'we cannot build a unified country by playing on fear'

* shuster: "Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is now arguing in court documents that Vice President Cheney personally directed his office's focus on Valerie Wilson's role at the CIA. And to prove it at Scooter Libby's perjury trial, Fitzgerald says he will introduce as evidence this copy of a column by Wilson's husband, administration critic Joe Wilson, that has Cheney's handwritten notes at the top."

* "The FBI acknowledged late Monday that it is increasingly seeking reporters’ phone records in leak investigations.
“It used to be very hard and complicated to do this, but it no longer is in the Bush administration,” said a senior federal official." (link)

* bush: 'we cannot build a unified country by playing on fear'

* froomkin:

"But what kind of person would think that a secret mission to the landlocked, impoverished and generally benighted country of Niger is a junket? Either someone quite delusional -- or someone so caught up in the desire to punish and ruin his enemies that the preposterousness of the accusation doesn't really make a difference."

* froomkin:

""Mrs. Bush complained that when her husband's popularity was high, newspapers did not put that on the front page. Now it was low, they took great delight in highlighting the fact."