Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
10:35 AM ET, January 14, 2009

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Bob Woodward / Washington Post:
Detainee Tortured, Says U.S. Official  —  Trial Overseer Cites ‘Abusive’ Methods Against 9/11 Suspect  —  The top Bush administration official in charge of deciding whether to bring Guantanamo Bay detainees to trial has concluded that the U.S. military tortured a Saudi national who allegedly planned …
RELATED:
Peter Finn / Washington Post:
Evidence in Terror Cases Said to Be in Chaos
Discussion: the talking dog and Booman Tribune
Marc Ambinder:
Obama Dines With Conservative Opinion Leaders  —  It's true.  —  He motorcaded to a house in Maryland this evening, and if the press pool report is accurate, he is breaking bread with William Kristol and David Brooks.  (If Brooks and Kristol seem to be unusually briefed about Obama's thinking, you'll know why.)
RELATED:
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Dinner with conservatives  —  The president-elect tonight is having dinner with some ideological adversaries: four of the most widely-read conservative columnists.  —  He's dining at the Chevy Chase home of Washington Post columnist George Will with the Post's Charles Krauthammer …
Jeffrey Goldberg / New York Times:
Why Israel Can't Make Peace With Hamas  —  IN the summer of 2006, at a moment when Hezbollah rockets were falling virtually without pause on northern Israel, Nizar Rayyan, husband of four, father of 12, scholar of Islam and unblushing executioner, confessed to me one of his frustrations.
Discussion: TigerHawk and Michael J. Totten
RELATED:
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Israel's Goals in Gaza?  —  I have only one question about Israel's military operation in Gaza: What is the goal?  Is it the education of Hamas or the eradication of Hamas?  I hope that it's the education of Hamas.  Let me explain why.  —  I was one of the few people who argued back in 2006 …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:   Tom Friedman offers a perfect definition of “terrorism”
Washington Post:
Treasury Nominee Accounts for Own Tax Errors  —  Timothy F. Geithner, the man tapped to lead the nation out of the greatest economic crisis in decades — and who would oversee the Internal Revenue Service — trekked to Capitol Hill yesterday to explain to senators how he made almost $43,000 worth of mistakes on his own tax returns.
RELATED:
Lee Keath / Associated Press:
Bin Laden urges jihad against Israel  —  CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden urged Muslims to launch a jihad against Israel and condemned Arab governments as allies of the Jewish state in a new message aimed at harnessing anger in the Mideast over the Gaza offensive.
Discussion: ABCNEWS and Gateway Pundit
RELATED:
Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:
The Money-Changers  —  As Barack Obama looks back to Franklin Roosevelt's first inaugural address — the only other such address that came smack in the middle of an economic meltdown — I hope he pays special heed to Roosevelt's words on America's bankers, who then as now had plunged the nation into an economic abyss.
Discussion: AmSpecBlog and DownWithTyranny!
RELATED:
Manu Raju / The Politico:
Dems cool on Burris Senate seating  —  Roland Burris will take his seat in the U.S. Senate on Thursday, but he shouldn't expect a warm welcome.  Republicans are ready to portray Burris as a poster child for all that's wrong with the Democratic Party, and Democrats aren't sure that they want to back him if he runs for the seat in 2010.
Discussion: TalkLeft, TIME.com, NY Daily News and MSNBC
RELATED:
Roger Simon / The Politico:
In politics, does race trump gender?
Discussion: Pat Dollard
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Bush Presidency Closes With 34% Approval, 61% Disapproval  —  Three-quarters of Republicans approve of Bush, up slightly from recent months  — USA - Democrats - Government and Politics - Independents - Presidential Job Approval - Republicans - The Presidency - Americas - Northern America
Toronto Star:
Canada votes alone for Israel  —  VIDEO: UN chief heads to Mideast  —  We're the only one of 47 nations on UN rights panel to refuse to condemn military offensive in Gaza  —  OTTAWA-Canada stood alone before a United Nations human rights council yesterday, the only one among 47 nations …
Discussion: The Corner and TigerHawk
RELATED:
Campbell Clark / Globe and Mail:
CANADA VOTES AGAINST RESOLUTION
Discussion: Hot Air, Ezra Levant and Daimnation!
San Francisco Chronicle:
BART officer arrested on murder warrant in NY Day shooting  —  (01-14) 00:13 PST Oakland — The BART police officer who fatally shot an unarmed man on an Oakland train platform and then refused to explain his actions to investigators was arrested Tuesday in Nevada on suspicion of murder, authorities said.
1010 WINS New York's #1 source for local news …:
New York Republicans Want to Force Vote for Senate Pick  —  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Republicans in New York's Legislature are pushing for a special election to fill the expected vacancy in the U.S. Senate instead of allowing Democratic Gov. David Paterson to make a unilateral appointment through a secretive process.
Gateway Pundit:
Pentagon: 61 Gitmo Grads Returned to Terror  —  Former Gitmo detainee Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi recently exploded in Iraq.  —  Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi was released from Gitmo in November 2005.  —  The WaPo reported that Ajmi left a lengthy martyrdom audio recording before his death.
RELATED:
Andy Barr / The Politico:
Poll finds low trust in feds  —  A majority of voters say their confidence in the federal government's ability is falling, according to a new Public Strategies Inc./Politico poll.  —  Sixty-two percent of respondents say their confidence in Washington has decreased over the past 12 months …
Discussion: Think Progress and TIME.com
Natasha Korecki / Chicago Sun Times:
Feds play candid camera with Gov. Blagojevich  —  Federal authorities used a video camera as part of their cache of tools to investigate Gov. Blagojevich in the final weeks of 2008 before his arrest, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.  —  The camera, which likely was remote-controlled …
Discussion: Hot Air and RedState
Julian Walker / Virginian-Pilot:
No drilling off Va.'s coast, says Democratic candidate  —  In the race to become the next governor, Brian Moran, a Democrat, broke ranks Tuesday with other candidates by vowing to fight all efforts to allow oil and natural gas drilling off the Virginia coast.
Discussion: Scorecard's Blogs
WDEF-TV:
House In Disorder: Tennessee Democrats Elect Republican Speaker  —  The mood in the hall of the General Assembly Tuesday morning oozed with anxious anticipation.  —  Republicans stood poised to take control of the Tennessee General Assembly for the first time in nearly 140 years.
Discussion: Salon and PoliBlog
Betsy Rothstein / The Hill:
Bachmann's sudden transformation  —  Freshman members of Congress are supposed to be quiet, unobtrusive, deferential.  Michele Bachmann must have missed the memo.  —  At her first State of the Union address in 2007, the petite Minnesota GOP congresswoman with the sparkling blue eyes …
Discussion: Think Progress
Ynetnews:
Iranian ship prevented from approaching Gaza  —  IDF says same boat which tried to reach Strip's shores on Tuesday attempted to arrive in Gaza again but was stopped by Navy  —  An Iranian aid ship tried to break the blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip for the second time Wednesday.
Discussion: Yourish.com and The Muqata
Agence France Presse:
Australia offers ‘best job in world’ on paradise island  —  SYDNEY (AFP) - An Australian state is offering internationally what it calls “the best job in the world” — earning a top salary for lazing around a beautiful tropical island for six months.  —  The job pays 150,000 Australian dollars …
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 10:35 AM ET, January 14, 2009.

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: 
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Obama, Biden to Pay Call on Supreme Court
BBC:
Surge in Chinese internet users
Discussion: TechCrunch
Tom Donnelly / Weekly Standard:
The Defense Stimulus  —  A key to American recovery and reinvestment.
Discussion: Commentary
Quin Hillyer / www.dcexaminer.com:
Quin-Essential Cases: Libby should be pardoned on the merits
JD Johannes / Outside the Wire:
Joe the Plumber—Out of His Depth
Roxana Tiron / The Hill:
Recession may ground space flights
 Earlier Items: 
Jerusalem Post:
Three Katyushas hit near Kiryat Shmona
Discussion: Israel Matzav
Brandon Friedman / Military.com:
Reclaiming Army Standards
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Times of London:
Iranian protesters burn Barack Obama pictures