Saturday, December 13, 2014

RSN: TransCanada Threatens Nebraska Landowners With Eminent Domain if They Refuse to Sign Right-of-Way Contracts, Elizabeth Warren to Banks: We Should've "Broken You Into Pieces"





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Andrew Sullivan | John Brennan Is Still Lying
CIA director John Brennan. (photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)
Andrew Sullivan, The Dish
Sullivan writes: "The CIA director made one small concession yesterday. Here is his Rumsfeldian rumination on whether torture gave the US any actionable intelligence that 'saved lives.'"
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Elizabeth Warren to Banks: We Should've "Broken You Into Pieces"
Ramsey Cox, The Hill
"Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) again lashed out at big banks for lobbying to repeal financial reforms made after the economic crisis. 'A dangerous provision was slipped into a must pass bill,' Warren said Friday."
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After US Torture Report, Poland Asks What Its Leaders Knew
Christian Lowe and Pawel Sobczak, Reuters
Excerpt: "The disclosure of details about the CIA's brutal interrogation program could provide new leads for Polish prosecutors investigating how much Poland's leaders at the time knew about a secret jail the agency was running in a Polish forest."
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Congress Quietly Bolsters NSA Spying in Intelligence Bill
Dustin Volz, National Journal
Volz writes: "Congress this week quietly passed a bill that may give unprecedented legal authority to the government's warrantless surveillance powers, despite a last-minute effort by Rep. Justin Amash to kill the bill."
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Cleveland Police's Fatal Shooting of 12-Year-Old Tamir Rice Ruled a Homicide
Laura Ly and Jason Hanna, CNN
Excerpt: "The death of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy who was shot last month by a Cleveland police officer who authorities say mistook the child's air gun for a real firearm, has been ruled a homicide, the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office said Friday."
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TransCanada Threatens Nebraska Landowners With Eminent Domain if They Refuse to Sign Right-of-Way Contracts
Nicholas Bergin, Lincoln Journal Star
Bergin writes: "TransCanada is warning Nebraska landowners who refuse to sign right-of-way contracts for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline that the company plans to proceed with eminent domain."
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