[UPDATED – click here!] For those of you who need to play catch-up on the saga of scandal-plagued Congressman Vito Fossella (R-NY13), whose arrest late last week for driving while intoxicated in Alexandria, VA involves a mystery woman in the married Congresscritter's life, here is a good place to start. Mary Ann Akers is reporting that "Vito is finito," and a New York City paleocon fishwrap reports much the same story. Meanwhile, the New York Daily News has a snarky new game -- and you'll want to play along!
Wall Street Journal breaks the story here. NPR has more details. TPMMuckraker has a good backgrounder on Special Counsel Scott J. Bloch, who has been accused of politicizing the office and is alleged to have had computer hard drives erased.
AP via HuffPo reports that David Addington, consigliere to Vice President Darth Cheney, has been subpoenaed by the House Judiciary Committee to testify in connection with the committee's investigation of U.S. military interrogation practices (read: torture). Addington had refused to testify without a subpoena. While much of Blogtopia's and on the Intertubes' attention has focused on the drama surrounding efforts to get John Yoo to testify, Addington is a far bigger fish – and his testimony could have far more ominous ramifications to the present occupants of the Executive Branch. Jeralyn Merritt ties the subpoena story to a new lawsuit alleging torture at Abu Ghraib. Check your popcorn supply…
Watch FireDogLake 's Jane Hamsher add a new phrase to the Campaign 2008 Lexicon while making her counterpart from Clownhall.com look like a giggling imbecile:
From The Crisis Papers: Making sense of the wild dance that is presidential politics isn't easy. There's so much ambition, mendacity, hypocrisy, moral corruption, sucking-up, saber-rattling, etc. on exhibit every day. Bernard Weiner examines McCain, Clinton and Obama to see where we are six months from Election Day 2008.
