Three long days ago, GOP Sen. Pat Roberts, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, stated unequivocally that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist was flat wrong when he alleged that Richard Clarke's sworn testimony before the 9-11 Commission was at odds with his earlier (still classified) statements under oath to Roberts' Intelligence Committee -- a serious charge that been gleefully repeated by the president's political allies ever since.

Mark Kleiman is still waiting to hear apologies and retractions.

UPDATE: The American Prospect's Garance Franke-Ruta says that Sen. Frist's charges were the product of a half-vast right wing conspiracy.

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