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Today, the White House finally revealed its policy on embassy security: keep President Obama out of the loop so he can claim plausible deniability and blame Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for any problems. In today’s White House press conference, a reporter asked press secretary Jay Carney about the situation in Libya. Carney responded:

Prez thinks Paterson must goBy MAGGIE HABERMAN Last Updated: 6:11 AM, September 20, 2009 The Obama administration, fearing that Gov. Paterson is too embattled to remain at the top of the ticket, has sent a direct message asking him not to run for a full term as governor. Multiple sources said the White House and national Democrats, fearful about Paterson's performance, low poll numbers and increasing lack of support, had decided to suggest he not run again, accelerating a timetable for their plans after the governor went on a rant claiming his poll problems are thanks to a racist media...

Andy, under your conspiracy analysis, Pelosi's multiple accounts tend to incriminate the other lawmakers (presumably Democrats) from whom she says she learned that waterboarding was being used. Someone should ask the Speaker who these other lawmakers are. In turn, they should be asked what the CIA told them and what they relayed to Pelosi. Do the respective accounts square? Why did no one protest or take some other form of recourse if waterboarding is, indeed, torture?

When Toronto bookstore owner Itah Sadu decided she was going to attend Barack Obama's inauguration in Washington, she asked her friends if they wanted to come. So many said yes she ended up chartering a bus. Their inauguration-bound vehicle seats 35, and will be full when it leaves Yorkdale Mall on Monday. Ms. Sadu, 47, hasn't planned any entertainment for the 10-hour trip, so as not to interrupt spontaneous expressions of inaugural glee. "A number of the people that I'm going with are such enthusiastic people that they'll just burst into song," she said.

In perhaps the most stunning morning news show interview I've ever seen, Katie Couric just got through thoroughly trashing Michael Moore. She began by criticizing the scenes in Fahrenheit 911 depicting a pre-war Iraq of children peacefully playing and weddings taking place. "Wasn't that misleading?" Moore claimed he only used the footage to show the kinds of people killed by US bombing, not to suggest Saddam's Iraq was a "utopia." Next, Katie said that "many people say the Dems don't want you to be the face of the party." "Who said that?" demanded Moore. "Well, Tim Russert for one," answered...