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8:45 AM ET, December 9, 2014

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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 …
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White House and Republicans Clash Over C.I.A. Torture Report
Discussion: BBC and Prairie Weather
Jose A. Rodriguez Jr. / Washington Post:
Today's CIA critics once urged the agency to do anything to fight al-Qaeda
Pew Research Center:
Sharp Racial Divisions in Reactions to Brown, Garner Decisions  —  Many Blacks Expect Police-Minority Relations to Worsen  —  The public has very different reactions to the recent grand jury decisions in two police-related deaths that have sparked protests in cities across the country.
Discussion: Jezebel and The Gateway Pundit
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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: Prairie Weather
ABC News:
Eric Garner News
Discussion: Yahoo! News
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
How The New Republic Lost Its Place  —  The strangest thing about the calamity that last week struck my old magazine, The New Republic, is this: It wasn't about politics.  When I was coming of age in the 1980s and 1990s, TNR was known for its intramural ideological brawls.
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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.
Eric Bradner / CNN:
McConnell ‘almost certainly’ endorsing Rand Paul in 2016  —  Washington (CNN) — Soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he plans to endorse his Kentucky colleague, Rand Paul, in his widely expected bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.
Discussion: Mediaite
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Bill Clark / Roll Call:
McConnell Pushes Campaign Finance Changes
Discussion: Political Wire
Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:   McConnell Plots a Functional, Bipartisan Senate
Tony Maglio / The Wrap:
Lena Dunham's Publisher Fires Back at Breitbart With Clarification of ‘Barry One’ Rape Allegations (Exclusive)  —  Random House tells TheWrap: “The name ‘Barry’ referenced in the book is a pseudonym.  Random House, on our own behalf and on behalf of our author, regrets the confusion”
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Eugene Volokh / Washington Post:
Lena Dunham's publisher says her alleged rapist “Barry” wasn't actually named Barry
Scott Whitlock / NewsBusters:
Ann Compton on Obama: He Launches ‘Profanity-Laced’ Tirades Against Press  —  Share it Tweet it  —  According to retired ABC News journalist Ann Compton, Barack Obama launches into “profanity-laced” tirades against the press in off-the-record meetings with reporters.
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
MoveOn.org Looks to Nudge Elizabeth Warren Into 2016 Presidential Race  —  WASHINGTON — Some Democrats are “Ready for Hillary.”  MoveOn.org is ready for Elizabeth Warren.  —  The liberal group is poised to spend $1 million on a campaign to draft Senator Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat …
Discussion: Politico and Political Wire
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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 …
Clare Foran / The Atlantic Online:
The Plan to Get Climate-Change Denial Into Schools  —  “As the amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases increase, the Earth warms.  Scientists warn that climate change, caused by this warming, will pose challenges to society.”  —  That language—featured in a fifth-grade Texas …
Jon Hilsenrath / Wall Street Journal:
Fed Aims to Signal Shift on Low Rates  —  Central Bank Could Drop ‘Considerable Time’ Phrasing in Policy Statement  —  Federal Reserve officials are seriously considering an important shift in tone at their policy meeting next week: dropping an assurance that short-term interest rates …
Allen McDuffee / The Atlantic Online:
De Blasio: Giuliani ‘Fundamentally Misunderstands the Reality’ of Race  —  The New York mayor today addressed the week in protests, and experience with his own son.  —  New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday admonished former Mayor Rudy Giuliani for his repeated recent comments that …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Applying ‘Broken Windows’ to the Police  —  In poorer neighborhoods, overly aggressive officers are too often a source of community anxiety.  Their misbehavior contributes to disorder.  —  One of the most influential policing concepts of our era, the broken-windows theory …
Discussion: Washington Post
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Creedence Clearwater Members Sue John Fogerty Over Use of Band's Name  —  Former band members are now on the offensive against Fogerty  —  A long-festering dispute over who gets to use the name of the popular 1960s rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival has done a 180 with lead singer John Fogerty …
Discussion: TeamRock News
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The Democratic Party's long term problem is worse than you think  —  As I noted this morning, anyone who cares about the future of the Democratic Party needs to ask whether the party's elders and wise men are thinking hard enough about how to regain ground on the state level.
 
 
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California quake  —  Up-and-comers are already jockeying ahead …
Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
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