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Referring to their abject recantations and redeclarations of fealty, Josh Marshall asks:

And will O'Neill go the way of John DiIulio and Nick Smith?

Silly Josh:

O'Neill told the "Today" show he was guilty of using some "vivid" language during his hundreds of hours of interviews with Suskind for the book. "If I could take it back, I would take it back," he said of the "blind man" quote.

Asked if he plans to vote for Bush in November's presidential election, O'Neill said he "probably" would. "I don't see anyone who is better prepared or more capable," he told NBC....

On the nationally broadcast interview Tuesday, O'Neill said, "It was not my intention to be personally critical of the president of anybody else," but to cooperate with Suskind "on a chronicle of 23 months" in government.

Elsewhere in the news, I hear "Republic of Fear" is scheduled for a new edition....