I'm glad to see that Glenn did a column on this poll. I saw it yesterday and posted a link to it on Glenn's blog. There is a place on WaPo where you can post a comment about the poll (link in my sig). I hope everyone will post a comment.

Here's what I posted yesterday:

"Put together, all Americans break 50 percent in favor of investigations, 47 percent opposed".

That's pretty impressive considering most of our beltway columnists have been arguing against prosecutions and our TV media personalities have mostly ignored the issue or have argued against them.

I'd say there is a large disconnect between our citizens and most of our media personalities.

This is off topic but it's been bugging me since last night when Tice appeared on Olbermann's show talking about the NSA spying.

In Wiki it says that Tice was a source for the NYT article about illegal wiretaping.

"Media reports on January 10, 2006, indicated Tice was a source of the Times leak, which revealed that, under the direction of the White House and without requisite court orders, the NSA has been intercepting international communications to and from points within the US."

If Tice was a source for the NYT story did he also tell them at that time that journalists were being targeted? If he did why didn't they report it in their original story? If Tice didn't tell them back then why did he choose to tell Olbermann now and not go through the NYT again? Did Tice go to the NYT before he spoke with Olbermann? If not, why not? If he did why didn't they report it? Why did the NYT lose Tice as a source?

Does anyone have any info on this?

Ahhh..Ms. McCardle...at it again!

What a jaw dropping, ignorant remark. She seems to be as delusional and ill informed as our previous president. I hope people don't visit her blog to comment but just send a note to the Atlantic asking them why she is allowed a forum to opine when she obviously knows nothing about the subject matter. You'd think the Atlantic would at least care about it's own reputation when she makes these ignorant remarks.

A little confused

Everyone's hailing Obama's decision to suspend all Guantanamo trials for 120 days. But I thought the problem with Guantanamo was the people being held without trial. Khalid Sheikh Muhammed (sic) was being tried by the UCMJ [Uniform Code of Military Justice], which as far as I know, is what you're supposed to use on enemy combatants accused of war crimes. Doesn't this just further prolong the incarceration of anyone who might be innocent?

If I were to post a comment on Ms. McCardle's blog it would be hard not to say something like this...

You thought? Well I guess that's what you get for thinking, Ms. McCardle, when you are obviously ill equipped.

I very seldom compliment Chris Matthews but tonight I willingly do so. On tonights show Matthews not only asked Jay Rockefeller and Kit Bond whether they think Bush administration officials should be prosecuted but he also told Chris Cilliza and Lynn Sweet that if the small frys are prosecuted for torture then the higher ups who authorized it should be too. I can hardly wait to see the transcript. I sure hope Matthews doesn't back down like he has been known to do in the past but for tonight I congratulate him. Way to go Chris!

On Hardball just now

Sorry Kovie, I didn't realize you'd already posted something about Chris Matthews. I'm glad that you caught it too. I sent Chris an email through his facebook page complimenting him. I hope he gets lots of mail telling him he did the right thing so that he will keep on doing it. Cilliza and Sweet were pathetic.

The Forbes list was totally ridiculous. I hope this list is exposed far and wide for the pathetic joke that it is and not allowed to be treated as anything even closely resembling the truth. Can you believe that they actually had the nerve to list Fred Hiatt? They even called him moderate in their description and mentioned the criticism of him by people on the left. How could you possibly pretend that this guy is a liberal much less an influential liberal? This is just total dishonesty.

3. Fred Hiatt

Editorial page editor, The Washington Post

Pilloried on the left for his non-Manichean support of the war in Iraq, his moderate and pragmatic editorial column is likely to be the one most closely followed by the Obama administration.

The reason Forbes had non-liberals on their top 25 liberal list is because they had to in order to continue to push the lie that we have a "liberal media".