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8:10 AM ET, July 11, 2009

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Washington Post:
White House Kept Justice Lawyers in Dark on Warrantless Wiretapping  —  The Bush White House so strictly controlled access to its warrantless eavesdropping program that only three Justice Department lawyers were aware of the plan, which nearly ignited mass resignations and a constitutional crisis …
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Michael Calderone / The Politico:
For Huffington Post, left is right  —  Liberal bloggers came to a quick verdict on the Huffington Post's announcement Tuesday that it was hiring Dan Froomkin, the recently fired Washington Post blogger who made a name for himself criticizing former president George W. Bush: Old media's loss is new media's gain.
Discussion: The Daily Dish and Gawker
Spencer Ackerman / The Washington Independent:
CIA Played a Leading Role in Warrantless Surveillance
Discussion: TPMMuckraker
Spencer Ackerman / The Washington Independent:
‘Most PSP Leads Were Determined Not to Have Any Connection to Terrorism’
CNN:
IGs: Basis for domestic surveillance flawed
Discussion: Truthdig
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
What Republican Senator had his hand on David Brooks's inner thigh …
Discussion: The Reaction
Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Band of House centrists offers support for ‘robust’ public health insurance plan  —  A band of 22 New Democrat and Blue Dog lawmakers say they support a “robust” government-run health plan, boosting chances of moving healthcare reform with a public insurance plan through the House.
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David Cho / Washington Post:
Administration Considers Bailout Funds for Small Businesses  —  Proposal Would Take Money From $700B Program for Banking System  —  The Obama administration is developing an initiative to take money from the $700 billion program for the banking system and make it available to millions of small businesses …
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Wall Street Journal:
Lender CIT Group Is Facing a Crunch  —  CIT Hires Bankruptcy Adviser as Payment Looms; Financier to 1 Million Businesses  —  CIT Group Inc., a lender to almost a million mostly small and midsize businesses across the country, is preparing for a possible bankruptcy filing after so far failing …
Discussion: DailyFinance
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Leaders in House Seek to Tax Rich for Health Plan  —  WASHINGTON — House Democrats will ask the wealthiest Americans to help pay for overhauling the health care system with a $550 billion income tax increase, the chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee said Friday.
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Jeffrey Young / The Hill:
House to target wealthy to pay for healthcare
Discussion: The Politico, The Caucus, TPMDC and Hot Air
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Kirk Opts Out of Senate Race (Or Maybe He Doesn't)?  —  Rep. Mark Kirk will not run for the Senate from Illinois (or will he?).  Photo by Sabah Arar of AFP/Getty Images  —  Update, 10:30 p.m.: Rep. Mark Kirk and Illinois Republican party chairman Andy McKenna are now engaged in a staring match …
M Peretz / The New Republic:
Christian Believers Would Be Excluded From Government If The Left Liberals Had Their Way  —  I don't know who's behind President Obama's appointment of Dr. Francis S. Collins as head of the National Institutes of Health.  Maybe it was the influence on the president of Nobel Laureate in Medicine …
The Sleuth:
Palin Camp Takes on Levi Johnston  —  Just when you thought the plot couldn't possibly thicken more in the Days of Our Lives in Alaska, it has.  Outgoing Gov. Sarah Palin is now fighting back against claims made by her daughter's ex-boyfriend that she bailed out on Alaska in order to cash in on her fame.
El Paso Times:
Two gay men kicked out of Chico's Tacos restaurant for kissing  —  EL PASO — Two gay men kissed at a Chico's Tacos restaurant, prompting guards to eject them and a police officer to endorse their ouster.  —  Civil-rights lawyers say the security staff was out of line.
Katie Connolly / Newsweek Blogs:
Was Obama Checking Out This Girl's Butt?  —  Photo courtesy Jason Reed / Reuters-Landov  —  You may have seen this rather misleading photo doing the rounds this morning.  The photo appears to depict President Obama checking out the rear of 16 year old Brazilian girl Mayora Taveres.
Newzhound / Media Matters for America:
“Busted?”  Fox News still running with Obama G8 photo story day after Van Susteren debunked it  —  SUMMARY: A day after Fox News host Greta Van Susteren debunked the “lying picture that's going around the Web” of President Obama purportedly “checking out” a young woman at a G8 photo shoot …
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama up big on Pawlenty, Palin  —  Barack Obama's approval rating in Minnesota has dropped six points since April, but that doesn't mean voters are responding too positively to some of his Republican alternatives.  —  54% of voters in the state now give Obama good marks, with 39% saying they disapprove of his job performance.
A. G. Sulzberger / New York Times:
Yoga Faces Regulation, and Firmly Pushes Back  —  It seemed like a good idea at the time.  Ten years ago, with yoga transforming into a ubiquitous pop culture phenomenon from a niche pursuit, yoga teachers banded together to create a voluntary online registry of schools meeting new standards for training instructors.
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Civil Rights Group Divided Over Gay Marriage  —  LOS ANGELES — The Southern Christian Leadership Conference — the 50-year-old civil rights organization founded by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and others — is seeking to remove the president of its Los Angeles chapter in response …
 
 
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