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It was gutsy for Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein to come out against Washington's recent rash of dangerous intelligence leaks last week; she made criticism of the leaks bipartisan. Flanked by the House Intelligence Committee's ranking Democrat, Dutch Ruppersberger, and GOP committee leaders, Feinstein declared: "This has to stop. When people say they don't want to work with the United States, because they can't trust us to keep a secret, that's serious." A week later, Feinstein is more than halfway through New York Times reporter David E. Sanger's book "Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of...

Friday, October 8, 2004 · Last updated 9:40 a.m. PT Poll: Youth tie Bush, draft reinstatement THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- In spite of denials by the Bush administration, half of young Americans believe President Bush wants to reinstate the military draft, a national poll suggests. The National Annenberg Election Survey found that 51 percent of adults age 18 to 29 believe Bush wants to reinstate the draft. Eight percent said Kerry supports bring back the draft, and 7 percent said both want to. A fourth of those polled said neither candidate favors the idea. Both Bush and Kerry say...

On Tim Russert's Show (his other show), Howard Dean "Guaranteed" That Bush Will start a draft. He then laid out reasons why. Tim Russert, of course, didn't mention to him that the only pieces of draft legislation were written by Democrats. A sign of things to come...