Jeanine Pirro has attacked Hillary Clinton saying New Yorkers elected her to be Senator and she should be giving them her undivided attention and not spending time running for another office.

"New York deserves a senator who will give her all to the people of New York for a whole term, full time, and not miss votes to campaign in the 2008 presidential primaries," Pirro said.

What about Jeanine? Isn't she still Westchester DA? How many days will she be out of the office campaigning? It was every one of them this week. Didn't the voters elect her expecting that she would give the DA's job her full attention?

Maybe Jeanine should resign her job. Why should Westchester county pay her - including providing a driver and security detail - if she's not busy prosecuting crooks or running the office?

Smart move by Jeanine Pirro. She brought her husband Albert and her kids to a campaign appearance in White Plains today.

Jeanine Pirro's controversial husband made his first appearance of the Senate race Friday when he stood a few yards away from her podium on the last stop of her introductory state tour. Pirro, the Westchester district attorney who is seeking the Republican nomination to challenge Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, did not introduce her husband, Albert Pirro, or mention him in her speech.

Think Progress put a great chart up today outlining all the characters in RoveGate, with links to news sources on each point. Excellent.

Here's a place for all your continued thoughts on Cindy Sheehan. The movement is swelling. Will Bush relent and meet with her? Where is this headed? Who's writing great stuff? My favorite has been the Huffington Post. (Links must be in html format, instructions are in the comment box.)

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It has become routine for people to forget they're carrying items in their carry-on luggage that aren't permitted on an airplane, but a pipe bomb?

A University of Oklahoma student told federal investigators he forgot a pipe bomb he built for fun was in his luggage when tried to board an airplane, court documents show.

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Tom DeLay should be pleased that fellow scoundrel Karl Rove has been grabbing headlines lately, diverting attention from DeLay’s own woes. DeLay is back in the press, however, as the result of the Abramoff indictment that TalkLeft discussed here and a Federal Election Commission audit.

ARMPAC, Tom DeLay’s political action committee, unlawfully used more “soft money” to pay its 2001-02 administrative expenses than federal law allowed. The accounting shenanigans increased the amount of money the PAC had available to spend on Congressional races in 2002.

The FEC hasn’t decided yet whether to levy a fine against ARMPAC.

The Washington Post reports former lobbyist Jack Abramoff was arrested in Los Angeles late this afternoon on the Florida Indictment we mentioned yesterday. His co-defendant, Adam Kidan of New York, will surrender in Florida today.

Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff and a business partner were indicted by federal grand jury in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday, charged with five counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy in their purchase of a fleet of Florida gambling boats from a businessman who was later killed in a gangland-style hit.

Abramoff, 46, was arrested in Los Angeles in the late afternoon and was expected to be taken before a U.S. magistrate there on Friday. He was indicted along with Adam Kidan, the former owner of the Dial-a-Mattress franchise in Washington. Kidan, 41, of New York City, will surrender to the FBI here by Friday morning, his attorney, Martin I. Jaffe, said in a written statement.

It sounds like Kidan cooperated, thinking he could talk his way out of an Indictment, and failed.

A source close to the offical proceedings involving Saddam Hussein's trial says he could be executed after the first trial.

Saddam's daughter is running the defense. Now she says his defense lawyer may boycott the trial. Does she think they would hesitate a nanosecond to try him without a lawyer? Sounds like the fastest way to the execution chamber to me.

Lawyers should be running Saddam's defense, not his daughter.

Editor and Publisher reports that the new issue of Vanity Fair has an article by Michael Wolf, All Roads Lead to Rove, in which Wolf blasts the media for knowing, but covering up, that Karl Rove was one of the Plame leakers.

If they had burned this unworthy source and exposed his “crime,” he adds, it would have been “of such consequences that it might, reasonably, have presaged the defeat of the president, might have even—to be slightly melodramatic—altered the course of the war in Iraq.” In doing so they showed they owed their greatest allegiance to the source, not their readers.

....So in the end, he concludes, “the greatest news organizations in the land had a story about a potential crime that reached as close as you can get to the president himself and they punted, they swallowed it, they self-dealt.” And why did they do it? Well, “a source is a source who, unrevealed, will continue to be a source.”

[link via Buzzflash]

Some people in Jonesboro, Ark. don't like that Mitchell Johnson, who at 13, along with 11 year old Andrew Golden, shot and killed five people at his middle school, is being released from prison. Johnson is now 21.

Johnson was rightfully tried as a juvenile. 13 year old brains are not well-developed enough to be competent to stand trial. They can't understand the proceedings, meaningfully assist their lawyers in their defense, or understand the consquences of various decisions that need to be made. Our criminal justice system believes in rehabilitating our youthful offenders. That's why juveniles don't get a permanent criminal record.

In Arkansas, the maximum age a juvenile can be held is 18. Johnson was held till he is 21, because the state added some weapons charges.

Johnson wants to become a minister and enroll in college. He's spent 8 years in juvenile and adult prisons. It's time for him to leave.

Funding prevention, not prisons, is the way to reduce these kinds of crime.

It's Cindy Sheehan day over at Huffington Post, with entries by Cindy herself, Arianna, Norman Lear, Gary Hart, Christine Lahti, Andy Stern, Sarah Jones, Rep. Jim McDermott, Tom Hayden and Jodie Evans.

Crooks and Liars has video of Cindy on Olbermann tonight.

Joe Trippi has an audio of a conference call with Cindy. And Attytood casts doubt on the e-mail critical of Cindy one of her family members reportedly sent to Drudge. [Via Atrios.]

Looks the DEA cares more about their image than helping kids go to college:

(Columbia) The local Drug Enforcement Agency is pulling out of a partnership with the University of South Carolina because of their new "Four strikes and you're out" drug policy. "Based on come recent decisions by the University on relaxing their drug policy, we decided it was not a good idea for the DEA to stay associated with the university policy," said John Ozaluk of South Carolina¹s DEA. "That's why we pulled our name off the support list for the golf tournament."

The tournament raised money for a scholarship fund in honor of a fallen DEA agent. The university has not commented on the situation.

[Via NORML]