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3:35 PM ET, August 25, 2009

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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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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.
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
CNN Gets Snookered By Cheney's Masterful Obfuscation
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
The ‘narrow’ CIA investigation
Discussion: The Plum Line
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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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.
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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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.
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Democratic fundraiser charged in Citigroup fraud  —  * One count of bank fraud, 30 years in prison possible  —  * Nemazee supported Hillary Clinton, other top Democrats (Adds details, background, Citigroup comment, byline)  —  The U.S. attorney in New York on Tuesday charged a New York investor …
Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
Steele: Protect Medicare — And Medicare Doesn't Work  —  RNC Chairman Michael Steele appeared on Fox News this morning, putting forward an interesting case on Medicare: That it must be preserved against the threats from the Democrats — and that it's a bad system that shouldn't be expanded like the Democrats want.
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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.”
Discussion: Vanity Fair
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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.
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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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.
Discussion: AmSpecBlog and Sadly, No!
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: MoJo Blog Posts
Amie Parnes / The Politico:
Obama's pet peeves  —  It was one of those nonstop days: President Barack Obama was flying back to Washington from Los Angeles to meet President Mahmoud Abbas, then he was scheduled to tape an interview for “The Colbert Report” and sit down for his regular briefing with advisers.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's … and The Page
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 …
Discussion: American Power
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”
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 …
Wally Edge / politickernj.com:
Poll: Christie leads Corzine by three points  —  Republican Christopher Christie leads Gov. Jon Corzine 39%-36% among definite voters, according to a poll conducted by Neighborhood Research, a survey firm run by conservative strategist Rick Shaftan.  Independent Christopher Daggett is at 6%.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Michelle Malkin
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 …
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.
Attaturk / Firedoglake:
Oh please, oh please...well, not really  —  2012 may just be the most awesome (and most frightening) sociological experiment ever: … That's also Sarah Palin's response.  So God might have quite a sense of humor (and he's a bit of a dick).  —  Seriously, Palin, Hannity, Huckabee …
 
 
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Robert J. Elisberg / The Huffington Post:
The Republican Death Panel
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Will it never end? McCaughey v. Ezekiel Emanuel
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Colleen Raezler / NewsBusters.org:
Media's Pro-Choice Darling Called Humans ‘Ecotumors’
Discussion: Moonbattery
Rasmussen Reports:
75% Worried That Gitmo Closing Will Set Dangerous Terrorists Free
Discussion: Hot Air and Weekly Standard
Ian Millhiser / American Prospect:
Rally 'Round the “True Constitution”
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Newt Gingrich Wades Into GOP Primary in Texas Senate Race
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Laura Crimaldi / Boston Herald:
Cons cash in on stimulus money
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