King on Holder: 'You wonder which side they're on'  —  A “furious” Rep. Peter King, the hawkish, maverick Long Island Republican, blasted a “disgraceful” Eric Holder for opening an investigation of CIA interrogators and chided his own party for what he described as a weak response to the move in an interview just now with POLITICO.

‘Blue Dog’ Democrat: Pelosi Is Too Divisive to Be Speaker  —  In a statement likely to intensify the GOP assault on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's reign, a first-term Democratic “blue dog” congressman said that he would not vote to make her the top House Democrat again.

Report Shows Tight C.I.A. Control on Interrogations  —  WASHINGTON — Two 17-watt fluorescent-tube bulbs — no more, no less — illuminated each cell, 24 hours a day.  White noise played constantly but was never to exceed 79 decibels.  A prisoner could be doused with 41-degree water but for only 20 minutes at a stretch.

Angry right boos John McCain for stating that Obama ‘respects the Constitution of the United States.’  —  Today in a town hall forum in Arizona, an elderly woman asked Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) whether President Obama knows “that we still live under a Constitution.”

Nemazee Is Arrested in $74 Million Citibank Fraud  —  Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) — Hassan Nemazee, chairman of Nemazee Capital Corp. and a fundraiser for President Obama and Hillary Clinton, was arrested on charges that he tricked Citigroup Inc. into lending him as much as $74 million using phony documents.

Calm, but Moved to Be Heard on Health Care  —  MONTEZUMA, Ga. — Until Thursday evening, nothing in Bob Collier's 62 years had stirred in him the slightest desire to take a stand — about anything — in public.  —  He skipped the antiwar protests of his college years, took a job …

Federal prosecutor who took loan from GOP governor candidate Chris Christie resigns  —  TRENTON — The federal prosecutor at the center of the controversy over a loan made by New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie has resigned.  —  In her resignation letter dated today …

Sen. Grassley On Health Care: “I Don't Think It's Going To Be Possible To Work It Out With The Administration” … ALL OVER THE BALL PARK  —  During a conference call with Iowa reporters, Sen. Chuck Grassley was asked: … Grassley's response is almost incomprehensible: … You read that right.

Coburn tells weeping victim of broken health care system that government isn't the solution.  —  Yesterday CNN's Rick Sanchez aired a segment from a health care town hall where a weeping constituent explained to Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) that her husband's health insurer refuses to cover his treatment for a traumatic brain injury.

The White House and the Pauline Kael Syndrome  —  The late New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael famously said after Nixon's landslide reelection, “How can he have won?  Nobody I know voted for him.”  My proposition for today is that the entire White House suffers from the Kael syndrome.

CNN Gets Snookered By Cheney's Masterful Obfuscation  —  I've noted this before, but Dick Cheney is as masterful as any Washington hand at using precise languate to obfuscate.  And today the old master completely had his way with poor, hapless CNN.  —  Look at how CNN is now reporting Cheney's claims of vindication today:

Feingold: 'We're headed in the direction of absolutely nothing'  —  Russ Feingold tells a Wisconsin crowd of the prospects for health care legislation:  —  “Nobody is going to bring a bill before Christmas, and maybe not even then, if this ever happens,” Feingold said.  “The divisions are so deep.

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Political Terrorism In The Heartland - Inside the Quincy Tea Party Cell  —  Recently, Founding Bloggers was tipped off to the existence of a regional “political terrorist” cell calling itself the Quincy Tea Party.  —  When we learned that this group of Tea Party fundamentalists …

Will There Be Outrage?  — By: Jonah Goldberg  —  I haven't read the IG report yet, I've just seen a few write ups and excerpts around here and other places.  Without getting into the substance of the controversy, I'm doubting that there will be a lot of popular outrage over any of the allegations of abuse.

Rangel's Wealth Jumps After Disclosure  —  House Ways and Means Chairman Charles B. Rangel , already beset by a series of ethics investigations, has disclosed more than $500,000 in previously unreported assets.  —  Among the new items on Rangel's amended 2007 financial disclosure report …

1 suspect in custody following Dem HQ vandalism in Denver  —  A 24-year-old arrested this morning on suspicion of smashing 11 windows at Colorado Democratic Party headquarters tried to conceal his identity while allegedly committing the crime, according to police descriptions.

Will it never end?  McCaughey v. Ezekiel Emanuel  —  Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel should need no introduction to Atlantic readers.  Among his many pursuits is writing a number of interesting articles for our “Food Channel,” under Corby Kummer's auspices.  He should need no introduction to anybody …

Lose the Foreskin!  —  The responses to the Center for Disease Control's proposal this week to require all American boys to be circumcized are predictably hysterical.  Hundreds of commenters wrote into the New York Times today to complain about “child abuse” and “genital mutilation” and one …

First on the Ticker: ‘The writing is on the wall,’ ally tells Sanford  —  (CNN) - Two Republican legislators met privately with South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford Tuesday and told him to resign — but the governor rejected their advice.  —  Rep. Nathan Ballentine — a Sanford ally in the legislature …

The Burdens of Accountability  —  You can put long articles on the internet.  But Josh Tyrangiel, Managing Editor of Time.com says it doesn't really work and he has a sensible explanation of why.  If you look at the traffic statistics for any newsish website you'll see that people are reading when they're supposed to be at work.

Club for Growth puts Sen. Bennett in crosshairs  —  The Club for Growth took a significant step Tuesday toward opposing Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah) in the GOP Senate primary.  —  The Club announced an advertising and letter-writing campaign targeted at the 3,200 likely delegates to the state Republican convention.

Deaths, Missing Detainees Still Blacked Out in New CIA Report  —  Inspector General Reportedly Discovered Three Died, Many Unaccounted For by CIA  —  The CIA and the Obama Administration continue to keep secret some of the most shocking allegations involving the spy agency's interrogation program …

‘Peak Oil’ Is a Waste of Energy  —  REMEMBER “peak oil”?  It's the theory that geological scarcity will at some point make it impossible for global petroleum production to avoid falling, heralding the end of the oil age and, potentially, economic catastrophe.

Giuliani, Seeing Opening, Mulls a Governor Bid  —  ALBANY — Nineteen months after ending his disastrous run for the presidency, Rudolph W. Giuliani is clearing a path for a possible race for governor in 2010, believing public anger at an ineffectual Albany and unease over the economy …