Elena Kagan is a poor selection to replace Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court.

As I said the other day, most of the documents we received the other day are the 13 or so documents that CIA had cleared for FOIA release, but over which John Durham had declared a law enforcement privilege. This chart compares what we got with what had been declared in Vaughn Indices in November [...]

While we’re waiting to get the documents discussed in these NYT and WaPo and WSJ stories, in which (among other things) Dusty Foggo’s Deputy records that Porter Goss “laughed and said that actually, it would be he, PG, who would take the heat” about the destruction of the torture tapes, I wanted to look at [...]

Karl Rove does too have a date with HJC.

Three months ago HJC secured an agreement to have Karl Rove give a deposition to the Committee. But that hasn’t happened yet.

Here’s the written agreement between HJC and the Bush Administration for Rove and Miers’ testimony. Some highlights: The House Judiciary Committee (the “Committee”) will interview Karl Rove and Harriet Miers, but there will be no additional interviewees / witnesses (subject to the one exception [possibly Bill Kelley]). [snip]The scope of the interviews will be limited to:

I guess Karl Rove doesn’t look so tough now that he’s out of office. He and Harriet will soon give a deposition to the House Judiciary Committee.

I can’t help but notice that Rove has blown off Congress just in time to be held in contempt before the Appeals Court gets Obama’s brief on the Miers/Bolten suit.

Why won’t the Appeals Court let Obama try to broker a deal between Harriet Miers and the House Judiciary Committee?

We don’t get Rove’s testimony until February 23, at the earliest. But at least by then, Obama will legitimately be running DOJ, which gives him several additional ways to respond to this.