Jim Cramer scheduled to be guest on Thursday's "The Daily Show"

[Drake Tungsten]

Jon Stewart has taken down a lot of people on The Daily Show—but Monday’s guest John Yoo wasn’t one of them, and last night he apologized for the disappointing interview. Yoo, author of the Bush torture memos—or, as Stewart put it, “the memo that allowed the Bush administration to, I guess, hold people underwater for long periods of time”—“slipped right through my fingers. It was like interviewing sand,” Stewart said.

http://www.newser.com/story/78134/jon-stewart-i-should-have-nailed-john-yoo.html

[Guynemer]

Good on Jon for admitting his swing-and-miss. Every other pundit/host on both sides of the ideological divide would have denied, denied, denied.

[Darius871]

Oh please god, pretty pretty please make Yoo talk Addington into taking the hotseat. Twice as smart + half as patient = hilarity

[Drake Tungsten]

More good news for John Yoo...

Justice Official Clears Bush Lawyers in Torture Memo Probe

For weeks, the right has heckled Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. for his plans to try the alleged 9/11 conspirators in New York City and his handling of the Christmas bombing plot suspect. Now the left is going to be upset: an upcoming Justice Department report from its ethics-watchdog unit, the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), clears the Bush administration lawyers who authored the “torture” memos of professional-misconduct allegations.

While the probe is sharply critical of the legal reasoning used to justify waterboarding and other “enhanced” interrogation techniques, NEWSWEEK has learned that a senior Justice official who did the final review of the report softened an earlier OPR finding. Previously, the report concluded that two key authors—Jay Bybee, now a federal appellate court judge, and John Yoo, now a law professor—violated their professional obligations as lawyers when they crafted a crucial 2002 memo approving the use of harsh tactics, say two Justice sources who asked for anonymity discussing an internal matter. But the reviewer, career veteran David Margolis, downgraded that assessment to say they showed “poor judgment,” say the sources. (Under department rules, poor judgment does not constitute professional misconduct.) The shift is significant: the original finding would have triggered a referral to state bar associations for potential disciplinary action—which, in Bybee’s case, could have led to an impeachment inquiry.

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/archive/2010/01/29/holder-under-fire.aspx