Bush Ordered Declassification, Official Says  —  WASHINGTON, April 9 — A senior administration official confirmed for the first time on Sunday that President Bush had ordered the declassification of parts of a prewar intelligence report on Iraq in an effort to rebut critics who said the administration …

Top Iraqis Assail Egyptian Leader's Talk of Civil War  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 9 — Iraqi leaders joined together to denounce President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt today for publicly asserting that Iraq was already engulfed in civil war and that Iraqi Shiites were loyal to Iran.

Military Plays Up Role of Zarqawi  —  Jordanian Painted As Foreign Threat To Iraq's Stability  —  The U.S. military is conducting a propaganda campaign to magnify the role of the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, according to internal military documents and officers familiar with the program.

Joe Lieberman refuses to rule out independent run  —  Joe Lieberman met with DTC members in Windsor today and was asked a pointed question from Joe Lalli, a good friend of our favorite 17-year old who grilled a Lieberman staff member earlier this week.  —  The question was whether …

Want more Bush?  Elect McCain  —  WASHINGTON — In his bid for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, Sen. John McCain is moving to the right.  —  The Arizona Republican, who failed to win the Republican presidential nomination in 2000, is the most visible Republican on television …

Sy Hersh on the "Iran war plans"  —  Sy Hersh on the "Iran war plans"  —  Sy Hersh was on "Late Edition", and talked about his new article in the New Yorker with Wolf Blitzer about serious war plans being drawn up against Iran-that includes nukes-which is causing military leaders to say they'll resign.

READY.  AIM.  SHOOT!  —  Another round of pro-illegal immigration demonstrations is scheduled to take place tomorrow.  One of the groups organizing tomorrow's demonstrations is a Communist organization called International A.N.S.W.E.R. A.N.S.W.E.R., which has championed every tyrant …

Pssst!  Who's behind the decline of politics?  [Consultants.]  —  On the evening of april 4, 1968, about an hour after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Robert F. Kennedy responded with a powerfully simple speech, which he delivered spontaneously in a black neighborhood of Indianapolis.

No easy answers on immigration conundrum  —  Here's my immigration "compromise": We need to regularize the situation of the 298 million non-undocumented residents of the United States.  Right now, we get a lousy deal compared with the 15 million fine upstanding members of the Undocumented American community.

HERE WE GO AGAIN  —  They're baaack.  Illegal alien public relations experts are advising their followers to put aside the Mexican flags and tone down their radicalism, but many reconquistadors and their friends can't help themselves.  Hat tip to John A. for the protest photos today from Dallas:

Young Officers Leaving Army at a High Rate  —  WASHINGTON, April 9 — Young Army officers, including growing numbers of captains who leave as soon as their initial commitment is fulfilled, are bailing out of active-duty service at rates that have alarmed senior officers.

Republican leader rejects guest worker plan  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House of Representatives Majority Leader John Boehner on Sunday rejected efforts to establish a guest worker program in the United States, despite calls from President Bush to make provisions for millions of current illegal immigrants.

Transcript for April 9  —  MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: Should the United States consider an immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq?  And what should be done about allegations the president authorized the release of highly sensitive intelligence information to refute critics of the war?