shoebombs

* broder: "The obduracy of the administration in continuing to refuse such open invitations to seek a clear statutory authority for this electronic monitoring is almost impossible to understand -- unless Bush and Vice President Cheney are simply trying to establish the precedent that they can wage this war on terrorism without any recourse to Congress."

* emptywheel on the Waas article: " I said last week that Libby, then Chief of Staff and National Security Adviser to the Veep and Assistant to the President, likely had two superiors, if you are referring to superiors in the plural. Dick and Bush. Is that who Fitzgerald is alluding to, when he notes that Libby says his superiors ordered him to leak classified information?"

* when were cockpit doors requiring shoebombs added to airplanes? do shoe bombs hurt your feet?