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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 …

Discussion: American Street, The Gun Toting Liberal™, RADAMISTO, War in Context, The Reaction, First Draft, Think Progress, Comments from Left Field, Balkinization, AMERICAblog and Concurring Opinions

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.

Discussion: Newshoggers.com, Comments from Left Field and Weekly Standard Blog

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%.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, CNN, PoliBlog (TM), Comments from Left Field, The Daily Dish and TPM Election Central

Canadian Press:
Canadian voters ‘heart’ Obama despite NAFTA

Discussion: The Reaction, Political Machine and Don Surber

Chuck Todd / MSNBC:
McCain's path to victory

Discussion: Commentary and Washington Wire

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.

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

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 …

Discussion: Reuters, The Huffington Post, Ben Smith's Blogs, Trailhead, Redstate, SocraticGadfly, Boston Globe, Patterico's Pontifications, Liberty Street and Political Punch

CNN:
House passes Chinese crackdown resolution

Discussion: The Democratic Daily

San Francisco Chronicle:
Route shortened after thousands gather for S.F. torch run

Discussion: New York Times, CNN, The Lede, Fox News, On Deadline, MoJoBlog, A Blog For All, Associated Press, Political Machine, Patterico's Pontifications and Philly.com

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 …

Discussion: Tyler Morning Telegraph, Comments from Left Field, michellemalkin.com, skippy the bush kangaroo and Immigration Chronicles

Associated Press:
Texas Teen Hurt After Bringing Anti-Illegal Immigration Sign to School

Discussion: Roger Ailes

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” …

Discussion: Gawker, The News Junkie, Ed Driscoll.com, Wizbang and Truthdig

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.)

Discussion: NY Daily News, New York Times, The Democratic Daily, The New Republic and Don Surber

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

John Sides / The Monkey Cage:

Implicit Prejudice Revealed: Opposition to a Woman President … That is from an interesting new paper by Matthew Streb, Barbara Burrell, Brian Frederick, and Michael Genovese (gated here, ungated here). — Here's the experiment, which was conducted in a March 2006 poll.

Discussion: American Street

Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
STUDY: 26% “ANGRY OR UPSET” BY FEMALE PRESIDENT....Last month …

Discussion: Matthew Yglesias

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.

Discussion: Classical Values and Roger L. Simon

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.

Discussion: TPMCafe, ParaPundit, Big Brass Blog, Wonk Room, Wonkette, The Huffington Post, The Big Picture, Economics Blog, RADAMISTO and Calculated Risk

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.

Discussion: Power Line, Hot Air, Little Green Footballs and The Jawa Report

Michelle Malkin:
The AP and Bilal Hussein: Story is not over

Discussion: Jules Crittenden, A Blog For All and INSTAPUTZ

New York Times:

Foreign Policy: 2 Camps Seek McCain's Ear — WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain has long made his decades of experience in foreign policy and national security the centerpiece of his political identity, and suggests he would bring to the White House a fully formed view of the world.

Discussion: War and Piece