Cheney, Black Flagged

Score one for the historians - a judge has ordered Dick Cheney to preserve his records while litigation pertaining to his ever having to reveal them to the public moves forward.

See the story here.

I don't know what they are so worried about. The historians who WILL be judging the Bush administration have already largely spoken. 98% of them in this poll rate the Bush presidency as a failure, before the economic dislocations of the last week. 61% see him as the worst president ever, and if the US historian next to my office is at all typical, many of the remainder put him in a debatable top three. See this story, and it's pretty graphs, here.