How much longer will Defense Secretary Rumsfeld be able to ignore the growing Congressional clamor over the Able Danger ‘information warfare’ controversy? Although key participants remain constrained from speaking out, if given the chance they might expose at least one piece of the puzzle: ‘Able Danger II.’

The revelation that Bob Woodward of Watergate fame was the first reporter to be told about CIA operative Valerie Plame’s secret identity raises many questions, says Rory O’Connor. Among them: What did Woodward know about the Plame affair? When did he know it? And has Woodward just morphed into the Judy Miller of the Washington Post?

Representative Curt Weldon, Republican from Pennsylvania, has just fired another salvo in his ongoing battle against the Defense Department over the Able Danger “information warfare” program. Weldon believes that the 9/11 Commission’s work investigating the attacks has proven “to be a disappointment and a failure, especially as it pertains to Able Danger.” Possible explanations for this failure, says Weldon, include “gross incompetence either on the part of the Commissioners or the Commission staff, or both,” or more alarmingly, “a deliberate cover-up that would make the Watergate scandal pale in comparison.”

Reporters Without Borders held a New York press conference this week to explain why the press freedom group teamed up with a group of investment managers - instead of journalists - to press Internet behemoths like Cisco and Yahoo to monitor their operations in “repressive regime countries” like China.