I’m worried about the way that Sotomayor answered a question on “unreasonable search and seizure.” But I’m heartened by her answer to a Korematsu question.

I thought we were done with the Dick Cheney Presidency. He’s the guy who said held secret meetings with energy executive to develop US energy policy. Apparently, Cheney is still in charge of White House secret meetings.

Yesterday, on my panel on torture and accountability, Nadler explained that lawsuits need to be one means to accountability.

In January Amy Gooman’s guest Allan Nairn described to Democracy Now’s audience how in 1999 Admiral Dennis Blair, Obama’s Intel Czar pick, had repeatedly supported Indonesian generals commanding Indonesian death squads in Timor, rather than obey his Commander-In-Chief’s lawful orders to tell our client generals in the Indonesian military to shut down their death squads. Today the NY Times reports that last Thursday, as Obama released the torture memos and his Adminstration told us the torture failed to produce useful results, Admiral Blair told the intel community the exact opposite. Who does Dennis Blair serve – America’s elected leaders, or the torture and death squad operatives?

Obama says he’s interested in fixing state secrets. I think he’s just trying to get ahead of a bus that is already moving.

A three judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Chief Judge Mary Schroeder, William Canby and Michael Hawkins, has firmly rejected the vile cover up attempted against several detainees/former detainees led by Binyam Mohamed. Very good news.

Russ Feingold raised two biggest concerns in a press conference on his report card of the Obama Administration’s first 100 days. He said Obama’s use of State Secrets was “reminiscent of the Bush Administration.” And he suggested the intelligence community continues to stonewall the intelligence committees.

Jane and I had a chat yesterday with Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the Chair of the House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties to talk about his call for a special prosecutor to investigate the torture program. Chairman Nadler was clear: “You don’t have much choice under the law–you have to investigate.” The law requires, he explained, that such allegations be investigated.

Sy Hersh’s description that Cheney is still getting information (of some sort) from NSA is the most concerning part of his revelation that Cheney’s got his agents sprinkled around the government.

Some lawyer who looks remarkably like Greg Craig doesn’t want you to know whether or not Obama will prosecute whistleblowers.