Daily Kos

Kossacks find Republicans are playing the 9/11 card in both the presidential race and the fight over the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act (FISA). DHinMI notes author Steve Coll’s statement that the odds of Osama bin Laden’s capture are increasing, and the blogger questions whether mainstream media would help Americans see through GOP attempts to use the capture to boost John McCain’s candidacy. mcjoan picks up on a letter House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) sent to Attorney General Michael Mukasey. Conyers wants Mukasey to clarify statements about 9/11 that liberal bloggers point to as possible evidence that the White House is exploiting terrorism fears to get the FISA bill they want from Congress.