* Turns out that one of the sites used for the secret CIA interrogations and detentions in Europe was a Soviet-era compound that had previously been the only Russian intelligence training school used outside of the Soviet Union. (Hat tip Chris Hayes)
* The Politico and Media Matters for America are locked in a tit-for-tat over whether the Politico shills for Republicans. Guess who says they do and guess who says they don't.
* Is Tom Cruise a political curse? Possibly. Turns out that the characters he portrayed in Top Gun and A Few Good Men were based on real people who later went on to be at the center of major political scandals, Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham and United States Attorney David Iglesias respectively.
* The New Hampshire House of Representatives voted today to repeal the state's parental notification law, in which minors had to notify a parent in order to have an abortion.
* Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Republican critic of the war in Iraq, raised the specter of impeaching President Bush during a recent interview with Esquire magazine.
* The liberal netroots have just claimed a victory in their fight to get Democrats to back out of a primary debate hosted by Fox News and the Nevada Democratic Party because, as they see it, Fox is partisan, not neutral. Well, former Sen. John Edwards has now said he will not attend the debate
* The Huffington Post has a long article by one of the Libby trial jurors, who just happens to be a journalists. Check it out here.
* Jill Carroll, the reporter who was abducted and held captive for 80 days in Iraq, has returned to the Middle East as a correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor.
* The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court has named two people "suspected of being responsible for some of the bloodletting in Darfur," which is actually the first time the international community has taken any steps to judicially stop the genocide.
* Reminder: Tomorrow is not only International Women's Day, but it's also Blog Against Sexism day.
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