memeorandum: CNN's, ABC's Beck on Clinton: "[S]he's the stereotypical bitch" (Media Matters for America)

9:15 PM ET, March 16, 2007

Top Items:

White House Security Chief Reveals — No Probe of Plame Leak There — NEW YORK Dr. James Knodell, director of the Office of Security at the White House, told a congressional committee today that he was aware of no internal investigation or report into the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame.

Discussion: The Gavel, Firedoglake and NewsHog

Faiz / Think Progress:

VIDEO: Valerie Plame Confirms Her Covert Status Prior To Novak Leak — This morning, in her testimony under oath before the House Government and Oversight Committee, Valerie Plame Wilson asserted that she was in fact a covert officer at the time that columnist Robert Novak revealed her employment at the CIA.

Discussion: Firedoglake, Crooks and Liars, Taylor Marsh, David Corn, The Carpetbagger Report, The Mahablog, The Huffington Post, TPMCafe blogs, Washington Wire and The American Street

Jesse Lee / The Gavel:

Hearing on Disclosure of CIA Identity:No White House Investigation — No White House Investigation — The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is holding a hearing on whether White House officials followed appropriate procedures for safeguarding the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson.

Discussion: The BRAD BLOG, Firedoglake and The Carpetbagger Report

CNN:

Valerie Plame Wilson: I worked on secret missions … WASHINGTON (CNN) — Valerie Plame Wilson was called to testify Friday before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform about her work at the CIA before her covert identity was revealed. Here is a transcript of her opening statement.

Discussion: Obsidian Wings, Redstate, Outside The Beltway, Wonkette and Political Animal

Matt Apuzzo / Associated Press:

Plame: My Cover Was 'Recklessly' Abused — WASHINGTON — Valerie Plame, the CIA operative at the heart of a political scandal, told Congress Friday that senior officials at the White House and State Department "carelessly and recklessly" blew her cover to discredit her diplomat-husband.

Discussion: Outside The Beltway, Gateway Pundit, Sweetness & Light and AMERICAblog

Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Plame On! — Let's get into the Plame hearing conducted by Rep. Waxman today.

Discussion: CNN Political Ticker, Instapundit.com, The Strata-Sphere, Power Line, Macsmind and The Hoya Zone

David Stout / New York Times:
Subject of C.I.A. Leak Testifies on Capitol Hill

Discussion: Althouse

Washington Post:
Valerie Plame, the Spy Who's Ready to Speak for Herself

The Nation:
Valerie Plame Speaks—Finally—About CIA Leak Case

Discussion: Booman Tribune and NO QUARTER

Think Progress:
Top Bush Official Reveals White House Never Investigated Plame Leak

Discussion: Committee on Oversight …

Nico / Think Progress:
CIA Director Hayden: 'Wilson Was Covert'

Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Donklephant

Brad Friedman / The BRAD BLOG:
CIA LEAK HEARING STUNNER: WHITE HOUSE SECURITY DIRECTOR ADMITS …

Discussion: Brilliant at Breakfast, Shakespeare's Sister, skippy the bush kangaroo and The Gavel

CBS News:

Will Gonzales Fall For Attorney Firings? — Sources: AG's Ouster Is Inevitable; Fired Attorney Blames Partisan Politics — (CBS/AP) One of the eight recently fired U.S. attorneys at the center of a growing political scandal tells CBS News that he lost his job because he "did not play ball" with powerful Republicans.

Discussion: The Next Hurrah

Nico / Think Progress:

Gonzales Gave Kyle Sampson New Justice Dept. Office After His Supposed 'Resignation' — Attorney General Alberto Gonzales planned to install his former aide Kyle Sampson as a lawyer in the Justice Department's environment division even after Sampson's "resignation," NPR reported today.

Discussion: Shakespeare's Sister

Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
White House Backs Off on Miers Scenario

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Andrew Cohen / Bench Conference:
Part IV: The Case for Attorney General Patrick Fitzgerald

Discussion: Political Radar, Right Wing Nut House and The Carpetbagger Report

New York Times:
White House Now Unsure if Firings Were Miers's Idea

Discussion: Prairie Weather

Richard A. Serrano / Los Angeles Times:
Cummins fears corruption investigation led to his firing

Discussion: TPMmuckraker, The Carpetbagger Report and CBS News

Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
White House murky on prosecutor firings

Discussion: All Spin Zone and The Carpetbagger Report

Associated Press:
White House cites 'hazy memories' on attorney firings

Discussion: Sister Toldjah

Ronald Brownstein / Los Angeles Times:

Fox hounded — How the Democrats are turning on Fox News. — In the history of capitalism has any company had more success with just a wink and a nod than the Fox News Channel? And can Democrats be successful in the 2008 campaign by refusing to wink or nod back?

Discussion: MyDD, The Carpetbagger Report and NewsBusters.org

Nitpicker:

Dance, Foxholes, Dance! — In the light of Fox News scrambling to maintain the thinnest veneer of "balance" after Democrats refused to lend them respectability, I thought it might be time to point out something I witnessed first hand as a public affairs sergeant in Afghanistan. I call it the "Fox News Two Step."

Discussion: MyDD and Daily Kos

Matthew Yglesias:
FoxNews — Ron Brownstein notes of Fox News "the network …

Discussion: Political Animal, TAPPED, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog and The Impolitic

Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press:

FBI: Extremists Driving School Buses — WASHINGTON (AP) - Suspected members of extremist groups have signed up as school bus drivers in the United States, counterterror officials said Friday, in a cautionary bulletin to police. An FBI spokesman said, "Parents and children have nothing to fear."

Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard, Preemptive Karma, Polimom Says, Clayton Cramer's BLOG and Wizbang

Fox News:

FBI PUTS LOCAL OFFICIALS ON NOTICE ABOUT EXTREMISTS TRYING TO SIGN UP TO BE SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS — WASHINGTON — The FBI has issued an "informational bulletin" to state and local officials saying to watch out for people tied to extremist groups trying to earn licenses to drive school buses.

Discussion: Jihad Watch and Confederate Yankee

Eric Pianin / Campaign Trail:

McCain is stumped on the stump — It's not often that a reporter stumps John McCain. But it happened Friday, and it was a telling moment for the Republican presidential contender. — The bus had been rolling for a half-hour and McCain was holding court on everything from Iraq to college basketball.

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, CNN Political Ticker, Balloon Juice and Shakespeare's Sister

Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Far From Inevitable, McCain Retunes '08 Engine

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, The Right's Field, No More Mister Nice Blog, Cato-at-liberty, Wonkette, The Carpetbagger Report, CNN Political Ticker and Hotline On Call

Adam Nagourney / The Caucus: McCain Stumbles on H.I.V. Prevention

Bryan Bender / Boston Globe:

General seeks another brigade in Iraq — WASHINGTON — The top US commander in Iraq has requested another Army brigade, in addition to five already on the way, as part of the controversial "surge" of American troops designed to clamp down on sectarian violence and insurgent groups, senior Pentagon officials said yesterday.

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report and Ace of Spades HQ

Media Matters for America:

CNN's, ABC's Beck on Clinton: "[S]he's the stereotypical bitch" — On the March 15 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Glenn Beck said: "Hillary Clinton cannot be elected president because ... there's something about her vocal range." He went on to say, "There's something …

Discussion: TAPPED, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES, Hullabaloo and The Gun Toting Liberal ™

New York Post:

BILL RIPS TIMES' HILL BASHING — THE long love affair between Bill and Hillary Clinton and The New York Times seems to be over. — At a fund-raiser Tuesday night at the Trump World Tower apartment of mortgage mogul Keith Kantrowitz, the former president spoke for two hours to a select group …

Discussion: Horses Mouth, The Caucus, Volunteer Voters and Sister Toldjah

Lara Setrakian / ABCNEWS:

EXCLUSIVE: Duke Lacrosse Accuser Not Answering Investigators' Key Questions — With the Investigation in Its Final Weeks, Sources Say Neither the Accuser Nor the Second Dancer Have Fully Cooperated With Special Prosecutors — Law & Justice Unit — The woman who accused three members …

Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ, Hot Air and Scared Monkeys