Daily Briefing: Booze Buys Endorsements, Still
* Iraq Study Group to recommend removal of virtually all combat troops by early 2008, if circumstances permit, everyone feels like it, etc.President Bushdenies. [ WP , NYT ]
*Ken Mehlmanaddresses Republican Governors Annual Meeting/cry-fest, tells them to get busy getting more conservative and come up with some new policy ideas. [ WP ]
* Never-been-a-GovernorJohn McCainwas there too, stealingMitt Romney's'08 thunder and plying the guv'nahs with booze. [ NYT ]
* Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack is the first to actually declare for 2008. [ WP , NYT ]
* But it's no biggie as Democratic candidates for 2008 are beginning to appear in droves. [ WSJ ]
* National Institute of Standards and Technology says paperless electronic voting machines, "cannot be made secure." [ WP ]
* White House considers abandoning outreach programs to Iraqi Sunnis, which basically everyone else thinks is a terrible idea. [ WP ]
* TSA to begin using x-ray photo machines that have been called "a virtual strip search." [ USAT ]
* Does CSI imitate Russian assassins or do they imitate it? [ USAT ]