We’ve know what the “Other Intelligence Activities” referenced in the IG Report were for years. What the IG Report confirms, however, is that these aspects of the program were the ones that disturbed Comey and Goldsmith.

House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and other obstructionists held a press conference on the “Democratic Takeover of Health Care.” What’s their plan again?

There’s been some concern about why we can’t get the National Health Insurance Option (“Public Plan”) until 2013 in the the House and Senate Bills. The reason is the CBO score and the huge political difficulty of paying for the subsidies available to those in the Exchange.

I’ll take deeply ridiculous wingnut analogies for $500, Alex.

The Anchorage Daily News just broke a story about a scandal in Alaska’s administration of the Medicaid programs. It seems federal auditors have suspend parts of the program because of gross mismanagement by Alaska officials that was leaving hundreds untreated and may have resluted in over 200 deaths while patients were waiting for treatment.

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MATT TAIBBI, ROBERT JOHNSON, and MICHAEL LUX on Goldman Sachs’s record profits, the company’s big bonus plans, and how backroom deals and taxpayer dollars were used to resuscitate the banking industry. Are they simply bold risk takers or the most brilliant financial coup makers in the history of capitalism?

The Senate HELP Committee has just passed their health reform bill. As Jon Cohn noted yesterday, this isn’t quite historic, as HELP’s predecessor committee passed a bill out during the health reform fight under Clinton, but taken in context, health reform is moving in a way it never has before.

Speaker Pelosi will be on Crooks & Liars for a live chat today at 1:30 pm ET, so anybody who goes over there might ask her why a system that allows the lobbyists to pay the homeless and turn these important public hearings into a Springsteen concert goes on unchallenged.

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Scissors via visulogik. Love this!

Here are a few selected clips on issues of import as we head toward day three of the hearings. I’ll be liveblogging the hearings this morning, beginning at 9:30 am ET.

– Charlie Savage catches a back and forth that also caught my ear yesterday: