You probably know that we’ve been pretty aggressively covering the Stevens’ investigation for months now — from his freebie home renovation courtesy of now-convicted briber Bill Allen to all the other corruption and shenanigans Stevens is being investigated for.

Now in a new interview Sen. Stevens (R-AK) is saying that if he comes out of the investigation in one piece he’s going to come gunning after the reporters who helped publicize all his scams …

In the interview, Stevens made vague threats to the people who have suggested that he and his son, former state Senate President Ben Stevens, might be guilty of some sort of wrongdoing. The younger Stevens hasn’t been charged with a crime, but his name has come up repeatedly in court proceedings. Plea documents in Allen’s own case say that payments of $243,250 the Veco CEO made to Ben Stevens were bribes in exchange for “giving advice, lobbying colleagues, and taking official acts in matters before the Legislature” when the younger Stevens was a state lawmaker.

“Your papers print (the names of) those people who have been convicted and my son’s name and mine at the same time. As far as the public is concerned, it’s all the same ball of wax,” Stevens said. “I’m not going to comment on that ball of wax.”

“But we’ve been included in a way that I hope people understand the laws that are doing it,” he said. “Because when it’s all over, some people are going to have to account for what they’ve said and what they’ve charged us with.”

It was unclear whom Stevens was threatening. When asked if he meant libel or perjury, Stevens said: “No. I’m just saying there are ways to account for this in the future.”

When asked if he meant political retribution, he remained vague:

“I think the people out there ought to worry about that the way I worry about the investigation. There are myriad things you can do. Just a myriad of things.”

When pressed, he wouldn’t elaborate further:

“I’ve said it,” Stevens said.

All I can think to say is you should probably immediately watch our TPMtv episode about Stevens’ freebie house renovation deal before he forces us to take it offline or puts us in preventive detention or whatever else he’s got up his sleeve.

Actually, while you’re at it, you should probably watch our Alaska Mucktacular! episode too.

The chasm that divides us on Iraq is profound. But there’s one thing you’d think the fiercest voices on both sides could agree on: asylum for the Iraqis who worked closely with the US and now seem certain to get killed for it. A USAID official came up with a list of the 800 most urgent cases and so far we’ve only managed to cough up visas for 10 of them.

(ed.note: To be clear, this isn’t about sharks like Chalabi and folks like that. It’s translators, assistants — ordinary folks.)

Fmr. Rep. John Sweeney (R-NY) took a plea yesterday in his drunk driving arrest. He’ll pay a thousand dollar fine, agree to a suspension of his license and avoid jail time. Sweeney said he pled guilty “as a means of expressing my desire to accept personal responsibility for the events of this past Saturday and Sunday … I do so and would like to as well offer several apologies. One to the court for burdening it with this matter. Two, to the general public for having creating a risk that I should not have created … and finally but maybe almost importantly to me, my family for the pain I’ve caused them through this.”

CNN spokesperson confirms that network picked last night’s “diamonds or pearls” debate question from among those submitted by student in advance.

Remember a couple days ago TPMmuckraker’s Spencer Ackerman broke the news that “Buzzy” Krongard, brother of embattled State Department IG “Cookie” Krongard, contradicted Cookie’s testimony before the Waxman committee earlier this week.

Now Waxman wants to talk to Buzzy to get to the bottom of it.

M.J. Rosenberg thinks Capitol Hill orthodoxy on Israel is slipping.

I don’t usually say this: but you’ve really got to read Spencer’s latest on what “Buzzy” Krongard told Waxman about what he’d told his brother “Cookie” Krongard, the State IG. He’d already given them a decent amount of rope to hang his brother in what he told Spencer a couple days ago. But he heaped on a lot more in what he told Waxman. Almost gave them the guy gift-wrapped.

Rove v. Kos: Does pissing off the right and the left really mean Newsweek is doing good journalism?

Tony Fratto takes his turn at the podium in today’s White House press briefing:

Always good to check in from time to time on the latest nonsense Ailes’ bunch has cooked up:

Because if high gas prices aren’t Nancy Pelosi’s fault, then whose fault are they?