Daily Briefing: What Presidential News Conference?

• Deep Throatrevealed to beW. Mark Felt, former FBI official.Woodward: "Mark Feltat that time was a dashing gray-haired figure." [ WP , WP , NYT , NYT ]

• Vanity Fair"caughtWashington Postby surprise and threw the paper into turmoil." [ NYT ]

• Bush, at monthly presser, dismisses Amnesty's allegations of human rights abuses at Gitmo as "absurd," spurns talk of lame duck status, and advocates agenda to Congress.Bush: "Now in terms of the requests for the documents, I view that as just another stall tactic, another way to delay, another way not to allowBoltonto get an up or down vote." [ WP , NYT , USAT , WT ]

•Book deal forFeltfamily likely to top $1m. [ WSJ ]

•White House does not expectFrance's rejection of the E.U. constitution to affect U.S.-E.U. relations. [ NYT ]

• Clintonwanted to head U.N.; he's settled on becoming "a dominant player on the world stage." [ WP ]

• Hillary's inner circle is as disciplined and loyal asBush's.Lehane: "Both operations make the papal conclave look like a bunch of free talkers. I mean that in a positive way, because that is the type of discipline it takes to win." [ NYT ]

• Tiger Woodsenters Social Security rhetoric. [ USAT ]

• Wolfowitzon Iraq: "The war never ended. It's a simple fact, the [World Bank] can do an awful lot more in places that are stable than in places that are still at war. That's an unfortunate fact." [ WSJ ]

• BuchananconsidersFelta "traitor." [ WP , NYT ]

•Report by Third Way: "As Americans become even modestly wealthier their affinity for Democrats apparently falls off. With middle income voters, it is Democrats --the self-described party of the middle class-- who are running far behind Republicans, the oft-described party of the rich." [ WT ]