JOE WILSON must be hoping that the Sandy Berger scandal will take attention away from his continuing dissolution. But Tom Maguire has the Paula Zahn transcript from last night, and it’s not pretty.

UPDATE: More on Berger: “The Berger affair is pennies from heaven for the Bush presidential campaign . . . . Presidential challenger Kerry will have to think twice before attacking Bush on national security issues lest he lay himself open to reminders that a former Clinton aide and his own adviser was caught red-handed misappropriating classified materials that revealed how a Democratic president mishandled the threat of terror.”