Intel Chief Mike McConnell claims that waterboarding would be torture for him personally because he has a deviated septum (or some other nose problem that he’s not sure about), but for someone else it might not be torture.
As you know, every Monday we give you a roundup of what went down on the Sunday shows. So this morning we take a close look at what got said, not said and implied in the Clinton-Obama race fracas …
The Horse’s Mouth piece on Maureen Dowd’s New Hampshire “dateline” is driving Times Edit Page Editor Andrew Rosenthal out of his “f—ing mind.”
From Newsweek:
In public, President Bush has been careful to reassure Israel and other allies that he still sees Iran as a threat, while not disavowing his administration’s recent National Intelligence Estimate. That NIE, made public Dec. 3, embarrassed the administration by concluding that Tehran had halted its weapons program in 2003, which seemed to undermine years of bellicose rhetoric from Bush and other senior officials about Iran’s nuclear ambitions. But in private conversations with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert last week, the president all but disowned the document, said a senior administration official who accompanied Bush on his six-nation trip to the Mideast. “He told the Israelis that he can’t control what the intelligence community says, but that [the NIE’s] conclusions don’t reflect his own views” about Iran’s nuclear-weapons program, said the official, who would discuss intelligence matters only on the condition of anonymity.
We’ve put together a TPM Election Central guide to what’s ahead in the presidential primaries.
One of the big data points sustaining the Obamamania after Iowa and before New Hampshire was the USA Today/Gallup poll that showed Clinton and Obama in a dead heat nationally, after months of strong Clinton leads. They’ve got a follow up poll out today, and it shows things more or less back to how things were.
According to Drudge, John Solomon — well known slapdash reporter notorious for being an easy play for GOP oppo research hucksters — is taking over the Washington Times.
Did the Post sour on him? Or could he just not pass up a chance to use his talents to their fullest potential?
Orange County Sheriff Michael S. Corona, who was a nominee for the Golden Duke in the local category has now resigned.
Corona lost out to Florida’s Bob Allen.
TPM Reader DG …
Iâm disappointed in Romney. A first 100 daysâ plan for Michigan, sure, thatâs okay, but Iâve been expecting a really hard to resist pander, like appoint a new cabinet position dedicated to the state. He could even promise to call himself the President of Michigan and the United States. But heâs running out of time, they vote tomorrow. If only he had a few more days â¦.