This week's bad news for Bush

The Wash Post's Dan Froomkin gives the latest update:

• You've got a New York Times series on the spectacular and divisive failure of a White House cabal's plans for a new system of justice for prisoners taken in the war on terror.

• There's a Washington Post story about a confidential Justice Department memo that apparently authorized the CIA to transfer detainees out of Iraq for interrogation in violation of the Geneva Conventions.

• There's Knight-Ridder with an expose on Bush's disputed service with an inner-city program in Houston in 1973.

• There's the Wall Street Journal weighing in with a story about how Bush apparently had the chance to kill terrorist leader Abu Musab Zarqawi before the Iraq War, but opted not to.

• There's a New York Times story on the American military's failure to secure hundreds of tons of powerful conventional explosives in Iraq.

• And there's a Los Angeles Times story about how foreign governments are flocking to Bush's major fundraisers to improve their access to Washington's corridors of power.

Here's Froomkin's guess about the break of bad news: "It feels almost like major newspapers in America are disgorging stories that could be hugely damaging to Bush in the election--just under the wire." That seems reasonable--except for the fact that this is just your typical week. Is it worse than, say, two weeks weeks ago, when Bush got hit by Charlie, Bremer, Rummy, and the CIA?

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