Real quick:

* Michael Rubin passes on this story suggesting that these talks with the Muslim Brotherhood were cleared by the State Department. The full article quotes an anonymous "senior U.S. official", which basically means a mid-level State Department nobody passing on an anti-Bush leak to a sympathetic reporter. Not that we're denying that this meeting was cleared by State - given efforts to rehabilitate the MB in all the right journals, there have to be literally dozens of life-long civil servants looking to confirm their sophistication to themselves by talking to terrorists. We're just saying that if it was actually authorized by the State Department, that's as good a reason as any to elect a bureaucratic Hercules like Fred Thompson to clean out those stables.

* Egypt claims they caught an Israeli spy in their nuclear program. This Blog Is etc etc explains how they knew.

References:
* Rice clears talks with Muslim Brotherhood? [NRO]
* Now, We're Talking to the Brotherhood [MSNBC]
* Oh For Crying Out Loud. Democrats Now Actually Meeting With the Muslim Brotherhood. (UPDATED AND BUMPED- Hoyer Denies It. Kind Of. Except Not Really) [MR]
* Muslim Brotherhood Mocks People Who Think That the "Right of Return" Is A "Two State Solution" [MR]
* Egypt arrests nuke worker for spying for Israel [MSNBC]
* Going nuclear [TBISFOC]

Previously:
* Egypt Violates The Camp David Accords. Again.
* Choose Your Own Egypt Headline
* Egypt Promises To Fulfill Treaty Obligations - Later

Cross-posted to:
* Israpundit