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9:30 PM ET, April 18, 2009

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Jaketapper / Political Punch:
Chavez Gifts Obama With Book That Assails U.S. for Exploiting Latin America  —  At President Obama's meeting with the heads of South American countries this morning, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stood, walked over to him, and presented him with a copy of “Open Veins of Latin America …
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Dotcomabc / Political Punch:
White House Senior Advisor: Obama More Popular Than Chavez in Venezuela  —  PORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD — In an interview with ABC News, Jeffrey Davidow — a senior adviser to President Obama on Latin American affairs and director of the Summit of the Americas — said that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez rushed …
Little Green Footballs:
Obama Laughs It Up With Hugo Chavez
Mark S. Smith / Associated Press:
Obama extends hands to Chavez, Ortega at summit
Peter Hamby / CNN:
GOP congressman booed mercilessly at Tea Party rally  —  (CNN) - Several Republican members of Congress spoke at Tea Party protests around the country on Wednesday.  Some were applauded.  Others heckled.  But only one, it appears, was booed relentlessly for the entire duration of his speech: Rep. Gresham Barrett of South Carolina.
Discussion: Hot Air
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
Torture Versus War  —  WHEN the Central Intelligence Agency obliterates a dozen suspected terrorists, along with assorted family members, with a missile from a drone, the news rarely stirs a strong reaction far beyond Pakistan.  —  Yet the waterboarding of three operatives from Al Qaeda …
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Washington Post:
Interrogation Memos Detail Psychologists' Involvement; Ethicists Outraged  —  Extent of Health Professionals' Role at CIA Prisons Draws Fresh Outrage From Ethicists  —  When the CIA began what it called an “increased pressure phase” with captured terrorism suspect Abu Zubaida in the summer of 2002 …
Emptywheel:
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Was Waterboarded 183 Times in One Month  —  I've put this detail in a series of posts, but it really deserves a full post.  According to the May 30, 2005 Bradbury memo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in March 2003 and Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times in August 2002.
Scott / Power Line:
An obscene insult  —  The star hosts of CNN and MSNBC news shows have notoriously derided the tea party demonstrations around the country with reference to the practice of teabagging (which I had never heard of before they brought it up).  As John noted, both networks' “journalists” …
Nazila Fathi / New York Times:
Iran Sentences American Journalist to 8 Years in Prison  —  A revolutionary court has sentenced an Iranian-American journalist, Roxana Saberi, to eight years in prison after convicting her of spying for the United States, her lawyer said Saturday.  —  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton …
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Michael Calderone / Michael Calderone's Blog:
Clinton: ‘Deeply disappointed’ by Saberi conviction
Discussion: abu muqawama
Scott / Power Line:
The Journal's missing facts  —  Today's Wall Street Journal carries another editorial ("Minnesota's missing votes") on the recount in Minnestota's Senate election.  It was the Journal's original editorial on the subject that prompted me to write “Minnesota 101” for NRO.
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The White House:
Weekly Address: Efficiency and Innovation  —  With the process of going through the budget line by line in full swing, the President uses his Weekly Address to give some examples, big and small, of how the Administration is working to cut costs and eliminate waste.
N. Gregory Mankiw / New York Times:
It May Be Time for the Fed to Go Negative  —  WITH unemployment rising and the financial system in shambles, it's hard not to feel negative about the economy right now.  The answer to our problems, however, could well be more negativity.  But I'm not talking about attitude.  I'm talking about numbers.
Discussion: Economist's View
Mohamed Ahmed / Reuters:
NATO frees pirate hostages, Belgian ship seized  —  MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Dutch commandos freed 20 Yemeni hostages on Saturday and briefly detained seven pirates who had forced the Yemenis to sail a “mother ship” attacking vessels in the Gulf of Aden, NATO officials said.
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Associated Press:   NATO frees 20 hostages; pirates seize Belgian ship
Petra Cahill / World Blog:
TALIBAN-STYLE JUSTICE FOR ALLEGED U.S. SPIES  —  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - “I was given $122 to drop chips wrapped in cigarette paper at al-Qaida and Taliban houses,” confessed 19-year-old Habibur Rehman, just before the Taliban shot him dead for spying for the United States.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
The Enemies Within  —  The United States Department of Homeland Security's Office of Intelligence and Analysis issued a report last week suggesting that current political and economic conditions are energizing right-wing extremist groups, that many of these groups follow extremely conservative ideologies …
 
 
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F.B.I. and States Vastly Expand DNA Databases
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