Morning Matters

• The next big policy fight: credit card fees and interest rates.
• The next big foreign policy story: North Korea to put two American reporters on trial.
• The soldier who didn't want to torture -- and killed herself.
• As part of an ACLU Freedom of Information Act request, the Pentagon will soon release more photos of detainee abuse at U.S.-run facilities all over the world.
• The “torturing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed saved Los Angeles” theory doesn’t work chronologically. The plot was allegedly foiled in 2002. Mohammed wasn’t captured until early 2003.
• One of Abu Zubaydah’s interrogators writes an op-ed in the New York Times. He says not only wasn’t torture necessary to obtain the information interrogators needed, it on several occasions produced bad information.
• The interrogation strategy of "learned helplessness."
• Tracking citizens' cell phones without a warrant.
• "Cash-Strapped Cities Try Private Guards Over Police"
• Report: democrats refuse to allow skeptic to testify alongside Gore at Congressional hearing
• A revival of interest in Orientalist art -- among Arabs.
• Illicit radio activity in Brazil.

 
with Hit and Run, Reason
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