memeorandum: Hayden suggests Feinstein ‘emotional’ about CIA interrogation techniques (Aaron Blake/Post Politics)

1:00 PM ET, April 6, 2014

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Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:

Former CIA Director Calls Female Senator Too ‘Emotional’ On Torture Report — Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has chaired the Senate's Intelligence Committee for five years. So when she suggested last month that investigators should make public a report on the U.S.'s interrogation techniques …

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Aaron Blake / Post Politics:

Hayden suggests Feinstein ‘emotional’ about CIA interrogation techniques — Former CIA and National Security Agency director Michael Hayden suggested Sunday that Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) might have compromised the objectivity of a report …

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Jose A. Rodriguez Jr / Washington Post:
I ran the CIA interrogation program. No matter what the Senate report says, I know it worked.

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Doyle McManus / Los Angeles Times:

Is Obamacare too big to fail? — Enrollment success ends debate on repeal but opens it on fixes. — President Barack Obama is accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden as he delivers a statement on the Affordable Care Act at the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC.

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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:

New Obama order to lead midterm equal pay push — At the White House Tuesday, President Barack Obama will sign two new executive actions on equal pay as Senate Democrats move for a show-vote on the Paycheck Fairness Act — launching Democrats' first large-scale coordinated message effort ahead of this year's midterms.

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Dana Davidsen / CNN:

Pelosi: Cheney is ‘proud’ of Bush-era CIA that misled public — (CNN) - House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said former Vice President Dick Cheney “set a tone and attitude for the CIA” that allowed for the controversial techniques used by the agency in the Bush-era detention and interrogation program.

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Katie Glueck / Politico:

Pelosi says ACA employer mandate stays — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Sunday is dismissing reports of the suggestion by former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs that the employer mandate of Obamacare might not take effect. — Pelosi's comments came in an interview aired Sunday on CNN's …

New York Times:

To Strike at Kochs, Democrats Revive Tactic That Hurt Romney — WASHINGTON — After months of wincing in the face of negative ads funded by the industrialists David and Charles Koch, Democrats believe they have finally found a way to fight back: attacking the brothers' sprawling business conglomerate …

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Yitz Jordan / Quartz:

Mozilla only made things worse by letting CEO Brandon Eich go — This has been a rough week for the open web. — Last week, Mozilla Corporation, makers of the ever-popular Firefox web browser, appointed co-founder Brendan Eich to CEO. The move was not surprising—Eich, after all …

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Andrew Sullivan / The Dish:
Brendan Eich And Hillary Clinton

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Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Why Mozilla's Chief Had to Resign

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Reggie Aqui / KGW-TV:

Westmoreland grocer wants to clear up gay rights controversy — PORTLAND — A new Westmoreland grocery isn't even open yet and already its owner has created a controversy with statements she made online. But the owner told KGW Thursday she wants to make amends.

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RealClearPolitics Video Log:

Maher: “There Is A Gay Mafia — If You Cross Them, You Do Get Whacked” — In the online-only “Overtime” portion of his HBO show Real Time, host Bill Maher weighed in on the Mozilla controversy, and did not react in a way that you would think. Maher seemed to disagree with gay rights activists …

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Kyle Balluck / The Hill:

Report: Rep. Nick Rahall considered retirement — Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) was talked out of retiring by Democratic leadership who promised him more campaign funds, according to a report. — Rahall “was about to retire a couple of weeks ago,” CNN's John King said Sunday morning on “Inside Politics.”

Wall Street Journal:

Oppressed by the Ivy League — What Dartmouth's president should have told bullying students. — Academia has been obsessed over identity politics for two generations, so there's some justice in the newest addition to the matrix of oppression: an Ivy League education …

Discussion: National Review, American Power and Dartblog