this most recent video of her answering students' questions which is linked to above and her answering Ben Veniste's questions at her appearance before the 9/11 Commission about the Bin Ladin warning in the August 6, 2001 PDB, the title of which Ben Veniste forced her to state: "Bin Laden determined to attack inside the United States."

Wicked good juxtaposition.

Commenter phred links to Spencer Ackerman's post asking whether Condi has implicated BushBoy and Cheney in torture.

...it appears Rice has actually made some news here. Until now, Rice has been the seniormost Bush administration official known to have signed off on waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation" methods for Abu Zubaydah. In an April 2008 interview with ABC News, Bush said that he knew that his top advisers had met to discuss what was acceptable for the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah in the spring of 2002, but acknowledged merely that he "approved" of such meetings, but gave no indication that he specifically signed off on the interrogation plan.

But Rice is now portraying herself as merely being a conduit for approving the CIA's interrogation regime: "I conveyed the authorization of the administration to the agency." Well, there are only two more-senior officials than Rice in this context, and that's Bush and then-VP Dick Cheney. .... (My emphasis)

Bit more and links at the Ackerman link.

Are they trying to hang themselves? Or is Condi just ready to spill her guts, given a chance. Guess she better not travel to Europe...or any country willing to extradite to Europe....

Mark Danner in first segment on torture and need for investigations and prosecutions, followed by segment on foreclosure and banking crisis.

Steve Meacham (sp?), community organizer who organized City Life, is on the second segment. Hey, a community organizer who really helps organize, plus protests, demonstrates. Working on keeping tenants in buildings banks are foreclosing on, no matter that the renters are up to date on rent, have nothing to do with the foreclosure. Also organizes for eviction blockades; says that gets them lots of publicity. Organizes legislative lobbying by just folks. Terrific segment -- really like this guy. I simiply can't imagine that other famous community organizaer showsing such passion.

I don't get why foreclosing banks want to empty apt. buildings. Guy facing eviction said the banks refuse to take the rent checks.

Check for broadcast times in your area or watch on Moyers' site. Transcript to follow Monday-ish.

Link for last week's transcript, with Simon Johnson and Michael Perino (author of book on Pecora of the Pecora Commission. Here's the link for all transcripts, if you don't see the nice Transcripts button just under Moyers' Journal on front page.

(Thank you, again, lambert, for this wondrous link embedding icon. Sooooo easy.)

Fein just said the Repubs' arguments that prosecution of law breaking is somehow politicizing "policy" is "Nonsense on stilts." Great!

Notice how no one has had to be tortured for this information to get out? All that has to happen is for the person (Condi) to feel as though they can talk freely, especially to those they feel superior to (many women have known this for centuries), and they let all kinds of things out of the bag.

Now the issues is whether anything is going to be done about these confessions.