Chris Matthews is on Hardball right now laying out the case in a Special Report on the CIA leak investigation (and more) that the so-called “Iraq Group” in the White House deceived the Congress and America as a whole about WMD intelligence.

Not when your Vice President is seeking to exempt important organs of the U.S. government from the McCain provision that would ban any agent of U.S. interests from subjecting detainees under its control to “torture or inhuman treatment.

I will be arriving in Prague Wednesday morning this week and there during the day. I fly to Berlin Wednesday evening and will be there for a conference until Saturday morning, when I fly back to Prague. Sunday afternoon, I return to Washington.

If the former Rector George F. Regas of All Souls Episcopal Church in Pasadena, California had given a sermon that was both pro-war and pro-Bush, would the IRS then have written a letter threatening the church’s IRS exemption? This is outrageious news.

Part of the serialization of former British Ambassador to the U.S. Sir Christopher Meyer has just hit the press in tomorrow’s Guardian newspaper.

According to AP: President Bush, reacting to the indictment of a high-level White House aide, has ordered a refresher on ethics rules for his staff.

If folks see this in the next couple of minutes, I will be discussing the struggle over the “national political conversation” between the White House and leading Dems on CNN’s “On the Story” with Jacki Schechner in about two minutes. It’s a short clip but pretty good I think.

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former State Department Chief of Staff, has been cooperating with the media to deepen and broaden his commentary on the breakdown of the national security decision making process in the White House.

The American Enterprise Institute is planning to host Ahmad Chalabi, Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister, for his first American speech in 2 1/2 years at 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 9.

During a recent major terrorism conference I organized, I hired a well-connected Republican consultant to help me fill out administration participation in the meeting. Considering that we were meeting amidst the Katrina disaster, my consultant did fairly well.