In addition to the White House visitor logs, the looong-awaited FBI notes from its interview of then-Vice President Dick Cheney in the Valerie Plame case have also been released, by coincidence in a case unrelated to the visitor logs.
Just to add to the fun, the SEC a short time ago released the exhibits to the scathing SEC inspector general’s report into how the commission missed the Bernie Madoff fraud for so long.
I’m not sure what to make of this. But, as you know, former NYC Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik is now in jail after his bail was revoked for violating the terms of a protective order (i.e., trying to release sealed trial documents). And at a pre-trial hearing today, Judge Stephen Robinson said Kerik was showing signs of risky behavior that had raised the judge’s concerns about Kerik’s safety.
Robinson said he’d been in contact with the jail’s director of psychiatric services, Dr. Robert Mahler, who described behavior that put Kerik “at risk” and went beyond the normal stresses of incarceration. Said Robinson: “There were things, unexplained, described to me that were either said or done … that raised the level of concern. I left the conversation with Dr. Mahler feeling this was an issue that cannot be ignored.”
The courtroom exchange was very cryptic. And none of the parties would comment on whether Kerik had been relocated to the jail’s psychiatric unit or been placed on a suicide watch.
The San Francisco mayor has withdrawn from the California governor’s race.
Dede Scozzafava is suspending her campaign in NY-23.
Just to be clear, in effect, that means she’s dropping out. Though her manner of doing it probably has a lot to do with her unhappiness at being forced out.
In her comments to the Watertown Daily Times Scozzafava explicitly referenced this morning’s Siena poll as evidence she was likely too far behind to come back.
The NRCC is going to be officially getting behind Doug Hoffman, now that Scozzafava has been forced from the race.
Democrat Bill Owens and Conservative Doug Hoffman have put out statements reacting to moderate Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava dropping out of the race in NY-23.
Andrew Cohen surveys the multiple Halloween Eve ’09 revelations.
The DCCC’s statement on what today’s developments in the NY-23 mean is self-serving but also happens to be true: “Moderates are not welcome in the Republican Party and differing opinions will not be tolerated.”
From the White House pool report this evening:
POTUS and FLOTUS greet some of the 2,600 children and adults invited to trick-or-treat at the White House for Halloween. Highlights: FLOTUS as Cat Woman, Gibbs as Darth Vader, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice as Goofy.