Yeah, like this wouldn't be a storm of indignant opposition rhetoric if it were the Clinton administration. A Senate panel, following the House's lead, has authorized subpoenas for White House political adviser Karl Rove and other top aides involved in the firing of federal prosecutors. ''What we're told we can get is nothing, nothing, nothing,'' said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the Judiciary chairman. ''I know he's the decider for the White House -- he's not the decider for the United States Senate.''

Had the chance to interview ACLU client Joe Frederick and student speech icon Mary Beth Tinker as part of the ACLU's preparation for Monday's Supreme Court hearing in Frederick's case. It was a total honor and I think it turned out okay. Play the audio here. Lemme know what you think. (ACLU podcast feed...)

My college magazine featured alumni David Friend and his book about the 9/11 attacks. The book, which I don't have yet, sounds fascinating - seeing the effect of the attacks through the images that define the experience for most of us and most of the world: Conceived by Osama bin Laden as the toppling of an image of America right before the world's eyes, the tragedy swiftly came to be defined by photography, as families posted snapshots of their loved ones, police sought terrorists' faces on security-camera videotapes, and officials recorded the devastation and identified the dead. That resonates for me with what I wrote that week, how I felt the attacks hardest as an attack on New York's integrity "as a collection of images. ... Pick up the phone, there will be a dial tone. Look downtown, you'll see the skyline the way it was yesterday. ... The skyline…