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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Banned Techniques Yielded ‘High Value Information,’ Memo Says — WASHINGTON - President Obama's national intelligence director told colleagues in a private memo last week that the harsh interrogation techniques banned by the White House did produce significant information that helped the nation in its struggle with terrorists.
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Jonathan S. Landay / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Report: Abusive tactics were used to find Iraq-al Qaida link — WASHINGTON — The Bush administration put relentless pressure on interrogators to use harsh methods on detainees in part to find evidence of cooperation between al Qaida and the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime …
New York Times:
In Adopting Harsh Tactics, No Inquiry Into Their Past Use — WASHINGTON — The program began with Central Intelligence Agency leaders in the grip of an alluring idea: They could get tough in terrorist interrogations without risking legal trouble by adopting a set of methods used on Americans during military training.
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Washington Post:
Harsh Tactics Readied Before Their Approval — Intelligence and military officials under the Bush administration began preparing to conduct harsh interrogations long before they were granted legal approval to use such methods — and weeks before the CIA captured its first high-ranking terrorism suspect …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THE SECOND HALF OF THE ARTICLE.... Adm. Dennis C. Blair, President Obama's national intelligence director, told colleagues in a private memo last week that the Bush administration's detainee abuse did, in fact, produce “high value information” about al Qaeda. — “A ha!” conservatives say.
CNN:Memo: Obama's Intel Director said interrogations yielded “high value” Info
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Spencer Ackerman / The Washington Independent:Report Details Origins of Bush-Era Interrogation Policies
Washington Post:
Freddie Mac Official Dead in Apparent Suicide — The acting chief financial officer of troubled mortgage giant Freddie Mac was found dead in his Fairfax County home early this morning after apparently committing suicide, Fairfax police said. — David Kellermann, 41, was a longtime Freddie Mac executive …
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WTOP.com:
Acting Freddie Mac CFO commits suicide — VIENNA, Va. — David Kellermann, acting chief financial officer of Freddie Mac, committed suicide in his Hunter Mill Estates home Wednesday morning. — Fairfax County Police spokeswoman Mary Anne Jennings tells WTOP police responded to the Kellermann home …
CBS News:
Freddie Mac Exec Found Dead At Home — David Kellermann, Acting Chief Financial Officer Of Embattled Mortgage Company, Committed Suicide — (WUSA) A top executive at Freddie Mac was found dead Wednesday morning from an apparent suicide, according to CBS affiliate WUSA-TV in Washington, D.C.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Court Debates Strip Search of Student — WASHINGTON — The United States Supreme Court spent an hour on Tuesday debating what middle school students are apt to put in their underwear and what should be done about it. — Justice Stephen G. Breyer, for instance, said it struck him as …
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Search Me — The Supreme Court is neither hot nor bothered by strip searches. — When constitutional historians sit down someday to compile the definitive Supreme Court Concordance of Not Getting It, the entry directly next to Lilly Ledbetter ("Court fails utterly to understand realities …
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Israel Puts Iran Issue Ahead of Palestinians — JERUSALEM — The new Israeli government will not move ahead on the core issues of peace talks with the Palestinians until it sees progress in U.S. efforts to stop Iran's suspected pursuit of a nuclear weapon and limit Tehran's rising influence in the region …
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Michael Tomasky / Guardian:
How they lie: a case study — Did an Obama judicial nominee really express a preference for Allah over Jesus? No, not by a long shot — From the second I read the sentence, I knew there was something fishy about it. Many years' experience in reading and then looking into rightwing canards set off …
Robert / Jihad Watch:
Muslim who called for engagement with Muslim Brotherhood to advise White House — Mogahed, along with John Esposito, cooked the results of a Gallup survey of Muslims to increase the number of “moderates.” — Mogahed was also a member of U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project, which called for engagement with Muslim Brotherhood.
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Associated Press:
Fidel Castro says Obama misinterpreted his brother's remarks — The former Cuban president rejects suggestions that the island should free political prisoners or cut taxes on remittances from the U.S. — HAVANA — Former Cuban President Fidel Castro said President Obama misinterpreted remarks …
CNN:
Shirtless Obama to appear on magazine cover — (CNN) - It's not every day a President of the United States lands shirtless on a magazine cover. — But the May issue of Washingtonian Magazine, to hit newsstands Wednesday, is causing a bit of a sizzle inside the beltway.
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John Boehner / Townhall.com:
Debt Day: A Symbol of Washington's Arrogant Culture of Borrowing and Spending — Next week, the Obama Administration will mark its 100th day in power. The first three-plus months of this Administration have been turbulent, to say the least. Confronted with the most severe economic crisis in generations …
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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Fuzzy Math — According to an MIT study, cap and trade could cost the average household more than $3,900 per year. — It's just another inconvenient truth: If Americans want any of the government remedies that would supposedly save a planet allegedly imperiled by global warming, it's going to cost them.
Dr. Sanity:
THE POLIITICAL LEFT: UNITED IN HATE WITH AMERICA'S FOES — Cliff May reminds us that there is a reason why the political left in this country has made common cause with Militant Islamists: … In the few short months that the dedicated leftist Barack Obama has been in the White House …
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Portfolio:
The Re-Education of Tim Geithner — In his worst moments, when the camera lights are burning and the doubt, the contempt, in the Capitol Hill hearing rooms become palpable, Tim Geithner has a look in his eye—at once wary and alarmed, even as he speaks quickly, sometimes interrupting, sometimes repeating his talking points.
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
To Tweet or Not to Tweet — Alfred Hitchcock would have loved the Twitter headquarters here. Birds gathering everywhere, painted on the wall in flocks, perched on the coffee table, stitched on pillows and framed on the wall with a thought bubble asking employees to please tidy up after themselves.
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
A Pentagon Cyber-Command Is in the Works — The Obama administration is finalizing plans for a new Pentagon command to coordinate the security of military computer networks and to develop new offensive cyber-weapons, sources said last night. — Planning for the reorganization of Defense Department …
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Steve Connor / The Independent:
Fertility expert: ‘I can clone a human being’ — Controversial doctor filmed creating embryos before injecting them into wombs of women wanting cloned babies — A controversial fertility doctor claimed yesterday to have cloned 14 human embryos and transferred 11 of them into the wombs …
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