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1:40 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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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 …
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.
Discussion: The Hill, Pajamas Media and RBO
Matthew Weaver / Guardian:
UK and US shut embassies in Yemen after threats
Discussion: Truthdig and PrairiePundit
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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.
Rasmussen Reports:
Partisan Trends  —  Number of Democrats Falls to New Low, Down Six Points Since Election 2008  —  In December, the number of Americans identifying themselves as Democrats fell to the lowest level recorded in more than seven years of monthly tracking by Rasmussen Reports.
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Robin Sidel / Yahoo! Finance:
Banks Roll Out New Check, Card Fees … The nation's banks will be bombarding customers with new fees and products in 2010 as they try to replace more than $50 billion in revenue wiped out by new rules that clamp down on certain business practices.  —  So far, the changes are mostly concentrated in checking accounts and credit cards.
Discussion: Outside The Beltway and Stinque
Jane Merrick / The Independent:
Are planned airport scanners just a scam?  —  New technology that Gordon Brown relies on for his response to the Christmas Day bomb attack has been tested - and found wanting  —  The explosive device smuggled in the clothing of the Detroit bomb suspect would not have been detected …
 
 
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Joe Coscarelli / Mediaite:
Retired Air Force General Suggests Strip Searching All Young Muslim Men
CNN:
Brennan: Failed Christmas bombing not like 9/11
Discussion: Raw Story
David Gardner / Daily Mail:
Spy chiefs turn on President Obama after seven CIA agents …
Discussion: Commentary, Flopping Aces and Nice Deb
Tony Romm / The Hill:
DeMint: WH ‘distracted by other things,’ not focused on security
BBC:
Peru upholds Fujimori's sentence
Discussion: Truthdig
Dina ElBoghdady / Washington Post:
Cash-rich real estate investors trigger bidding wars, frustrate other buyers
Discussion: Don Surber and Calculated Risk
Ben Pershing / Washington Post:
Some foes of health-care bill hope courts will stop legislation
Discussion: Balkinization
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Mark Steyn / National Review:
The Joke's on Us
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Real Estate in Cape Coral, Fla., Is Far From a Recovery
ABCNEWS:
Exclusive: CIA Attacker Driven in From Pakistan
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is considering replacing CEO Bob Bakish with an “Office of the CEO” made up of division heads on an interim basis

Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Howard Stern of SiriusXM snags a surprise interview with President Biden, following reports of Biden's refusal so far to give The NYT a sit-down interview

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Memo: CNN's Poppy Harlow is leaving the network; she joined in 2008 and most recently co-hosted CNN This Morning, which was effectively canceled earlier in 2024

 
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