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Kevin Drum writes about another salvo in the CIA/Bush war. When a high-ranking intelligence officer accuses Bush of "an abject, even wilful failure to recognise the ideological power, lethality and growth potential of the threat personified by Bin Laden, as well as the impetus that threat has been given by the US-led invasion and occupation of Muslim Iraq," you know someone's pissed off.

Especially since he's got to know he's going to get outed. Consider that this comes in the wake of the Valerie Plame leak. There's no doubt that this guy is going to be discovered and his name is going to be published and his career is going to be over. However, he's unhappy enough that he just doesn't care. (So why publish anonymously if you expect to be found out anyway? Two reasons: it allows him to delay the inevitable a little while, and it focuses attention on the book.)

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"Section 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana, that no governmental agency, including corporations with corporate authority only as approved by the President of the United States under the provisions of any law or resolution of the Congress of the United States, and no officer, agent or employee thereof, shall exercise in this state [Louisiana] any power not delegated to the United States by the Constitution of the United States, but reserved by the Constitution of the United States to the state of Louisiana.

"Section 2. That any persons who violate any provision of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $1,000 and imprisoned in the parish jail for not less than three months nor more than twelve months."

This one never got to the legislature; Huey Long was assassinated before he could introduce it.

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Josh Marshall's guest blogger, Spencer Ackerman, interviewed that anonymous intelligence official I mentioned the other day. Some nice insights into the relationship between Al Qaeda and Iraq.

We saw al-Qaeda execute the operation of killing one American, kidnapping another, within two days. It reinforces the idea of nearly simultaneous attacks. They posted the information about Mr. Johnson, said what they wanted, said what they were going to do, and did it. Which perhaps is the most important trademark for al-Qaeda: they tell you what they're going to do and then they do it.