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Courtesy of PoliticalWire come these gems: In an interview with Time magazine, President Bush declared the war in Iraq a “catastrophic success.” Sen. John Edwards responds in the Washington Post: “I, like most Americans, have no idea what that means.”

Days don’t get much better than this. After a lazy morning (thanks to a way-too-late night with the Cutlers eating fondue and drinking too much), we threw the kids in the car and set out for Goose Lake Prairie State Park, mainly because it was within an hour of the house and the weather was…

And here’s the other shoe dropping. Joshua Micah Marshall, Laura Rozen, and Paul Glastris reveal that the real issue here was not just the hand-off of confidential policy information to Israel, but a much more serious rogue policy operation within the Pentagon that created an unauthorized back-channel to Iranian dissidents. On Friday evening, CBS News…

Several sources are naming the individual under investigation as an Israeli spy as Larry Franklin, though CNN states that “more than one government employee is under investigation.”

War and Piece, Laura Rozen’s blog, has the complete update. Turns out that she, Josh Marshall and Paul Glastris have been on this story for quite some time, and have details not previously disclosed on the matter. Read Laura’s update, and keep an eye on the site. As she says towards the end, there’s clearly…

CBS News is reporting: CBS News has learned that the FBI has a full-fledged espionage investigation under way and is about to — in FBI terminology — “roll up” someone agents believe has been spying not for an enemy, but for Israel from within the office of the Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon. ……

Another new advertiser, a law firm! Welcome to Coleman & Weinstein, a law firm who’s been advertising on blogs for some time. (I still love their original ad, whose tag line, “Speak Yiddish, Dress British”, is one of the funniest I’ve seen.) Named partner Ron Coleman is known for, among other things, his Internet savvy…

In a shameless attempt to boost their traffic, the Washington Post has encouraged us to shamelessly promote our own sites: So… swing on over to the Washington Post and nominate this site, or any of the other fine sites out there. In the immortal words of Bartles and Jaymes, thank you for your support…

Take a look at Bob Hertzberg’s site at changeLA.com. Bob is running for mayor of Los Angeles, and has a blog to which he and his staff contribute. The race is interesting — the election isn’t until March, the current mayor has already indicated he won’t attend the first scheduled debate, and there’s a federal…

No sooner do I praise Amazon that I read this report that they removed JD’s review of Dan Gillmor’s We the Media for inexplicable reasons. Easy come, easy go.