Lots of news lately, so here’s a round up of the most interesting stories:

* One year ago (“wow!”:http://www.end-on-end.com/txp/2007/12/03/hmm-why-is-bush-so-hot-and-bothered-over-iran), Seymour Hersh wrote in the New Yorker that the Bush Administration was holding up the “release of a National Intelligence Estimate on Iran that had failed to find any evidence of an ongoing nuclear weapons program. “:http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/11/27/061127fa_fact

* Surprise of the day! “Joe Scarborough and Pat Buchanan want hearings over the Iran NIE.”:http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/12/05/morning-joe-scarborough-and-buchanan-want-hearings-over-nie/ Bush is either “lying” or “stupid”? Wow. Bush can even alienate his closest allies!

* Rising Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee “had a role in releasing a serial rapist who went on to rape and murder at least one other woman”:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/04/documents-expose-huckabee_n_75362.html

* Not to mention Huckabee doesn’t seem to be up on current events. He recently claimed he “didn’t know about the Iran NIE or what it said.”:http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/04/huckabee-clueless-on-iran-nie/
And this guy wants to be president? “I agree with Krugman.”:http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/26/why-hate-huckabee/

* And “Barack finally has a small lead in Iowa!”:http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22863769-2703,00.html Yes.