Salon.com | Joe Conason's Journal: "Yesterday's feeble admissions constitute what an earlier White House used to call a 'modified limited hangout.' The Bush crowd, improving on what they learned from the Nixon gang, has consistently excelled at lowering expectations of all kinds -- and this occasion is no different. Now even the briefest, most grudging and partial acknowledgment of an obvious fact qualifies as extraordinary candor. "

Joe and Streak agree on this point.