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18 June 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News WE HAVE AN IMMEDIATE PROBLEM ON DONATIONS RIGHT NOW - It’s Monday morning and we have only a handful of very small donations. At this pace we will have a very bad day of fundraising. That is something we cannot afford at this stage. This is a “right now” problem. No choice but to get this moving, no matter who that offends. Who can donate? Seriously. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! FOCUS: Frank Rich | Trump's Summit Spectacle Was Just a Momentary Distraction From His Bigger Problems  Frank Rich, New York Magazine Rich writes: "What is going to dawn on Trump now is that in television terms the summit was only a limited series while the Mueller inquiry, and its many attendant subplots, is an open-ended series with no season finale yet in view." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on  Facebook  and  Twitter Update My Monthly Dona...

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-...