Silberman: 'Not bravado, but arrogance'

Michelle Goldberg at Salon has up an excellent profile of Laurence Silberman, the right-wing legal fixer who's been named co-chair of the "intelligence failure" investigation panel:

The partisan "mastermind" in charge of Bush's intel probe

You may note that a lot of the material in this piece may seem familiar (and if I had a suspicious mind, I'd wonder if Goldberg were cribbing notes -- though even if she were, her piece reads much more readily than my data dump). She notably gets in some fresh quotes from David Brock, Ralph Neas and Kevin Phillips, the latter of whom sums it up best:

"Even the word 'chutzpah' does not describe this appointment of Silberman," Phillips said. "This is not bravado, but arrogance."

It's probably not the first time that someone has noticed that it seems nothing is out of bounds for the Bush administration -- and it probably won't be the last.