You’ll recall that last we heard, Chrysler was hoping to stay alive long enough to have Fiat’s Sergio Marchionne swoop in and save it. Even if that happens, though, Chrysler will need to get some customers to buy its cars until such a time as Marchionne can do his magic.

Remember in July 2007, when President Bush issued an executive order attempting to reconcile the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation program” with the Geneva Conventions’ Common Article 3? As it turns out, the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel issued guidance to the CIA about what that executive order meant they could and couldn’t do to a detainee.

I don’t think Joe Klein understands what the CIA does. Responding to Glenn Greenwald on the release of the torture memos, he writes:

What I did do that seems to have piqued Greenwald’s ire is to report an obvious truth: this is going to hurt the morale and perhaps the efficacy of the clandestine service, which performs in extra-legal situations around the world.

Boy, wouldn’t you love to be a fly on the wall when Jane Harman runs into John Kerry after this choice bit from Jeff Stein: According to two officials privy to the events, Gonzales said he “needed Jane” to help support the administration’s warrantless wiretapping program, which was about to be exposed by the New York Times. Harman, he told Goss, had helped persuade the newspaper to hold the wiretap story before, on the eve of the 2004 elections.

• Support? Why isn’t he prosecuting?
• But…but…torture works!
• Yes you do, Dick.
• Here comes another teaparty.
• Blackwater Xe, coming to your hometown. 
• Impeach Bybee.
• Big Dog vs. W.: the debate.

The “Pat” signal is utilized over a sulfurous handshake

A little lower.

On the anniversaries of Columbine, Oklahoma City, and Waco, the right wing shouting heads try to deny the existence of right-wing extremism.

When I suggested Jane Harman shouldn’t undercut Democrats in the House on FISA in 2007, she badly over-reacted. I wonder whether her reaction has anything to do with today’s story in CQ?

As speculation grows that Norm may actually formally file his appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court sometime this week, it might be instructive to see who’s been egging him on these past few months.