Alberto Gonzales Audio

Blogger (and George Polk Award winner) Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo , was honored for his readers' uncovering the U.S. Attorneys firings. He talks politics and crowd-sourcing.

Philippe Sands , international lawyer, professor of law at University College London and author of Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values , discusses his Vanity Fair article on the Bush Administration and torture and whether any individuals might be in legal jeopardy.

The Bush administration insisted that the torture at Abu Ghraib was an isolated aberration. The official documents tell a very different story. Jameel Jaffer and Amrit Singh have co-authored Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond . Administration of Torture is available for purchase at amazon.com You can read some of the official documents discussed in Administration of Torture here:

Show Summary: Defining waterboarding, naming droughts and OTM's novel challenge.

In 2006, Alabama’s Democratic Governor Don Siegelman was convicted of corruption charges, and he was sentenced to 7 years in prison. But top Alabama Republicans involved in the same scandal were not investigated or prosecuted. On Underreported , Adam Zagorin , a journalist for Time magazine, talks about what happened, and whether Karl Rove may have been involved. You can read a recent article about Siegelman's conviction by Adam Zagorin here .

Boston Globe reporter and Pulitzer Prize-winner, Charlie Savage describes the power struggle between the Bush administration and the legislative branches of government in Takeover . Mr. Savage argues that since President Bush assumed the Presidency in 2001, he, along with Vice President Cheney and White House attorneys, have enlarged the role of the executive branch and secured a shift of power to this branch for generations to come. Authorizing the use of force in Iraq and secret wiretaps are just two examples of this shift. Events : Charlie Savage will be giving a lecture on behalf of the American Constitution Society at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Thursday, October 11 at 7pm 55 5th Avenue, at 12th Street To learn more about the event and to RSVP, click here Takeover is available for purchase at amazon.com

Show Summary: Radiohead to fans: pay what you will; reporting the Supreme Court; plus Thank You, Dan Rather

Chris Matthews , host of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” explains how anyone can use the tactics of professional politicians to get ahead in their own careers in Life’s a Campaign . He writes about Bill Clinton’s laser-focused ability to listen to those he wanted to seduce, Ronald Reagan’s unyielding optimism, and Nancy Pelosi’s hardnosed loyalty. And Mr. Matthews describes how these lessons played a role in his own career. Events : Chris Matthews will be reading and signing books Wednesday, October 3 at 7:30pm Barnes & Noble at Lincoln Center 1972 Broadway (at 66th Street) Life’s a Campaign is available for purchase at amazon.com If you can't see the video click here var so = new SWFObject("http://www.youtube.com/v/9V8GWgbslsM", "mymovie", "390", "321", "7", "#FFFFFF");so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");connect(window, 'onload', function() {so.write("ytcontent");});

Show Summary: A senator and a food critic are outed, a messenger is murdered, and an attorney general may or may not have bent the truth.

This year marks the 150th anniversary of Sir Edward Elgar. While the composer of "Pomp and Circumstance" is being feted everywhere from Gloucester, England to Bard College in upstate New York, not everyone agrees on his greatness and his links to England's imperialist past. Today, a debate on Elgar with two experts. Also: songwriter Nick Cave is not going gracefully into musical middle age. He's exploring an even darker side of his music with Grinderman. He and drummer Jim Sclavunos talk about the band's self-titled debut.