The Lotsa Spin Zone
According to "knowledgeable sources," The White House has ordered CIA director Porter Goss to purge the CIA of those who don't march in lockstep with the Bush party line of "Everything's A-OK, Everywhere, All The Time." These would be "leakers and liberal Democrats," according to a former CIA official quoted by Newsday's Knut Royce:

Tensions between the White House and the CIA have been the talk of the town for at least a year, especially as leaks about the mishandling of the Iraq war have dominated front pages.

Some of the most damaging leaks came from Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA's Bin Laden unit, who wrote a book anonymously called "Imperial Hubris" that criticized what he said was the administration's lack of resolve in tracking down the al-Qaida chieftain and the reallocation of intelligence and military manpower from the war on terrorism to the war in Iraq. Scheuer announced Thursday that he was resigning from the agency.

Remember democracy? You might not remember it much longer. Every day, the news is peppered with evidence that it's on its way out -- like the disturbing purge above of any agents who aren't literally "right-thinking" -- and the pressure on Arlen Spector to march in toy-soldier lockstep with the Bush administration...or else. I'm sorry, but am I living in Santa Monica, CA, or Santa Monica, USSR?