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28 May 18 PM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News 911 CALL FOR DONATIONS - It is critical now. We are doing everything in our power to finish this donation drive, and pay the bills. If the situation were not critical we would not say so. Slow down for a moment and hit the donation link. In earnest. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Dan Rather | We Shall Return...  Dan Rather, Dan Rather's Facebook Page Rather writes: "As a deep anxiety permeates our national and global moment, I find myself on this Memorial Day thinking back to the dark early days of World War II when victory in Europe and the Pacific was anything but assured." READ MORE Nunes Feels Russia Probe Blowback at Home   David Siders, Politico   Siders writes: "Devin Nunes, the California congressman whose allegiance to Donald Trump has made him public enemy number one to many Democrats, is beginning to feel the heat ba...

Why John McCain is voting against Gina Haspel to lead the CIA – and why it matters John McCain, seen here in a Hanoi hospital as a prisoner of war, was shot down over Vietnam during a bombing mission on Oct. 26, 1967. (AP)   BY JAMES HOHMANN with Breanne Deppisch and Joanie Greve THE BIG IDEA: What’s legal and what’s moral are different. “Right and wrong” are subjective. Not everyone’s “moral compass” points them to the same true north. Gina Haspel, President Trump’s pick to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, repeatedly declined to say during her Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday whether “enhanced” interrogation techniques were immoral. The controversial methods, which have subsequently been outlawed, were used against terrorism suspects during the years after the Sept. 11 attacks, when Haspel oversaw a secret CIA prison in Thailand. This is why John McCain, who suffered mightily at the hands of his Vietnamese captors during five-and-...