"Circle it."

TAPPED:

Reid also made it clear that he believes the delay in the Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation of prewar Iraq WMD--the underlying issue behind Tuesday's closed session--is entirely attributable to Vice President Dick Cheney.

"Nothing happens regarding intelligence gathering... unless it's signed off on by the Vice President," he said. "[Senate Intelligence chairman Pat] Roberts couldn't do it"--i.e., Roberts couldn't conduct a full investigation without Cheney's approval.

When I asked Reid whether he meant to state so flatly that Cheney was personally and directly stalling the Intelligence Committee's work, he didn't pause a beat. In fact he almost stood from his chair.

"Yes. I say that without any qualification."

"Circle it."

11/5 Update from Froomkin from NPR from Wilkerson:

Mr. WILKERSON: "What happened was that the secretary of Defense, under the cover of the vice president's office, began to create an environment -- and this started from the very beginning when David Addington, the vice president's lawyer, was a staunch advocate of allowing the president in his capacity as commander in chief to deviate from the Geneva Conventions."

"Regardless of the president having put out this memo, they began to authorize procedures within the armed forces that led to, in my view, what we've seen."

Honor? Dignity? Integrity? Resolve? Ethics? - surely, they must be kidding.