This will vanish off CNN.com’s front page in a few hours, but today’s lead story is:

Not just 9/11: Terror suspect claims he plotted 29 attacks

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed admitted he planned the 9/11 attacks and a catalog of other terrorist acts, according to a transcript of a tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Mohammed said he planned to assassinate former presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, and that he plotted to destroy the Panama Canal, Chicago’s Sears Tower and London’s Big Ben.

I suspect I’m not alone in thinking the feds decided to trot this out now just to get ‘berto off the front page. I wonder how long they’ve been sitting on this waiting for an appropriate crisis?