andy card's children?

* Ron has a new article at rawstory about how Cheney usurped Rice's NSA power in the first weeks of the administration

* Henry Waxman:

"Last week, senior Republican leaders in the House of Representatives stymied two separate bipartisan attempts to improve legal protections for government whistleblowers who work with classified information...
After the bill passed out of Committee, Reps. Waxman and Davis asked that the national security whistleblower provisions be considered as amendments on the House floor to two pieces of legislation: (1) the intelligence authorization bill considered on April 26; and (2) the lobbying reform bill considered on April 27. In both cases, senior Republicans on the Rules Committee refused to allow the amendments to even go to the House floor for a vote."

* "Earlier today at the White House Press Briefing, Scott McClellan, the outgoing press secretary, denied reports that the U.S. is employing terrorist groups for special operations in Iran, RAW STORY has found." (link)

* did anyone understand Colbert's gag that scotty was gonna spend more time with andy card's children? was colbert suggesting that Card was going to jail and wouldnt be able to spend time with them?

* simon in the comments points to this:

""The real tragedy of this," Drumheller says, "is if they had let the weapons inspectors play out, we could have had a Gulf War I-like coalition, which would have given us the 300,000 to 400,000 troops needed to secure the country after defeating the Iraqi army.""

that's too absurd.

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