As Spencer Ackerman reports, yet another State Department official resigns in the wake of the Blackwater fiasco.
You may have caught our Republican AdStravaganza last week. Well if you thought we would let the Democrats skate without an AdStravaganza of their own, you better think again. Without further ado …
Who might be in President Mike Huckabee’s cabinet? People like Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) as secretary of defense.
On the ground in Iowa, Obama and Hillary tangle over the out-of-state student vote.
So much for getting anything out of the White House on the Plame leak.
When Scooter Libby dropped the appeal of his conviction, on Monday, the White House’s reliable old excuse for not talking about its role in the case–that it was inappropriate to comment while criminal proceedings were still pending–seemed to vanish. Still, at the briefing that day, White House spokesperson Dana Perino told reporters she didn’t have any comment because she hadn’t talk to the President yet.
So back reporters went to Perino yesterday. Via Al Kamen:
At the press “gaggle” yesterday, Perino was asked if she had “had a chance to talk with the president about the Scooter Libby case.”
“I have not,” she said, “but I did talk to our counsel’s office because I forgot that there is a civil case that is pending on this issue. I did forget. The Wilsons have filed a case in civil court, it was dismissed, and they are on appeal.”
The civil case? D’oh.
Hillary’s New Hampshire co-chair questions Obama’s electability because of his past drug use.
Budget battles . . . CIA torture tapes (no comment). . . and the Libby case (no comment), in today’s White House press briefing: