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12:20 PM ET, April 17, 2009

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Wall Street Journal:
The President Ties His Own Hands on Terror  —  The point of interrogation is intelligence, not confession.  —  The Obama administration has declassified and released opinions of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) given in 2005 and earlier that analyze the legality …
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Washington Post:
President Obama's wise decision on dealing with the legacy of torture
Melinda Henneberger / AOL News:
Palin Says She Considered Abortion  —  In her first out-of-state political appearance since last fall's presidential election, former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin confided to 3,000 at a right-to-life event here that she had “just for a fleeting moment” contemplated seeking …
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Kate Snow / ABCNEWS:
Sarah Palin: I Had to ‘Walk the Walk’  —  At Anti-Abortion Rights Event, Gov. Palin Gets Personal About her Last Pregnancy  —  Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin doesn't get out much.  Out of Alaska that is.  —  Last night, on her second trip outside the state this year, Palin reflected a bit …
Wall Street Journal:
Veterans a Focus of FBI Extremist Probe  —  WASHINGTON — The Federal Bureau of Investigation earlier this year launched a nationwide operation targeting white supremacists and “militia/sovereign-citizen extremist groups,” including a focus on veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan …
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Role of Bush NSA Plan Under Review
Discussion: New York Times
Jazz Shaw / The Moderate Voice:   Obama Fails to Stop Bush Era Targeting of Veterans
Dafna Linzer / ProPublica:
Newly Released Memo Inadvertently Reveals CIA Held (and Abused) Missing Prisoner  —  Among the OLC memos released today, one appears to inadvertently reveal that a top al-Qaida suspect captured in northern Iraq in January 2004 was held by the CIA in a secret prison.
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Rasmussen Reports:
In Texas, 31% Say State Has Right to Secede From U.S., But 75% Opt To Stay  —  Thirty-one percent (31%) of Texas voters say that their state has the right to secede from the United States and form an independent country.  —  However, the latest Rasmussen Reports poll in the state finds …
New York Post:
PREZ AIDE TIED TO NY PENSION ‘GRAFT’  —  ALBANY — President Obama's point man in the auto-industry rescue was linked by the feds yesterday to New York state's massive pay-to-play pension scandal.  —  The Securities and Exchange Commission said an executive, identified by sources as Steven Rattner …
Discussion: Pajamas Media
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Jamie Larson / The Register Star Online:
Tedisco asks to be declared winner  —  COLUMBIA COUNTY — 20th Congressional District candidate Republican Jim Tedisco submitted a petition to the Dutchess County Supreme Court Thursday asking the judge to declare him the winner of the extremely close special election race …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
We Are Now Indonesia  —  Greenwald points to this nugget: … And this is, in fact, the Bush-Cheney position.  Because America did these things, they are not torture.  This is also, by the way, the position of the news reporters and editors at the New York Times and the Washington Post.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Green Shoots and Glimmers  —  Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, sees “green shoots.”  President Obama sees “glimmers of hope.”  And the stock market has been on a tear.  —  So is it time to sound the all clear?  Here are four reasons to be cautious about the economic outlook.
Barry Ritholtz / The Big Picture:
Stiglitz: Blame Summers … First Krugman, now Stiglitz; let's call it “When Nobel Prize winners agree with Barry” day.  —  Over the past few months, I have criticized CEA director Lawrence Summers “Sacred Cows/Save the Banks” approach, rather than a save the financial system approach.
Discussion: Obsidian Wings and Eschaton
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Bloomberg:   Stiglitz Says White House Ties to Wall Street Doom Bank Rescue
Max Twain / race42008.com:
One of the most hateful rants in history  —  http://www.youtube.com/watch?  v=jAAHMDpk7Ik  —  Surprisingly, Olbermann is not the craziest person in this video.  That alone puts this into a special category of left-wing vile that stands out as some of the most hateful speech you will ever hear on television.
Discussion: Political Machine
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Obama Averages 63% Approval in His First Quarter  —  Highest first-quarter average since 1977  — USA - Government and Politics - Presidential Job Approval - The Presidency - Americas - Northern America  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Barack Obama's first quarter in office concludes on Sunday …
Kahrin Deines / Associated Press:
New gun law aimed at asserting sovereignty  —  Gov. Brian Schweitzer has signed into law a bill that aims to exempt Montana-made guns from federal regulation, adding firepower to a battery of legislative efforts to assert states' rights across the nation.  —  “It's a gun bill …
Megan McArdle:
Do We Hate Credit Default Swaps for The Wrong Reasons?  —  There's a lot of crazy ignorant hating on CDSs out there, especially from certain political journalists who displayed no interest in learning about the financial community until they found that pronouncing the words “credit default swaps” …
Paul Demko / Minnesota Independent:
Tinklenberg v. Bachmann redux?  DFLers already eyeing 2010  —  Michele Bachmann represents the most Republican-friendly congressional district in Minnesota.  John McCain carried the area by eight percentage points in 2008 — the largest spread in the state.
Brian C. Mooney / Boston Globe:
Dodd faces steep road to reelection  —  Conn.'s senior senator trails 3 Republicans  —  HARTFORD - The election is still more than 18 months away, but US Senator Chris Dodd is barnstorming Connecticut this week like an incumbent in trouble.  Voters who have supported him for 29 years …
Michael Sandler / The Hill:
Dean, Emanuel bury the hatchet  —  The feud between Howard Dean and Rahm Emanuel appears to be over.  —  Dean told The Hill that he recently had lunch with the White House chief of staff, signaling a thaw in their once icy relationship.  —  Dean, the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee …
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
CNN:
Some foreclosed homes too damaged to sell  —  CNN Special Investigations Unit  —  NASHUA, New Hampshire (CNN) — The economy in southern New Hampshire is not by any means among the worst in the nation.  Still, according to city records, there are 29 foreclosed homes on the books in Nashua — many of which are in deplorable condition.
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Barack Obama's ‘New Foundation’ - a Sting in Four Parts  —  Franklin Roosevelt gave us the New Deal.  John Kennedy gave us the New Frontier.  In a major domestic policy address at Georgetown University this week, Barack Obama promised — eight times — a “New Foundation.”
Joshua Stanton / The New Ledger:
Christopher Hill: Deep Kimchee for Iraq  —  Of the many things that will be written about North Korea this week, the least likely of these is, “Now there's the kind of diplomacy we need more of.”  Consider just the events of the last few days: the missile test itself, which may have hit closer …
 
 
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