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Tags: , , Senate hearings on Bush, now

Bob Woodward may have lost his journalistic edge since Watergate, but Carl Bernstein hasn't.  [→ READ ]

Line that makes me smile, darkly:

“He’s smoking Dutch Cleanser,” said [Sen. Arlen] Specter when Bush’s attorney general claimed legality for the president’s secret order authorizing the wiretapping of Americans by the N.S.A.

Bernstein’s most sobering statement (among many):

We have never had a presidency in which the single unifying thread that flows through its major decision-making was incompetence — stitched together with hubris and mendacity on a Nixonian scale.

To my understanding, this is power journalism.