Pissed off by a weekend leak (so to speak), Dubya ordered the declassification of a portion of a National Intelligence Estimate that had been the source of some troublesome news coverage in the previous 48 hours.

It's hard to see how the document buttresses his optimistic view of how the war on terror is going.

Here's the Washington Post's, BBC's and NYT's news coverage.

Here's the W-P's and NYT's analysis.

This Beeb story asks whether the new book by President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, given that it's replete with allegations such as the United States threatening to bomb it back to the Stone Age, may ...   more »

Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf will go down in the books as the first sitting world leader ever to appear on The Daily Show.

He was flogging his new memoirs, In The Line of Fire.

Here's an excerpt from the AP story on Yahoo! News:

To conclude the interview, Stewart put Musharraf on the "Seat of Heat," a new feature for the program in which red lights flash around the studio and the guest is asked a final question.

"George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden — be truthful — who would win a popular vote in Pakistan?" asked Stewart.

"I think they'll both lose miserably," replied Musharraf, an answer met with raucous laughter by the "Daily Show" audience.