Morning Matters

• Senate report says Bush officials were planning toture techniques months before getting rubber stamp from the Office of Legal Counsel; also says Bush political appointees pushed for torture of detainees to reveal connections between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda.
• Obama shifts, now says he's open to investigation, possible prosecution of Bush administration officials who provided the legal framework for torture.
• Big Apple fans eschewing top-dollars seats at shiny, new, taxpayer-funded Mets and Yankee stadiums.
• Supreme Court hears arguments in the school strip search case. NY Times summary doesn't look promising. "Several justices appeared troubled by the search, but also seemed loath to second-guess school officials confronted with a variety of dangerous substances."
• Acting CFO of Freddie Mac apparently killed himself this morning.
• FBI agents accused of turning surveillance equipment on dressing rooms to watch teen girls change clothes in a West Virginia mall.
• Inspector General report says TARP program susceptible to mass waste and fraud.
• Stunning Saturn
• Nicotine chewing gum "could cause cancer"
• The story behind the fabulously precise hack of Time magazine’s “most influential people” poll, and how The Time Empire Strikes Back
• This just seems like a really bad idea, doesn’t it?
• Bulldog beauty pageant.
• Two St. Louis cops accused of lying on multiple search warrant affidavits.

with Hit and Run, Reason
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