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Download | Play Download | Play (h/t BillW) The House has sent articles of impeachment against George Bush to the House Judiciary Committee, however Speaker Nancy Pelosi now says that an actual impeachment VOTE isn t on the table. On Wednesday s Countdown, Jonathan Turley gives his expert analysis on this epic fail as well as the latest attempt by the president to obstruct Congressional oversight by claiming executive privilege in the CIA/Plame leak investigation. As for Bush s executive privilege claims, Turley goes right for the jugular. Attorney General Michael Mukasey all but begged the president not to make him testify about Dick Cheney s role in the Plame case and has ignored a subpoena to appear to testify about the matter before Congress which Turley says should prompt Congress to charge him with Inherent Contempt. That s not likely to happen, and as Jonathan points out, Democrats who voted for Mukasey are now getting what they paid for: This is why, when Senators Shumer and Feinstein saved Mukasey s confirmation, this is what they purchased. And, what Congress needs to do, the only thing they can do, is bring back Inherent Contempt and to say they re going to start to exercise contempt on their own, that the deal is off. Attorney General Mukasey has broken a very long standing promise to be a faithful broker, to bring these cases to the grand jury - he won t. And Congress has a right to now say we re going back to doing this stuff ourselves.

The U.S. has spent more than $500 billion in Iraq since 2003. How much of that money has gone missing to fraud, corruption and waste? The Department of Defense says billions were handed out in cash, and some multi million dollar payments didn't even come with a receipt. Who are the financial watchdogs and what have they found? Have financial practices improved since the beginning of the war? We check in with the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction and Representative Henry Waxman, chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. A conversation on the week's news in Canada from our Canadian correspondent, Vaughn Palmer, political correspondent for the Vancouver Sun.

Author: YoungTurksShow Added: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:45:59 -0800 Duration: 244President Bush and Maliki are planning to put "indefinite" bases in Iraq with no approval from Congress. We make secret deals at http://www.theyoungturks.com

http://www.pbs.org/billmoyers A Bill Moyers essay on the administration's record of resignations. Aired Friday, May 23, at 9p.m. on PBS (check local listings). For more: http://www.pbs.org/billmoyers

Download | Play Download | Play (h/t Heather) I will never understand why Karl Rove is considered a political genius. A dirty tricks master ? Absolutely. An amoral partisan hack? Indubitably. But genius? Nuh uh. He managed to pull out all the stops to illegitimately place his candidate in office and then consistently played the American public for sheep by repeating talking points over and over until they became conventional wisdom, but that s no more than what P.T. Barnum did, just on a national scale. Mercifully, I think we re collectively wising up on Rove s antics and they re coming back to haunt him. On This Week, host George Stephanopoulos asks him about the subpoenas hanging over his head and he can only stammer the same talking point over and over: he heard about the prosecution in the paper. I LOVE it when he tries to claim that no one remembers the phone call that initiated the plan to railroad Don Siegelman and Stephanopoulos says that the phone record has been produced. Pwned! STEPHANOPOULOS: Here s what the House report said. It said, In May 2007, a Republican attorney for northern Alabama named Jill Simpson wrote an affidavit stating that in November 2002, she heard a prominent Alabama Republican operative named Bill Canary say that Karl Rove had contacted the Justice Department about bringing a prosecution of Don Siegelman. The question for Mr. Rove is whether he directly or indirectly discussed the possibility of prosecuting Don Siegelman with either the Justice Department or Alabama Republicans. Did you? ROVE: Let me say three things. First of all, I think it s interesting everybody who was supposedly on that telephone call that Ms. Simpson talks about says that the call never took place. I d say STEPHANOPOULOS: Although she produced a cell phone record, according to the committee. ROVE: Well, I would say three things. First of all, I have I learned about Don Siegelman s prosecution by reading about it in the newspaper. Second of all, this is really about a constitutional question of separation of powers. Congress, the House Judiciary Committee, wants to be able to call presidential aides on its whim up to testify, violating the separation of powers. Executive privilege has been asserted by the White House in a similar instance in the Senate. It will probably be asserted very quickly in this in the House. Third, the White House has agreed I m not asserting any personal privilege. The White House has offered, and my lawyers offered, several different ways in which if the House wants to find out information about this, they can find out information about this. And they ve refused to avail themselves of those opportunities. Uh no, Karl. Your availability was predicated on you not swearing an oath, behind closed doors with no transcripts and/or by doing it by letter only. And the Executive Privilege assertion only works if you are admitting that you discussed this with the President and that s something you deny but keep repeating that, the sheep won t realize that you re incorrectly applying the privilege. Finally, the whole Separation of Powers argument is as inside out as any other assertion Rove makes. This IS one of the powers guaranteed to Congress as checks and balances against an Executive branch run amok. Face it, Karl, I don t think repeating that talking point over and over is working any longer. Karma s a bitch, baby. STEPHANOPOULOS: We re just about out of time. This is as you know, and our viewers probably know, you were subpoenaed this week by the House Judiciary Committee to give testimony on any involvement you may have had with the prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman. He s claiming there was selective prosecution. He s out on bail now, even though he was convicted. He says your fingerprints were all over it. Here s what the House report said. It said, In May 2007, a Republican attorney for northern Alabama named Jill Simpson wrote an affidavit stating that in November 2002, she heard a prominent Alabama Republican operative named Bill Canary say that Karl Rove had contacted the Justice Department about bringing a prosecution of Don Siegelman. The question for Mr. Rove is whether he directly or indirectly discussed the possibility of prosecuting Don Siegelman with either the Justice Department or Alabama Republicans. Did you? ROVE: Let me say three things. First of all, I think it s interesting everybody who was supposedly on that telephone call that Ms. Simpson talks about says that the call never took place. I d say STEPHANOPOULOS: Although she produced a cell phone record, according to the committee. ROVE: Well, I would say three things. First of all, I have I learned about Don Siegelman s prosecution by reading about it in the newspaper. Second of all, this is really about a constitutional question of separation of powers. Congress, the House Judiciary Committee, wants to be able to call presidential aides on its whim up to testify, violating the separation of powers. Executive privilege has been asserted by the White House in a similar instance in the Senate. It will probably be asserted very quickly in this in the House. Third, the White House has agreed I m not asserting any personal privilege. The White House has offered, and my lawyers offered, several different ways in which if the House wants to find out information about this, they can find out information about this. And they ve refused to avail themselves of those opportunities. We didn t say, close off any option to do anything else that you want to do in the future. We said if you want to hear about this, let s sit down and talk about this, and then you re entitled to do what you want to do in the future. This is now tied up in court. It s going to be tied up in court and settled in court. And frankly, the House last week doing this, you know, is duplicating what the Senate has already done and it s already found its way into the courts. STEPHANOPOULOS: But to be clear, you did not contact the Justice Department about this case? ROVE: I read about I m going to simply say what I ve said before, which is I found out about Don Siegelman s investigation and indictment by reading about it in the newspaper. STEPHANOPOULOS: But that s not a denial. ROVE: I ve you know, I read I heard about it, read about it, learned about it for the first time by reading about it in the newspaper.

Download | Play Download | Play 60 Minutes on Sunday explored the rampant corruption going on throughout the Iraqi government, and how much of the up to $18 billion missing or unaccounted for has been finding its way into the hands of militias that have been responsible for attacks on coalition forces. What s more, they detail how Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was able to immunize all current and former Iraqi officials, including himself and his family, from any further investigation or prosecution, the State Dept s refusal to cooperate with any investigation, the ostracism and apparent abandonment of the one Iraqi official who braved death threats, and the murder of dozens of his staff, to successfully prosecute corrupt officials before PM Malaki effectively shut him down, and how one such former official, Aiham Alsammarae, who had already been convicted and was set to face even more charges for billions of missing funds while he was the Minister of Electricity, brazenly escaped a Green Zone jail with the help of U.S. contractors (twice) and is currently living large in a Chicago suburb. Full 13 minute report and transcript here. A look at some of the events, documents and key players after the jump. Judge Radhi al-Radhi: The former head of the Commission on Public Integrity who was tasked with weeding out corruption in Iraqi government. Judge Radhi was pushed out of his job by PM Maliki and forced to flee Iraq, lucky to have gotten out alive, unlike the 31 members of his staff and their family members who were murdered. He currently resides in a Washington DC suburb as he seeks asylum in the US. Judge Radhi basically has been abandoned by the State Dept as they have thus far refused to cooperate, as Judge Radhi has, with ongoing Congressional investigations into corruption in Iraq. Memo (PDF) banning Judge Radhi s Commission on Public Integrity (CPI) from investigating Iraqi officials without the consent of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Aiham Alsammarae: A wealthy Iraqi expatriate and Chicago area resident with dual citizenship recruited to become the Electricity Minister under Paul Bremer. Alsammarae was later the only Iraqi official found guilty, not in absentia, of corruption, and had more charges pending relating to billions in missing funds when he was busted out of a green zone jail - twice: The first time on Oct 11, 2006 when, reportedly, the two US contractors assigned to protect him overpowered Iraqi police and rushed him from a courtroom to the US embassy but later returned him. The two contractors later claimed they “were fired for doing our jobs, per protocol and with the full knowledge and blessings of our superiors” as Alsammarae claimed that his life was in danger. A spokesman for DynCorp later confirmed much of those details. A few weeks later investigators in the US looking into an Iraqi power plant deal involving Antoin Tony Rezko, leaked that they wanted to talk to Alsammarae about how his former college buddy managed to land that contract. Then the second time Alsammarae escaped he was apparently freed from a Green Zone jail on Dec 16, 2006 by a team working for Blackwater USA, and despite being wanted by Interpol he managed to return to the US a few weeks later. He currently resides in his gated Chicago suburb where homes range from $1.5 million to $4 million. While the following is speculation on my part, I must admit that the timing and manner of Alsammarae s escape, his ability to return to the US and resume his life apparently open and unimpeded, and the timing of his name popping up in a politically sensitive case nearly a year before Attorney General Gonzales resigned raises all kinds of flags for me, as I would think it might anyone who has followed closely the US Atty Scandal and the Don Siegelman saga. All that said, I really hope I m wrong about that. In Sept 2007 the State Department retroactively classified this previously Sensitive but Unclassified report detailing widespread fraud, intimidation and embezzlement within the Iraqi government, but not before it made its way onto the internets. Since then, the State Department has thus far refused to cooperate with Congressional investigations or turn over documents relating to corruption in Iraq.

From The Massachusetts School of Law. Although Congress appropriates all the funds for US Intelligence operations, briefings requires absolute and permanent silence on the part of the representative, barring them from all debate and discussion about the topic on which they were briefed. Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Charlie Savage explains why members of Congress instead choose not to be briefed about important intelligence issues when Dean Lawrence R. Velvel interviews him about his new book, Take Over The Return of the Imperial Presidency in This inversion of American Democracy, on this episode of The Massachusetts School of Laws Books of our Times. The full interview is available at google video. The Massachusetts School of Law, located in Andover, Massachusetts, makes high quality, affordable legal education available to less privileged persons who are traditionally excluded from the legal profession. As part of its mission of providing high quality education and information for both law students and the general public, the Massachusetts School of Law also presents information on important current affairs to the general public via television and radio broadcasts, an intellectual journal, conferences, author appearances, blogs and books. For more information visit www.mslaw.edu.Full length versions of MSLAW podcasts are available by free subscription from iTunes or as direct downloads.

Download | Play Download | Play We brought you Attorney General, Michael Mukasey s tearful remarks about 9/11 and the ongoing FISA battle in Congress last week and on Tuesday s Countdown, Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow dig deeper into what was either a series of lies from the AG or an admission of gross negligence on the part of the Bush Administration leading up to that tragic day. Mukasey claimed that the U.S. received a phone call from a terrorist safe house in Afghanistan prior to 9/11, but couldn t trace the call because the FISA laws were too restrictive which is, of course, a lie. Mukasey was a Federal Judge, he knows that. Olbermann says that someone in the House or Senate needs to haul the Attorney General in and question him and find out whether he was lying to make a political point, or if the Bush administration really did receive such a call and chose not to act on it, leaving the country vulnerable to attack. Maddow: Oh please, just let him have just been lying, because if he was telling the truth here, if there really was a call from a known al Qaeda safe house in Afghanistan to the United States before 9/11 which the Bush Administration did not tap and trace? That is huge news and we ought to get some answers about why we were left so unprotected and surprised on 9/11. Let s hope that he was just making that up. *On a side note, we would like to wish Rachel Maddow a very Happy Birthday!

The Federal Reserve will have more power to oversee the financial industry, under one of the proposals outlined by Treasury secretary Henry Paulson Monday. The idea is to give the industry and consumers more information about the complicated ways Wall Street handles risk. And in the process, the federal government is updating a system that hasn't seen change since the Civil War.

The Democratic presidential primary is in chaos under DNC chairman Howard Dean.

Download | Play Download | Play (h/t Heather) It s infuriating that the Bush administration has gone so far around the Constitution without any accountability from those who are charged with oversight, yet the few journalists and whistleblowers that have tried to shine a light on the actions of the Bush administration are fighting to not go to jail. Case in point: James Risen, the reporter who broke the warrantless wiretapping story and who is now fighting to not go to jail after being subpoenaed to reveal his sources. Rick Karr looks at how the Bush administration has consistently sought to squelch journalists and whistleblowers like Risen, Sibel Edmonds, and even Talking Points Memo. The entire episode (including an interview with Rep. Henry Waxman on government oversight) can be viewed online. Transcripts below the fold. BILL MOYERS: If the Chairman of powerful oversight committees can t get straight answers from the Bush Administration, you can imagine how hard things are for whistleblowers exposing the truth about government conduct, and muckraking journalists digging behind the news. James Risen, for one. He exposed power grabs and intelligence blunders inside the Administration and is fighting now to stay out of jail. Here s my colleague Rick Karr to bring us up to date. RICK KARR: You may not know James Risen s name, but you probably know his work: He s one of the NEW YORK TIMES reporters who broke the story of the Bush administration listening in to phone calls and reading email, without search warrants. That story infuriated some conservatives. A popular blog accused Risen and his co-author of treason for revealing sensitive information, and pundit William Bennett said the reporters deserved jail time. Bennett may get his wish. A federal prosecutor has asked a grand jury to look into a book that Risen wrote. It details not only warrantless wiretapping but also how, when it came to covert operations in the Middle East, the Administration made mistake piled on mistake caused an espionage disaster and was operating in the blind when it came to Iran. Risen was subpoenaed to tell a grand jury who he talked to about Iran — in other words, to reveal his anonymous sources. So far, the reporter has refused to talk. And recently, his lawyer moved to quash the subpoena. Some veteran investigative journalists wrote letters in support of that motion. One of them told me that if Risen is forced to testify, the public will be the real loser. Here s why: Anonymous sources have a lot to lose if their identities are revealed because a lot of them are powerful or prominent. So, if the Federal government can force a reporter like Risen to reveal their identities, those sources will clam up. There d be more corruption and wrongdoing in Washington that the public would never learn about. Administration officials seem not to mind keeping the public in the dark. But for muckrakers and whistleblowers, it s getting harder and harder to expose corruption and wrongdoing. Take the case of former FBI agent Sibel Edmonds: She blew the whistle on massive incompetence at the Bureau — sloppy translations, missed messages from terror suspects. She even alleged that insiders were leaking secrets to foreign agents. She lost her job for it. Just after Congress got interested in her story — and a bipartisan group of Senators said they found her claims credible enough to warrant an investigation — the administration retroactively classified everything that she knew, pretty much shutting down any chance of an investigation. U.S. journalists have found it nearly impossible to look into her claims. Over the past year, there s been only one article on her in a major newspaper, and it simply announced that she d won a freedom-of-speech award. Meanwhile, the TIMES OF LONDON has published three stories — just this year — digging into her claim that Administration officials sold secrets to foreign governments. Sometimes the Administration s efforts to squelch critics seem downright petty: Reporters for the Web site TALKING POINTS MEMO, for example, led the way in showing how the Administration encouraged federal prosecutors to go after Democrats, but go easy on Republicans. So the Department of Justice kicked the web site off of its press list. A small thing, sure, but it rankled one member of the House enough that he asked Attorney General Michael Mukasey about it at a hearing. Mukasey s response? I don t know. Recently, the Department of Justice reinstated TALKING POINTS MEMO to its press list — right around the same time that the web site won an award for its reporting on the Department of Justice. So, Administration officials stonewall lawmakers and try to silence critics — or just make their jobs harder. That s not news. But this time, a reporter could go to jail. The irony in James Risen s predicament is that he was one of the reporters who revealed that the Administration could never have secretly listened in on phone calls, or read emails, without help from big telecom firms — the conglomerates that supply most Americans with phone or Internet service. After the article appeared, civil-liberties advocates filed lawsuits against the conglomerates trying to hold them accountable for helping the Administration break the law. Just recently, the Senate voted to grant those telecom companies immunity from the lawsuits — to let them off the hook — while the reporter who d exposed them fought to stay out of jail.

Bill Moyers Journal goes beyond the rhetoric and examines the reality of waste and abuse of power in Washington with a look at the investigations being conducted by Congress's Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. "If no one thinks they're being watched and being held accountable, they think they can get away with anything," says Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), the Committee's chairman. Plus, viewer mail and an essay from Rick Karr on government secrecy.

Bill Moyers Journal goes beyond the rhetoric and examines the reality of waste and abuse of power in Washington with a look at the investigations being conducted by Congress's Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. "If no one thinks they're being watched and being held accountable, they think they can get away with anything," says Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), the Committee's chairman. Plus, viewer mail and an essay from Rick Karr on government secrecy.

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Thursday that a presidential working group wants stronger regulatory oversight of mortgage lenders to avert the kind of credit crisis that is dragging the U.S. economy down. (March 13) Author: AssociatedPress Keywords: credit crisis paulson recommends mortgage oversight Added: March 13, 2008

In stunning testimony on Capitol Hill today, Steve Mendell, President of the now defunct Westland/Hallmark Meat Company, admitted that so-called downer cows, cows too sick to stand on their own, were illegally slaughtered and forced into the US food supply. Download | Play Download | Play (Note: video contains disturbing footage of animal abuse) AP: The head of the Southern California slaughterhouse at the center of the largest beef recall in U.S. history acknowledged Wednesday that cattle were illegally slaughtered at his plant and that cows too sick to stand were forced into the food supply. Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. President Steve Mendell made the admissions after a congressional panel forced him to watch undercover video of abuses of cattle at his plant. Mendell watched head-in-hand as cows were dragged by chains, jabbed by forklifts and shocked to get them into the box where they d be slaughtered. This is what happens when you have a political ideology and party who believes that government and regulatory oversight is an impediment rather than a necessary instrument to protecting the public interest. Whether it s poisonous lead paint in our children s toy bins or tainted meat on our dinner tables, government must play a vital role in ensuring consumer products are safe for public consumption. Bravo to the House Energy and Oversight Committee for exposing this travesty and holding accountable those responsible. UPDATE: The Westland/Hallmark Meat Company was the source of the nearly 37 million pounds of recalled meat earlier this month.

Danielle Brian of Project On Government Oversight talks with The Hill about a House vote to establish an independent ethics office that would give non-lawmakers the ability to investigate members.

Hawkins receives another call from his mysterious new contact, John Smith, who continues to know his every move, and who informs Hawkins that he is one day away from being caught by Major Beck

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Download | Play Download | Play While this video of the ad goes after Rep Nancy Boyda (D-KS) (btw, whose response so far has been really good), she is just one of many Freshman Dems targeted by this fear-mongering ad campaign so far. As the Minnesota blog Bluestem Prairie notes: Other Freshman Dems targeted that we know of so far: Joe Courtney and Chris Murphy (CT); Carol Shea-Porter and Paul Hodes (NH); Jason Altmire (PA); Ron Klein and Tim Mahoney (FL); Gabrielle Giffords and Harry Mitchell (AZ); Jerry McNerney (CA); Melissa Bean (IL); Joe Donnelly (IN); Michael Arcuri and Kirsten Gillbrand (NY) ; Steve Kagan (WI). [ ] Defense of Democracies is affiliated with the non-profit, non-partisan Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a policy institute focused on defeating terrorism and promoting democratic values. The ad is similar to one posted last week by House Republicans on gop.gov, that also misleadingly blames the expiration of the Protect America Act on the Democrats. The fact is that there is one reason, and one reason only, that the Protect America Act expired. Its name is “George W. Bush.” Not surprisingly, the group The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies list of Directors, Fellows, Personnel includes many PNAC-neocons like Kristol, Krauthammer, and Perle (a lot more on the group here). The list also includes, however, several prominent Democrats, which begs the question: Why would Democrats be affiliated with a group that would be running these ads? Update: Begged question answered. mcjoan: Who s behind the shadowy organization isn t entirely clear, but it is definitely an offshoot of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, an organization that until a few days ago listed among its board of advisors Donna Brazile, Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), Rep. Jim Marshall (D-GA), Zell Miller, Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-NY). Engel, Schumer and Brazile have all resigned from the board, with Brazile making this statement

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And it will be all the House Democrats fault, or so this video attempting to scare the crap out of you posted over at GOP.gov portends. (h/t Wonkette) Download | Play Download | Play I have no idea why they didn t go with a mushroom cloud at the end. A sequel in the works, perhaps? It s a good thing they didn t shoot for the based on a true story intro, because the part about it really being the fault of the Republicans refusing to negotiate on their insistence on covering up Bush s crimes by protecting the telecoms who enabled him. That would have really detracted that whole terror/panic/Democrats-fault theme. All the GOP has left is the fear card, and that sucker is wore slam out. Bush s trusty Supreme Court has already seen fit to throw up a firewall for the telecoms, so why is it the Republicans are still insisting on holding up the FISA bill? It s because the Republican Party will do anything they can to keep whatever secrets are hidden in those NSA spy rooms from ever incriminating their President, even if it does mean putting our country at more risk to do so. That s why. Glenn Greenwald has more

Joe Lieberman is asked about why, as head of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, he refuses to investigate the Bush Administration. Enjoy more at www.headzup.tvAuthor: headzup Tags: current politics commentary news events bush cartoon cell george henry joe lieberman messaging mms mobile oversight parody phone political satire senate waxman Posted: 21 February 2008 Rating: 0.0 Votes: 0

Super-lawyer Bob Bennett talks about representing the high and might in our nation's capitol. He's represented President Clinton, cabinet secretaries, Senators and Congresspersons. He talks to Diane about the collision of politics and justice.

Roger Clemens testifies to House Oversight Committee, February 13, 2008 Author: Veracifier Keywords: roger Clemens Testifies testimony hearing Steroid HGH Allegations baseball mlb scandal abuse house oversight committee Added: February 13, 2008

Steven Cuevas: A federal judge in Riverside has decided not to shut down a squalid mobile home park in the Coachella Valley that's home to thousand of residents. The park sits on land owned by the Torres-Martinez Indian reservation. Authorities have tried to close the encampment for months over a range of health and safety problems. KPCC's Steven Cuevas has more.

One of America's most prominent conservative evangelicals, Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, gives his perspective on the role faith is playing in this campaign season and his take on what's happening with the evangelical vote in the primaries. Rodriguez, who has voiced his support for a moral, biblical response to the issue of immigration, is president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference. And, thousands have weighed in on The Moyers Blog to suggest one book the next President should take to the White House. Bill Moyers reviews the submissions for essential presidential reading. Also on the program, one of the nation's leading experts on media and politics Kathleen Hall Jamieson separates the fact from the spin in the Super Tuesday results.

One of America's most prominent conservative evangelicals, Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, gives his perspective on the role faith is playing in this campaign season and his take on what's happening with the evangelical vote in the primaries. Rodriguez, who has voiced his support for a moral, biblical response to the issue of immigration, is president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference. And, thousands have weighed in on The Moyers Blog to suggest one book the next President should take to the White House. Bill Moyers reviews the submissions for essential presidential reading. Also on the program, one of the nation's leading experts on media and politics Kathleen Hall Jamieson separates the fact from the spin in the Super Tuesday results.