news quickies from Think Progress

Mutiny in the ranks.
“I think the administration has looked at the legitimate power of the executive during a time of war and taken it to extremes. [It’s] to the point that we’d lose constitutional balance. Under their theory, there would be almost no role for the Congress or the courts.” —Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)

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Rep. Peter King (R-NY) punished for opposing port deal?
King “confirmed Friday that a few days after he first threatened legislation to hold up the port deal, the Pentagon informed him that it could not provide an aircraft for his planned March Congressional delegation to Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East.”

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Pentagon releases identities of Guantanamo detainees.
After four years of secrecy, “a federal judge rejected administration arguments that releasing the names would violate the detainees’ privacy” and allowed 5,000 pages of Guantanamo hearing transcripts to be released under an AP FOIA request.

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Chertoff on his way out?
“Administration sources told HUMAN EVENTS today that the secretary of Homeland Security has ‘only a few days left‘ in the Bush Cabinet.” (via Drudge)

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