hilzoy calls for impeachment

* hilzoy calls for impeachment. the reason this time? internal spying. i think atrios seems to also call for impeachment. georgia10 seems to think that this issue warrants impeachment too. john aravosis, too.
how many separate reasons do we need to impeach them?

* will bunch: "Voters could have gone to the polls on Election Day, Nov. 4, 2004, knowing that Bush was spying on Americans, that a key White House aide was charged with felonies, and that the initial rationales for Iraq were bogus" (link)
he also mentions one of my favourite episodes - the bumping of the 60 Minutes nigeranium story for the Rathergate story.

* yesterday i mentioned that it looked like kidan got himself a good deal. heres some more detail: "Kidan pleaded guilty to conspiracy and fraud; four other felony counts were dropped. He could get up to 10 years in federal prison at sentencing March 1." (link)
they dropped 4 counts. i wonder what they were.

* bill keller: ""Second, in the course of subsequent reporting we satisfied ourselves that we could write about this program -- withholding a number of technical details -- in a way that would not expose any intelligence-gathering methods or capabilities that are not already on the public record. " (link)
right. it took them 12 months to edit out some sentences from the real, full, story.

* ken lay is apparently standing trial next month. man, the courts will be bizzy next year...

* rawstory has another article up - this time outlining the focus on vnovak and the rove-hadley email. as an aside, afaik, there was only one document that was given to fitz after the official document request - the rove-hadley email. its not like they took a second look and found a bunch of stuff that might have been relevant - nope - the only relevant document they missed was the one that proved that rove spoke to cooper. not only that, the email has been of frantic import for 18 months, as has been the issue about how the email was discovered - and yet luskin decided not to mention vnovak until fitzmas eve.

* froomkin: "Dana Milbank wrote in The Post yesterday that as of Wednesday, Bush had asserted fully 102 times that Congress saw "the same intelligence" about Iraq's weapons as he did.
But I guess that doesn't make it so."