Given the agony over the role of the Administration in GM 2.0, you’d think Obama had just declared bankruptcy.

Dan Froomkin says newspapers have to stop speaking in fuddy duddy. I’m glad someone from the industry is finally making this point.

Richard Clarke thinks Cheney and Condi should stop using their lack of preparedness for 9/11 as an excuse for breaking the law in response.

The CIA doesn’t want the Senate Intelligence Committee to get the records of its torture.

Bush is proud to describe how he approved of torture. But news reports suggest he put that approval in 2003.

In the Roland Burris-Rob Blagojevich transcript that got released earlier this week, Burris’ law partner, Fred Lebed, is mentioned as a key player in their discussions. That’s critical because, by the time of the conversation, Lebed may have already done Blago a big favor–getting his wife hired.

It is decision day for the gunslingers at the al-Haramain corral. If you recall when we last left this little vignette, exactly one week ago today, Judge Vaughn Walker had just issued a fairly terse ruling giving certain instructions to the parties. Both parties were given one week, until today, May 29th, to produce written responses to the court. al-Haramain’s is in, and it is very interesting.

Carl Levin better watch out for Liz “BabyDick” Cheney and her cries of “libel!” Because he just called her Daddy a liar. But I’m most interested in how the specific denials he gave about the content of the documents Cheney wants fleshes out the information in the May 30, 2005 Bradbury Memo on efficacy.

Thanks to Nate and KO for debunking the claims about political favoritism in which car dealers get closed under the Chrysler and GM bankruptcies. There’s one more important point on this: car dealers are disproportionately the biggest donors from the industry.

There’s a number of impressions I get from the DOD “report” on the number of Gitmo detainees who have joined terrorists groups, including al Qaeda, since being released. First, while it appears to be what ABC billed it as–the report showing 14% of the people freed from Gitmo purportedly returning to the fight, the one that was used to scare the Senate into refuse funding for Gitmo–it looks fairly laughable.