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12:35 PM 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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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.
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 …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and The Dish
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 …
Discussion: Gawker and Obsidian Wings
New York Times:
White House and Republicans Clash Over C.I.A. Torture Report  —  WASHINGTON — On the eve of a long-awaited Senate report on the use of torture by the United States government — a detailed account that will shed an unsparing light on the Central Intelligence Agency's darkest practices …
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.
Brian Bennett / Los Angeles Times:
Dianne Feinstein leaving intelligence job amid clash on tactics report  —  As head of the Senate Intelligence Committee since 2009, Sen. Dianne Feinstein has spent hundreds of hours in secret briefings and seen thousands of pictures from battlefields in Syria, Iraq and Yemen.  She keeps two images with her.
ABC News:
Torture Report Reveals CIA's ‘Brutal’ Interrogation Tactics
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and NBC News
Shane Harris / The Daily Beast:
The Most Gruesome Moments in the CIA ‘Torture Report’
Digby / Hullabaloo:
The president of the ACLU wants Obama to pardon the torturers
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Dismissing Senate Report, Cheney Defends C.I.A. Interrogations
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.
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Tom Howell Jr / Washington Times:
Gruber to face hostile House panel, tea party 'I'm with Stupid' T-shirts  —  Democrats shun Obamacare architect after ‘stupidity of the American voter’ comments
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Circus set for Gruber at Capitol
Discussion: Politico and Fox News
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 …
NY Daily News:
Cops swarm Chabad-Lubavitch synagogue, shoot knife-wielding man after student gets stabbed (VIDEO)  —  WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT NYPD anti-terror officers swarmed Chabad-Lubavitch in Crown Heights after Israeli student Levi Rosenviat, 22, was stabbed during prayer early Tuesday.
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.
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
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.
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Poll: Americans back charges in Eric Garner death
Discussion: Hot Air and Prairie Weather
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 …
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Kendall Breitman / Politico:
MoveOn.org announces bid to draft Warren
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
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
Vanessa Ogle / Brooklyn Daily: Full:
Drone strike!  Our photographer injured by TGI Friday's mistletoe copter  —  Photo gallery  —  FLYING HIGH: David Quinones prepares the drone for flight.  —  Turns out a moment of awkwardness wasn't the worst that could happen when a popular family restaurant chain unleashed indoor aircraft …
Trevor Hughes / USA Today:
Colorado OKs marijuana credit union  —  DENVER — Colorado's marijuana businesses have a cash flow problem: Too much cash is flowing in and they've nowhere to put it.  —  Most banks refuse to work with marijuana businesses, which are legal in Colorado but remain illegal at the federal level.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Truth Revolt
 
 
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