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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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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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Howard Dean / Politico:
I'm Ready for Hillary — Hillary Clinton is by far the most qualified person in the United States to serve as President. If she runs, I will support her. I have known Hillary for almost twenty-five years. We first met when I was the governor of Vermont and she was the First Lady …
Michael Hirsh / Politico:
Michael Hayden Is Not Sorry — The Senate report rakes Bush's former CIA director over the coals. He fires back in an exclusive interview. — Though the CIA's “enhanced interrogation” program long predated his takeover of the agency in 2006, former Director Michael Hayden has found himself …
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.
Andrew Sullivan / The Dish:
Darkness Visible: Live-Blogging The Torture Report — 5.00 pm. Since we're now in our sixth hour of live-blogging, I'm going to wrap it up for the time being. But I want to end on a positive note. Everything that happened in this damning report is because of Americans.
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mccain.senate.gov:
FLOOR STATEMENT BY SENATOR JOHN McCAIN ON SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE REPORT ON CIA INTERROGATION METHODS
FLOOR STATEMENT BY SENATOR JOHN McCAIN ON SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE REPORT ON CIA INTERROGATION METHODS
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New York Times, The Seattle Times, The Daily Caller and Bloomberg View
Adam Chandler / The Atlantic Online:
This Is How a Prisoner of War Feels About Torture
This Is How a Prisoner of War Feels About Torture
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United States Senator …, Talking Points Memo, PoliticusUSA and Vox
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Remind Me Who It Is the CIA Works For?
Remind Me Who It Is the CIA Works For?
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Telegraph, Booman Tribune, Balloon Juice and Hot Air
Scott Shane / New York Times:
Report Portrays a Broken C.I.A. Devoted to a Failed Approach
Report Portrays a Broken C.I.A. Devoted to a Failed Approach
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Politico, Daily Kos, Samizdata, Prairie Weather and Guardian
ABC News:
Torture Report: Former CIA Directors Say Interrogation Program ‘Saved Thousands of Lives’
Torture Report: Former CIA Directors Say Interrogation Program ‘Saved Thousands of Lives’
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The Gateway Pundit, Wall Street Journal, Hit & Run, Yahoo! News and Hot Air
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
Panel Faults C.I.A. Over Brutality and Deceit in Terrorism Interrogations
Panel Faults C.I.A. Over Brutality and Deceit in Terrorism Interrogations
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Obama's long arc on torture
Obama's long arc on torture
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Hilary Sargent / Boston Globe:
Harvard Business School Professor Goes to War Over $4 Worth of Chinese Food — Ben Edelman (left) and Ran Duan (right) — Ben Edelman is an associate professor at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets unit.
New York Times:
Congressional Leaders Reach Deal on Spending — WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders reached a deal Tuesday on a more than $1 trillion spending package that would fund most of the federal government through the current fiscal year. — But because negotiations on the package dragged over policy details …
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Deal reached on $1.01 trillion spending bill
Deal reached on $1.01 trillion spending bill
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Hot Air, Power Line, The Daily Caller and PoliticusUSA
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Harry Reid makes push for nominees
Peter Suderman / Hit & Run:
Jonathan Gruber's Weak New Excuse for His Obamacare Exchange Subsidies “Speak-O” — At a hearing in front of the House Oversight Committee this morning, MIT economist and Obamacare Architect Jonathan Gruber attempted to explain away recently unearthed comments about the Affordable Care Act's subsidies …
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Noah Rothman / Hot Air:
Gruber won't deny the White House wanted to trick Congress into passing the ACA
Betsy McCaughey / New York Post:
Still cooking the ObamaCare books
Still cooking the ObamaCare books
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Politico:
Mitch McConnell's Obamacare gambit
Mitch McConnell's Obamacare gambit
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Political Wire, Hot Air, Daily Kos and The Hill
Washington Post:
Congressional budget poised to partially block pot legalization in D.C. — An emerging deal to keep the federal government funded into next year would block the D.C. government from allowing legal sales of marijuana in the nation's capital, according to multiple congressional aides with knowledge of the negotiations.
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Social Injustice Ate My Homework — Harvard law students have been taught to think like spoiled children. — If there were a First Rule of our present penchant for victimhood, it would presumably be that everything unpleasant that happens in the world must, in some way, eventually be about you.
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Shot in the Dark and National Law Journal
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The Jonathan Gruber hearing was a zany coda to Darrell Issa's tumultuous tenure — A gaffe, under the oft-cited Michael Kinsley rule, is when somebody in Washington accidentally speaks the truth. But what happens when frankness leads you to say something so monumentally stupid …
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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Issa To Gruber: ‘Are You Stupid?’
Issa To Gruber: ‘Are You Stupid?’
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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.
BuzzFeed:
Lena Dunham: Why I Chose To Speak Out — The ways I've been attacked for sharing my story show how far we have to go when discussing sexual assault. — Mike Marsland / WireImage / BuzzFeed — It has been almost a decade since I was sexually assaulted.
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Fox News, Mediaite and The Daily Banter