Saturday reading

Must read: Steve Clemons

Dick Cheney's Incredible, Imperial, Infallible Vice Presidency: White House Defies Biden and Lugar on Bolton Intercepts

The word is out.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will not get the much-wanted National Security Agency intercepts in which John Bolton expressed so much interest during his tenure as Under Secretary of State for International Security and Arms Control. Under Secretaries with questionable intentions can get the transcripts -- but Senators with Constitutional oversight responsibilities seemingly cannot.

Dick Cheney and John Bolton's protectors are ever more committed to an imperial presidency -- unchallenged by other institutions of the U.S. government...

And Steve Clemons is an independent. This story is gathering more and more momentum. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee meets Thursday at 10am, for five hours. If c-span doesn't cover it live you'll be able to watch it through a link on CapitolHearings.org.