Shirlington's DHS contract

* harpers on hookergate: "In fact, being hired to drive a limousine under Shirlington's DHS contract requires a security clearance, which Baker, given his criminal record, would not be able to obtain. Yet Baker had no problem winning a sole-source contract from the DHS that has his company ferrying around town the most senior government officials charged with protecting the country from a terrorist attack... Did Baker have any other political contacts that helped him win the contracts? And, if so, who?"

* Hunter and Lewis deny playing at the Watergate et al. Apparently they were at home tucking in the kids or something.

* Hersh: "But these guys (in Washington) are talking in revelations. Bush is a revelatory at bedtime - he has to take a nap. It's so childish and simplistic. And don't think he's diminished. He'sstill got two years ... he's not diminished. We've still got a Congress that can't articulate opposition. This is a story where I profoundly hope, at every major point, that I'm wrong...
my government are incapable of leaving (Iraq). They don't know how to get out of Baghdad. We can't get out. In this war, the end is going to be very, very messy - because we don't know how to get out. We're going to get out body by body. I think that scares the hell out of me"

* clemons: "What I learned from this (Iranian) foreign minister last night and a room full of extremely smart people is that there are forces escalating America's and Iran's tensions -- and a single serious miscalculation could dramatically alter America's position in the world -- and yet miscalculations are already abounding."
who are the forces?

* from the server logs - someone at nbc googling: "michael mack and wilkes"