Nancy Pelosi’s accusation that the CIA misled her in 2002 when she was briefed on the possible use of harsh interrogation techniques in connection with the war in Afghanistan has raised eyebrows among right-wing commentators and politicians:

The top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee is calling House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s accusation that the CIA misled her and others about waterboarding a massive attack on the nation’s intelligence community.

Sen. Kit Bond of Missouri on Friday contradicted Pelosi’s claim and called her criticism a tragedy. Bond said in a “Today” show interview that he reviewed the CIA’s material and it was clear that she had been informed about the enhanced interrogation method.

However, Bond said he was not with Pelosi when the spy agency briefed her.

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Fresh from their close encounter with toaster demons, WorldNetDaily is back above the flag with a shocking! revelation that will cause you to question the very nature of life itself.

And once again, we must advise you to sit down and move all sharp objects beyond your reach. We cannot accept responsibility for your behavior once you learn the shocking truth:

John Lennon made a deal with — the Devil.

We know! Totally unexpected. But it must be true, because somebody wrote a book about it — somebody who after careful study reached the conclusion that there’s no other possible explanation for the success of the Beatles:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJQtDnPVjZc

“I think it’s important to get our elected officials on the record.” How refreshing to watch someone commit journalism, on Fox or elsewhere. Guess that’s all we get for the year.

Hoekstra says waterboarding was legal, claims ‘there is a wide range of waterboarding.’ [Think Progress]

Hysterical.  Professor Ed:

Best plagiarism story ever: guy copies paper directly off of a website (a simple cut-and-paste job) and subsequently submits a paper with html tags in the text. So at the end of paragraphs the reader would find phrases like [imgsrc=”nixon_main.jpg” align=”center”].

And yes, he actually had the nuts to argue with me about my shocking, tenuous conclusion that he had plagiarized.

Somewhere on the Eastern Shore of Maryland …

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All the lines are vintage Rummy except two. And no, I have no idea why I did this.

There are reasons why some people would prefer that certain photos not enter the public record. Seeing them would only compel action.

Obama seeks to block release of abuse photos [AP/TPM]

Tape shows JFK fumed over rights pressures [AP/USA Today, 2005]

Birmingham campaign [Wikipedia]

We were just kicking the tires, we swear. This is not the same as Wonkette discovering bling. But the dude sounds like he’s about to tell us about the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and we can’t let it rest.