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8:20 AM ET, May 9, 2011

Top Items:

Colin Firth / CBS News:

President Obama on the mission to kill bin Laden — The president talks to “60 Minutes” in his first interview since the killing of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden — Whether we like it or not, Osama bin Laden changed America. With that September morning in 2001, he introduced fear …

Discussion: Washington Post, The Reality-Based Community and FrumForum

Jim Sciutto / ABCNEWS:

Osama Bin Laden Aided by Rogue or Retired Elements of Pakistani Intelligence, Government Official Says — A senior official in Pakistan's civilian government told ABC News, “Elements of Pakistan intelligence — probably rogue or retired — were involved in aiding, abetting and sheltering …

Discussion: Politics, Pat Dollard, The Daily Beast and FrumForum

David E. Sanger / New York Times:

U.S. Raises Pressure on Pakistan in Raid's Wake — WASHINGTON — President Obama's national security adviser demanded Sunday that Pakistan let American investigators interview Osama bin Laden's three widows, adding new pressure in a relationship now fraught over how Bin Laden …

Discussion: The Caucus, The Other McCain, FrumForum, Hullabaloo and THE ASTUTE BLOGGER

Michael O'Brien / The Hill:

Obama says bin Laden was beneficiary of ‘support network’ in Pakistan — When hiding out in Pakistan, Osama bin Laden was aided by a “support network” the extent of which the U.S. is still trying to understand, President Obama said Sunday. — The president said that bin Laden …

Discussion: ABCNEWS

Wall Street Journal:
Pakistan-U.S. Rift Widens

Discussion: FrumForum and The Page

Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:

Cheney praises, criticizes Obama — President Barack Obama earned “high marks” Sunday from former Vice President Dick Cheney for the operation that killed Osama bin Laden - a thaw that underscores the difficulty Republicans face in challenging Obama's defense credentials in 2012.

Discussion: Associated Press, Newshoggers.com, Runnin' Scared, Washington Post and National Review

Fox News:
Cheney: Justice Probe of CIA Interrogators an ‘Outrage’

Discussion: PERRspectives, The Daily Dish, Don Surber and The Lonely Conservative

Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
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Discussion: The Politico, The Daily Beast and Reuters

Morning Gloria / Jezebel:

Hillary Clinton Photoshopped Out of Situation Room Photo [Wtf] — Ultra Orthodox Hasidic newspaper Der Tzitung is telling its readers like it isn't- by editing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from the now-iconic Bin Laden raid Situation Room photo. Oy vey.

Discussion: The Jewish Week, Salon, Taylor Marsh, Runnin' Scared, Comments from Left Field, Outside the Beltway, The Raw Story, iOwnTheWorld.com and Hullabaloo, more at Mediagazer »

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

The Unwisdom of Elites — The past three years have been a disaster for most Western economies. The United States has mass long-term unemployment for the first time since the 1930s. Meanwhile, Europe's single currency is coming apart at the seams. How did it all go so wrong?

Discussion: Mother Jones and Prairie Weather

Reuters:

Sen. Schumer proposes ‘no-ride list’ for Amtrak trains — Intel gathered in bin Laden raid points to potential threat — Below: — NEW YORK — A senator on Sunday called for a “no-ride list” for Amtrak trains after intelligence gleaned from the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound pointed …

Discussion: Hit & Run, CBS News and HotAirPundit

Russell Berman / The Hill:

Tea Party favorite breaks with GOP on healthcare repeal votes — A Tea Party favorite in the House is turning against the Republican leadership's strategy on healthcare. — Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), who has emerged as an outspoken conservative voice among GOP freshmen …

Discussion: Washington Post, iOwnTheWorld.com, Left Coast Rebel, Fire Andrea Mitchell! and Outside the Beltway

Kevin Sack / New York Times:

Battle Over Health Care Law Shifts to Federal Appellate Courts — A five-week flurry of federal appellate hearings on the constitutionality of the Obama health care law kicks off Tuesday in Richmond, Va., beginning the second round of a race to the Supreme Court among a multitude of litigants eager …

Donald Douglas / American Power:

Noam Chomsky Attacks Israel's ‘Expansion Over Security’ at UCLA Lecture on ‘Palestine in Crisis’ — I experimented with video blogging, and this clip captures more of Chomsky's comments on U.S. policy than his remarks on Israeli expansionism. Here he argues that from Washington's perspective democracy …

Felix Salmon:

The hermetic and arrogant New York Times — The NYT employs some of the smartest and ablest users and analysts of social media: it's probably the most sophisticated newspaper in America on that front. And then it has dinosaurs like Bill Keller and Arthur Brisbane, whose respective columns …

Discussion: Guardian, Don Surber, Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality … and The Other McCain, more at Mediagazer »