By the way...

Just in case you were wondering whether there might actually be something else going on this week besides the Petraeus Show, there is.

Nothing serious, though.

Just the latest in a series of deadlines set by Government Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, demanding the delivery by the "administration" of reports generated by the still-unknown private contractor who claims to have "lost" those 5 million White House e-mails.

Deadline: Today.

In a letter to Fielding, Rep. Henry Waxman set a Sept. 10 deadline for the White House to turn over information about the missing e-mail, a problem that apparently was discovered by administration officials in 2005.

The letter from Waxman, D-Calif., revealed new details about the issue that came from two White House lawyers who briefed Waxman's staff about problems archiving electronic messages. White House e-mail problems first came to light during a special prosecutor's investigation into whether someone on President Bush's staff illegally leaked a CIA agent's identity and again during congressional inquiries into the role of presidential aides in firings of U.S. attorneys.

Yes, we've known about this since 2005. And yes, it was discovered in the investigation of the Plame outing.

And yes, we're still waiting.

P.S. -- Also still pending: Contempt of Congress charges against Harriet Miers and Josh Bolten. Both still at large.