Daily Briefing: Intelligence Ain't Rocket Science
*Nancy Pelosiholds by her "cleaner government" promise, won't extend term limits forJane Harmanor forget aboutAlcee Hastings'simpeachment in selection of chairman for House Intelligence Committee. [ WP , NYT , LAT , WSJ ]
*Jim Webb: not afraid to diss the president, or top Senate Democrats. [ WP ]
* Increasing blame for the situation in Iraq is going to Iraqis -- cause hey, why not? [ WP , NYT ]
*Robert Gatesuses kid gloves to hit the administration's pre-war planning, is in agreement with them on everything else. [ WP , NYT ]
* Either 18,000 Floridians don't care who their congressman is, or there really is a ghost in the voting machines. [ WP ]
* Pentagon will ask for $127 billion in funding for next year, mostly for new equipment as $2 billion a month is worn out or destroyed. [ LAT , USAT ]
* New report claims 11 European countries were "intentional or grossly negligent" in allowing the CIA to bring terror suspects to secret prisons on the continent. [ WP , NYT ]