ANOTHER DAY IN BUSHWORLD

Sources: Aid chief quits over call-girl link
High State Department official Tobias
reportedly tied to ‘D.C. madam’ probe

By Glenn Kessler
Washington Post
Updated: 8:21 p.m. MT April 27, 2007

WASHINGTON - Randall L. Tobias, the deputy secretary of state responsible for U.S. foreign aid, abruptly resigned yesterday after he was asked about an upscale escort service allegedly involved in prostitution, U.S. government sources said.

According to ABC News, Tobias said he contacted the escort service "to have gals come over to the condo to give me a massage"

A "massage"? Is that what they're calling it nowadays?

Car bomb kills 58 at Shiite shrine in Karbala
Meanwhile, U.S. announces 9 troop deaths;
al-Sadr rips Bush's veto threat
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb exploded Saturday in the Shiite holy city of Karbala as the streets were packed with people heading for evening prayers, killing at least 58 and wounding scores near some of the country’s most sacred shrines. Separately, the U.S. military announced the deaths of nine American troops, including three killed Saturday in a single roadside bombing outside Baghdad.


Yup, that "surge"is working out just great.

Tenet: White House eyed Iraq long before 9/11
Book by ex-CIA chief highly critical of Cheney;
Bush official rejects claims

By Karen DeYoung
Washington Post

White House and Pentagon officials, and particularly Vice President Cheney, were determined to attack Iraq from the first days of the Bush administration, long before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and repeatedly stretched available intelligence to build support for the war, according to a new book by former CIA director George J. Tenet.

...he [Tenet] recounts numerous efforts by aides to Cheney and then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to insert "crap" into public justifications for the war. Tenet also describes an ongoing fear within the intelligence community of the administration's willingness to "mischaracterize complex intelligence information."


We've known this from several other sources but it's nice to have all the confirmation possible.