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'Meet the Press' transcript for Dec. 9, 2007 — Mayor Rudy Giuliani, R-N.Y. — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: Our Meet the Candidates 2008 series continues, an exclusive interview with Republican Rudy Giuliani. He has served as associate attorney general in Washington …
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Michelle Obama / Newsweek:
Star Power — Barack Obama couldn't have hoped for a better endorser than Oprah. Problem was, she outshone the candidate. — Forty years ago, when Andrea Perry was a cheerleader at St. Bonaventure, administrators at the upstate New York school barred her from traveling to Columbia, S.C., with the basketball team.
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Obama-Oprah show plays after church in S.C. — COLUMBIA. S.C. - In a giant Sunday afternoon rally suffused with Christian - and at times messianic - rhetoric, Barack Obama made his largest-scale pitch to black and white Democrats of South Carolina, the third and most devout presidential primary state.
Chuck Todd / MSNBC:
DEM RACE TIGHTER THAN EVER; HUCKABEE SURGE CONTINUES — From NBC's Chuck Todd, Mark Murray and Domenico Montanaro — If the first round of MSNBC/McClatchy/Mason-Dixon presidential state — polls are any indication, we're in for a wild ride these next six weeks.
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:Oprah Winfrey Hits Campaign Trail for Obama
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Washington Post:
Hill Briefed on Waterboarding in 2002 — Intelligence Panels' Chiefs Did Not Then Protest CIA Technique — In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody.
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Michael / Discourse.net:Senators and Representatives Could Have Spoken Out On Waterboarding …
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Byron York / The Corner:
There Are Flops, And Then There Is "Redacted" — Brian De Palma's "Redacted," the Iraqi war movie that won the best director prize at the Venice Film Festival but has been dismissed as loathsome and awful in other circles, has been in theaters - okay, 15 theaters - nationwide for three weeks now.
Robert Maranto / Washington Post:
As a Republican, I'm on the Fringe — Are university faculties biased toward the left? And is this diminishing universities' role in American public life? Conservatives have been saying so since William F. Buckley Jr. wrote "God and Man at Yale" — in 1951.
Reuters:
Bolton calls report on Iran quasi-putsch — The former ambassador to the U.N. says the the latest intelligence estimate is meant not to inform but to influence policy. — BERLIN — U.S. intelligence services attempted to influence political policy by releasing their assessment …
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:The NIE under Middle Eastern Eyes
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Canadian Judge Finds U.S. Lacking as a Haven for Refugees — Late last month, a federal judge in Canada ruled that the United States had violated international conventions on torture and the rights of refugees. — The decision has caused quite a stir in Canada.
Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
Many Seeking Disability From Social Security Face Big Delays — RALEIGH, N.C. — Steadily lengthening delays in the resolution of Social Security disability claims have left hundreds of thousands of people in a kind of purgatory, now waiting as long as three years for a decision.
Julia / Firedoglake:
ABC's "Man in the Middle" isn't. — After a whirlwind highly-qualified-contrition* tour of the media, the man who credits himself with convincing Karl Rove to move all the way to the right because the center no longer exists has landed at ABC News. Predictably, he's going to be providing us with his bipartisan view from the center.
Roni Sofer / Ynetnews:
Shas minister: Americans' attitude to report reminiscent of Auschwitz — Yitzhak Cohen says during cabinet meeting 'US intelligence report was ordered by someone who wants dialogue with Tehran. Minister Eli Yishai: 'We must not play dumb in the face of the report's findings'
Washington Wire:
Huckabee Steps Up TV Ads — Laura Meckler reports on the presidential campaign. — Mike Huckabee, his fund-raising robust and poll numbers climbing, is stepping up his television advertising. Two new ads hit the Iowa airwaves Monday, and he goes on the air for the first time in both New Hampshire and South Carolina.
Robert H. Frank / New York Times:
Reshaping the Debate on Raising Taxes — POWERFUL anti-tax rhetoric has made legislators at every level of government afraid to talk publicly about a need to raise taxes. The constituents of the few who dare speak are typically bombarded with attack ads that go something like this …
Steve Benen / Talking Points Memo:
BUSHIES GAIN ACCESS TO NBC AIRWAVES — For quite a while, it seemed as if the only political ads that were rejected by television networks came from the left. Last week, for example, Fox News rejected an ad from the Center for Constitutional Rights about the administration's torture because …
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