the cheney rumsfeld cabal

* david corn: "The grand jury is scheduled to expire October 28, and lawyers tell me that most prosecutors do not like to wait until the last day of a grand jury's term to announce indictments. But it's possible. It's also possible that new information could cause Fitzgerald to extend his inquiry and impanel a new grand jury. " (link)

* simbaud: "When Mr. Bush moved into the White House in January, Republicans celebrated because, as they liked to say, the adults were in charge. We hope they will indulge us if we feel like celebrating when the adults have been charged." (link)
lol

* via firedoglake, eric alterman describes how the cheney administration came up with the plan of using Machurian Judy. i suggest you read it.

* "In a scathing attack on the record of President George W. Bush, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to Mr Powell until last January, said: “What I saw was a cabal between the vice-president of the United States, Richard Cheney, and the secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, on critical issues that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made." (link)