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12:15 PM ET, August 22, 2009

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Newsweek:
Report Reveals CIA Conducted Mock Executions  —  A long-awaited report on post-9/11 interrogation tactics will reveal harrowing new details about treatment of suspected terrorists. … A long-suppressed report by the Central Intelligence Agency's inspector general to be released next week reveals …
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Washington Post:
CIA Used Gun, Drill in Interrogation  —  IG Report Describes Tactics Against Alleged Cole Mastermind  —  CIA interrogators used a handgun and an electric drill to try to frighten a captured al-Qaeda commander into giving up information, according to a long-concealed agency report due …
Washington Post:
Constitutionality of Health Insurance Mandate Questioned  —  President Obama has called for a serious and reasoned debate about his plans to overhaul the health-care system.  Any such debate must include the question of whether it is constitutional for the federal government to adopt and implement the president's proposals.
Discussion: Hot Air and The Glittering Eye
Jeff Mason / Reuters:
Obama to raise 10-year deficit to $9 trillion  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration will raise its 10-year budget deficit projection to approximately $9 trillion from $7.108 trillion in a report next week, a senior administration official told Reuters on Friday.
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
10-year budget deficit grows by $2 trillion
James R. Horney / cbpp.org:
Five Keys to Understanding New 2009 Deficit Estimates
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
'I've never seen anything like this'  —  MARIANNA, Fla. — Rep Allen Boyd (D-Fla.) is a skilled politician who has pretty much seen it all — a Deep South Democrat who's managed to dispatch all opponents in his conservative-leaning Panhandle district since winning election in 1996.
Discussion: Hot Air and Wake up America
New York Times:
Lutheran Group Eases Limits on Gay Clergy  —  After an emotional debate over the authority of Scripture and the limits of biblical inclusiveness, leaders of the country's largest Lutheran denomination voted Friday to allow gay men and lesbians in committed relationships to serve as members of the clergy.
Steve Herman / Voice of America:
Taliban Reportedly Cut Off Fingers of 2 Voters  —  An Afghan election monitoring group says Taliban insurgents have made good on their threat to chop off ink-stained fingers of voters.  Meanwhile, international observers are rendering a tentative verdict on the electoral process …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Raw Story
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
A Loyal Opposition  —  Defeating Obamacare and the Taliban.  —  Six months into the Obama presidency, conservatives and Republicans have occasion for some good cheer.  —  It's not simply that key and noxious elements of Obama's legislative agenda are in serious trouble.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Laurie Ure / CNN:
Report details misconduct at VA department  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — While hundreds of thousands of disability claims lay backlogged at the Department of Veterans Affairs, thousands of technology employees at the department received $24 million in bonuses, a new report says.
Doug / GraniteGrok:
Milk Carton Campaign a Success!  Shea Porter to hold town meetings next Saturday  —  Multiple sources, including James Pindell at NHPoliticalReport.com, are telling GraniteGrok that our Congresswoman Carol Shea Porter has finally set up some town hall meetings where she will actually meet with real live constituents face to face.
Fox News:
‘Tea Party’ Organizers Plan Anti-'Obamacare' Rallies Across the Country  —  The same groups who made the “tax tea parties” possible in April are planning anti-Obamacare rallies across the country Saturday in all 435 congressional districts.  —  FOXNews.com
William Ehart / Washington Times:
U.S. adds clerks to clear clunkers  —  Volunteers include FAA  —  The U.S. Transportation Department, billions of dollars behind in paying “cash-for-clunkers” rebates, has hired private contractors and solicited volunteers from the Federal Aviation Administration and its own executive ranks to work overtime to clear the backlog.
John Harrington / Associated Press:
Baucus defends bipartisan health reform  —  Sen. Max Baucus on Thursday defended his insistence on a bipartisan process for delivering a health care reform bill to the floor of the Senate, claiming that an approach involving both Republicans and Democrats has the best chance for success …
Aidan Jones / Guardian:
Iran chooses wanted man for cabinet  —  Iran's new defence minister sought by Interpol for 1994 bombing of Jewish centre  —  A former commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards has been nominated by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's president, to head the country's defence ministry …
Discussion: Counterterrorism Blog
The Politico:
Obama's Big Bang could go bust  —  Barack Obama's Big Bang is beginning to backfire, as his plans for rapid, once-in-a-generation overhauls of energy, financial regulation and health care are running into stiff resistance, both in Washington and around the country.
CNN:
Liberal bloggers admit conservatives have upper hand on Twitter  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - Liberal bloggers established online political activism, besting their conservative rivals during President George W. Bush's eight years in office.  But conservatives are now finding great success 140 characters at a time.
Discussion: Liberal Values and NewsBusters.org
Kenneth Lovett / NY Daily News:
Paterson says reason voters want him to step aside is race … ALBANY - Gov. Paterson blamed a racist media Friday for trying to push him out of next year's election - launching into an angry rant that left even some black Democrats shaking their heads.  —  “The whole idea is to get me not to run …
Conor Clarke / The Daily Dish:
Politico Discredits Moral Case For Health Care Reform  —  Politico writes: … I would be quite curious to hear how the “moral” argument for health-care reform has been discredited.  Actually, I would be curious to hear how one would go about discrediting such a moral argument at all.
Discussion: Wonkette
Benjamin Spillman / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
STATEWIDE POLL: Poll suggests Gibbons a guaranteed election loser  —  Two preferred choices not even seeking office yet  —  Talk about a mandate for change, Nevadans' favorite candidates for governor aren't even running for office.  —  Respondents to a statewide poll said if the governor's election …
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
Obama Faults GOP in Health Debate
Discussion: Dean's World and Boston Globe
Jackie Kucinich / Roll Call:
Republicans Say Democrats Are Censoring More GOP Mail
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James Rosen / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
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Discussion: Hot Air, QandO and Moonbattery