Here is a clip of Dick Cheney discussing the secret-but-becoming-unsecret Other Plan To Kill Muslins (OPTKM) with CIA Field Ops head Eric “The Hulk” Bana, who simply must not tell Congressional leaders about these things. Now the Guardian has new information about OPTKM, and by golly something just seems to be missing. MORE »

After an exciting day of voting, the Senate has voted in favor of the new FISA surveillance bill, 69-28, and George Bush will now sign it into law in his secret masturbatorium. MORE »

It’s been a while since we last checked in on White House press secretary Dana Perino, America’s greatest asset. Do you think she’s learned what the Cuban Missile Crisis was since then? Probably not, since she is not smart. Yesterday’s press briefing took on the FISA surveillance extension — the one that those House Democrats refuse to make exactly into what George W. Bush wants, the traitors. Someone asked Dana if the Republicans were maybe going overboard by saying the Democrats’ stubbornness puts America at grave risk, since intelligence agencies can still “spy” and then get retroactive warrants. Dana responds that she knows nothing about the law. MORE »

We triple dog dare you to watch this piece of cinema on the front page of the House Republican Conference’s website. If they get nothing else out of the final FISA bill, House Republicans intend to finally render fiction writing useless. [GOP.gov]

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• Michelle Malkin’s “Hezbollah is not my problem” syndicated column begins today. [Michelle Malkin]

• Red State honors Bush, tsks Frist: “Mr. Frist has shown us exactly the kind of leader he is–one absolutely willing to throw the leader of his party and his pro-life supporters under the bus for the support of the pharmaceutical lobby.” [Red State]
• The Angry Fag: “But if these sex offenders are so dangerous to require registries, notifications, electronic monitoring and other such things why are they being let out of prison at all? [The Angry Fag]
• “Without any kind of court verdict in regards to legality on the NSA surveillance program, the ACLU continue to stomp their feet, consistently labelling it as ‘illegal’ when there has been no official ruling of any kind.” [Stop The ACLU]

• The Supreme Court strikes down the Bush Administration’s plan to try Guantanamo detainees before military commissions, as violative of both U.S. law and the Geneva Conventions. [NYT, WSJ, USAT, WP]

• The Court’s ruling places constitutional limits on Bush’s use of executive power in the war on terror and raises questions concerning how the Guantanamo Bay detainees’ cases should now be handled. Republicans are hoping to craft a legislative fix. [WP, NYT, LAT]
• As midterm elections approach, Senate Republicans are trying to figure out how to move forward on immigration reform and reach a compromise with their colleagues in the House. [WP]
• The House Republicans’ aggressive stance on immigration may harm Bush’s effort to improve the GOP’s standing with Latino voters. [WP]

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• Polling shows an increase in support for President Bush, as well as a sharp divide in public opinion over setting a deadline for Iraq withdrawal. [WP]

• Bush condemns the media’s disclosure of the Administration’s secret bank-records surveillance program, calling it “disgraceful.” [WP; NYT]
• A deeply divided Supreme Court strikes down Vermont’s restrictions on campaign contributions and campaign spending by candidates. [NYT; LAT; WP]
• Condoleezza Rice defends Afghan President Hamid Karzai, denying reports that his foreign and Afghan support is eroding. [WP]
• Rush Limbaugh is detained for over three hours at a Florida airport, after being found in possession of a bottle of Viagra without a prescription. [AP]

• The Senate Indian Affairs Committee released its final report on Jack Abramoff and Michael Scanlon’s Indian casino lobbying deals. The report disputes claims made by Bob Ney. The Justice Department investigation is ongoing. [WP, ABC]

• Using “broad new interpretation of the Treasury Department’s administrative powers to bypass traditional banking privacy protections” and a declaration of emergency, the Bush Administration has been secretly tapping into confidential international finance records for years. [WP, NYT]
• The Senate voted against withdrawal from Iraq, with Democrats failing to establish a timeline for departure. Senator Joe Lieberman voted against two Democratic amendments calling for withdrawal. [CSM, WP, WP]
• Seven people were arrested in Miami and charged with plotting terrorist attacks on a number of buildings, including the Sears Tower in Chicago. [St Petersburg Times]

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