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CIA director says Pelosi received the truth — CIA Director Leon Panetta challenged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's accusations that the agency lied to her, writing a memo to his agents saying she received nothing but the truth. — Panetta said that “ultimately, it is up to Congress to evaluate …
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Panetta to CIA: We told Pelosi the truth — CIA Director Leon Panetta just sent a stern message to his employees defending the agency against Speaker Nancy Pelosi's criticisms. — His message: We didn't mislead Congress; stay focused on your job. — Panetta's note was sent to reporters via the CIA press office.
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Gingrich: Pelosi ‘Lied,’ ‘Despicable,’ ‘Dishonest,’ ‘Vicious,’ ‘Trivial’ — ABC News' Rick Klein reports: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich today offered a blistering critique of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's handling of oversight on harsh interrogation tactics, in a major escalation of partisan attacks being aimed at Pelosi.
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REPORTERS GETTIN' PLAYED — Everybody's talking about Nancy Pelosi's press conference yesterday. I'm listening to Republicans on cable yapping about this contradiction or that contradiction. But what I've seen very little attention to is the fact that Pelosi had an answer that really answers …
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WHERE ARE JIM WRIGHT AND TOM FOLEY?.... One of the big political stories of the day, apparently, is Newt Gingrich's blind-rage attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. I mentioed it earlier, in large part because a) I find it hilarious that Republicans have let a disgraced former Speaker become …
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Huntsman to accept ambassadorship to China — Announcement Saturday » Gary Herbert to become Utah governor — Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. will resign from office to accept a nomination to become the ambassador to China. — Sources tell The Salt Lake Tribune that an announcement is scheduled for Saturday.
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Obama's kinder, gentler military commissions — [Updated below - Update II - Update III (Obama's statement) - Update IV - Update V (ACLU interview) - Update VI - Update VII] — It now appears definitive that the Obama administration will attempt to preserve a “modified” …
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Holy Joe — Arkansas Senate candidate Kim Hendren, who called Chuck Schumer “that Jew” and then explained, “I was attempting to explain that unlike Sen. Schumer, I believe in traditional values, like we used to see on 'The Andy Griffith Show,” now points out that there are at least two Jews …
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More Americans “Pro-Life” Than “Pro-Choice” for First Time — Also, fewer think abortion should be legal “under any circumstances” — PRINCETON, NJ — A new Gallup Poll, conducted May 7-10, finds 51% of Americans calling themselves “pro-life” on the issue of abortion and 42% “pro-choice.”
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Al Gore joins Cheney-Obama feud — In a CNN interview this morning, former Vice President Gore got involved in the political feud over his successor Dick Cheney. — Gore said he wished Cheney would have given President Obama more time in office before criticizing national security policy.
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New ‘prisoner abuse’ photographs emerge despite US bid to block publication — Graphic photographs of alleged prisoner abuse, thought to be among up to 2,000 images Barack Obama is trying to prevent from being released, emerged yesterday. — The shocking images of inmates in Iraq …
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Judge Sotomayor's Appellate Opinions in Civil Cases — Judge Sonia Sotomayor is an obviously serious candidate to serve on the Supreme Court. We have been struck by how the amount of commentary about Judge Sotomayor has ignored the most accessible and valuable source of information: her opinions as an appellate judge.
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G.M. Notifying 1,100 Dealers That They Will Be Dropped — DETROIT — General Motors is telling about 1,100 dealers on Friday that they will lose their franchises by late next year. — Unlike Chrysler, which on Thursday released a list of 789 dealers that it was cutting loose …
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Coal, Electric Industries Big Winners in Climate Bill Deal — Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) (WDCpix) — Even as House Democrats are celebrating their deal with conservative-leaning colleagues on climate change legislation, the real winners under the compromise …
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Dems red-faced over veteran imposter — Democrats are incensed over how a man duped the party and veterans during the '08 campaign. — WASHINGTON — Rick Strandlof, executive director of the Colorado Veterans Alliance and the man most colleagues knew as Rick Duncan, was front and center during …
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Pelosi Accuses CIA of Lying, the NYT Reports . . . on Page A-18 — When the speaker of the House accuses the CIA of deliberately lying to her, you'd think most respectable newspapers would put that story on Page One. And you'd be right. Mike Allen notes that the Washington Post …
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If We're Going to Reveal More Memos. . . . Former VP Dick Cheney has requested the release of additional memos showing that torture and abuse saved American lives by preventing terrorist attacks. If the Obama Administration decides to release these memos, then I suggest they also release statistics …
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Hanson: President Palins First 100 Days — EDITOR'S NOTE: In these messianic times we have slouched into an acceptance of presidential worship, and we need to be reminded from time to time that the media's Obama standard is really no standard at all. The following is a sequel to the recent “Bush Did It.”
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White House Dodges Question About Pelosi — FOX News' Major Garrett was the first and only reporter to ask Press Secretary Robert Gibbs what the White House's reaction is to Nancy Pelosi's accusation that the C.I.A. lied to her. Gibbs said President Obama is “keeping the American people safe by looking forward.”
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Yes, Nancy, There Really Is a God Nemesis — There is an odd sense among Democrats that nemesis simply does not exist. A once-vein-bulging Al Gore who barnstormed the country slurring President Bush by calling him a liar now seems baffled about the precedent he set of a vice president …
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Familiar Obama Phrase Being Groomed as a Slogan — WASHINGTON — President Obama told doctors and insurers on Monday that revamping health care would “lay a new foundation for our economy.” He told graduating college students on Wednesday that “we need to build a new foundation.”