John Amato of Crooks and Liars has posted his interview Gen. Wesley Clark recorded last week. It focuses on torture and the moral high ground. Here's a partial transcript.

The Sunday Morning Lineups

• CNN's Late Edition looks like the one to watch.

• Meet the Press has Senators Kennedy and Coburn. It's airing an hour early on the East Coast only due to the New York marathon.
• ABC's This Week has Joe Biden and Chuck Hagel.
• Face the Nation has Dick Durbin, Pat Roberts and Orrin Hatch.
• Fox News Sunday has Senators Schumer and McCain.

[comments reopened, but please stay on topic of the Sunday news show.]

[Note: Only for the seriously RoveGate-afflicted. This may be my longest parsing yet.]

Karl Rove's lawyers are talking again. Here's their latest, from Saturday's New York Times:

Lawyers involved in the case say the prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, has narrowed the investigation of Mr. Rove to whether he tried to conceal from the grand jury a conversation he had with a Time magazine reporter, Matthew Cooper, in the week before the identity of an undercover intelligence operative was made public in 2003.

In what is believed to be his final look at any involvement by Mr. Rove, Mr. Fitzgerald has centered on whether he was fully forthcoming about the belated discovery of an internal e-mail message that confirmed his conversation with Mr. Cooper, to whom Mr. Rove had mentioned the C.I.A. officer. Lawyers in the case say Mr. Rove had learned the officer's identity from the columnist Robert D. Novak two days before speaking to Mr. Cooper.

The Rocky Mountain News has a fascinating article today on Colorado's first marijuana case.

In 1937, a man named Samuel Caldwell was the first person to be charged with a marijuana crime when he was busted after selling two joints to Moses Baca. He was arrested on the date that the Marijuana Stamp Act became effective.

As TChris reported earlier, Kenneth Tomlinson was forced out of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

The New York Times now reports he is the subject of an investigation into the misuse of funds. Another area of the inquiry involves whether he used phantom or unqualified employees.

People involved in the inquiry said that investigators had already interviewed a significant number of officials at the agency and that, if the accusations were substantiated, they could involve criminal violations.

I'm against allowing jurors to question witnesses. They are fact-finders, not advocates, and I have always suspected they wouldn't have a clue what questions might be appropriate.

Among the questions jurors wanted to ask actor Robert Blake in the ongoing civil trial for damages over the wrongful death of his wife (Blake was acquitted or murder in the criminal trial):

One of the jurors deciding whether Robert Blake is responsible for his wife's murder wants to know whether the actor can name the four Gospels in the Bible.

Another asked whether Blake let his murdered wife's children — who allege he is liable for her death — attend Bonny Lee Bakley's funeral four years ago.

Another juror wanted to know if Bakley's daughter attended Sunday school.

There has been a lot of speculation about why Fitzgerald met with President Bush's private lawyer, James Sharp, just before the Indictment against Lewis Libby was returned. I thought it was to give the President a heads-up on the results of the investigation and let him know only Libby was going to be indicted.

The New York Times today reports "discussions" between Sharp and Fitz regarding Rove. It doesn't say when they took place, but it seems to fit that it would have been that last meeting.

Mr. Fitzgerald no longer seems to be actively examining some of the more incendiary questions involving Mr. Rove. At one point, he explored whether Mr. Rove misrepresented his role in the leak case to President Bush - an issue that led to discussions between Mr. Fitzgerald and James E. Sharp, a lawyer for Mr. Bush, an associate of Mr. Rove said.

[hat tip Patriot Daily.]

by TChris

President Bush was greeted by protestors when he arrived in Argentina to attend the Summit of the Americas.

Around 10,000 protesters chanted "Get out Bush!" today on the streets of the Argentinean resort which is hosting the Summit of the Americas. Celebrities including the Argentinean soccer legend Diego Maradona are among the demonstrators who have gathered at the resort of Mar Del Plata, where the two-day summit starts later today.

Via Ryan Lizza at TNR's The Plank:

I just got a call from Fitzgerald's spokesman, Randall Samborn. He confirmed that The Washington Post, The New York Times, and other news organizations this morning are in fact wrong. The "principal deputy" to Libby named in the indictment is Edelman, not Hannah. Here's exactly what Samborn said:

You're correct, it's Edelman. I can't account for why the other papers are saying it's Hannah, but it's not. It is Eric Edelman. You heard me correctly on Friday when I said that.

The New York Times now reports that Edelman is the "principal deputy" and he didn't disclose his knowledge to Congress this past spring. Bush used a recess appointment to put Edelman in his current position.

by TChris

Kenneth Tomlinson, the former head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, is among the right wingers who can’t stomach the possibility that liberal (or even moderate) ideas might be publicly voiced. The Inspector General of the CPB investigated Tomlinson’s use of corporate funds to promote conservative programming on public television, and its report is in the hands of CPB's board.

[The investigation] included Mr. Tomlinson's decision to hire a researcher to monitor the political leanings of guests on the public policy program "Now" with Bill Moyers; his use of a White House official to set up an ombudsman's office to scrutinize programs for political balance; and secret payments approved by Mr. Tomlinson to two Republican lobbyists.

The results of the IG’s report are confidential, but they persuaded the other members of CPB’s board, on which Tomlinson continued to sit, to force his resignation.

In a split decision, the full D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to reconsider a panel's ruling that four reporters must give up their sources in nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee's civil suit against the Government.

Lee is seeking the identity of the sources for his lawsuit against the departments of Energy and Justice. He alleges the agencies gave reporters private information about him and suggested he was a suspect in the investigation into possible theft of nuclear secrets.

Judge Tatel, who wrote 41 page opinion (pdf) in the Judith Miller - Matthew Cooper case in which he said that he believes a journalist privilege should exist in some cirumstances, would have granted a hearing in Wen Ho Lee's case.

by TChris

The Senate, defying the White House, overwhelmingly passed Sen. John McCain’s bill to prohibit the abuse of detainees. That language is not in the House version of the military spending package to which it was attached in the Senate, so House and Senate conferees will need to decide whether to include it in the version that goes to the president. Vice President Cheney’s effort to persuade McCain to soften the bill’s language went nowhere.

House Democrats planned to introduce a motion that would instruct House conferees to adopt McCain’s language. They’ve been stymied by Speaker Dennis Hastert’s refusal to appoint the conferees. Now why would Hastert be dragging his feet?

Democrats on Thursday were quick to accuse Mr. Hastert, a close friend and political ally of Mr. Cheney, of taking steps to postpone a vote that would embarrass the vice president at a time when his former chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby Jr., is under indictment in the C.I.A. leak case. "At a time when we should be protecting American service men and women from torture and improving our sullied international reputation, the majority in the House is more interested in protecting the vice president and this administration from embarrassment," said Representative Ellen O. Tauscher, a California Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee.