Via Glenn, from RollCall:

As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) moves to ease a backlog of executive branch nominations, he suggested on Tuesday that he does not have the votes to bring up President Barack Obama's pick to run the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel.

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Johnsen has come under fire from some social conservatives, who have voiced concerns over her positions on abortion and the war on terror.

Johnsen had a contentious confirmation hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Feb. 25. The panel approved her nomination on March 20 on a party-line, 11-7, vote.

But Reid indicated Tuesday that at least a few Democrats would also oppose Johnsen, making the task of reaching 60 votes to avert a Republican filibuster even more difficult.

Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) "is very concerned" about Johnsen's nomination, press secretary Clay Westrope said, pointing to her tenure as the legal director of NARAL Pro-Choice America as a point of concern.

Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.), who recently joined the Democratic Conference after 29 years as a Republican Senator, has stated that he will vote against Johnsen's nomination when it hits the floor.

This is just pathetic, on so many levels.

"Should you be charged criminally then?"

At this writing. . . the conservative movement is at its lowest ebb since 1964. But with this cardinal difference: the movement has so far succeeded in shifting the center of American politics and social thought that it can rest, for at least a little while, on its laurels.

 This appears to contradict Pelosi's account that she was never told waterboarding actually happened, only that the administration was considering using it.

Sheehy attended a briefing in which waterboarding was discussed in February 2003, with Rep. Jane Harman, D-California, who took over Pelosi's spot as the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.

This source says Pelosi didn't object when she learned that waterboarding was being used because she had not been personally briefed about it -- only her aide had been told.

The source said Pelosi supported a letter that Harman sent to the administration at the time raising concerns. The source asked not to be identified because of the sensitive nature of matters discussed in classified intelligence briefings.

Pelosi admits attending one briefing in September 2002, but at a news conference last month, she was adamant that she did not know waterboarding was used.

"At that or any other briefing, and that was the only briefing that I was briefed on in that regard, we were not -- I repeat, we were not -- told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation methods were used, " Pelosi said on April 23.

President Obama has ordered government lawyers to object to the planned release of additional detainee photos, according to an administration official.

The Iraqi Ministry of Justice gave journalists an inside look at the prison formerly known as Abu Ghraib.

 The Defense Department was set to release hundreds of photographs showing alleged abuse of prisoners in detention facilities in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The release is in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. It follows President Obama's decision to release Bush-era CIA documents showing that the U.S. used techniques like waterboarding, considered torture by the current administration.

Photographs released in 2006 of detainees being abused and humiliated at the Abu Ghraib military prison in Iraq sparked widespread outrage and led to convictions for several prison guards and the ouster of the prison's commander.

The Pentagon shut down the prison in the wake of the scandal, but it reopened under Iraqi control this year.

The ACLU said the Pentagon had agreed to release a "substantial" number of photographs by May 28. Officials at the Pentagon have said the photographs are from more than 60 criminal investigations between 2001 and 2006 and show military personnel allegedly abusing detainees.

Obama will not incriminate himself. So here goes there is no recourse, the media will dance around eight years of "dies-honesty" using the word dies instead of "dis" to expose the stress cultural effect already at hand, and oppression of the war that was not necessary. It becomes so obvious the electorate will swarm to the Internet for authentic information.

Remember for years the Mainstream Media has been embedded into this war issue. For one example as the New York Times sat on the controversial torture issue for over a year, or are we sure it was not longer. Now seems to be an MSNBC related resource.

Imagine the whistle blowers in the cable media that will appear to devastate the honesty of contemporary cable news. Men like Murdock, his FOX network are at risk introducing the news show called "Insanity Hannity" imagine Sean Hannity in prime time telling America how he was wrong for years, Ted Turner CNN is one of the biggest crooks in the free market, the whole American broadcasting system with the Sunday discussions that totally justify universal health care because America needs neurotic prevention while they yell and bleep on camera, and of course my favorite MSNBC. Notice Keith Olberman using acronym "WTF" in big letters when he talks about O'Reilly. However, I should plead to America for the basic General Electric Corporation to repent change it's ways and get redeemed.

So far the only way that could be done is to out the corruption and complicity MSNBC and CNBC has with the insider knowledge with its anchor host Andrea Mitchell. For decades of secret money deals her Husband Alan Greenspan Chairman of the Federal Reserve likely has financed secretly the war and paid for those torture gulags around the world. Please Bush and Company asked for the money and got it. Its most assuredly that billions if not hundreds of billions of dollars in tax payer monies are scatter around world in spider holes.

Of course there are many out there who will think this guy, me, is nuts...but when you ask my opinion this is what is pictured in my mind.