Video: Probing The Bush Administration

Video: Probing The Bush Administration
There has been a recent push towards an investigation into the Bush Administration's use of torture tactics and concealed counterterrorism program. Bob Schieffer spoke with the Washington Post's Kevin Merida and syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker for analysis.
Sonia Sotomayor: Let the hearings begin

Sonia Sotomayor, poised to become the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court, enters a round of Senate Judiciary Committee hearings starting Monday in the pursuit of confirmation of President Barack Obama's first nominee for the high court.

The ABA is happy with the judge from the Second Judicial Circuit in New York, a member of the federal judiciary since the early 990s.

The NRA is not so happy about a judge whose apparent philosophical bent troubles the gun lobby. Others have had more difficulty assessing what to make of Sotomayor.

But the issue, unlike the photo above, is not black and white.

Most of the Senate already has had a chance to get a personal impression of the judge born of Puerto Rican parents in the housing projects of New York and educated at Ivy League colleges, the judge having made the rounds of 89 Senate offices heading into this week's hearings. And today, with a telephone phone call from the Oval Office, Obama wished his nominee well in the hearings ahead.

""President Obama called Judge Sotomayor from the Oval Office this morning to wish her good luck as she completed preparations for her confirmation hearing,'' White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said.

"He complimented the Judge for making courtesy calls to 89 senators in which she discussed her adherence to the rule of law throughout her 17 years on the federal bench,'' Gibbs said. "The president expressed his confidence that Judge Sotomayor would be confirmed to serve as a Justice on the Supreme Court for many years to come."

Tune in here at the Swamp for coverage of it all.

'Soulcraft' Honors An Honest Day's Work

Matthew Crawford was on what most people would think was the "right track." Then he left his job as executive director at a think tank in Washington to open a motorcycle repair shop. In his new book, Shop Class as Soulcraft, he makes the case that our society has placed too great a value on white-collar work and not enough value on the trades.