A Ponzi to fund a “sports talk webio.” In America, everyone’s got an idea.

Mark Sanford wants to reinforce his “God’s law” even as he breaks it by asserting the power to determine the limits of the consequences he’ll pay for his adultery and hypocrisy.

Via Murray Waas, writing at The Hill, we have at long last fresh news on the Rick Renzi corruption case in Arizona. As you will recall, Renzi’s indictment was a critical prong in the greater US Attorney firing scandal, specifically as to Arizona US Attorney Paul Charlton.

It’s not just that it appears Sanford may also have had ties to the Family. It’s the timing of his decision to break off the affair.

The Steelworkers just uninvited Arlen Specter from a speaking gig and replaced him with Joe Sestak.

The AP, which seems oblivious to the very existence of Jeff Gannon, joins the pout-rage that Nico Pitney got a question.

As Aeon points out, the CIA’s spokesperson, George Little, is pissy about the coverage the WaPo gave to the latest partial declassification of detainee CSRTs.

The June 16 news story “CIA Mistaken on ‘High-Value’ Detainee, Document Shows” suggests that Abu Zubaida was an unimportant terrorist figure before his capture in 2002.

Compare Dana Milbank and Chris Cilizza’s take on Obama’s “confrontation” with Republicans over Iran with that of the guy the WaPo fired.

By my count, the CIA is now withholding five of its own timelines pertaining to its torture program. Man, I hate when people won’t give me their timelines!

Michael Calderone is bitching that Nico Pitney asked what the White House correctly anticipated was going to be a question on Iran. Since when is it a scandal that the reporter doing the best job on a subject gets asked about that subject?