Kudos for Kennedy

Ted Kennedy has been strangely absent from the news (at least since he embraced no child left behind back when Bush was a compassionate conservative). Now he seems to have caught an excellent catch 22. Bush and Cheney claim that congress had access to the same intelligence as Bush in October 2002 when they voted to authorise him to do whatever he wished with Iraq.

Kennedy, in effect, argues that if that is so, there is certainly no problem with sharing right now with congress all of the intelligence information Bush received. If this was already done 3 years ago it can't help to redo it. Therefore he requested the parts of all presidential daily briefs which concern Iraq. Now obviously the Bush administration would rather do almost anything than release this information. Excecutive priviledge is a core value for them like tax cuts for the rich, torture lite and wars of choice. Also, even though I am sure the pdb's were scrubbed to remove doubts on Iraqi WMD etc, the enthusiasm with which they lied before the war probably means that they managed to say something inconcistent even with the CIA's efforts to tell them what they wanted to hear.

Now let's see how the Bush administration will argue that it would be dangerous to provide congress with the information given to Bush even though they saw the same information 3 years ago.