A quick pointer to ... what else? a White House lie

I don't have anything to add to Dan Froomkin's masterful accounting of the Tehran did it-well maybe not business coming out of the White House. Just go to White House Watch, scroll down to "A Rogue Briefer? Hardly", and read.

(ps - as always, the whole column is packed with good stuff, such as a synopsis of what we know about the Quds Force - apparently the White House's new "enemy number one", or a takedown of the Washington press corps that begins

Say what you will about Washington Post reporter and columnist David S. Broder, but he is the dean of the Washington press corps and his columns are often an accurate reflection of the temperament of Washington's top political reporters.

For instance, Broder's September 7, 2006 column-- in which he wrote off the whole Valerie Plame story as a "tempest in a teapot" and said that journalists owed Karl Rove an apology -- may have been abject nonsense, but it accurately telegraphed how little appetite Washington's top journalists had for that story.

that opens up an examination of the reactions in - and outside of - Washington to the current president's latest speech.)