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3:35 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 …
Matt Corley / Think Progress:
GOP Responds To Cheney's Concealment Of CIA Program With Strawmen And Shrugged Shoulders  —  Earlier this week, seven House Democrats on the Intelligence Committee released a letter revealing that CIA Director Leon Panetta had “recently testified to Congress that the agency concealed information …
Washington Post:
Democrats May Investigate Secret Program  —  House Democrats said yesterday that they expect to launch a formal investigation into a secret CIA program that was not disclosed to Congress for almost eight years, a probe that could entangle senior Bush administration officials who oversaw intelligence issues.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The Holder trial balloon: Abu Ghraib redux  —  (updated below - Update II)  —  Yesterday, I treated this new Newsweek report that Eric Holder is “leaning toward appointing a prosecutor to investigate the Bush administration's brutal interrogation practices” as something to celebrate.
Andrea Elliott / New York Times:
A Call to Jihad From Somalia, Answered in America
Discussion: Sweetness & Light
Pamela Hess / Associated Press:
Report: Bush surveillance program was massive
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 …
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 …
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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.
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).
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Will ObamaCare threaten medical innovation?
Discussion: Jules Crittenden
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.
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: The Swamp and Los Angeles Times
 
 
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