This morning, Politico‘s Mike Allen moderated a really interesting encounter with Democratic National Committee Chair and Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

News that Pakistan has detained five of its citizens who allegedly gave information assists to US efforts to track down and kill Osama bin Laden raises fundamental questions about the solvency of Pakistan’s government and course. These five individuals deserve honors, not harassment.

Facebook is going cosmic — and getting more politically postured. Nothing wrong with that. Politico just broke that Facebook had confirmed that former Bil Clinton spokesman and major domo at Glover Park Group Joe Lockhart is becoming VP for Corporate Communications at Facebook. I love Facebook — and am a fan of Lockhart.

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A few days before the DC Gay Pride Festival, gay community do-gooder and HIV awareness activist Dan O’Neill who had medical board exams scheduled in 13 days was asked if he would dance backup on stage with the original Dreamgirl, Jennifer Holliday, along with some other DC Gay Men’s Chorus Dancers, some of whom used…

This is a guest note by Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou, visiting professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and Associate Fellow at the Geneva Center for Security Policy. He was also formerly the Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.

Today at 2:30 pm EST, I’ll be chairing a session with former MoveOn Executive Director Eli Pariser on his new book, The Filter Bubble. Join us in DC at the New America Foundation in person — or watch live here at The Washington Note.

My good friend Fay Lewis died last September, and I’ve been mulling her passing the last many months. For years, I had grown used to Fay calling me up and shaking me out of my self-importance and a schedule that I thought couldn’t bear any more meetings.

(Vienna Opera, June 2011; photo: Steve Clemons; click image for much larger version) I love Andrew Sullivan‘s “The View from Your/My Window” concept and thank him for letting me borrow the practice for The Washington Note.

Greetings readers. Well, have to get back to monitoring again. I have just banned a couple of prominent commenters — sorry, but just had to.