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Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Cheat Sheet - Will Obama Spring Israeli Spy From U.S. Jail?


April 01, 2014
DECISION TIME

With the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks on the verge of collapse, the White House is taking a second look at releasing Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard from an American prison, reports Josh Rogin. It comes after years of President Obama resisting Israeli requests to free the notorious spy.

Overboard

The Central Intelligence Agency misled the government and the American public on the severity of many of its interrogation techniques, a new report from the Senate Intelligence Committee has concluded. The 6,300-page report chronicles dozens of detainees and details how the CIA has a history of utilizing brutal interrogation methods to gain little, if any, significant information. There are also documented cases of CIA officers employing harsh techniques even after the detainee had released information. The report also includes previously undisclosed abuses, including reportedly dunking a terrorism suspect in tanks of ice water at a detention site in Afghanistan.

TIK TOK

The final day to sign up for President Obama's signature health-care overhaul saw a big rush. The big push came despite the tortuous path of now-routine technical glitches and deadline extensions, as well as staunch opposition by the GOP. So far, the numbers look good, and people kept enrolling hours before the deadline Monday night, but the jury's still out on whether this will be the success promised by its supporters. Ben Jacobs and Olivia Nuzzi report.

ABOUT TIME

Just in time for the release of a new book by Michael Lewis on the shady practice of high-speed trading, the FBI has announced that it is looking into whether those firms are committing insider trading by acting on information unavailable to others. The probe, launched roughly a year ago, is examining the practice of placing trades and then canceling them, which can create the mistaken appearance of market movement. "There is a big concern that high-frequency traders are getting material nonpublic information ahead of others and trading on it," said an FBI spokesman. Other government entities, including the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, are looking into relationships between high-speed traders and exchanges to see if the traders are getting better treatment at the expense of investors.

WITW

Tina Brown says the Vogue cover featuring sex-tape-star-turned-media-mogul Kim Kardashian and rapper Kanye West is no scandal. But on the even of the Women in the World Summit, she has a few ideas about women who really are cool.


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