The long, slow roll-out of George Tenet’s self-serving, Cheney-trashing book/60 Minutes appearance continues with the requisite Times advance copy-based front page story. MORE »

George Tenet’s book will undoubtedly be self-serving bullshit, but the best kind of self-serving bullshit: the kind that’s full of hilarious attacks against everyone he used to work with! MORE »

Trying to convince people you’re not “the dumbest fucking guy on the planet”? Here’s a helpful hint: don’t choose the same headshot Douglas Feith did for his site, “Please Stop Yelling at Me and Calling Me Names.” MORE »

Remember 2002, when we were all flyin’ high on paranoia and dread? Those reassuring warpigs in the Bush Administration knew what we needed: more enemies with more firepower, to keep America on its toes. And so Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and North Korea was enriching Uranium.

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The DoD prepared a report investigating the work of the DoD’s pre-war intelligence outfit headed by Douglas Feith, the dumbest fucking guy on the planet. The result of that report? The Office of Special Plans made a lot of shit up, misled Congress, spun and abused intelligence, and didn’t break any laws. MORE »

* House Democrats will be issuing a sternly worded “boo, hiss” proclamation about troop escalation in Iraq. [NYT]
* Intelligence used to justify the war in 2003 was manipulated by administration officials. You heard it here again. [WP, NYT]
* Barack Obama: the early years. [WP]
* President Bush is “liberated” by having no campaigns to hijack his otherwise sterling legacy. [WP]
* Someone needs to tell Al Gore he’s running for president. [TIME]
* The American economy don’t want no gas prices going up. Terror attacks maybe, just don’t fuck with the gas prices. [WSJ]
* Homeland Security employees plan to be extra demoralized today, as that’s what they’re supposed to be, and it’s Friday and all. [WP, USAT]

John Negroponte, having successfully reformed and overhauled the NSA, CIA, and FBI, is now leaving his position as Director of National Intelligence to be Condoleezza Rice’s assistant. Why? Because no one else wanted the job. MORE »

* Nancy Pelosi holds by her “cleaner government” promise, won’t extend term limits for Jane Harman or forget about Alcee Hastings’s impeachment in selection of chairman for House Intelligence Committee. [WP, NYT, LAT, WSJ]
* Jim Webb: not afraid to diss the president, or top Senate Democrats. [WP]
* Increasing blame for the situation in Iraq is going to Iraqis — cause hey, why not? [WP, NYT]
* Robert Gates uses kid gloves to hit the administration’s pre-war planning, is in agreement with them on everything else. [WP, NYT]
* Either 18,000 Floridians don’t care who their congressman is, or there really is a ghost in the voting machines. [WP]
* Pentagon will ask for $127 billion in funding for next year, mostly for new equipment as $2 billion a month is worn out or destroyed. [LAT, USAT]
* New report claims 11 European countries were “intentional or grossly negligent” in allowing the CIA to bring terror suspects to secret prisons on the continent. [WP, NYT]

The CIA, apparently eager to recruit 16-year-old girls, has a brand-new personality quiz on their website. It will kill all of two minutes of work today, so check it out! The AP reports that it will use your answers to inane, non-CIA-related questions (most of them having vague connection to glamorous spy movies, but seemingly as written by a committee of people generally unfamiliar with spy movies) and classify you into one of the following groupings: “daring thrill-seekers, thoughtful observers, curious adventurers, innovative pioneers or impressive masterminds.” MORE »

[UPDATE, BREAKING, 11/06/2006: Michele Malkin actually paid a lawyer to make us explain to you that this illustration is "forged." Really.]
Here’s Michelle proudly trumpeting the brave work of her fellow lunatic bloggers in convincing Senator Rick Santorum and Rep. Pete Hoekstra to post documents seized from Iraq and the Taliaban on the internet for everyone to read and enjoy. MORE »

Time asks: Will former CIA director Porter Goss write a “tell-all”? MORE »