Obama followed up his memo of the other day–promising not to use signing statements like Bush did–with a signing statement used like Bush did. Most troubling, he used it to counteract efforts to make it easier for whistleblowers to report problems and wrong-doing to Congress.

Dawn Johnsen is being considered in SJC today. When the Republicans start making incendiary claims about her, call them and remind them that, unlike John Yoo, she has promised to use a non-politicized method to put respect for the law back in OLC memos.

Sam Zell chatted with Fitz–back in January. I’m guessing this is coming out now to pre-empt whatever news will show up in an imminent Blago indictment.

Sy Hersh reveals that Cheney had an assassination squad reporting directly to him.

If a disgraced Bush hack shits in the punditry ether and Mike Allen’s not there to record it, does the hack really make a sound?

The circumstances surround the production of KSM’s latest diatribe from Gitmo sure suggest it was released for propaganda purposes.

John McCain, still looking for some claim to leadership, 167 days later.

The statute of limitations on the allegedly criminal wiretapping of Wendell Belew on March 11, 2004 expire today.

60 Minutes shows you what a bank takeover looks like.

Is it a coincidence that David Addington and Alberto Gonzales–the White House lawyers who authorized torture even before John Yoo’s memos on the subject–are also the two who can’t get a job?