Some former Bushites are turning, or so it seems. First, we’ve got the Michael “Heckuva-job Brownie” Brown, who is testifying that the Bush administration did, in fact, know the levees broke the day Katrina hit, and not the day after, as the Bush administration has been claiming. Of course, we all knew this already–there were more than a few dozen such reports. But in today’s age of Anything-Goes-for-Bush right-wing media, apparently we need a notarized confession from a high-level Bush administration official before the media starts to stir around and get serious.

Brown, in fact, said under oath that administration claims to not being notified are “just baloney” and “a little disingenuous.” And so now the media is gasping, as if we didn’t know this already, and that somehow this is more serious than everything else Bush did during Katrina and its aftermath.

But there’s more, this time from the Scooter Libby case. Apparently unwilling to take the fall alone, he is testifying to a grand jury that he had been “authorized” by Dick Cheney and other White House “superiors” in 2003 to dish out classified information to the media in defense of the Iraq War. It is still not clear whether this is a serious indictment of the Bush administration, or if it’s a defense tactic where he can blame the White House and they can blame him, and so long as they shredded all the documents, reasonable doubt can be introduced. We’ll have to see. This does follow the “notarized confession from a high-level Bush administration official” standard, but apparently the media needs more than just that to get interested in the Plame case any more, as they’re fairly quiet on this story.

Not to mention that prosecutor Fitzgerald has revealed that there was a PDB, or Presidential Daily Briefing, which told Bush that Wilson had debunked the Niger story–this coming well before Bush claimed the story true in his State of the Union address. This after the Bush administration has vehemently and repeatedly denied that anyone in the White House ever heard of the Wilson report–after all, if they had, then the SOTU reference to Nigeria would have been a knowing lie. And that’s what we’re learning was exactly the case, though now it may actually be documented. Which, apparently, will be only one of the dozen or so different iron-clad proofs of the fact necessary to stoke the media’s interest in the story. Unless they can find out that Scooter gave Dick Cheney a blow job, which would be far more important, and they would immediately jump all over it.