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TPMM notes that DOJ has been reluctant to turn over to the Oversight Committee the documents pertaining to its Delayed Prosecution Agreement with AIG. Here are some data points that might begin to explain why DOJ would be reluctant to reveal what they knew about AIG and when they knew it.

Timmeh has decided to let us know which banks are insolvent. But he's only doing so because the banks are so unruly they won't listen to him.

Ahmed Chalabi assures us that there was an implicit agreement between Iran and the US before the US took out Saddam.

Bob Corker has been cynically lying. He has been claiming that if GM's Spring Hill plant is closed in bankruptcy, it will be the result of politics. But Corker undoubtedly knows that, one of the few things used as collateral for any of GM's secured debt, Spring Hill will be one of the first things to be liquidated.

Mark Ambinder's starting to figure out something I've been pointing to for some time. Greg Craig is the reactionary pushing Obama to keep adopting Bush's worst policy traits.

I noted the other day that Timmeh (or, according to other coverage of this, Helicopter Ben) told the banks to keep their stress test results to themselves. Well, apparently, stockholder and taxpayers are not the only ones left out of the secret. So is Congressional Oversight Board Chair Elizabeth Warren. In fact, she's not even allowed to know the formulas they used to measuring the banks.

So here's a Happy Easter story of puppies and pirates. There once was a Portuguese Water puppy that lived, for a time, with older cousins at a big estate in Hyannisport, MA. Because the puppy's cousin's people were Democrats, the puppy learned not only basic puppy manners, but also a fine respect for Democratic institutions, including social services, tolerance, and solidarity with other working breeds. There came a time when that Portuguese Water

Pirates! Arrrr, they're teh new sharks matey. Scary! And we should rightly be worried about this pirate problem, because CNN, MSNBC and the print have been relentlessly telling us so. First it was the seizure of the quasi American flagged cargo ship Maersk Alabama, and now the pesky pirates have snared an Italian tugboat too. But is the problem really that widespread? Maybe not.

Luis Posada Carriles just got indicted again. Jeff Stein raises concerns about his treatment. Which might make this trial a good teaching opportunity into the way Homeland Security misuses immigration policing.