Top Democratic senators want the inspectors general for the Pentagon and CIA to investigate reports that enemy combatant detainees were drugged by U.S. interrogators.

Cindy McCain was asked about releasing her tax returns, this morning on the Today show, and reiterated that she would never release them — ever — even if she becomes First Lady:

She’s managed to get away with it so far (just like the spouse of any other candidate not named McCain would, right?), but never is an awfully long time.

Things not going so well for the prosecution in one of the Gitmo trials:

A military judge in the trial of Canadian captive Omar Khadr threatened Thursday to suspend the terror trial unless the prison camp releases a detailed log of Khadr’s treatment in more than five years of detention as an alleged al Qaeda terrorist. …

His attorney, Navy Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, wants the log in a pretrial effort to limit the scope of evidence given to a jury of U.S. military officers at his upcoming trial, expected in late summer. He argues the circumstances of some interrogations would exclude some of his statements from the trial.

Thursday morning, the military judge, Army Col. Peter E. Brownback III, agreed with the defense that it should get copies of the log entries from the prison camp’s Detainee Information Management System, or DIMS.

Brownback is believed to be the first war court judge to threaten to ”abate” the proceedings if the prison camp’s command staff does not turn over the evidence.

Just goes to show how much difference an independent tribunal — even one as flawed as this one — can make.

The Pentagon has now made public all the documents it turned over to the New York Times for the paper’s blockbuster story a few weeks ago on the cozy relationship between the Pentagon and the ostensibly independent military analysts retained by the networks and cable news channels to provide on-air expertise.

Among the documents were audio files of some of the regular meetings between the analysts and then-Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld, where egos were massaged and favor curried. We’ve pulled some of the highlights from those tapes and have then posted at TPMmuckraker.

Meanwhile, as the Politico reports, there has been deafening silence from the networks about their complicity in Rummy’s domestic psy-ops campaign.

The Senate Ethics Committee takes a pass on Sen. David Vitter’s acknowledged use of the late DC Madam’s services.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) hanging tight with Hillary for now.

Our Election Central team has been tracking developments all day in the superdelegate primary. Obama has been working them especially hard, trying to use the momentum from his Tuesday showing to peel off a few more undecideds — with mixed success. We’ve got the rundown here.

Late Update: Greg Sargent interviews Obama’s chief superdelegate whip, Rep. Melissa Bean (D-IL), about the state of play, and she makes a surprising assertion: Not only has Rev. Wright not posed a problem for superdelegates, but it’s actually encouraged them to come out for Obama sooner. Surprising and counterintuitive. Count me as skeptical.

TPM Reader AB is having a hard time reconciling Hillary’s remarks on Obama’s support among working class whites:

It seems to me that every progressive voice in this country should be outraged – jumping up and down – shouting in print and word – to repudiate Hillary Clinton’s remarks that Obama is having trouble winning over blue collar “white” voters… “white Americans”…

It is a disgraceful, shameful tactic to justify her own non-candidacy. This is a remark I would expect from a politician from Mississippi or Louisiana – not from our New York State senator… I am outraged, I am deeply embarrassed that my children have heard this reported on the news…and I regret that have I ever gave her one hard earned nickel.

All the while she touts the glass ceiling as a woman but when her chips are down, the racism springs forth fully formed.

AB is right. Maybe it’s general campaign fatigue, or the sense that the race is all but over now, but a month ago her remarks would have been a huge story, the dominant political story of the day.

The political press spent weeks trying to divine whether the Clinton camp was really attempting to cast Obama as the black candidate, a favorite son candidate of the African American community. The Clinton camp vehemently denied it then and even as recently as a few days ago Bill Clinton claimed it was the Obama camp playing the race card against him.

Race has been the subtext of much of Hillary’s argument for her own electability. But now she’s thrown it right out there in the open: Obama can’t win because he’s black. Vote for me instead.

You don’t have to believe that Hillary’s a racist (I don’t) to conclude that a combination of the rigors of the campaign trail and her own powerful ambitions have clouded her judgment and curdled her spirit. It has certainly soured what had been a historic relationship between the Clintons and the black community.

Hers is not an appeal we’d tolerate from a Republican candidate, nor should we from a Democrat, no matter how sterling her progressive credentials might otherwise be.

There’s been a lot of talk about the damage Hillary will do to the party by staying in the race this long. Perhaps she should consider the damage she’s doing to herself.

How far off track is Hillary’s campaign? It’s so bad even Peggy Noonan is making sense, painful as that is to say.

A second land swap deal takes a little more luster off the McCain myth.