The kicker on the new Obama campaign TV ad going up today in Ohio, Virginia, and Iowa: “It’s just what you expect from a guy who had a Swiss bank account.”

The initial reaction: “News Corporation is carefully reviewing the Select Committee’s report and will respond shortly”

The rogues gallery of players in the News Corp. saga.

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Health care reform provisions have already saved seniors a total of $3.4 billion on prescription drugs.

Donald Rumsfeld criticizes White House for spiking the football on bin Laden anniversary.

Tennessee Legislature passes bill that requires sex-ed classes to “exclusively and emphatically” promote abstinence and bans the promotion of what they call “gateway sexual activity.”

I’m watching John Bolton on Fox saying how President Obama is being “unpresidential” by promoting his taking down of Osama bin Laden. At the same time, Donald Rumsfeld is piping up to criticize Obama on the same point.

And therein lies a big problem for Mitt Romney. It stands to reason that Bolton, Rumsfeld et al. are going to be the first to leap to Mitt’s defense here. It’s in their abundant self-interest to do so.

But the last thing Romney needs are the dead-enders from the last administration forming a very public phalanx around him. That’s politically deadly. Then again, who on the Republican side has the national security cred anymore to be an asset for Mitt? It’s a big problem.

A spokesperson for Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), who has called for the FBI investigation into whether News Corp. engaged in similar tactics in the U.S., tells TPM: “Senator Rockefeller is just as concerned today as he was last year as to whether Americans were targets of this type of hacking and whether any US laws were broken.”