The AP reports that a federal judge smacked the Bush administration's attempts to hide Secret Service visitor logs and keep those records of the number of visits by convicted and jailed lobbyist, Jack Abramoff and religious conservatives' to Georgie Porgie and Dick Darth Sidious under permanent wraps.  The judge ruled that the logs are public documents and subject to public requests to see them.

Given the Bushite administration's track record this will be appealed all the way to the right wing, reactionary, "all power to the unitary above-the-law executive" Bush-Roberts Supreme Court. 

From today's Progress Report, Under the Radar section comes the news that Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) who berated Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Hartmann, legal adviser at Guantanamo, for refusing to say that waterboarding was torture, has placed a hold on the Senate version of the House bill that banned waterboarding.

Wonder if Majority Leader Harry Reid will treat Graham's hold on this waterboarding bill as "honorably" as he has treated Senator Chris Dodd's (D-CT) hold on the FISA bill?  (Scroll down to read more on this: "Will Real Democrats Stand Up And Take Charge?")

From the incisive and always logical, Jonathan Turley, a commentary on the Bush administration's refusal to turn over information about the CIA torture tape destruction contains this concise explanation:

"Here is how the argument goes: First, the Bush Administration tell Congress and courts that no such evidence exists. Second, while members of Congress, judges, and defense attorneys are demanding the evidence, the Bush Administration methodically gathers every copy and destroys the evidence. Third, while people uniformly demand a special prosecutor, the Justice Department insists that it will investigate itself. Fourth, almost immediately upon rejecting a special prosecutor, the Justice Department then claims its own investigation of its own misconduct as an excuse not to turn over any evidence of its misconduct to courts. Of course, it waits until a late Friday when all such scandalous acts are committed to avoid news coverage. I have seen more reputable conduct from mob attorneys."

Turley and I pose the same question albeit a bit differently: Turley: "...how long the Democrats allow this moving farce to last."  Me: How long are the spineless Democrats going to let this crap go on?