Surging Huckabee has bullseye painted all over him.

Romney takes aim.

The CIA official who ordered the destruction of the torture tapes apparently acted on advice of CIA counsel–though not the CIA’s general counsel. Does that leave a paper trail for investigators?

Remember those guys? They were the paintballers trash talking about bringing down the Sears Tower.

Turns out a jury is having a hard time with the case. Go figure.

Brian Katulis, at TPMCafe’s Table for One, blogging from Pakistan on Pakistan.

The Pentagon blocked the former chief prosecutor at Gitmo, Col. Morris Davis, from testifying this morning to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Here’s how Sen. Dianne Feinstein explained it at the opening of the hearing:

“We assured the administration that Colonel Davis would not be asked about open and pending cases. But we were told simply that Colonel Davis was active duty military, and because he was active duty military, they could issue an order he had to follow.”

I’m tempted to ask, Can they do that? But they just did. So, yes, apparently they can. But is it legally permissible for the Pentagon to order an officer not to testify to Congress. Is the key here that Morris was invited to testify and not subpoenaed?

We’ll have more on this shortly.

So the Pentagon ordered Col. Morris not to testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee this morning, but it’s okay for him to write an op-ed in today’s LA Times and do an interview with CBC Radio One’s The Current that aired this morning?

[Thanks to Canadian Reader GK for the tip.]

The Washington Post is back on the Edwards $400 haircut beat, with two mentions today alone.

Last week, Josh mentioned the heated internal debate here at TPM over Judith Nathan’s NYPD-escorted dog walking.

The question centered on what precisely it meant when it was reported that the cops providing security to Rudy’s mistress-turned-wife “even helped to walk her dog.” Was that actually walking the dog, walking with her as she walked the dog, or–as many readers suggested–scooping poop as she she walked the dog.

Well, we have visual evidence now, via Meet the Press, where Rudy made an appearance Sunday. Host Tim Russert broadcast this photo and IDed the gentleman behind Nathan as a NYC policeman:

Unless other evidence emerges, this means that our fearless muckraker Paul Kiel wins the debate, much to my chagrin.

Larry Johnson disentangles “Torture TapeGate.”

Greg Mitchell, on David Brooks’ claim that we’re now in a “postwar” period.