• Bush, visiting New Orleans, fields complaints about government’s response. [WP, NYT]
• White House dismisses doubts about Miers. Thune: “It has been my expectation that President Bush would nominate someone in the mold of Justices Scalia and Thomas and it is my hope that Harriet Miers will prove to be such a person.” [WT]
• Michael Leavitt outlines flu pandemic fears: “What if it weren’t just New Orleans. What if it were Seattle, San Diego, Corpus Christi, Denver, Chicago, New York? Make your own list.” [USAT]
• Documents related to Miers from 1995-2000 released by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission “provide a glimpse into her views on the proper separation of powers and the debate over making the civil justice system more fair and predictable.” Miers considered Bush to be “cool” and “the best governor ever.” [WP, NYT]
• Fitzgerald considered relentless, aggressive, and apolitical. [USAT]
• Military considers special force for natural disaster relief. [NYT]

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• Bush nominates White House counsel Harriet Miers to replace Sandra Day O’Connor. [CNN, AP]
• Fitzgerald may seek criminal conspiracy charge from leak investigation. “Scooter” Libby discussed Valerie Plame with at least two reporters but maintains he did not say her name or unveil her covert status; testimony of Libby and Karl Rove appears to contradict early White House statements. [WP]
• Tom DeLay: “I think it will be over and be over very, very soon, and I think I will go back and be majority leader.” Christopher Shays (R-Conn.): “We got elected basically by saying we would live by a higher moral standard, and I don’t think recently we have.” [LAT, USAT, WP, WT]
• Majority of governors want states, not the Pentagon, to oversee responses to national disasters. [USAT]

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