In my article today about top Democrats circling the wagons on intelligence reform, I mention that Jay Rockefeller (D., W.Va.), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, appears to have done a 180 from the position he held just a few days ago.

At the Weekly Standard’s blog, Steve Hayes picks up this theme and recounts that it ain’t the first time — yet Rockefeller’s dizzying performances on Iraq, the NSA program and, now, the peril caused by allowing essential intelligence authority to lapse never seem to attract much attention from the mainstream media.