sanford when they meet in Myrtle Beach this weekend. — Lawmakers, once reluctant to discuss removing Sanford, will weigh …
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Washington Wire:
Rhetoric Fails to Sway Voters on Health — Jonathan Weisman reports on the health-care debate. — In the rhetorical battle over health care, the forces backing President Barack Obama's overhaul have spent years polling and using focus groups to find the precise language that would win over voters …
Gateway Pundit:
Figures. Local Top Dem Involved in St. Louis BOMBING — Democratic strategist and bomber— Milton H. “Skip” Ohlsen III. (P-D) — What a shock. A local top Democratic strategist was involved in a bombing last year that seriously injured a St. Louis attorney. — The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported:
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al.com:
Applause, boos greet lawmaker - Page 2 — Another speaker commended him for his stance, but said he was concerned that if Pelosi was privy to everything he was saying, “she might not let you back in chambers.” — Griffith laughed and said, “If she doesn't like it, I've got a gift certificate to the mental health center.”
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
‘DESECRATING’ 9/11?.... As the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches, the White House has designated Sept. 11, 2009 as a “National Day of Service.” It seems like an appropriate way to honor the tragedy. — But not to everyone. Matthew Vadum has a piece in the far-right American Spectator …
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Colleen Raezler / NewsBusters.org:
Media's Pro-Choice Darling Called Humans ‘Ecotumors’ — To liberal media outlets, Warren Hern, one of the few late-term abortion providers in the country, has been worthy of praise as a doctor who boldly stands up for his beliefs in the face of intimidation - a lonely humanitarian braving violent death for the sake of his patients.
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Rebecca Camber / Daily Mail:
Foreign GPs who commute to Britain: £100-an-hour Poles and Lithuanians fly in for shifts our doctors won't do — The huge extent to which the NHS needs foreign doctors to treat patients out of hours is revealed today. — A third of primary care trusts are flying in GPs from as far away as Lithuania …