Now we know.  Israel had a peace partner  —  The classified documents show Palestinians willing to go to extreme lengths and Israel holding a firm line on any peace deal  —  Who will be most damaged by this extraordinary glimpse into the reality of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process?

Chinese Pianist Plays Propaganda Tune at White House  —  US humiliated in eyes of Chinese by song used to inspire anti-Americanism  —  Lang Lang the pianist says he chose it.  Chairman Hu Jintao recognized it as soon as he heard it.  Patriotic Chinese Internet users were delighted as soon as they saw the videos online.

BREAKING: Military Harassing David House, Jane Hamsher for Visiting Bradley Manning  —  Jane Hamsher is with David House who is trying to visit Pvt. Bradley Manning at Quantico today while carrying a petition with 42,000 signatures requesting humane treatment for Manning.

George Will rejects SOTU ‘pep rally’: ‘Every president ... tries to stroke every erogenous zone in the electorate’  —  We're just days away from President Barack Obama's second State of the Union address and while there is a lot of media attention focused on what direction the president …

George Allen to announce Senate bid Monday  —  Former Sen. George Allen will end weeks of speculation and formally declare his candidacy for U.S. Senate in Virginia on Monday, two Republican advisers tell POLITICO.  —  Allen, who has been making all the moves of a candidate in recent weeks …

Gov. Chris Christie declines to counter State of the Union speech  —  In 1995, Christie Whitman, a New Jersey governor who was a rising Republican Party star, delivered the GOP's response to President Bill Clinton's State of the Union address in front of a cheering crowd in the Assembly chamber.

Power, Baby, Power  —  Tim Lee says that American liberalism has incorporated libertarian critiques at a striking rate over the past few decades: … He's right!  And there are both benefits and drawbacks to this.  Still, Will Wilkinson points out that liberals and libertarians remain pretty far apart.

HAWAII GROUND REPORT: Could Hawaiian Governor Neil Abercrombie not be as incompetent and foolish as he appears, but orchestrating a deliberate birth certificate recovery dead end to cover his own papakole?  UPDATED: Mystery solved!  Reason Obama will not release birth certificate is because his name …

Date night for Congress?  —  Washington (CNN) — Will Tuesday be “Date Night” in Congress for President Barack Obama's State of the Union address?  —  Democratic and Republican legislators are pairing off to sit together for the annual speech in a symbolic gesture of bipartisanship, and some of the combinations so far are intriguing.

Clarence Thomas failed to report wife's income, watchdog says  —  Virginia Thomas earned over $680,000 from conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation over 5 years, a group says.  But the Supreme Court justice did not include it on financial disclosure forms.  —  Reporting from Washington —

This Week with Christiane Amanpour  —  Guests:  —  Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT)  —  Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND)  —  Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX)  —  Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT)  —  Rep. Chris Gibson (R-NY)  —  Rep. Bobby Schilling (R-IL)  —  Amanpour: Obama is giving a State of the Union address - what will he say?!