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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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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
What every American should be made to learn about the IG Torture Report — (updated below - Update II) — I wrote earlier today about Eric Holder's decision to “review” whether criminal prosecutions are warranted in connection with the torture of Terrorism suspects — that can be read here …
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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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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.
John / Power Line:
The CIA Report: What Does It Say? — Attorney General Eric Holder has appointed a special prosecutor to look into criminal charges against CIA employees who allegedly exceeded legal guidelines in interrogating terrorist detainees. Holder said the appointment was based in part on a May 2004 report …
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Wall Street Journal:
Prosecuting the CIA — Eric Holder unleashes a special counsel on U.S. war fighters.
Prosecuting the CIA — Eric Holder unleashes a special counsel on U.S. war fighters.
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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
CIA IG: Agency Faces Major Legal Problems In Future
CIA IG: Agency Faces Major Legal Problems In Future
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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
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Cheney's Sleight Of Hand
Cheney's Sleight Of Hand
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Mark Pittman / Bloomberg:
Court Orders Federal Reserve to Disclose Emergency Loan Details — Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve must for the first time identify the companies in its emergency lending programs after losing a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. — Manhattan Chief U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska ruled …
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Neil King Jr / Wall Street Journal:
GOP Offers Health Rights for Seniors — The Republican Party issued a new salvo in the health debate Monday with a “seniors' health care bill of rights” that opposed any moves to trim Medicare spending or limit end-of-life care to seniors. — Intended as a political shot at President Barack Obama …
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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 …
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.
CBS News:
Group Runs Facebook Ad Asking Palin to “Stop Lying” — Posted by Stephanie Condon Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin set off a frenzied debate about health care reform when she accused President Obama of planning to establish “death panels” via health care reform.
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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.
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Saving the Obama Presidency — Obama needs to move to the right. — Printer — Friendly — On this day in 1994, Bill Clinton's presidency was saved. — It didn't look that way at the time. After threatening to keep Congress in session until a health-care bill was passed …
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Chris Frates / The Politico:
Dems plan hundreds of reform rallies — Faced with a souring public mood on health care reform, Democrats and their supporters are launching a national grassroots push Wednesday to show lawmakers that the majority of Americans still support overhauling the system.
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 …
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 …
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Wikipedia to Limit Changes to Articles on People — Wikipedia, one of the 10 most popular sites on the Web, was founded about eight years ago as a long-shot experiment to create a free encyclopedia from the contributions of volunteers, all with the power to edit, and presumably improve, the content.
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David Hanners / Austin American-Statesman:
Woman accused of threatening bomb-plot informant — Trial could begin in Austin next week. — A Texas woman faces trial this month in Austin on charges she threatened to kill a government informant who infiltrated an Austin-based group that planned to bomb the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., last fall.
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.
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 …