Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
1:05 AM ET, December 11, 2007

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Thomas Hendrick / TheDenverChannel.com:
Security Guard: 'God Guided Me And Protected Me'  —  Jeanne Assam Stopped Gunman At New Life Church  —  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Jeanne Assam appeared before the news media for the first time Monday and said she "did not think for a minute to run away" when a gunman entered the New Life Church …
RELATED:
Hindrocket / Power Line:
SPEAKING OF HATE CRIMES...  The man who shot up a training center for missionaries and a church in suburban Denver, killing four people and wounding a number of others, has been identified: … It is perhaps worth noting that the toll in Sunday's shootings exceeded the combined total in all …
Discussion: TBogg, Sadly, No! and Right Voices
Alan Gathright / Rocky Mountain News:
Gunman sent 'hate mail' to Arvada missionary center
Discussion: New York Times and TalkLeft
ABCNEWS:
Coming in From the Cold: CIA Spy Calls Waterboarding Necessary But Torture  —  Former Agent Says the Enhanced Technique Was Used on Al Qaeda Chief Abu Zubaydah  —  A leader of the CIA team that captured and interrogated the first major al Qaeda figure, Abu Zubaydah, says subjecting him to waterboarding was torture but necessary.
RELATED:
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
TWO STORIES....After the United States captured al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah in the weeks after 9/11, the CIA tortured him in an effort to get him to talk.  Here's how Ron Suskind described what happened, starting with what CIA investigators found in Zubaydah's diary:
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
CIA Interrogator Tells ABC He Supervised 'Necessary' Torture of Abu Zubaydah  —  Paging Michael Mukasey.  The leader of the CIA interrogation team that handled Abu Zubaydah, head of al-Qaeda's military committee, says he had Abu Zubaydah waterboarded — which was torture, and, he says, necessary to prevent "maybe dozens of attacks."
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
New poll shows big shake-up in GOP race  —  DES MOINES, Iowa (CNN) — Mike Huckabee's dramatic jump in the polls is going nationwide.  The former Arkansas governor is in a virtual tie with Republican presidential front-runner Rudy Giuliani in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation national poll out Monday.
Discussion: MyDD and TPM Election Central
RELATED:
Byron York / The Corner:
McCain Attacks Romney's Attack on Huckabee  —  Here's an interesting one.  The Romney campaign is set to release the first negative ad of the season in Iowa tomorrow - an attack on Mike Huckabee on the immigration issue.  Huckabee will certainly respond - and now, he has help from another candidate, John McCain.
Discussion: Redstate and The Atlantic Online
New York Times:
G.O.P. Voters Are Uninspired by Candidates  —  Three weeks before the Iowa caucuses, Republicans voters across the country appear uninspired by their field of presidential candidates, with a vast majority saying they have not made a final decision about who to support, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.
ABCNEWS:
Victim: Gang-Rape Cover-Up by U.S., Halliburton/KBR  —  KBR Told Victim She Could Lose Her Job If She Sought Help After Being Raped, She Says  —  A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident.
RELATED:
Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report:
The Perfect Victim Meets the Perfect Villains  —  I know I'm going to take a lot of heat for this, but this story just sound so.... well.... er ... far-fetched.  —  Not the rape part—rape happens all the time (gang rapes, not so much, but occasionally).  Not the cover up part—cover ups happen all the time.
Michael Fechter / Articles by the Investigative …:
EXCLUSIVE IPT INVESTIGATION UNCOVERS HLF JURY ROOM BULLYING  —  DALLAS - She felt the men were guilty and tried to explain why to the 11 other jurors.  When she finished, one juror spoke up in an angry tone.  —  "If you're going by the evidence in this room," she recalls him snapping, "then you need to go home."
CNN Political Ticker:
Gore: I'd only consider White House bid  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former Vice President Al Gore denied again that there were any campaign plans in his immediate future, but told CNN Monday that he hadn't "ruled out getting back into the political process at some point" — and that if he did return …
Chris Bowers / Open Left:
What Really Bothers Me About Obama (Updated)  —  Barack Obama is simultaneously the best and worst Democratic candidate for new progressive media and new progressive institutions.  Where his campaign is good, it is very good in this area, especially around media policy and earning support from users of new media.
RELATED:
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Obama Campaign Denies Collecting "Oppo Research" On Progressive Bloggers
Discussion: Open Left
Ben Craw / Talking Points Memo:
RUDY GIGGLIANI!  —  Ask and ye shall receive...  Late Update: The Rudy Giggle: the next Hillary Cackle?
RELATED:
Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
Pundits Lavish Tons Of Attention On Rudy's "Cackle"
Discussion: Political Machine
MotherJones.com:
Huckabee Hides His Full Gospel?  —  WASHINGTON DISPATCH: Is Mike Huckabee the presidential candidate shunning Mike Huckabee the preacher?  Before entering politics, he was a pastor at two Baptist churches.  Now his campaign tells Mother Jones it won't make his sermons available to the media and the public.
New York Times:
Lawyers Cleared Destroying Tapes  —  Lawyers within the clandestine branch of the Central Intelligence Agency gave written approval in advance to the destruction in 2005 of hundreds of hours of videotapes documenting interrogations of two lieutenants from Al Qaeda, according …
Discussion: Corrente
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform:
Report Describes Systematic White House Effort to Manipulate Climate Change Science  —  For the past 16 months, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has been investigating allegations of political interference with government climate change science under the Bush Administration.
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 1:05 AM ET, December 11, 2007.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Bill Roggio / The Long War Journal:
Suicide attack at Pakistani nuclear weapons complex
Mark Halperin / The Page:
Halperin's Take on Huckabee
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Giuliani's Virtuoso Performance
Discussion: Corrente and Raising Kaine
Frank James / The Swamp:
Guiliani TV ad questioned
Jill / Brilliant at Breakfast:
Generational warfare
Robert Verkaik / The Independent:
CIA photos 'show UK Guantanamo detainee was tortured'
Discussion: The Newshoggers and At-Largely
David Wooding / The Sun:
Happy Xmas, your war is over!
Pastordan / Street Prophets:
One More Reason Not To Trust "The Religious Left"
Discussion: Hullabaloo and The Caucus
 Earlier Items: 
John Distaso / New Hampshire Union Leader:
Shea-Porter to back Obama
Gavin M. / Sadly, No!:
Jesus Rode A Dinosaur — In Space! [Updated]
Mike Glover / Associated Press:
Clinton says Hillary was always the one
Discussion: Say Anything
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Hillary Clinton Joins Joe Lieberman To Resurrect the Culture Wars
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Romney to launch GOP's first attack ad
Al Gore / Al's Journal:
Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Eric Dondero / Front Page Magazine:
Cynthia McKinney '08  —  "The time for confrontation has come for me …
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
The Atlantic is profitable, has 1M subscribers, and revenue grew 10% in 2023 thanks to a 50% price hike, a harder paywall, and a shift to in-depth reporting

New York Times:
The NBC News-Ronna McDaniel saga highlights the perks and perils of partisan talk TV; a source says McDaniel is now seeking $600K+ for her two year deal

New York Times:
Karlie Kloss' Bedford buys Life publication rights from Dotdash Meredith and plans to resume regular print publication in 2025; Josh Kushner will be publisher

 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page