Katharine Weymouth stands by the principle of bringing the key players on a policy fight together in her living room–for a price. After all, “everyone does it.”

Jeffery Smith makes the same errors on the CIA Leak case that reporters have been making for years.

I think the DOJ is trying to distract Jon Stewart from laughing at Cheney by making a farcical argument about why his interview materials can’t be released.

CIA wants to stall all summer before it releases the IG report.

Mary pointed me to DOJ’s latest attempt to prevent CREW from accessing the materials relating to Cheney’s interview with Fitzgerald and the FBI. I’ll get into what a load of crap the DOJ argument is later. But first, I want to lay out what the FOIA declarations say about the Cheney interview itself.

First, the date.

After David Kay determined that there were no WMDs in Iraq, Charles Duelfer was brought in to create the appearance of a casus belli by focusing on Iraq’s ongoing intent to develop WMDs and on the Oil for Food scandal. Ultimately, Duelfer achieved the former goal with this claim.

Saddam wanted to recreate Iraq’s WMD capability—which was essentially destroyed in 1991—after sanctions were removed and Iraq’s economy stabilized, but probably with a

Katharine Weymouth says she is disappointed about the pay-to-play conferences. But she doesn’t say why she’s disappointed about them.

The WaPo is selling access to lobbyists. What I want to know is what the policy makers get out of the deal?

The National Security Archive has posted a bunch of FBI interview reports from Saddam’s interrogation. Here’s my first take on the reports.

As Spencer Ackerman informs, the long awaited IG Report will be a little longer awaited, and will not be released today. Could be tomorrow, could be next week; what a shocker. In the meantime, and in keeping with our coordinated push with the ACLU Accountability Project, I would like to draw attention to an article Andy Worthington has out today.