From the AP: Attorneys for television talk show host David Letterman want a judge to quash a restraining order granted to a Santa Fe woman who contends the celebrity used code words to show that he wanted to marry her and train her as his co-host. A state judge granted a temporary restraining order to Colleen Nestler, who alleged in a request filed last Thursday that Letterman has forced her

John Cole works himself into quite a state today over an LA Times story he believes suggests that the President may have “lied”—a pronouncement upon which John’s commentariat pounces like snappy terriers on a bloody lamb shank. John’s outrage, he tells us, stems from his provisional acceptance of the facts cited in this LA Times story, facts that, if true, would make statements Bush made about the NSA “spy” program

Clinton associate attorney general John Schmidt, writing in the Chicago Tribune (h/t Charles Martin): Sept. 11, 2001, authorization to the National Security Agency to carry out electronic surveillance into private phone calls and e-mails is consistent with court decisions and with the positions of the Justice Department under prior presidents. The president authorized the NSA program in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America. An identifiable group, Al Qaeda,