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Rolling Stones
“Love in Vain”

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An op-ed in the New York Times by Morris Davis, former chief prosecutor for the military commissions at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
TWENTY-SEVEN years ago, in the final days of the Iran hostage crisis, the C.I.A.’s Tehran station chief, Tom Ahern, faced his principal interrogator for the last time. The interrogator said the abuse Mr. Ahern had [...]

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And where’d it go? To the federal school lunch programs. February 2006? We’re talking about 2 years ago here. WTF?
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Sunday recalled 143 million pounds of frozen beef from a Southern California slaughterhouse that is being investigated for mistreating cattle.
Officials [...]

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FLU SHOTS NOT WORKING
HOMELAND SECURITY COMMISSIONS HUMAN INCAPACITATION DEVICE
RUSSIA: US SATELLITE SHOT A WEAPONS TEST
KOSOVO DECLARES INDEPENDENCE FROM SERBIA
KURDS IMPOSE LIMITS TO WHERE ARABS CAN LIVE IN IRAQ’S NORTH
ICKES WAS AGAINST SEATING DELEGATES BEFORE HE WAS FOR SEATING DELEGATES
DALLAS MORNING NEWS BREAKS GAG ORDER, PRINTS SIBEL EDMONDS STORY
MORE ON SIBEL EDMONDS HERE
2008 BLUES [...]

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From an interview with Michael McConnell, Director of National Intelligence, on NPR yesterday (via Irregular Times):
Renee Montaigne: Mr. McConnell, the Bush administration says that if the Protect America Act isn-t made permanent, it will tie your hands, intelligence hands, especially when it comes to new threats. But isn-t it true that any surveillance [...]

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SUNDAY TALK
MTP: Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY, Clinton supporter); Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL, Obama supporter); Bloomberg & The Week’s Margaret Carlson; Bloomberg’s Al Hunt; Robert Novak; National Review’s Kate O’Beirne; PBS’s Mark Shields
FTN: David Axelrod of the Obama campaign; Howard Wolfson of the Clinton campaign; Richmond Mayor Douglas Wilder (D-VA); LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D-CA); Politico’s [...]

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