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9:50 AM ET, December 11, 2014

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Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
Former Vice President Dick Cheney Says CIA Torture Report Is ‘Full of Crap’ … Former Vice President Dick Cheney says a declassified Senate report on the controversial post-9/11 CIA interrogation program is “full of crap.”  —  “I think it is a terrible report, deeply flawed,” …
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Fox News:
Cheney defends CIA interrogation techniques, calls Senate report ‘deeply flawed’
Discussion: NBC News and CBS DC
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Cheney: Bush wasn't in the dark on CIA
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Cheney: 'The report's full of crap'
Discussion: Daily Kos
Kendall Breitman / Politico:
Cheney on torture report: ‘Full of crap’
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Warren, left fume over deal  —  Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday sought to rally opposition to the $1.1 trillion government funding bill, spearheading a revolt on the left that has put her influence in the Democratic Party to the test.  —  The Massachusetts liberal pleaded for House Democrats …
Discussion: Politico, Raw Story and Washington Post
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Elizabeth Warren to Dems: Kill the bill
Discussion: The Hill, The PJ Tatler and Daily Kos
New York Times:
Spending Bill Hits Snags, but Congress Thinks It Can Avoid Shutdown
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
All Senate GOP staff going on ObamaCare  —  Senate Republican staffers will be required to obtain health insurance through ObamaCare's exchanges under a rule passed Wednesday by the GOP Conference.  —  The proposal from Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) means that Senate Republicans will designate their staff as …
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Humberto Sanchez / Roll Call:
Senate GOP Wrestles With Whether to Undo the Nuclear Option  —  After crying foul when Democrats used the nuclear option to essentially eliminate the filibuster for most nominations, Senate Republicans are wrestling with whether to change it back.  —  Republicans, who will take over the …
Tim Devaney / The Hill:
Top military official calls for ‘review’ of transgender ban  —  A top military official is calling on the Obama administration to end the Department of Defense's ban on transgender troops.  —  Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James signaled Wednesday that transgender people may be allowed …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Air Force secretary supports lifting transgender ban
Discussion: The PJ Tatler and Advocate
Matthew Zeitlin / BuzzFeed:
Scott Rudin On Obama's Favorite Movies: “I Bet He Likes Kevin Hart”  —  An exchange between Sony Pictures chair Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin turned into a riff on films they thought the president liked.  —  Danny Moloshok / Reuters  —  Before Sony Pictures chair Amy Pascal attended …
Nancy Gibbs / TIME.com:
They risked and persisted, sacrificed and saved.  Editor Nancy Gibbs explains why the Ebola Fighters are TIME's choice for Person of the Year 2014  —  Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, says the proverb, but rather the hero's heart.  —  Maybe this is true in any battle …
Mike Giglio / BuzzFeed:
ISIS Is Trying To Sell The Body Of U.S. Hostage James Foley For $1 Million  —  Middlemen in touch with ISIS or its associates say the group has turned a grim new page in its deadly hostage trade âÂ" by trying to sell the remains of at least one of the U.S. citizens it has executed in Syria.
Lanny Davis / The Hill:
Why I am ready for Hillary  —  Last week, on Dec. 4, I helped organize a Ready for Hillary fundraiser in Montgomery County, Md., in the immediate suburbs of Washington, D.C. The organization, an independent grassroots committee, has been at work for the past year gathering millions of names …
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Growing Public Support for Gun Rights  —  More Say Guns Do More to Protect Than Put People at Risk  —  For the first time in more than two decades of Pew Research Center surveys, there is more support for gun rights than gun control.  Currently, 52% say it is more important to protect …
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Kendall Breitman / Politico:
Pew poll: Support for gun rights exceeds gun control
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
CBS News:
Americans remain divided in views on race relations  —  Shares -  —  Americans are divided in their assessments of race relations in the U.S, a new CBS News poll shows.  —  Some 45 percent think they are generally good, but 43 percent think they are generally bad.
Scott Wong / The Hill:
Government shutdown would not stop Obama on immigration  —  Even if Republicans shut down the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) next year, President Obama could still carry out his executive actions giving legal status to up to 5 million undocumented immigrants.
Discussion: New York Times and Political Wire
Catherine Keefe / Washington Post:
I'm an Obama supporter.  But Obamacare has hurt my family.  —  Obamacare has been far more frustrating than I'd ever dreamed.  —  At the moment President-elect Barack Obama proclaimed that “change has come to America,” I stood at the foot of my husband's bed in the cardiac ICU of Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo.
Discussion: The Hill, Hot Air and BREITBART.COM
Miles Weiss / Bloomberg Politics:
Jeb Bush Has a Mitt Romney Problem  —  Over the last several months, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush has been giving speeches, campaigning for candidates, appearing at public forums, and meeting with wealthy donors, which has led many people to believe that he may soon enter the race to become the next Republican presidential nominee.
Discussion: CNN
 
 
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Robert Rogers / Contra Costa Times:
Richmond police chief a prominent participant in protest against police violence
Discussion: Raw Story and ABC News
Hanna Rosin / Slate:
The Washington Post Inches Closer to Calling the UVA Gang Rape Story a Fabrication
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Former Wyden Aide Responds To Hayden Taunt: ‘Go The F*ck Ahead’
Milo Yiannopoulos / BREITBART.COM:
THE MADNESS OF QUEEN SHANLEY
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Adam Gopnik / New Yorker:
Fear and Torture  —  The tragic resonance, in the global war …
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Stephen Braun / Associated Press:
Delays plague Hillary Clinton's State Dept. files
Discussion: Politico
Daniel Larison / The American Conservative:
Torture Is Wrong and Useless
Discussion: Washington Post
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Landrieu run again? ‘Oh Lord, no’
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