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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.
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Mediaite, The Daily Banter, Daily Kos and Raw Story
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.
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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 …
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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.
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Shane Harris / The Daily Beast:
The Most Gruesome Moments in the CIA ‘Torture Report’
The Most Gruesome Moments in the CIA ‘Torture Report’
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CNN:
Senate report: CIA misled public on torture
Senate report: CIA misled public on torture
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Washington Post:
Senate report on CIA program details brutality, dishonesty
Senate report on CIA program details brutality, dishonesty
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Mark Fallon / Politico:
Dick Cheney Was Lying About Torture
Dick Cheney Was Lying About Torture
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
Discord at C.I.A. Over Interrogation Program
Discord at C.I.A. Over Interrogation Program
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New York Times:
White House and Republicans Clash Over C.I.A. Torture Report
White House and Republicans Clash Over C.I.A. Torture Report
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K.T. McFarland / Fox News:
CIA interrogation report: Democrats want to punish America, blame Bush
CIA interrogation report: Democrats want to punish America, blame Bush
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Daily Kos, The Dish, Liberty Unyielding, Hot Air and The PJ Tatler
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Obama's long arc on torture
Obama's long arc on torture
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Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
Live Coverage of the Senate Torture Report
Live Coverage of the Senate Torture Report
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
The president of the ACLU wants Obama to pardon the torturers
The president of the ACLU wants Obama to pardon the torturers
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Crooked Timber and No More Mister Nice Blog
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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Fox News:
Gruber apologizes for ‘mean and insulting’ ObamaCare comments
Gruber apologizes for ‘mean and insulting’ ObamaCare comments
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Washington Monthly and American Spectator
Tom Howell Jr / Washington Times:
Gruber to face hostile House panel, tea party 'I'm with Stupid' T-shirts
Gruber to face hostile House panel, tea party 'I'm with Stupid' T-shirts
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Truth Revolt and The Gateway Pundit
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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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