What the WH live blogger for Iowa Healthcare Forum DIDN'T blog about.

Can you say "single payer," boys and girls?

Lambert catches what didn't make it into the WH blog on the event in a well-documented post.

Uh oh. Transparency trashing! Someone's soaping the window of transparency at the White House!

Also, Nancy DeParle would not answer question from the single payer doc who got a ticket to the event. No surprise there, either.

Also, note which news orgs have NOT reported on this. I'm sure there are more. Single payer is a topic to be either ignored or derided. Even as "public option." Even if some Team Obama folks mention "public option."

DALLAS -- The police officer who detained an NFL player in a hospital parking lot while the player's mother-in-law was dying inside has resigned.

Officer Robert Powell's attorney Bob Gorsky said Powell resigned Wednesday over the March 18 incident in which the officer drew his gun and threatened Houston Texans running back Ryan Moats.

Powell stopped Moats' SUV in suburban Plano after the vehicle rolled through a red light. Moats' wife, Tamishia, and other relatives were also in the car.

Moats' mother-in-law died before he got there, while Powell wrote Moats a ticket and lectured him. Powell later issued an apology, and Moats said he would accept it.

Former Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy has been invited to join a White House faith-based advisory council.

Dungy publicist Todd Starowitz confirmed Tuesday that President Barack Obama had invited the former coach to join the Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. He said Dungy had not decided whether to accept.

White House deputy press secretary Bill Burton declined comment. The Associated Press left a message for Dungy on his home answering machine.

Americans United for Separation of Church and State has criticized Dungy's selection, citing his 2007 support for efforts in Indiana to ban same-sex marriage.

"We're not trying to downgrade anyone else," Dungy told a crowd of 700 while accepting a "Friend of Family" award from the conservative Indiana Family Institute in 2007. "But we're trying to promote the family -- family values the Lord's way."

Argh.  

But some former and current Central Intelligence Agency officials say a rush to release classified material could expose intelligence methods and needlessly offend dedicated counterterrorism officers. Some administration and Congressional officials said John O. Brennan, a C.I.A. veteran who now serves as President Obama's top counterterrorism adviser, has urged caution in disclosing interrogation documents.

IOW, don't release the torture memos, because they describe what I oversaw as no.4 figure in the CIA.

And seriously, don't release them because it would hurt torturer's feelings?

Fer Pete's sakes. Some of you people really need to "chill, and live". I highly doubt the queen is nearly as upset -- if at all -- as some of the commenters here.

I thought Michelle looked great. The queen seemed very pleased to meet the Obama's and, according to reports, she already has some tech gadgets and knows how to use them!

The Dallas police officer who stopped, lectured and ticketed Houtson Texans' RB Ryan Moats, when Moats rolled through a red light while hurrying to the hospital to see a dying relative (who died while Moats was outside being lectured and ticketed), has resigned his job with the police.  This incident was discussed in a post here, the other day, and here a day or so earlier.  In the interim, the (now-former) officer had offered Moats his apology and Moats accepted it.  Apparently, the officer had also drawn his service weapon and this was captured on dash-cam.

I hope the WH protocol office did better this time, and it came with an adapter that works in Europe -- unlike the gift of DVDs to Gordon Brown that work only on this side of the pond.