According to the Washington Post today, the GAO said it wouldn't appeal against the ruling preventing it from holding Dick Cheney's energy taskforce accountable over who had attended policy meetings - information that should certainly be made public probably under FEC disclosure rules, so citizens can match the list of attendees up with Republican donors and draw their own conclusions.

As the GAO chairman says, and I paraphrase, the ruling will severely weaken the GAO's oversight role and effectively redraws the balance of power between the White House and Congress.

Ah well.... so much for a massive public outcry. Everyone's still talking about the Michael Jackson documentary the other night. What a circus. Just freakin' creepy... we couldn't take our eyes off it. What does that say about us as an audience? And his record sales are soaring as a result. What's wrong with THIS picture?

Oh - did anyone notice during CNN's live coverage of Colin Powell's testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations committee the other day, that as Powell was talking they cut away to a two-shot of John Kerry and Chris Dodd talking, apparently ignoring Powell?
Not sure if it was intended to portray them as disrespectful, but it gave me that feeling briefly.

Bold move by Tony Blair to submit himself to a public grilling on BBC's Newsnight , and on the whole he came out of it ok. Not too clear how randomly selected the members of the studio audience were, but they did a pretty good job in putting him off guard and articulating the fears of the wider population over terror and war against Iraq.

Too bad for Blair it came at the same time as the govenment had to admit it had plagiarised a PhD thesis written about a decade ago when it put together its dossier of why Iraq poses a direct threat to the UK.

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