Newsweek’s Palace Revolt, a story about conservatives who paid a price to try to rein in the administration’s war on terror. Maybe I’m just feeling cynical today, but I read it and thought, “So that’s how the coup happened.” Newsweek ends the story by saying, “thanks to a few quietly determined lawyers, a healthy debate has at last begun,” but I don’t know how much that allegedly “healthy debate” means when the ethical heroes are gone and their arch-nemesis, the loathsome David Addington, has been promoted to replace Scooter Libby as Cheney’s chief of staff.

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