The AP reports:

The Rolling Stones' concert at the University of Virginia was interrupted Thursday night while several police officers and three bomb-sniffing dogs searched the stage. The show resumed after about a half-hour intermission. University, state and city police did not immediately return phone calls about the incident, and no announcement was made to the audience about the reason for the break.

I hope the terror threats against the New York subway system turn out to be non-credible. I hope it's another distraction by the Administration. Every time they get really bad press like they are now with possible imminent indictments of top-level officials, the terror threat goes up. But, rather than treat them like the little boy who cried wolf, if you live in New York, give them the benefit of the doubt and stay vigilant and safe.

And don't forget to make sure the cops keep the 4th Amendment in mind. Get a TalkLeft Subway Tote to carry your possessions in and hand the cops when it's time for a search of your bags. Yes, you have to consent to the search but you can without a word let them know what you think of the intrusion. If you've got a college kid in New York, send them one. We can't remind the authorities often enough of our right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures.

Crooks and Liars has a sooper-dooper double secret agent who sent him this audio of Ken Mehlman's RNC blogger conference call on Harriet Miers.

Murray Waas has the latest on Karl Rove's next grand jury appearance - it's tomorrow morning. As I speculated here, he will:

• Try to explain his previous mistatements or as Murray puts it, why his statements have evolved and changed over time
• Try to explain the discrepancies between his and Matthew Cooper's version of the their conversations

And Murray adds a third one:

He will also be questioned regarding contacts with other senior administration officials, such as then-deputy National Security advisor Stephen J. Hadley and I. Lewis Libby, the chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney in the critical week before the publication of columnist Robert Novak's column on July 14, 2003, which outed Plame as a covert CIA operative.

David Corn weighs in here.

Lawrence O'Donnell has updated his Huffpo post to comment on how cagey Rove's lawyer is being when he said today Rove hadn't received a letter informing him he was a target. He's right.

I laid out the terminology of "target letters" earlier. It may be worth noting (as appellate whiz Peter G. pointed out in the comments to the post)that it is not not a legal requirement, only Justice Department policy, that target letters be sent to those whom the Government subpoenas to the grand jury while also intending to indict them.

Rove's lawyer asked for his client to testify again. Rove wasn't subpoenaed. Plus, Fitzgerald could have told him over the phone that if his client testifies again, he can't assure him he won't be indicted. And not sending a target letter doesn't mean Fitz won't advise Rove of his rights orally when he goes before the grand jury again.

by TChris

Children at play:

At one point in the first of the two off-the-record sessions, according to several people in the room, White House adviser Ed Gillespie suggested that some of the unease about Miers "has a whiff of sexism and a whiff of elitism." Irate participants erupted and demanded that he take it back.

The irate conservatives then resorted to the time-honored insult repeller, "I'm rubber and you're glue ..."

Update: The AP reports Karl Rove will testify again in the leaks probe. One last chance to avoid indictment?

Federal prosecutors have accepted an offer from presidential adviser Karl Rove to give 11th hour testimony in the case of a CIA officer's leaked identity but have warned they cannot guarantee he won't be indicted, according to people directly familiar with the investigation.

Update: More details here.

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Over at HuffPo, Lawrence O'Donnell predicts at least three indictments of high-level White House officials. He says Fitz will tell the defense lawyers they have one more chance to come in, rat out others and make a deal.

Rove's lawyer Robert Luskin won't confirm to O'Donnell whether he's been notified by Fitzgerald that he is soon to be an Indictee. Which means, Rove could already be working out a deal or otherwise trying to resolve the charges pre-Indictment. Or, Rove hasn't decided what to do so he's staying quiet until then.

by TChris

Further proof that the president is now powerless (even rudderless, a disabled swift boat being swept out to sea): he couldn't convince the Senate to allow his administration the freedom it has enjoyed to abuse detainees.

"We have to clarify that this is not what the United States is all about. This is what makes us different from the enemy we are fighting," said Sen. John McCain (R-) of Arizona, who sponsored the amendment that bars cruel and inhumane treatment of detainees.

The Senate was apparently persuaded by evidence that front-line interrogators weren't given direction to guide their actions, and by disagreement among Pentagon officials as to what is or isn't an acceptable interrogation technique, and who is or isn't subject to the Geneva Conventions.

It's the lull before the storm. I'm going to take advantage of it and work. Chatter on.

Via a Daily Kos Diary and the Chronicle of Higher Education (source corrected):

For someone both heralded and feared as a potentially conservative voice on the U.S. Supreme Court, Harriet E. Miers has played a key role in exposing college students to some unmistakably liberal ideas.

In the late 1990s, as a member of the advisory board for Southern Methodist University's law school, Ms. Miers pushed for the creation of an endowed lecture series in women's studies named for Louise B. Raggio, one of the first women to rise to prominence in the Texas legal community. A strong advocate for women, Ms. Raggio helped persuade state lawmakers to revise Texas laws to give women new rights over property and in the event of divorce.

Stirling Newberry has a DeLay fundraising memo with subsequent e-mails attached that, by virtue of the bates stamped numbers at the bottom, appear to be official. Don't forget to scroll down through the e-mails.

Tom DeLay's attorney Dick DeGuerin Wednesday accused DA Ronnie Earle of jury shopping. After the first grand jury returned its conspiracy indictment, DeGuerin filed a motion to dismiss alleging the statute he was indicted under wasn't in effect at the time of the offense. Ergo, no crime. So Earle conceived of the money laundering charge and took it to a new grand jury on Friday. The grand jury refused to indict. On Monday, Earle took the case to a third grand jury, which returned the Indictment after four hours.

Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle had gotten one grand jury to indict DeLay on Sept. 28 on a charge of conspiring to violate state election laws. Two days later, a second grand jury rejected Earle's attempt to indict DeLay on money laundering charges. But a third grand jury on Monday gave Earle the money laundering indictment he sought.

Earle tried to justify the move by saying DeLay was trying to back out of his statute of limitations waiver in the first case. DeGuerin cries foul: