Late Edition

Most fun with Bush-Lawyering-Up story - Wonkette, who says:

Bet You Miss That Fifth Amendment Now

So President Bush has "consulted" a lawyer about the investigation into who leaked Valerie Plame's name to press. Everyone's been very careful to note that it doesn't mean Bush is target in the probe. Well. We wish him luck, because it's really hard to seem like an evil-fighting man of the people when you've got a criminal attorney on retainer.

(I link to her main page instead of the perma-link so you can scroll on down the the Important Spelling Bee story.)

Bluntest on the BLU story - DailyKos:

Anthrax Coulter charges Democrats with "treason" for things like, uh, opposing tax cuts and stuff. I wonder how she feels about Republicans who sell out CIA agents and pass secrets to Iranian spies.

Since I doubt we'll hear her say it, let me -- The Bush Administration is guilty of treason.

Don't hold back, Kos - tell us what you really think.

Catch and Release?

Ah, true Teddy Roosevelt 'conservativism' in action: Administration Freed Terror Suspect

WASHINGTON - Nabil al-Marabh was No. 27 on the FBI's list of terror suspects after Sept. 11. He trained in Afghanistan's militant camps, sent money to a roommate convicted in a foiled plot to bomb a hotel and boasted to an informant about plans to blow up a fuel truck inside a New York tunnel, FBI documents allege. The Bush administration set him free — to Syria — even though prosecutors had sought to bring criminal cases against him and judges openly expressed concerns about possible terrorist ties.

Al-Marabh served an eight-month jail sentence and was sent in January to his native Syria, which is regarded by the United States as a sponsor of terrorism. The quiet disposition of his case stands in stark contrast to the language FBI agents used to describe the man.

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But a Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee (news - web sites) scoffed at the explanation. "It's hard to believe that the best way to deal with the FBI's 27th most wanted terrorist is to send him back to a terrorist-sponsoring country," said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. He said the Justice Department could have used a military tribunal or a classified criminal. "This action certainly raises a lot of questions and demands a lot of answers," Schumer said.

Makes you wonder who's rotting in Gitmo, if not this guy, doesn't it?