Reason Morning Links

Radley Balko | June 16, 2009

• Seven killed in Iran, as hundreds thousands more join protests. Plus, the Washington Post looks at the evidence of election fraud.

• New York Times: Obama's health plan will cost $1 trillion, and still leave tens of millions uninsured.

• Khalid Shaikh Mohammed says he made things up—including bin Laden's whereabouts, and falsely implicating others as being members of Al-Qaeda—to get captors to stop torturing him. Meanwhile, the CIA tortured Abu Zubaida for three months before realizing he wasn't the person they thought he was.

• The English-firsters are back.

• None dare call it an earmark. But it's an earmark.