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As you know, Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine came out yesterday with the first installment of his long-awaited report on the panoply of DOJ scandals growing out of last year’s US Attorneys firing story. In today’s episode we bring you up to date on Fine’s key findings and explain why installment one is an ominous sign for those actually involved in the firings …
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The latest Survey USA poll shows McCain opening up a 7 point lead in Missouri, which seems to run counter to the bounce present elsewhere. The poll found that the big change occurred in St. Louis. I live in St. Louis, and have a potential explanation. For the past two weeks our TVs have been saturated with ads for McCain, ads that say that John McCain hates war and stood up to the President on global warming (if I didn’t know better I would think that he is the Dem). Despite news reports that Obama is advertising in Missouri, I haven’t seen a single ad. I wonder if this may be an indication that McCain’s efforts to move to the center may be working in this swing state, especially when Obama has nothing up to counter the McCain message.
Anyone in the state of my birth seeing the same thing?
Marching orders for Obama fundraisers: bring in 5-6 checks each for Hillary debt relief. That and the other latest political news in the TPM Election Central Morning Roundup.
President Bush announces at a press conference this morning that he will be lifting sanctions on North Korea and may shortly remove them from the “Axis of Evil”:
McCain campaign manager Rick Davis has had a pretty sweet gig going from being a McCain campaign staffer to being a lobbyist to being a McCain campaign staffer to being . . . what next?
A new round of Quinnipiac polls has Obama well-positioned in Michigan (+6), Minnesota (+17), Wisconsin (+13), and Colorado (+5).
The Pennsylvania governor says it’s time for Bill to “get over” the primary and “shake it off.” Watch the video.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) didn’t waste any time cutting to the chase in this morning’s hearing featuring Vice Presidential Chief of Staff David Addington and former DOJ torture-memo attorney John Yoo. 
Right out of the box Conyers asked Yoo, “Could the President order a suspect buried alive?”
Yoo hemmed and hawed on that one, and later in the hearing he refused to answer some questions on the basis of attorney-client privilege (he is the attorney, DOJ his former client).
Kate Klonick is covering the hearing at TPMmuckraker.
David Addington, a leading architect of the unitary executive: I don’t even know what the theory of the unitary executive means.
We’ve got the video here.