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I ON THE NEWS All revised 16:00 PDT

Push: It is interesting to me that the bushies seem to operate behind the curve. When push comes to shove, they relent and do what they should have done before. Rice cannot testify; furies are unleashed; Rice testifies; memo is suppressed; furies are unleashed; memo is declassified; junior is disengaged and is driving Repubs nuts with his passivity; he relents and has a press conference live tonight. This is not necessarily the work of smart operatives. It is covering their asses. The real problem is that there is no government and no initiative for the work that has to be done. Ashes: News is that Ashcroft gets really bad reviews in the draft from the 9-11 commission for his pre attack non interest in terrorism. He was too busy thinkin' about going after the porn merchants and other right wing obsessions is my guess. Robert Scheer brings up another theory in today's Op Ed page in the The LATimes (link upper right). He sees it the problem as their obsession with the 'war on drugs' which even took the Taliban into the tent to quell the dread poppy crop. Ashcroft will be on the griddle. Maybe he is the throw-away fall guy on all this. Sure is beginning to look like it. Couldn't happen to a nicer fella'. Freeh at Last: Which brings us to the colossal ego of Louis Freeh (ex FBI chief) who will appear before the panel today to defend himself. He just couldn't wait; so excited to participate that he Op-Eded his self defense in the Wall Street Journal (link upper right) yesterday. To pre-empt any nasty oppo from the committee? Louis is a first class me-firster and self-promoter. Chumps: Why are we backing this guy Chalabi? The Pentagon's favorite horse in the race for post-US leadership in Iraq. He has his fingers everywhere. His son is to be the new defense minister. He has the Hussein secret files to work his evils with. We gave them to him! Keerist! Evidently, he is the source of advice in going after the radical sheik Sadr. How dumb can we be? This shit has happened over and over. We always back the most vile and corrupt local to do our dirty work and the puppet ends up working the strings. Chalabi isn't even a local. He left Iraq when he was 12 and just returned last year at 61. He is rejected by all the leaders there. This is so dumb even I saw it coming a year ago.