Three stories from today's WP

"Number of Fired Prosecutors Grows: Dismissals Began Earlier Than Justice Dept. Has Said" by Amy Goldstein and Dan Eggen, The Washington Post:

The former prosecutor's disclosure.....means that the administration began moving to replace U.S. attorneys five months earlier than was previously known. It also means that at least nine prosecutors were asked to resign last year, a deviation from repeated suggestions by Gonzales and other senior Justice officials in congressional testimony and other public statements that the firings did not extend beyond the eight prosecutors already known to have been forced out.

"Two Britons Found Guilty In Transcript Leak Case: Bush-Blair Document Held 'Sensitive' Material" by Kevin Sullivan, The Washington Post:

Two former British government employees were convicted Wednesday of violating Britain's Official Secrets Act for leaking a transcript of a White House conversation between Prime Minister Tony Blair and President Bush........In that conversation, the news agencies reported, Bush referred to bombing the headquarters of the al-Jazeera television network. U.S. officials called the report "outlandish and inconceivable."

Comment: The White House would have us believe that the Brits were convicted of leaking secrets for telling fibs???!!!

More fundamentally, the Bush Administration apparently is not telling the U.S. public all the facts we should know. JAD

"CIA Cited for Not Disclosing Covert Action" by Walter Pincus, The Washington Post:

The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence said yesterday that the CIA violated the law last year when it failed to inform the panel of "a significant covert action activity.".....The committee.....disclosed the issue in support of provisions it placed in the bill that would require the CIA inspector general to conduct audits of each covert action program at least once every three years and to submit a report on the findings to both the House and Senate intelligence panels. "Scrupulous transparency between the intelligence community and this committee is an absolute necessity on matters related to covert actions," the report said. Yesterday, the White House, in comments on the bill, said it opposes that provision because it "impermissibly intrudes on the president's constitutional authority to protect and control access to sensitive national security information."

Comment: The Bush administration is apparently also not telling the Congress all the facts it is legally required to tell the branch of government that is to provide the first set of Constitutional checks on Executive power. JAD