More Leaks, Please  —  Questioning the Iraq Intelligence Report  —  It's too bad we won't get to see the full National Intelligence Estimate on "Trends in Global Terrorism" selectively leaked to The Post and the New York Times last week.  The Times headline read "Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terrorism Threat."

RICE BOILS OVER AT BUBBA  —  RIPS 'FLATLY FALSE' CLAIM ON BUSH'S BID  —  TO GET BIN LADEN  —  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday accused Bill Clinton of making "flatly false" claims that the Bush administration didn't lift a finger to stop terrorism before the 9/11 attacks.

Detainee Measure to Have Fewer Restrictions  —  White House Reaches Accord With Lawmakers  —  Republican lawmakers and the White House agreed over the weekend to alter new legislation on military commissions to allow the United States to detain and try a wider range of foreign nationals …

Bloggers will join Bush in bill-signing ceremony  —  President Bush has invited bloggers to join him today as he signs into law a bill creating a database of federal spending — a recognition of their role in forcing the bill through Congress over the objections of senior senators and an indication …

President Bush Signs Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act  —  Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building  —  Fact Sheet: Achieving Greater Transparency and Accountability in Government  —  THE PRESIDENT: Please be seated — except for you all.  (Laughter.)  Welcome.

US loses top competitiveness spot  —  The US has lost its status as the world's most competitive economy, according to the World Economic Forum.  —  The US now ranks only sixth in the body's league table of global competitiveness, behind Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Singapore.

DID THE REPUBLICANS CLAIM THAT CLINTON WAS TOO AGGRESSIVE IN GOING AFTER BIN LADEN?  Orin's post raises the question of whether the Republicans supported Bill Clinton's efforts to get Osama Bin Laden back in 1998, or whether they instead thought that he was "wagging the dog" and being too aggressive.

Syndicate Says 'Boondocks' May Not Return  —  Cartoonist Hasn't Answered Pleas to Resume Comic Strip  —  It's over for "The Boondocks" comic strip, at least for now.  After six years — a remarkably short run for a strip that found its way into 300-plus newspapers, including The Washington Post …

BIG NEWS: John Bolton Confirmation Battle Really, Really Dead  —  The last pre-election loophole through which John Bolton's confirmation might have snuck through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was at 2:15 this afternoon at a previously called "business meeting" of the Committee.

The woman who defied the Taliban, and paid with her life  —  Women's rights campaigner in Afghanistan shot dead  —  One in two Afghan women a victim of violence  —  Suicide on the rise as Taliban's power increases  —  Safia Amajan promoted women's education and work …

Hate Like an Egyptian  —  Egyptian Religion of Peace™ representative Safwat Higazi waxes eloquent about his "beautiful dream"—a dream of a world in which Muslims are free to kill Jews at will.  (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.)  —  Within certain well-defined limits, of course.

How Bush Wrecked the Army  —  ANOTHER GENERAL REVOLTS.  —  The generals' revolt has spread inside the Pentagon, and the point of the spear is one of Donald Rumsfeld's most favored officers, Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, the Army chief of staff.  —  This new phase of rebellion isn't aimed …