free judy miller, dont flee judy miller

* "Judith Miller, The New York Times reporter who has been jailed since July 6 for refusing to identify a source, has been released... She was released after she had a telephone conversation with the Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, sources said. In that conversation, Libby reaffirmed that he had released Miller from a promise of confidentiality more than a year ago, sources said."(link)
sweet sweet jeebus. delicious times are these. do u think that phone call was recorded?

* newsweek: " The slain Abu Azzam may not have been Zarqawi’s top deputy after all... U.S. intelligence officials and counterterrorism analysts are questioning whether a slain terrorist—described by President Bush today as the “second-most-wanted Al Qaeda leader in Iraq”—was as significant a figure as the Bush administration is claiming." (link)
surprise surprise. (is the msm actually waking up? maybe soon they'll ask whether zarqawi even exists)

* " The number of Iraqi battalions capable of combat without U.S. support has dropped from three to one, the top American commander in Iraq told Congress Thursday, prompting Republicans to question whether U.S. troops will be able to withdraw next year." (link)
what a disaster.

* it looks as though the Darby pix from abu grahib will be released in 20 days - unless gonzales calls for States Secret Protection or some other nonsense. (link)

* "MR. McCLELLAN: The Republican Party is a party of ideas, and a party of finding solutions to the pressing problems before the American people. The President believes that we are here to lead and to solve problems. That is why we are pressing ahead on the important priorities to get things done for the American people. And that's what we will continue to do. You have a united congressional leadership in the Republican Party that is determined to continue getting things done for the American people, and that's exactly what we'll do. And the President will continue leading on the highest priorities facing the American people. That's what we have continued to do." (link)
phew. nice work scotty.

* william arkin: "One can only wonder at this point what information the Army's Land Information Warfare Activity (LIWA) really collected on behalf of Able Danger that necessitated a complete purge and destruction of its entire database." (link)
emphasis, tantalisngly, in the original.

* hilight from the server logs: someone from Naval Postgraduate School in monterey searched for "marine corps recruiting lies"