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3:50 PM ET, December 9, 2014

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Wall Street Journal:
CIA Interrogations Saved Lives  —  The Senate Intelligence investigators never spoke to us—the leaders of the agency whose policies they are now assailing for partisan reasons.  —  The Senate Intelligence Committee has released its majority report on Central Intelligence Agency detention and interrogation in the wake of 9/11.
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Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
Senate Torture Report Condemns C.I.A. Interrogation Program  —  WASHINGTON — A scathing report released by the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday found that the Central Intelligence Agency routinely misled the White House and Congress about the information it obtained from the detention …
Mark Fallon / Politico:
Dick Cheney was lying about torture  —  The Senate report confirms it doesn't work.  As those of us on the inside knew.  —  It's official: torture doesn't work.  Waterboarding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11, did not in fact “produce the intelligence that allowed us to get Osama bin Laden …
Anthony D. Romero / New York Times:
Pardon Bush and Those Who Tortured  —  BEFORE President George W. Bush left office, a group of conservatives lobbied the White House to grant pardons to the officials who had planned and authorized the United States torture program.  My organization, the American Civil Liberties Union, found the proposal repugnant.
Shane Harris / The Daily Beast:
The Most Gruesome Moments in the CIA ‘Torture Report’  —  The CIA's rendition, interrogation, and detention programs were even more nightmarish than you could imagine.  —  Interrogations that lasted for days on end.  Detainees forced to stand on broken legs, or go 180 hours in a row without sleep.
CNN:
Senate report: CIA misled public on torture  —  Washington (CNN) — The CIA's harsh interrogations of terrorist detainees during the Bush era didn't work, were more brutal than previously revealed and delivered no “ticking time bomb” information that prevented an attack, according to an explosive Senate report released Tuesday.
Washington Post:
Senate report on CIA program details brutality, dishonesty  —  An exhaustive, five-year Senate investigation of the CIA's secret interrogations of terrorism suspects renders a strikingly bleak verdict of a program launched in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, describing levels of brutality …
New York Times:
7 Key Points From the C.I.A. Torture Report
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and ProPublica
K.T. McFarland / Fox News:
CIA interrogation report: Democrats want to punish America, blame Bush
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Remind Me Who It Is the CIA Works For?
Discussion: Telegraph and Booman Tribune
Jose A. Rodriguez Jr. / Washington Post:
Today's CIA critics once urged the agency to do anything to fight al-Qaeda
Digby / Hullabaloo:
The president of the ACLU wants Obama to pardon the torturers
ABC News:
Torture Report Reveals CIA's ‘Brutal’ Interrogation Tactics
Discussion: NBC News and ABC News
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Issa To Gruber: ‘Are You Stupid?’  —  House Oversight Committee Chair Darrell Issa (R-CA) cut right to the chase in his questioning of MIT professor Jonathan Gruber's comments on the “stupidity of the American voter” at a Tuesday oversight committee hearing.
Discussion: Bloomberg Politics
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Tom Howell Jr / Washington Times:
Gruber to face hostile House panel, tea party 'I'm with Stupid' T-shirts
Fox News:
Gruber apologizes for ‘mean and insulting’ ObamaCare comments
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Circus set for Gruber at Capitol
Discussion: Politico and Fox News
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New York Post:
Cops fatally shoot synagogue attacker
Discussion: CNN, Hot Air and The PJ Tatler
James Kirchick / The Daily Beast:
The Rise and Fall of Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge, America's Worst Gay Power Couple  —  Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge have always been entitled brats.  And now the media has finally noticed.  —  Just three years ago, Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge were the toast of the liberal establishment.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Republicans clash on reversing nuclear option in Senate  —  Republicans are split over whether to change the Senate's rules to allow filibusters on executive and judicial nominations.  —  As they head into a conference meeting on Tuesday, some Republicans say it's time to undo a wrong committed …
Emily Atkin / ThinkProgress:
FBI Files Charges Against President Of Company Behind West Virginia Chemical Spill  —  Gary Southern, president of Freedom Industries, takes a sip of water at a press conference on the chemical spill.  —  The former president of the company that contaminated drinking water for 300,000 West Virginians …
Stuart Rothenberg / Rothenblog:
Mary Landrieu's Loss and the End of Ticket Splitting  —  Louisiana Sen. Mary L. Landrieu's defeat in the Dec. 6 runoff certainly was no surprise.  If anything, it seemed inevitable since the evening of Nov. 4, when it became clear a Republican rout was underway and Democrats would lose control of the Senate.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Roll Call
Margaret Talev / Bloomberg Politics:
Approval Ratings Hit 5-Year High for Republicans  —  Republicans are enjoying a five-year peak in popularity after their wins in the midterm elections, according to a new Bloomberg Politics poll, while President Barack Obama struggles with his lowest job approval rating, at 39 percent.
Susan Page / USA Today:
Poll: Americans back charges in Eric Garner death  —  WASHINGTON - Americans by nearly 3-1 say the white police officer responsible for the death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man being arrested for selling cigarettes, should have faced charges from a Staten Island grand jury, a nationwide USA TODAY/Pew Research Center poll finds.
Discussion: Hot Air and Prairie Weather
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