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12:55 PM ET, July 12, 2009

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Scott Shane / New York Times:
Cheney Is Linked to Concealment of C.I.A. Project  —  The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, the agency's director, Leon E. Panetta …
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Carrie Johnson / Washington Post:
Probe of Alleged Torture Weighed  —  Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is leaning toward appointing a criminal prosecutor to investigate whether CIA personnel tortured terrorism suspects after Sept. 11, 2001, setting the stage for a conflict with administration officials who would prefer …
Daniel Klaidman / Newsweek:
Obama doesn't want to look back, but Attorney General Eric Holder may probe Bush-era torture anyway. … From the magazine issue dated Jul 20, 2009  —  It's the morning after Independence Day, and Eric Holder Jr. is feeling the weight of history.  The night before, he'd stood on the roof …
Pamela Hess / Associated Press:
Report: Bush surveillance program was massive  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration built an unprecedented surveillance operation to pull in mountains of information far beyond the warrantless wiretapping previously acknowledged, a team of federal inspectors general reported Friday …
Washington Post:
Democrats May Investigate Secret Program
Discussion: The Page
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
McCain: Palin not a quitter  —  Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) defended his former running mate Sarah Palin on Sunday, saying she wasn't a quitter and that her decision to resign as governor was consistent with his own leadership qualities.  —  McCain said Palin did not tell him she was resigning …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
EXCLUSIVE: Palin plans to stay in politics  —  Brushing aside the criticisms of pundits and politicos, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said she plans to jump immediately back into the national political fray — stumping for conservative issues and even Democrats — after she prematurely vacates her elected post at month's end.
WCBS-TV:
Teen Girl Falls In Open Manhole While Texting  —  Alexa Longueira Suffers Deep Cuts, Bruises After Landing In Raw Sewage, Blames DEP For Leaving Hole Unattended  —  NEW YORK (CBS) ― It was an accident waiting to happen — an open sewer and a 15-year-old girl who was texting while she walked.
Barack Obama / Washington Post:
Rebuilding Something Better  —  Nearly six months ago, my administration took office amid the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression.  At the time, we were losing, on average, 700,000 jobs a month.  And many feared that our financial system was on the verge of collapse.
Frank Rich / New York Times:
She Broke the G.O.P. and Now She Owns It  —  SARAH PALIN and Al Sharpton don't ordinarily have much in common, but they achieved a rare harmonic convergence at Michael Jackson's memorial service.  When Sharpton told the singer's children it was their daddy's adversaries, not their daddy …
John O'Connor / The State:
Why tide against Sanford ebbed  —  Governor's wife, political realities helped put calls for resignation to rest  —  The shock had subsided.  —  Then Gov. Mark Sanford set the scandal ablaze again, saying he considered his Argentine lover his “soul mate” and saw her more often than he originally had said.
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Washington Examiner:
Glenn Reynolds on the hidden cost of national health care  —  Lots of people are beginning to question the cost of President Barack Obama's healthcare “reform” plans, and with good reason.  (Just compare the original projections for Medicare with what it wound up costing in reality).
Discussion: Hot Air, TigerHawk and Don Surber
Brad Stone / Bits:
Twitter Nabs a Legal Eagle from Google  —  Twitter, the popular micro-blogging service, has stolen a prominent Google lawyer.  —  The startup has hired Alexander Macgillivray, associate general counsel for products and intellectual property at Google, to be its general counsel, according to a person with knowledge of the hiring.
Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
In Supreme Court Pick Sotomayor, an Insider's Rise Meets an Outsider's Doubts  —  In Sotomayor, an Insider's Achievements Meet an Outsider's Insecurities  —  Within weeks of arriving in New Haven as a law student in the fall of 1976, Sonia Sotomayor fell in with a few first-year classmates whose ascent …
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Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
Nominee Wraps Up Rehearsals
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
 
 
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Liberal Policies Paving Way for Higher Taxes
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Andrea Elliott / New York Times:
A Call to Jihad From Somalia, Answered in America
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Michael Moore Gets It Wrong
Emma Graham-Harrison / The Independent:
Crackdown or conciliation: China's politburo split over response to Uighur violence
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Frank Lombardi / NY Daily News:
Shhh!  Mayor Bloomberg quietly authorizes $69 million in bonuses …
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Doctor Zero / Hot Air:
A Seemingly Very Nice Middle-Class Girl
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