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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had been pushing for a "truth commission" to investigate the CIA's use of "enhanced interrogation" techniques like waterboarding - until Republicans started shining the spotlight on Pelosi herself. Now she is not so adamant.Spokesman Brendan Daly told me that Pelosi wants a truth commission, "but she still realizes the political reality" - as in the opposition of President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.The rest of the reality may well be this: Pelosi knew that White House lawyers had sanctioned waterboarding in 2002 - and did not protest.According to the Senate Intelligence committee, the CIA...

Rielle Hunter, a 42-year-old who recently gave birth to a girl who Edwards says is not his, has long been said to be the inspiration for Alison Poole, the "cocaine-addled, sexually voracious" 20-year-old lead character in "My Life Story," Jay McInerney's novel of 1980s excess and degradation.