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2:10 PM ET, January 7, 2010

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Susan Page / USA Today:
National security adviser: Airline bomber report to ‘shock’  —  WASHINGTON — White House national security adviser James Jones says Americans will feel “a certain shock” when they read an account being released Thursday of the missed clues that could have prevented the alleged Christmas Day bomber from ever boarding the plane.
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Sebastian Rotella / Los Angeles Times:
U.S. learned intelligence on airline attack suspect while he was en route  —  U.S. border enforcement officials discovered alleged extremist links in a database while the suspect was headed to Detroit on Christmas Day, new disclosures show.  —  Reporting from Washington …
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Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
Steele's side pursuits drive away big donors  —  Book tour, speeches seen as distractions  —  Some wealthy contributors are shunning the Republican National Committee and donating instead to the other GOP campaign committees or directly to candidates - in many cases because of discontent …
Eric Zimmermann / The Hill:   Steele blasts Republican critics on radio: 'I've had enough of it ... get a life'
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James Gordon Meek / NY Daily News:
NCTC director Michael Leiter remained on ski slopes after Christmas Day airline bombing attempt  —  WASHINGTON - The top official in charge of analyzing terror threats did not cut short his ski vacation after the underwear bomber nearly blew up an airliner on Christmas Day, the Daily News has learned.
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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
The Leiter They Are, The Quicker They Fall?  —  As my learned colleague Shane Harris points out, someone in the administration seems to have the knives out for National Counterterrorism Center Director Michael Leiter.  When the nation's counterterrorism establishment was scrambling to figure …
Discussion: FrumForum
Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2010: Colorado Governor  —  With Ritter Stepping Down, Democratic Prospects Improve in Colorado  —  Now that Colorado Governor Bill Ritter has said he will step down rather than run for reelection, Democrats may be more competitive in this year's gubernatorial race.
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Salazar out in Colorado Governor's race  —  Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will not run for governor of Colorado and instead will endorse Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, according to two sources familiar with the decision.  —  Salazar served as the state's Attorney General for six years before being elected to the Senate in 2004.
Discussion: Federal Eye and Climate Progress
Michelle Malkin:
Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter's bizarre withdrawal
Discussion: Denver Post and Redhot
David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Carlson Launches Right's Answer to HuffPost  —  The offices of The Daily Caller evoke a long-ago era of journalism, circa 2005 or 2006, before the Los Angeles Times closed its big-city bureaus, The Washington Times fired 60 percent of its staff, and magazines from Gourmet to Portfolio shuttered for lack of revenue.
Hugh Son / Bloomberg:
Geithner's New York Fed Told AIG to Limit Swaps Disclosure  —  Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, then led by Timothy Geithner, told American International Group Inc. to withhold details from the public about the bailed-out insurer's payments to banks during the depths …
Andy Barr / The Politico:
Paul: Tea parties won't rebuild GOP  —  Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) said Wednesday night that despite the groundswell of grassroots conservative energy, the tea party movement is not likely to revive the Republican Party.  —  “I don't think you can talk about the tea party as a party,” …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Press corps grills Gibbs: Um, didn't Obama totally shamelessly lie about C-SPAN?  —  Reminds me of the time Tapper coolly yet cruelly pressed Gibbs to defend Biden's sub-moronic advice to New Yorkers about avoiding city subways during swine-flu season.  There is, and can be, no defense here, and everyone in the room knows it.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
White House: We will NOT discuss broken C-Span promise
Gail Collins / New York Times:
Oh, Byron, We Hardly Knew Ye  —  Senator Byron Dorgan is retiring!  I know this comes as a shock to you, people.  Also Senator Chris Dodd!  We are only one week into the new year, and the political world is in turmoil.  It's a wonder we can continue on with our regular duties.
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New York Post:
Obama's budget boss jilts baby mama  —  By RICHARD JOHNSON and JEANE MacINTOSH in NY and GEOFF EARLE in DC  —  President Obama's geeky budget guru has a secret love child — with the Greek shipping heiress he jilted before hooking up with his hot new ABC News fiancée, The Post has learned.
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Jackie Calmes / The Caucus:
A Third Child for Orszag
Daniel Trotta / Reuters:
Goodbye kiss provoked Newark airport scare: report  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The security scare that shut Newark airport for hours and delayed thousands of passengers was caused by a man who slipped into a secure area to give a woman one last goodbye kiss, a newspaper reported on Thursday.
Discussion: Althouse
Bob Barr / The Barr Code:
Critics of Obama way off base on this one  —  Yes — the not-so-bright, would-be terrorist from Nigeria got though international and domestic security mechanisms supposed to have stopped him long before the jerk lit his underwear afire before landing in Detroit.
Discussion: msnbc.com
Charles Lane / PostPartisan:
Dick Morris sees two parties.  I see four.  —  I can't remember a more breathtaking 48 hours in politics since Barack Obama's election in November 2008.  Byron Dorgan is out; Chris Dodd is out; Bill Ritter is out.  Who would have thought that just one year into Obama's promising presidency …
Jodi Kantor / New York Times:
Abortion Foe Defies Party on Health Care Bill  —  MENOMINEE, Mich. — Representative Bart Stupak often endures things others find unbearable.  He crisscrosses a Congressional district so vast that some constituents live eight hours apart and so cold that the beer at his beloved football games sometimes freezes.
SEIU:
An Open Letter to President Barack Obama and Members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in Support of Strong Affordability and Coverage Provisions in Final Health Reform Legislation  —  Dear President Obama and Members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives:
PittsburghLIVE.com:
Sestak puts blame on Democratic leaders for slipping support  —  TRIBUNE-REVIEW  —  Rep. Joe Sestak blames Democratic leaders for the plunge in public support for overhauling the health care system, saying Wednesday they failed to defend proposals that helped carry the party to victories in 2008.
Discussion: Breitbart.tv
Barbarossa / The Jawa Report:
CAIR attorney lies in court motions in Rifqa Bary case, commits perjury about connections to CAIR and Ohio terror mosque  —  The CAIR attorney representing the Bary parents in the Rifqa Bary saga has not only committed a major legal blunder, but has perjured himself in motions recently submitted to the Ohio court.
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Ellen Malcolm Flees Emily's List  —  For a lot of reasons, I believe that electoral support with no lobbying arm is a flawed advocacy model.  But there's no denying that Ellen Malcolm was a superb fundraiser who built Emily's List into a powerful support network for pro-choice female candidates.
Matt Frei / BBC:
Matt Frei's diary  —  The Virginia Five, currently imprisoned in Pakistan, the Nigerian “underpants bomber” whose name everyone - including President Obama - is stumbling over; the Jordanian doctor who turned out to be a double agent with a suicide vest in a CIA compound in Afghanistan …
Discussion: JammieWearingFool and Biased BBC
Stephen Adams / Telegraph:
Snow covers Britain from head to toe  —  As if dusted with icing sugar, this satellite image of Britain shows the full extent of the snow coverage affecting the country.  —  From head to toe there is barely a patch of land not blanketed by the heaviest snowfall in 50 years.
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Obama Admin: All Gitmo-Terror Recidivists May Have Been Released Under Bush  —  One of the big stories of the morning — echoed widely by the news orgs and on the right — is that new government stats show that 20 percent of Gitmo detainees who have been released are thought to have returned to extremist activity.
 
 
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