Dana Perino punts on all Plame leak questions because she hasn’t talked to the President about it. We’ll have the video soon.
Late Update: Speaking of things Perino knows nothing about, Tim Grieve gives the rundown on Perino’s admission on NPR over the weekend that she didn’t really know what the Cuban Missile Crisis was when asked about it recently in a White House press briefing.
Ethan Brown joins us this week at TPMCafe’s Book Club to discuss his new book, Snitch: Informants, Cooperators and the Corruption of Justice.
Brown gets us started with a review of how he came to the thesis of his book; namely, that the federal criminal justice system has been skewed by a “cottage industry” of informants that emerged following the introduction of the federal sentencing guidelines.
Participating with Brown in this week’s discussion will be Professor Douglas Berman, Professor Alexandra Natapoff, Professor Mark Kleiman and John McWhorter, columnist for the New York Sun and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
Kleiman’s first post is already up, suggesting that Brown “nearly chokes on his outrage and, as a result, fails to come to grips with the hard choices.” That should get some discussion going.
With Scooter Libby’s appeal abandoned, the White House can finally talk about the Plame leak, right?
We don’t know what was on them, who knew about them, or why they were destroyed, but the CIA torture tapes provoked nearly universal outrage on the Sunday talk shows …
How do letters from members of Congress to the CIA wind up “classified”? Spencer Ackerman takes a look.
Earlier we brought you a portion of today’s White House briefing, focused on Scooter Libby questions. Here is the portion of the briefing on the CIA torture tapes:
The key takeaway is that the White House counsel, presumably at the direction of the Department of Justice, has ordered the preservation of all White House documents pertaining to the CIA tapes.
Obama campaign denies collecting “oppo” research on liberal bloggers.
Ask and ye shall receive…
Late Update: The Rudy Giggle: the next Hillary Cackle?
James K. Glassman to replace Karen Hughes at the State Department.
Doug Feith begins his quest for political rehabilitation by blaming Iraq’s post-invasion morass on Paul Bremer.