16 Days

* Bilbray is the repug running in CA50. he has his own lobbying scandals, here, and he was also involved in the dodgy Bajagua deal that Larisa mentioned in the interview yesterday - Cheney and Duncan Hunter are also involved. Larisa's article about it is here

* there's a great interview with amy and sy hersh today

* here's eriposte on Fitz' correction. summary: "This new revelation by Fitzgerald doesn't help Libby or the White House."
one thing i don't get is that there didnt seem to be any public pushback on the content of the story from the egadministration (at least, not before the correction). did they lobby fitz to issue the correction, or did fitz notice it himself becuase the media reports indicated something that he knew to be untrue?
curious.

* juan cole: "Iran is a good ten years away from having a bomb, and since its leaders, including Supreme Jurisprudent Ali Khamenei, say they do not want an atomic bomb because it is Islamically immoral, you have to wonder if they will ever have a bomb"
i wish it was christianally immoral too.

* billmon on "16 Days": "This is just good, solid storytelling. Or to put it another way: If you're going to lie, be concrete. It also carries the added benefit that when the time comes for the administration to deny it exaggerated the Iranian WMD threat to lead America to war, Scotty McClellan's successor will honestly be able to say that the president never used the word "imminent.""