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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/6/2009

Obama Team Consulted Wyden on Panetta Pick -- But Shut Out Feinstein

— tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com — Just spoke to Sen. Ron Wyden's (D-OR) office, where a spokeswoman confirmed what was hinted at this... morning : Wyden had been in contact with the Obama transition team to discuss the Leon Panetta nomination, while incoming Senate intelligence chairman ... (more) Obama Team Consulted Wyden on Panetta Pick -- But Shut ...

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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/13/2009

Wyden Predicts 65-70 Votes For Broad Health Reform

— tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com — To Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), health care reform is the great "unrequited love" of progressives. "It goes... back to Harry Truman ," he told me during a sit-down interview today. "Every 15 years or so, there's an effort to fix health care. Every time, ... (more) Wyden Predicts 65-70 Votes For Broad Health Reform

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hosted.ap.org - 1/10/2009

knoxnews.com: Sports stories by the Associated Press

— hosted.ap.org — WASHINGTON (AP) -- While eager to find out more about the Bush administration's harsh interrogation and detainee... policies, Senate Democrats are hinting that spy agency veterans need not fear that the groundwork is being laid for punishing those who ... (more) knoxnews.com: Sports stories by the Associated Press

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Feinstein and Rockefeller publicly disapprove of Obama CIA choice
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — ... Josh Marshall thinks that maybe Obama intentionally cut Feinstein out of this decision. But to what end? It's one thing to ignore people who are of no consequence (and even that can come back to haunt you), but quite another to take on the incoming chair of a major Senate committee - the very committee, like it or not, that you need in order to get your nominee confirmed. There's an old adage about taking on the king: If you're gonna shoot him, you better kill him. (Works for grizzly bears too.) Difi can screw mightily with Obama over this nomination, and for years to come ...

Few More Thoughts on Panetta/Feinstein
Talking Points Memo — ... The more we dig into this scuffle the more dimensions to the story there appear to be -- beyond the turf issues between the Senate and the executive, you've got issue of intel budgetary reform, the future of the CIA and anti-terror ops, the legacy of torture, the ability of the senate overseers to big foot intelligence operators who lack a clear political power base. Did the Obama team really brief junior members of the intel committee and not the incoming chairman? At each point, the first-bat questions yield more questions than answers. ...