There's the Olympics. And on the Bachelor, Women Tell All Nothing. Also, 24 and Life Unexpected.

The Center for Constitutional Rights has obtained new FOIA documents showing Congress knew much more about the CIA's secret rendition program and torture than previously disclosed. The new documents also highlight the role of Dick Cheney counsel Richard Addington. For example, a newly obtained February 4, 2003, CIA memo documents the role of Counsel for the Office of the Vice President (OVP) in analyzing and approving the CIA techniques. CCR says:

“Members of Congress must come clean about whether they encouraged or objected to torture during these many secret meetings with CIA officials and we need a complete accounting of Cheney’s counsel, David Addington’s, role in the creation of the torture program. These new documents show that the CIA may have lied to Congress about the role of interrogation techniques in detainee deaths and key members of Congress abdicated their oversight role. This new information points even more strongly to the need for a full criminal investigation of the torture program, up the entire chain of command.”

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Are you watching the Olympics?

Figure skating: original dance; speed skating: women's 1500m Gold Medal final; freestyle skiing: men's ski cross Gold Medal final; skiing: men's super combined Gold Medal final; bobsled: two-man Gold Medal final.

What about NBC and the time delays? It's catching some criticism. Here's NBC's reasoning:

NBC has stuck to the longtime Olympic TV plan: Hold the best action until prime time, when viewership is biggest. Naturally, people can find out the results long before that footage airs. But NBC has exclusive rights to the footage before it airs, so it knows you won't see it until it shows it.

Or are you watching Jeff and Jordan in Chile on the Amazing Race, Desperate Housewives and Brothers and Sisters? Something else?

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Update: Apolo Ohno sets Winter U.S. Olympic history with his 7th medal. He took bronze in the short-track 1,000-meter final.

Tonight at the Olympics: Watch Lindsay Vonn take bronze in the Super G.

Plus U.S. speedsters (live ET/CT) on tracks both short and long compete, as Apolo Ohno goes for a record-breaking seventh Winter Olympic medal (1000m) and Shani Davis tries for a second gold medal of the weekFeatured coverage includes Lindsey Vonn in the super-G, U.S. speedsters (live ET/CT) on tracks both short (Apolo Ohno, 1000m) and long (Shani Davis, 1500m).

It's cold and snowy here, not a good night to go anywhere. Instead I'm reading mounds of discovery with a fire going and the Olympics on in the background. What's on your agenda this weekend?

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More Olympics tonight? It starts with ski-jumping.

Snowboarder Scotty Lago, winner of the Bronze medal in the Snowboard half-pipe, has voluntarily left the Olympics after photos of him inappropriately using his medal last night surfaced online.

What are you looking forward to watching tonight?

In other news:

• Insanity defense likely for the Alabama professor. The state says it's ready for it.
• FBI is undertaking a criminal investigation into a Pennsylvania school that gave students laptops with webcams and then watched them while they were at home.
• Some analysis of the OPR Torture report. The ACLU calls for an expanded criminal investigation.

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Who's watching the Olympics? Women's snowboarding half-pipe finals are tonight. There's also women's downhill skiing.

Who's watching Survivor?

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Busy day.

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Good TV ratings for the Vancouver Olympics.

Decisions...American Idol or the Olympics? And I still have "24" and Damages to watch from last night.

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I've got lots to do at work after the long holiday weekend. For those of you online, here's an open thread, all topics welcome.

The Bachelor or the Olympics tonight? For me, it's the Bachelor. While everyone already knows who goes home and who Jake picks, the show is worth watching for St. Lucia alone. Between the scenery and the outstanding hotels (Cap Maison tonight, Jade Mountain for the finale on March 1), it will be fun to watch. And no, Ali's not coming back.

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Today is Presidents Day, which is a day that was invented in order to roll Lincoln and Washington's birthday into one national holiday. For some reason, we could not just add a holiday to honor Martin Luther King.

What Presidents Day brings to mind for me? Ads like this one:

Ugh. No offense to Washington and Lincoln, but the celebrations of their birth have set advertising back like nothing else.

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The 10k Biathlon (the cross country skiing/shooting event) is being televised right now (on the East Coast.)

It is one of my Winter Olympic favorites.

For West Coasters, you will want to watch the Nordic Combined event. Fantastic stuff.

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Happy Valentine's Day, everyone. Who's got something romantic planned?

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