Daily Briefing: 'Brain Drain'
Resignation ofAndrew Cardcould be the beginning of a "second-term overhaul." Senior official: "The president's style is not Saturday Night Massacre." [ WP , NYT , W$J , LAT , USAT ]
Resignation ofCardindicates thatBushis increasingly "deferring to the expectations of Washington conventional wisdom." Anonymous official: "Part of what you are seeing is some adjustment to the political realities."Ari Fleischer: "There was a drumbeat out there that the president's staff could not miss and Bush could not miss." [ WP ]
FISA court judges voice opposition to warrentless eavesdropping. [ NYT ]
Shiites contend thatBushopposes the Iraqi prime minister. [ NYT ]
Department of Homeland Security is experiencing a dangerous "brain drain." [ USAT ]
Democratic leaders set to unveil plan for "real security," though "most of the proposals are not new." [ NYT ]
Senate and House Republicans proceed with separate views of immigration. [ NYT , W$J ]
Joshua Bolten"is aBushloyalist, known as self-effacing and efficient, not especially ideological, not a promoter of his own agenda, a quiet professional in a town filled with vast egos." [ WP , NYT , USAT , LAT ]
NowCardcan be friends withBush. As he told C-SPAN last year, "The president is my friend and I do not want to let him down. But I am not his friend, I am a staffer." [ WP ]
Senate will consider guest-worker proposal today. [ WP ]
Senate rejects independent office for ethics issues. [ WP , W$J ]
Congressional record in Supreme Court case includes debate that never occurred. [ WP ]