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7:10 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 Faults C.I.A. for Brutality and Deceit  —  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 …
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
WATCH Fox Host Lose It Over Senate Torture Report: ‘We Are Awesome!’  —  After the Senate Intelligence Committee released a report on the torture techniques used by the CIA, the hosts of Fox News' “Outnumbered” lashed out at Senate Democrats' for publicizing CIA interrogation methods.
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Remind Me Who It Is the CIA Works For?  —  So the redacted summary of the “torture report” is out, which means Senate Democrats brushed aside GOP complaints and that the administration overruled both State Department and CIA objections to the timing or to the release itself.
Discussion: Telegraph and Booman Tribune
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Fox melts down after torture report: ‘The United States of America is awesome, we are awesome!’  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Fox News analysts, hosts and reporters on Tuesday wasted no time in blasting Democrats after Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein …
Discussion: Jezebel and rubber hose
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.
New York Times:
7 Key Points From the C.I.A. Torture Report
Discussion: ProPublica
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Obama's long arc on torture
Digby / Hullabaloo:
The president of the ACLU wants Obama to pardon the torturers
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: Daily Kos and Bloomberg Politics
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Fox News:
Gruber apologizes for ‘mean and insulting’ ObamaCare comments
Tom Howell Jr / Washington Times:
Gruber to face hostile House panel, tea party 'I'm with Stupid' T-shirts
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Circus set for Gruber at Capitol
Discussion: Politico and Fox News
Politico:
Mitch McConnell's Obamacare gambit
Discussion: Hot Air and Daily Kos
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New York Post:
Cops fatally shoot synagogue attacker
Discussion: CNN, Hot Air and The PJ Tatler
Ken Kurson / The New York Observer:
Source: Rolling Stone Deputy Editor Tendered Resignation; Wenner Declines  —  Deputy managing editor offered to resign in wake of UVA reporting brouhaha  —  Rolling Stone Managing Editor at Will Dana speaks onstage at the New York Public Library on October 17, 2013.
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 …
National Journal:
Congress Will Say D.C. Can Legalize Pot, But Can't Tax or Regulate It  —  D.C. mayor and council will be blocked by spending bill from taking additional steps on marijuana law.  —  Congress will prevent the District of Columbia from writing regulations to expand its recently passed ballot …
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 …
Philip Sheridan / The Atlantic Online:
The New Republic: An Appreciation … Last week, Franklin Foer resigned his editorship of The New Republic.  A deep, if not broad, mourning immediately commenced as a number of influential writers lamented what occurred to them as the passing of a great American institution.  The mourners have something of a case.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
 
 
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
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Kimberly Hefling / ABC News:
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Conservatives, Democrats tussle over contraceptives in spending bill
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Rand Paul talks 2016 plans, Senate majority, bi-partisanship and marijuana
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Mary Landrieu's Loss and the End of Ticket Splitting
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Roll Call
Trevor Hughes / USA Today:
Colorado OKs marijuana credit union
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Truth Revolt
Dan Merica / CNN:
Obama fills in for Stephen Colbert
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Approval Ratings Hit 5-Year High for Republicans
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
Sources: Shari Redstone does not plan to stay on the board of Paramount Global after the company completes its planned merger with Skydance Media

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”

 
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