brithume

* froomkin: "Now that the White House has demonstrated the ability to respond in the conventional way to criminal charges filed against a member of its senior staff (claude allen), it becomes even more abundantly clear that in the Libby matter, it assertively chose not to do so."

* froomkin on libby/walton: "But there may be no such thing as agreeing to a little graymail. In an affidavit filed last week, the CIA insisted that summarizing all the material could actually be more laborious than simply collecting it -- and that even "a list of topics" would disclose top secret information and would be subject to a potential claim of executive privilege."

* michael barone is one brithume talking about the 06 House election. Dems need to pick up 15 seats and there are about 21 Repug seats that are 'in play' (and about 11 dem seats in play). sheesh.

* partial wapo A1 headline: "...Bush Administration Tries to Build Opposition to Theocracy"
if only.

* brithume ran a piece saying that John Burns from NYT is "not as pessimistic as usual" about iraq (and of course they put the "not as pessimistic as usual" text on the screen)

* juan cole: "John Burns of the New York Times, always a clear-eyed and tough analyst, has turned pretty decisively pessimistic about Iraq's prospects."