Essential Paul Krugman

Who writes in The Times in his column today:

Last week an opinion piece in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz about the killing of Sheik Ahmed Yassin said, "This isn't America; the government did not invent intelligence material nor exaggerate the description of the threat to justify their attack."
So even in Israel, George Bush's America has become a byword for deception and abuse of power. And the administration's reaction to Richard Clarke's "Against All Enemies" provides more evidence of something rotten in the state of our government.

He also mentions a quote from Dean's (John's, not Howard's) new book, titled or subtitled "Worse Than Watergate" that makes me want to pick it up along with Clarke's. Of course, Mr. Ashcroft won't like this when he reads our book buying or reading habits. Tsk tsk.