HOLDER AIDE: NO DEAL.

Elana Schor reports, contrary to Eli Lake, that there were no special deals between Eric Holder and Kit Bond regarding prosecutions of Bush administration officials:

"Eric Holder has not made any commitments about who would or would not be prosecuted," the aide said via e-mail. "He explained his position to Senator Bond as he did in the public hearing and in his responses to written questions."

Deal or no deal, I doubt there will be any prosecutions. But I should have voiced more skepticism at Lake's original report, given that Holder's confirmation was never in as much peril as it seemed, and probably not enough to require any backroom deals.

-- A. Serwer