Cursor's Media Patrol - 01/10/06

Judge Samuel 'Say Anything Sammy' Alito, is also described as being "like a very, very smart rock. And this stoniness is slowly wearing down his opposition."

'Doing the Alito Shuffle' Maureen Dowd calls the nominee "evasive, disingenuous and deferential. He fits the Bush era like a baseball glove."

The NSA's inspector general is said to have opened an investigation, House Democrats have scheduled a hearing, and an NSA whistleblower tells ABC News that "He is prepared to tell Congress all he knows," admits that he was a New York Times' source, and "says the number of Americans subject to eavesdropping by the NSA could be in the millions ..."

Jason Leopold reports that sources knowledgeable about the case against Karl Rove say that he turned down a December plea deal "which would likely have required him to provide Fitzgerald with information against other officials who were involved in Plame's outing as well as testifying against those people, the sources said."