military coup by media

* jeralyn: "Ari Fleischer is a very dangerous witness for Scooter Libby. ... I believe Fleischer has cut a deal, possibly for immunity, to testify against Libby. Libby in his late night filing (pdf) Wednesday clearly signaled his intent to go after Fleischer."

* Neil Young: New Song 'Impeach the President' (link)

* digby:

"It's obvious to me that this call for Rumsfeld's resignation by six generals is about stopping this operation in Iran first and foremost. It is not a coincidence that the first salvo came from Sy Hersh last Sunday.

The question I had to ask myself was whether it was really about the nuclear thing or something more that had the military up in arms...

And the beauty of it is, the clandestine operation on which it depends has been folded into the Pentagon and has no congressional oversight... This makes Iran-Contra look like the Canuck letter.

no shit. read the rest about the ' coup by media.' and let's not forget that first feith, and now edelman, are trying to shut down the civilian office responsible for oversight of covert ops. (link)

* krugman: "Compared with the deceptions that led us to war, deceptions about taxes can seem like a minor issue. But it's all of a piece. In fact, my early sense that we were being misled into war came mainly from the resemblance between the administration's sales pitch for the Iraq war — with its evasions, innuendo and constantly changing rationale — and the selling of the Bush tax cuts."