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6:05 AM ET, April 10, 2008

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ABCNEWS:
Sources: Top Bush Advisors Approved ‘Enhanced Interrogation’  —  Detailed Discussions Were Held About Techniques to Use on al Qaeda Suspects  —  By JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG, HOWARD L. ROSENBERG and ARIANE de VOGUE  —  In dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House …
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Marc Ambinder:
War Crimes  —  A provocative headline, I know, perhaps needlessly so, but it remains one of those hidden secrets in Washington that a Democratic Justice Department is going to be very interested in figuring out whether there's a case to be made that senior Bush Administration officials were guilty of war crimes.
Reuters:
Top Bush aides approved interrogation tactics: report  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush's most senior advisers approved “enhanced interrogation techniques” of top al Qaeda suspects by the Central Intelligence Agency, ABC News reported on Wednesday, citing sources it did not name.
Discussion: Cliff Schecter … and Shakesville
Balkinization:   War Crimes Prosecutions in the U.S.? Dream On
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama Leads Clinton by 10 Points  —  Second double-digit lead for Obama in Gallup tracking  —  PRINCETON, NJ — For the third consecutive day, Barack Obama holds a significant advantage over Hillary Clinton in national Democratic preferences for the Democratic presidential nomination, now 51% to 41%.
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Steyn Online:
Hey, why bother with a trial?  —  As revealed here a few weeks ago, the investigative unit of the Ontario “Human Rights” Commission recommended to the Commissioners that they not proceed against Maclean's for having the temerity to publish an excerpt from my book.
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Canada NewsWire Group:
Commission Issues Statement on Decision in Maclean's Cases  —  The Ontario Human Rights Commission has decided not to proceed with complaints filed against Maclean's magazine related to its publication of an article “The future belongs to Islam.”  The complainants alleged that the content …
Discussion: Overlawyered
Cathryn Khalil / KLTV-TV:
Athens School ‘Attack’ Proven To Be False, Girl To Be Charged  —  There are major new developments today in the case of a supposed beating of a student from Athens Middle School.  —  Charges are being filed against 13 year old Melanie Bowers by Athens ISD through the Henderson County District …
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Associated Press:
Texas Teen Hurt After Bringing Anti-Illegal Immigration Sign to School
Discussion: Roger Ailes
Ed OKeefe / Political Radar:
As Chicago Bids for Games, Obama Ducks Olympics Criticism  —  ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: Barack Obama doesn't seem to want to talk about the Olympics or Senator Clinton's call for a boycott of the opening ceremonies on August 8, 2008.  —  At a town hall in Malvern, Pennsylvania …
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CNN:
House passes Chinese crackdown resolution
Discussion: The Democratic Daily
Rebecca Dana / Wall Street Journal:
CBS News, Katie Couric Are Likely to Part Ways  —  Barring a Change, Departure Could Follow the Election;  —  A Successor to Larry King?  —  After two years of record-low ratings, both CBS News executives and people close to Katie Couric say that the “CBS Evening News” …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Elton John: ‘To hell with them’  —  There's a real crowd at Radio City, complete with scalpers, and lines around the block for Elton John and the Clintons.  —  Toward the back of one line: Frank Luntz, Lanny Davis, and Doug Schoen.  ("I used to be in business with Mark Penn," Schoen joked.)
Southern Political Report:
New InsiderAdvantage Poll  —  Latest InsiderAdvantage Poll Pennsylvania Primary: Clinton 48%, Obama 38%  —  A new InsiderAdvantage/Majority Opinion poll shows Sen. Hillary Clinton regaining some ground she'd previously lost to Sen. Barack Obama in the Pennsylvania Democratic presidential primary race.
Discussion: MyDD and Boston Globe
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Gay press frustrated by Obama approach  —  Mark Segal didn't want to wait.  After weeks of requests to interview Barack Obama, the publisher of the Philadelphia Gay News concluded the senator's aides may never make him available.  —  So even as the Obama campaign held out the possibility …
Discussion: Shakesville
Roger L Simon / Pajamas Media:
Reverend Eric Lee's Anti-Semitism: A Personal Story [video]  —  On April 4, 2008, at a Los Angeles event commemorating the assassination of Martin Luther King, the African-American fraternity Alpha Kappa Psi gave Israeli-American Daphna Ziman its Tom Bradley Award for community service.
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
The Aria of Chris Matthews  —  Whenever Chris Matthews says something he likes, which happens a lot, he repeats it often and at volumes suggesting a speaker who feels insufficiently listened to at times.  “Tim Russert finally reeled the big marlin into the boat tonight,” Matthews yelled …
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
For Many, a Boom That Wasn't  —  How has the United States economy gotten to this point?  —  It's not just the apparent recession.  Recessions happen.  If you tried to build an economy immune to the human emotions that produce boom and bust, you would end up with something that looked like East Germany.
Robert H. Reid / Associated Press:
AP photographer granted Iraqi amnesty  —  BAGHDAD - An Iraqi judicial committee has dismissed terrorism-related allegations against Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein and ordered him released nearly two years after he was detained by the U.S. military.
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Associated Press:
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White House:
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Matthew Yglesias:
Pew on the Middle Class
Discussion: Eschaton
Young America's Foundation:
Star Parker not welcome at University of St. Thomas
Adel Zaanoun / Agence France Presse:
Nine killed as Gaza militants storm Israeli border
John Sides / The Monkey Cage:
Implicit Prejudice Revealed: Opposition to a Woman President
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McCain's “Goodbye To All That”  —  Ross and Mickey don't approve this message:
Bill Scher / Today's Ideas & Actions:
Occupying Iraq Is Just Like Occupying ... Alabama?