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12:45 PM ET, January 3, 2010

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CNN:
Brennan: Some Guantanamo detainees will go to Yemen  —  Washington (CNN) - The United States still intends to send some Yemeni detainees at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, facility back to Yemen despite a terrorist threat there, President Barack Obama's terrorism czar said Sunday.
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Thomas Joscelyn / Weekly Standard:
Taking Chances on Yemen  —  The American and British embassies in Yemen have been closed reportedly in response to an al Qaeda threat.  The Associated Press reports: … Two related items come immediately to mind — both of them related to former Guantanamo detainees.
Associated Press:
US, UK close Yemen embassies over al-Qaida threats  —  Buzz up!  —  SAN'A, Yemen - The U.S. and Britain closed their embassies in Yemen on Sunday in the face of al-Qaida threats, after both countries announced an increase in aid to the government to fight the terror group linked …
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Alex Isenstadt / The Politico:
Low favorables: Dems rip Rasmussen  —  But critics note that the practice of screening for only those voters regarded as most likely to head to the polls potentially weeds out younger and minority voters — who would be more likely to favor Democrats than Republicans.
Washington Post:
Soft on terror?  Not this president  —  THERE IS, it seems evident, more than enough blame to go around in the botched handling of the botched Christmas bombing.  Not for some Republicans.  With former vice president Richard B. Cheney in the lead, they have embarked on an ugly course to use …
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Matt Corley / Think Progress:
Brennan responds to Cheney: He's either ‘willfully mischaracterized’ Obama or is ‘ignorant of the facts.’  —  Earlier this week, former Vice President Dick Cheney joined the GOP's hypocritical attacks against President Obama's response to the attempted Christmas day terror attack, claiming that …
Telegraph:
Barack Obama is vulnerable on terror - and he knows it
New York Times:
Living on Nothing but Food Stamps  —  CAPE CORAL, Fla. — After an improbable rise from the Bronx projects to a job selling Gulf Coast homes, Isabel Bermudez lost it all to an epic housing bust — the six-figure income, the house with the pool and the investment property.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
OUR STUNTED DISCOURSE.... For over a week now, the right has been working aggressively to go after President Obama over national security policy.  But since the failed Christmas-day plot, conservatives haven't quite come up with a coherent line of attack.  Indeed, nine days later …
Mark Steyn / National Review:
The Joke's on Us  —  The Pantybomber wasn't the big joke.  We are.  —  On Christmas Day, a gentleman from Nigeria succeeded (effortlessly) in boarding a flight to Detroit with a bomb in his underwear.  Pretty funny, huh?  —  But the Pantybomber wasn't the big joke.  The real laugh was the United States government.
Discussion: GINA COBB
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:
From the White House Flickr page.  —  UPDATE: No, I don't think Obama's facial expression is just a fluke of when the shutter went off.  His eyes aren't closed, as some with poor displays seem to think.  Here's a detail from the frame:  —  ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Joseph Gautier writes …
Discussion: Althouse and American Power
BBC:
Peru upholds Fujimori's sentence  —  Peru's Supreme Court has upheld a 25-year jail sentence imposed on former President Alberto Fujimori.  —  The term was handed down last April for ordering the security forces to carry out killings and kidnappings.  —  Fujimori, who led Peru from 1990 to 2000 …
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David Gardner / Daily Mail:
Spy chiefs turn on President Obama after seven CIA agents …
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Tony Romm / The Hill:
DeMint: WH ‘distracted by other things,’ not focused on security
Dina ElBoghdady / Washington Post:
Cash-rich real estate investors trigger bidding wars, frustrate other buyers
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Ben Pershing / Washington Post:
Some foes of health-care bill hope courts will stop legislation
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Peter S. Goodman / New York Times:
Real Estate in Cape Coral, Fla., Is Far From a Recovery
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ABCNEWS:
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