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5:20 AM ET, June 22, 2007

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Associated Press:
White House near decision to close Guantanamo  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration is nearing a decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and move the terror suspects there to military prisons elsewhere, The Associated Press has learned.
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Mark Benjamin / Salon:
The CIA's torture teachers  —  Psychologists helped the CIA exploit a secret military program to develop brutal interrogation tactics — likely with the approval of the Bush White House.  —  A detainee is escorted by military police at Camp 4 of the maximum security prison Camp Delta …
Discussion: The Next Hurrah
MSNBC:
White House denies Gitmo report  —  No meeting Friday to discuss closing detention center, spokesman says  —  WASHINGTON - The White House on Thursday denied a report that top administration officials were expected to meet Friday to discuss closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility …
Discussion: D-Day
Marcus Mabry / Newsweek:
Poll: Bush hits lowest approval rating of presidency  —  President Bush registers the lowest approval rating of his presidency—making him the least popular president since Nixon—in the new NEWSWEEK Poll.  —  Iraq isn't the only issue dragging Bush's approval ratings down
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Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Freefall  —  The president's approval ratings just scored a staggering 26 percent in the Newsweek poll. 23 percent approve of the handling of Iraq.  A broader look at a range of polls is no more comforting.  Pollster.com's average is now below 30 percent for the first time.
Scott Shane / New York Times:
Cheney in Dispute on Oversight of His Office  —  For four years, Vice President Dick Cheney has resisted routine oversight of his office's handling of classified information, and when the office in charge of overseeing classification in the executive branch objected, the vice president's office suggested …
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Justin Rood Reports / The Blotter:
Cheney Power Grab: Says White House Rules Don't Apply to Him  —  Justin Rood Reports:  —  Vice President Dick Cheney has asserted his office is not a part of the executive branch of the U.S. government, and therefore not bound by a presidential order governing the protection of classified information …
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform:
Vice President Exempts His Office from the Requirements for …
Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Rahm Emanuel To Cheney: Please Get The Heck Out Of The White House
David Stout / New York Times:
Senate Approves Stricter Fuel Standards for Autos  —  The Senate voted this evening to raise fuel-economy requirements for cars and sport utility vehicles, demanding that they get 35 miles per gallon by 2020.  —  The lawmakers first announced their agreement on raising the standards …
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Ashcroft Tells of Surveillance Disputes  —  House Panel Hears Of Battle Within Administration  —  Former attorney general John D. Ashcroft told the House intelligence committee yesterday about disputes in the Bush administration over aspects of its domestic surveillance program …
Discussion: Find Habeas and JURIST
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
IMMIGRATION A NET PLUS?  OF COURSE.  BUT...  Yesterday, the President's Council of Economic Advisers released a report titled "Immigration's Economic Impact".  The report was intended to support the administration's case for comprehensive immigration reform that would create a guest worker program …
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Ulrike Putz / Spiegel Online:
A Visit to Fatah's Torture Chamber  —  A building formerly occupied by Fatah's intelligence service in Gaza was long notorious for torture and execution.  Now Hamas is in control — and is letting former inmates visit the chamber of horrors.  —  The cells are small, perhaps six feet by six feet …
Fred Kaplan / Slate:
The Man Who Knows Too Little  —  WHAT RUDY GIULIANI'S GREEDY DECISION TO QUIT THE IRAQ STUDY GROUP REVEALS ABOUT HIS CANDIDACY.  —  If you don't read Newsday, you might not know (I didn't until this week) that Rudy Giuliani was an original member of the Iraq Study Group …
IRIN • humanitarian news and analysis …:
IRAQ: Hundreds flee homes as Turkish forces battle Kurdish fighters  —  Hundreds of Iraqi Kurds have been forced to flee their homes after up to 30,000 Turkish soldiers massed on the Iraqi-Turkish border and launched attacks against Kurdish fighters, Iraqi border police say.
Discussion: The Road to Surfdom
Washington Post:
CIA to Air Decades of Its Dirty Laundry  —  Assassination Attempts Among Abuses Detailed  —  The CIA will declassify hundreds of pages of long-secret records detailing some of the intelligence agency's worst illegal abuses — the so-called "family jewels" documenting a quarter-century …
Jane Perlez / New York Times:
Muslims' Veils Test Limits of Britain's Tolerance  —  Increasingly, Muslim women in Britain take their children to school and run errands covered head to toe in flowing black gowns that allow only a slit for their eyes.  On a Sunday afternoon in Hyde Park, groups of black-clad Muslim women relaxed …
Amanda / Think Progress:
The 'Fairness Doctrine' Myth: Right Wing Falsely Claims Progressives Want To Resurrect Mandatory Balance  —  Yesterday, the Center for American Progress and Free Press released a detailed statistical analysis confirming that talk radio is dominated almost exclusively by conservatives.
Max Blumenthal:
The Film Take Back America Took Back  —  As a result of the attention surrounding my film about the 2007 Conservative Political Action Conference-it was a YouTube hit-the liberal Campaign for America's Future asked me to produce a similar video about their annual conference, Take Back America (TBA), held in Washington.
Discussion: Oliver Willis and Cliff Schecter
 
 
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Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
Investors' Suits Face Higher Bar, Supreme Court Rules
Catherine Brahic / New Scientist:
Freak winter is Europe's warmest for 700 years
Rod McGuirk / Associated Press:
Australia to Ban Alcohol for Aborigines
Discussion: The Belmont Club
Charles Babington / Associated Press:
McConnell Wavering on Immigration Bill
Virginia Heffernan / New York Times:
Really, Really Rosie  —  Watched Rosie this morning.  You know, Rosie O'Donnell.
Discussion: Bookworm Room
Hindrocket / Power Line:
PUTTING THEIR MONEY WHERE THEIR MOUTHS ARE
Sidney Blumenthal / Salon:
Imperial presidency declared null and void
Daniel Schulman / Mother Jones:
Meet the New Bosses  —  NEWS: After crashing the gate …
Discussion: TalkLeft
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Jackie Kucinich / The Hill:
House Republican wants to restrict Pelosi's travel
Discussion: Wizbang
Howard Mortman / The Politico:
C-SPAN shares Lamb skewers on air
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Edwards predicting big second-quarter drop-off
Josh White / Washington Post:
Iraq Deaths Don't Mean Failure, Pace Says
National Review:
Cornyn Says No  —  WASHINGTON— U.S. Sen. John Cornyn …
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
Edward P. Lazear / The Politico:
Let the market set gas prices
Discussion: Redstate
Dan Murphy / Christian Science Monitor:
Backlash grows against British award of knighthood to Salman Rushdie
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Reuters
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review Online:
Our Terrorists Are Better Than Your Terrorists
 

 
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