Early weekend reading

- The New York Observer's Joe Conason discusses the "etiquette and morality of leaking." Translation: leaking isn't leaking when it benefits the Republican agenda.

- Though this shocking piece is already over a week old, it first caught my attention today. Lefty at A la Gauche comments on four "detention camps, currently being built by a subsidiary of Halliburton, under contract from the U.S. government... in undisclosed locations across the United States." I shit you not!

- Via Informed Dissent, check out this post by Congressman John Conyers concerning his lawsuit against President Bush (and 11 additional cabinet secretaries and agency chiefs) over February's budget reconciliation bill. At least somebody in Washington is still defending the Constitutional process of government.

- Who'd have guessed? Seems like Rush Limbaugh, America's favorite defender of truth, honor, and clean livin', has gotten into a bit of trouble in Florida. Jane Hamsher dishes the dirt at firedoglake. And the phrase "double standard" keeps ringing in my ears for some reason...