Katherine Harris will spend $10 million of her own money to save her fledgling Senate campaign. She has the money -- her father left it to her when he died in January. She made the announcement tonight on Hannity and Colmes.

Does she want to be Senator because she believes if she wins, the people of Florida win? I didn't see the show, but from the article linked above, it doesn't seem the people are her top priority:

"When I lost him, I said I would win this for my father," she said.

We all want our fathers, whether dead or alive, to be proud of us, but is that a reason people should vote for her? It wouldn't sway me if I lived in her district.

[Graphic created exclusively for TalkLeft by CL.]

Update: 3/16: Carla Martin has been placed on Adminstrative Leave by the TSA.

Update: The Washington Post examines whether the Government can salvage its case against Moussaoui and on its latest attempt to minimize the role of Carla J. Martin. Prosecutors also are also stepping up their attacks on her, as can be seen from today's Motion for Reconsideration:

"In this sea of Government attorneys and agents who have assiduously played by the rules, Ms. Martin stands as the lone miscreant," prosecutors wrote yesterday in court papers. "Her aberrant and apparently criminal behavior should not be the basis for undoing the good work of so many."

Update: Late this afternoon the Government filed a motion (pdf) asking Judge Lonnie Brinkema to reconsider her ruling excluding aviation witnesses and evidence in the Zacarias Moussaoui trial.

They acknowledged that altering the judge's ruling is their only hope of salvaging the death-penalty case.....Brinkema's sanctions make it "impossible for us to present our theory of the case to the jury," the prosecutors said, adding that the barred testimony "is one of the two essential and interconnected components of our case."

Update: Jane of Firedoglake and John Amato of Crooks and Liars were there and heard the exchange. They back Arianna.

Last week we and many other bloggers quoted George Clooney's blog post at HuffPo. Clooney now says he didn't write it, although he acknowledges the statements in it attributed to him are accurate. Arianna responds and disagrees, but allows there is room for a misunderstanding.

The important aspect, if there is one, is that Clooney stands by the statements in the post. What he says is that is we should take pride in being liberals. That's the part we should focus on, not whether he intended it to be a quote as opposed to a blog post.

Congrats to the two winners of the February Contagious Festival - both of which take aim at Dick Cheney:

Vance Lehmkuhl, who takes home the People's Choice award for his "Quail Hunting with Dick Cheney", and Paul Hipp, recipient of the Jury Prize for "Cheney Plays Folsom Prison".

Together, the two entries were watched by over 600,000 people. Vance and Paul will each receive a check for $2,500 -- and will be having a victory dinner with [Arianna] this later this month. Nice work and congratulations them both.

Salon has published the entire collection of Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse photos. It was January 10, 2004, that the first abuse photos were handed over to the military by Spc. Joseph Darby. The Army commenced its investigation the next day. Many publications published selected photos in the aftermath. Yesterday, for the first time, all of the photos in the Army's dossier were put on the Internet, by Salon.

Today Salon presents an archive of 279 photos and 19 videos of Abu Ghraib abuse first gathered by the CID, along with information drawn from the CID's own timeline of the events depicted.

President Bush tells us the United States does not torture. What is this? Or this or this?

How many of you would guess, without more information or having read the title of this post, that these four men are now on trial for their lives?

Four leaders of a highly organized white supremacist prison gang went on trial Tuesday on charges they orchestrated the slayings or attempted slayings of more than 30 inmates during three decades of violence at some of the nation's toughest penitentiaries.

Forty members of the Aryan Brotherhood are charged with gang activity at six federal prisons stretching from California to Illinois and four California state prisons. Sixteen of the defendants could face the death penalty in one of the largest capital punishment cases ever filed in U.S. history.

The public's revulsion of these men may or may not be justified, as the evidence at trial will dictate. But it is exactly cases like these that compel us to acknowledge that everyone is entitled to the best defense possible and to the presumption of innocence, and that if these rights are not accorded to those we consider the lowest among us, they may not be there for us or our loved ones when we need them.

Jerry Falwell gets further and further out there. His latest knucklehead theory is that Jews and Muslims can't go to heaven.

While I am a strong supporter of the State of Israel and dearly love the Jewish people and believe them to be the chosen people of God, I continue to stand on the foundational biblical principle that all people -- Baptists, Methodists, Pentecostals, Jews, Muslims, etc. -- must believe in the Lord Jesus Christ in order to enter heaven. -Jerry Falwell

Blogger Jason Weisberger at Just Plain Bother has co-opted Falwell's comments and urges you to click here and demand Falwell apologize.

For an extra hoot, check out this paragraph from Falwell's auto-biography about his crazy, cruel father. Your family values at work.

Update your bookmarks....Firedoglake has left Blogger for Wordpress and has a new address and great new design. And Reddhedd is using her real name.

The Guardian unveiled its new website today. It is modeled on HuffPo and Journalism Prof Jay Rosen says the Guardian is way ahead of other papers for recognizing that reader interaction is essential.

Speaking of HuffPo, Arianna continues on her Vanity Fair tear..yesterday it was the Marie Brenner article's take on Judith Miller , today she lambasts Ms. Brenner for her treatment of Bob Woodward.

The Judge presiding over the case in which the Justice Department is seeking search user data from Google said today he intends to grant some of the relief requested by the Government.

U.S. District Judge James Ware told the Justice Department it can expect to get at least some of the information sought from Google as part of the Bush administration's effort to revive a law meant to shield children from online pornography.

Initially, DOJ wanted billions of search requests and Web site addresses" as part of a study it is conducting attempting to show that kids can access explicit material on the web despite the use of filtering software. Google balked at the subpoena (although Yahoo, MSN and AOL partially complied) contending that providing the information would compromise user privacy and the company's trade secrets. Today, DOJ told the court it would reduce its request to "a random sampling of 50,000 Web site addresses indexed by Google and the text of 5,000 random search requests."

I don't often write about environmental issues. But there's an important vote coming up Thursday. The full Senate is expected to vote on a budget resolution that instructs the Energy Committee to authorize drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

The budget resolution the Senate is debating assumes that offering leases for oil and gas drilling in the federal refuge would raise some $3 billion in revenue. If the language remains intact, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee would be directed to produce language for a filibuster-proof budget reconciliation bill that would open ANWR to drilling.

The action alert page from the Wilderness Society will send a message to your Senator. Spreading the word on your blogs also would help.

Bump and Update: The hearing is over. Judge Brinkema has ruled that none of the FAA witnesses who were e-mailed by Carla Martin can testify, but the Government can proceed with seeking the death penalty against Zacarias Moussaoui.

After a hearing in which the aviation officials appeared in the absence of the jury, U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema said Federal Aviation Administration and Transportation Security Administration witnesses who had been coached would not be allowed to testify before the jury and that she would bar evidence from them.

The judge "split the baby" as they say. Since these were the witnesses the Government was counting on to establish that but for Moussaoui's lies, the attacks could have been prevented, their case for death is on very shaky ground. But they have until Monday to regroup.

More malfeasance by the Government was revealed at the hearing. Some was by Martin, but it appears prosecutors may be tainted by this as well:

Here's the backdrop to the story about the Abu Ghriab prisoner turned prisoner's rights activist from Saturday's New York Times.

The New York Times reports today that Salon is challenging its identification of Ali Shalal Qaissi as the hooded detainee standing on a box hooked up to electricodes. From the Times:

On Monday, Chris Grey, chief spokesman for the [Army's criminal] investigations unit, asked about the challenge, confirmed to The Times in an e-mail message: "We have had several detainees claim they were the person depicted in the photograph in question. Our investigation indicates that the person you have is not the detainee who was depicted in the photograph released in connection with the Abu Ghraib investigation.