Funny. Lamar Smith’s attempt to save Karl Rove’s ass was not an attempt to gather information for the Subcommittee. Rather, it appears to have been an attempt to be able to say to Attorney General Muaksey that Rove had been nice and compliant, just in time for Mukasey’s appearance before the Committee today.

A timeline to show the Bush Administration’s relative priorities in the fight against terrorism.

I noted that there was good reason to believe that the impending Renzi indictment is the most likely explanation for Paul Charlton’s firing in December 2006. A quick reminder of the chronology:

June 2005: Investigation into Renzi launched

Months before election day: Investigators ask for clearance to tap Renzi

September 13, 2006: Charlton’s name added to the firing listOctober 26, 2006:

An email mapping the Plame investigation against known data about White House emails.

Jeff kicked my arse on a timing related issue yesterday, so I thought I better lay out the disappearing White House email timing all nice and neat like. I’ll move this over into a permanent timeline after you guys tell me what I’m missing (Jeff, I’m looking at you).

July 11, 2003:

Per Jeff’s suggestion, I took a closer look at Zelikow’s memo on how the CIA stiffed the 9/11 Commission on evidence relating to interrogations of Abu Zubaydah and al-Nashiri. I’ll come back and comment on it in more detail–but I was struck by how closely the requests coincided with the beginnings of the Abu Ghraib scandal and Tenet’s resignation.

Timeline collecting the torture memos, known changes in image guidelines, and key comings and goings in the torture saga.

A timeline of the drafting of the NIE and related items.